Gerri well, our top story tonight, a salmonella outbreak raising alarms about how se are food is. The cdc blaming the government shut down for the slow response to link foster farms to the outbreak and is bringing for letting employees back to work. The company has a history of prior illnesses and was flanked as recently as last february causing at least 124 people to get sick. And while the usda is threatening to shut down three foster farms chicken plants, is enough being done . With more on this, executive director at the National Consumers league. Thank you for coming. Thiss one of those critical stories. The safety of the food supply. I want to work through a take talk of what has happened. This sure is not the first time weve been through this l the way back in january 2010 Consumer Reports found 80 pcent of thchicken they sampd h tested positive for lmonella. In may 2012, i recall of mislabeled turkey burgers. In februaryy2013, at least 124 people in 12 states get sick by raw poultry link to this company and finally the news we had most recently in may about recalng Grilled Chicken Breast reps. Is this usual, is this pattern of problems normal . Absolutely not. Thisompany has the fingerprints on on lot of poultry products that have bacteria in them at high levels, much higher levels than is normal for the industry. The Company Needs to take greater responsibility and wor with the government inspectors, state inspectors. This is obviously a company that has problems. And of the government is threatening to shut them down of that next couple of years. Gerri the question occurs to me becaushis is now 04year problem and least. Why hast this been stopped . Well, this is a laborious process to trace back where food borne illness comes from. It has to be done responsibly and carefully and traced back to the particular plants involved. In the company in business does not want to be shut down if there is not a good reason for it. So the government inspectors and laboratories that do the work and have to be careful gerri i agree with you. It looks like there has been ample evidence of difficulty. I want you to respond to with the company is sayin. Theafety chief for the company says salmonella is natally occurring in can be fully eradicated if raw product is properly handled. Do you agree . Does the statement go far enough . Officials in washington are saying, on. People getting sick. It i from this chicken. There must be incased risk of bacteria. First of all, we think theyre ought to be a recall and that the company ought toake steps itself to recall that product immiate. It just wont do for a company like this to pus the blame on to consumers. Yes, consurs have sponsibility to take care when their work with products and when they prepare them. But some people are going to restaurants in the in the product salmonella can be prevented. And the her issue is that the Company Needs to work with goveme regulators. Gerri you said that before. Here is what we know. This is been going on for four years. The cdc is saying today the government shut down is creating a problem. They brought back and people start looking at this, but it that just an excuse . Isnt the government slow to the pay . It has clearly been in trole, as is set at the beginning of the interview, company at has been having many problems with keeping its food safe. Certainly the government can always move faster. But this company bears the lion share the responsibility. They should recal these products monthand months ago when a new there was ablem. By the way, consumers prepang products, it is not just cooking d to a certain temperare, but there is always the danger of cross contamination. This is an opportunity to educe consumers abo making sure ey are not preparing vegetables on the same cutting board is theyre cutting of chicken. Things can happen in restaurants with contamination. Gerri if you are suddenly seeing an uptick of cases it is probably because there is more bacteria. She says dont blame the consumers. Theyre doing the same thing they have always done. Do y agree that theovernmt , little grandstanding its because theyre is a shutdown. Our remixing and dangerously s, politics with food safety . I dt think so. The government laboraty has been working at much reduced personnel. As i said, these things take a while to trace back. This company is responsible for issuing its own recall. The government has been taking these liver it steps. And because of the shutdown they have fewer peopl in the labs. The usda said a shutdown. Where you go for informational . Gerri four years in the making, this problem. It is not five days. Thank you for coming on, and thank you for eliminating how this process works. My pleasure. Gerri well, shutown out of reach. Today number nine. Families of those killed in combat are heroes have learned there being denied military death benefits. Ining us now is Lieutenant Colonel steve russell, a military adviser to concerned veterans for america. Welcome to the show. I have to ask you, a solution may be on the rise in, but what is your reaction to the failure of the federal government to take up its responsibility here for military familiesnd our heroes . As a combat veteran, i hurt. I hea with the families. This h never happened befor our government should do better. Our veterans dont deserve this. The families dont need additional pain at this moment of crisis. Gerr he led the team who captured saddam hussein, put your life on the line. You have been in harms way. You know what that is like, the pain for families, the pressure for families, what is the misses tonight that is gone to the people who are protecting us in keeping a safe . We only a for a few things when we serve, medical care, pension and retirement and proper honors at burial. His only ask. Dahlia seeing that ended. Worse, we see even one did warriors hanging on to life in germany off the fields of afghanistan and now families which could embolden them to have the will to hang on are not being allowed to fly and be by the bedside of a loved one. My ssage is this, mr. President , when will you start acting like th commander in chief . When will used to being a leader veterans from all of the country, we need to lead our government no that this is absolutely unacceptable. Gerri iannot agree more. Here iwhat senator mccain and to say. What to therican people think when they see that death benefit for those who served and sacrificed in the most honorable way is not families are not evenligible for death benefits i am ashamed, embarrassed. All of us should be. Gerri ashamed and embarrassed. He need more than words to my would say. Well, we need action. The United States marine corps has already ignored the department of defense guidance saying that they interpret this as excepted activity. The army, navy, air force, the branches need to follow suit. Secretary haig has not provided the proper guidance to congress. Congress is playing games and the president needs to be the commanderinchief. Warriors deserve leaders and government. Gerri you could turn any Defense Department executive upside down and come up withh3 money that is owed to these people. We were dating it in our morning meeting. The government is not supposed to spend anything. The department of defense has one of the biggest budgets on capitol hill. It seems to me that the money should be there. Do you fear that they are grandstanding, trying to prove their point about the pitical debate over the budget, the shut down in the government, and the result i our heroes are getting hurt. I think that would be truef laakers and perhaps the executive branch. I dont see that from the department of defense because in many cases the only discretionary Funds Available in this big fight over budgets often come from the defse establishment. So much is in entitle law that there is no money to go after other t than defense dollars. Our service cefs do a good job, but we need the president to take the lead. He can step in and correct this immeate measure, but inste he says wereot born to play games and have a piecemeal approach to solving the crisis. Mr. President , are Wounded Warriors and tse who sacrific for our freedoms are not a piecemeal approach. Gerri we have heard from the president spokesman here said that there will be something going to happen. We have had to of the me tell you, the Fisher House Foundation picking up the tab. Ken fischer, thr founder, after living and i lived on the families should notave to endure more pain as a result of political squabbling. Im sure you agree. I do. While we certainly applaud the fisher house, we should not hav to support our warriors froo the nickels an dimes for burge and fries. We nd to do it with leaders and government. Gerri will put. Thank you. Thank you, thank you for having me. Gerri an absolute pleasure. Now we want to know what you think. Is the pentagon ducking its responsibilities to our nations heroes . Log on to gerriwillis. Com, but on the right side of thecreen, and officers of the end of the show. Unbelievable. Veterans and disability benefits, death benefits for military families, a Clinical Health trials, social security. All deemed nonessential. And theyre not givin any funds from the federal gernment during the shutdown. There is a good news for those on capitol hill responsible for the chaos. Every Single Member of congress is still able to take on his are 175,000 paycheck and of course the president is getting paid. The good ns, dozens of these lawmakers are donating salaries to charity, and some have fuoughed staff, but not all. Good number have deemed their entire staff essential. The special subway trolly to get lawmakers from their offices. The short wk to the capital for. One of the most important part, the house gym reserved exclusively for lawmakers, still open andeing funded by taxpayers. But in sacrifices. They now have a dead. Unbelievable. More to come including the best way down to a big bank. Next as the cold weather sets and to my new report shows most of us will be paying more to heat our homes. Details after the break. The ocean gets warmer. The peruvian anchovy harvest suffers. It raises the price of fishmeal, cattle feed and beef. Y mellon turns insights like these into powerful investnt strategies. For a university endownt. It funds a marine biologist. Who sties the peruvian anchovy. Invested in the world. Bny mellon. Custer erin swenson ordebut they didnt fit. Line customers not happy, im not happy. Sales go down, im not happy. Merch comes ba, im not happy. Use ups. They make returns easy. Unhappy customer becomes happy customer. Then, repeatustomer. Easy returns, im happy. Repeat customers, im happ sales go up, im happy. I ordered another pair. Im happy. both im happ im ppy. Happy. Happy. Happy. Im ppy. Pp happy happy. I love logiscs. Gerri by the end of this year the u. S. Will the largest producer of petroleum and natural gas in the world. According to u. S. Eney informion administration we beat out russia and saudi arabia. Why are 90 percent of homes expected to see a rise in their winter heating bills . Here to explain, the chief of oil analyst for Oil Price Information service. Great to have you here. First of all, you agree with the government did they have the numbers right . A think its part of the whole global segment. When we do talk to my Global Growth and global demand, its a lot to do with developing economies, agriculture, manufacting, all very intense gerri us talk about whats going on. U. S. Home heating, 56 percent of homes and using natural gas. As you know or producing more. 6 percent of homes using heating oil, 38 percent use electric heat. Across the board or seeing the amount of these products arriving present being produced here in the u. S. Helms using naturalgas will see a 13 increas from a year ago and prices. Think about that, producing more natural gas than ever and yet consers are paying more. That just does not seem right here. It doesnt. The source of natural gas in the louisiana and texas, its cheap, third to a quarter of the cost them a place like japan the natural gas costs of through th ro. Gerri i care a lot less about japanese customers that people right here. Were producing more here, thats the promise o producing locally. Thats what we approve it and agree to have it in a backyard because it think it will ing down the price. Why we left sort cnged. We dont really fallen naturalgaas much as we do heatg oil. Heating gile is very provincial, mostly in the northeast as you mentioned, 6 of homes use it. A couple of the positives, one, its clean air and cleaner. As a by a cponent. New york,he state were in right now, its very simil to alter lowsulfur diesel. On top of that, as any customer can ta advantage of that when using heating oil. You can negotiate prices. A lot of time to dealing with a Small Business person is a utility. You can use special times on the prices are low blocking price rri there are strategies. Just to remind people, heating Oil Customers will see a 2 drop in prices, but theres still the secondhighest on average. I love this. Estimated petroleum. Gerri in the u. S. , russia, saudi arabia, we are bting the pants off of them. I wish there was more pay off for people in this count. Thank you for coming in. A pleasure to me. Good to see you. Later in the show, and permissionou need to know before you go out and drop your hardearned money on a twitter ipo. Next, we answer t question have you do that. The best and easiest way to say goodbye to your big bank. Stay with us. Gerri the second tired of your big bang . U dont have to put up with u dont have to put up with thei any last requests mr. Baldn . Doou mind grabbing my phe and opening the capital one purchase eraser . I need to redeem some venture miles before my demise. Okay. Its easy to erase any recent travel expense i want. 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Imf officials issued warnings about the dangers of the debt default although it is low but congress could let it happen that would lead to a worldwide shock to threaten the Global Economic recovery. Also unsicited 2. 3 billion dollar bid the company says the offer undervalues the mens wear house butoseph a. Bank says it is that a 42 premium. That i so of t top stories of fox biness. Lets talk abou twitter if u love it why not own it . Twitter fans will on get the chance to invest in the social media giant wants it unleashes the ipo but should small investors climbed aboard . Joining me now autho of the book you can never be too rich. You are able and with Comcast Universal . That is an important story. It is very clear businesses want to partner with twitter and comcast Nbc Universal announced a strategic partnershhp to integrate twitter as part the viewing experience on twitter you will see a tweet and click on it it will take you to program they will participate in the revenue and in comes string into a string. Gerri this company has had no earnings. Why do not like this company . If you are gambler you have a shot at making a few blocks. But here we go again it is all about advertising and at dollar mont twitter they areery lukewarmy the advertisers. The cost of conversion is double the cost on twitter and other social platforms and if they had more advertising it will ruin the user experience. The only way to get the dollars up is to add more users to the base. Right now that is slowing in the United States and china is not en allowed to cher in the country in the her markets are fragmented byther companies that will be very competitive. Gerri you are making so very good points looking at what is going on with this company itas been a black box what they are doing and we just found out they lost 67 million. Is the early stage company. Think of it like biotech and now they go into phase three now they have 80 million users. We use it for a reason because there is an advantage. Gerri is every and that we know is that the reason and could we look at anothe facebook . I love twitter. Use a lot fomy news feed but when you invest in a company is it a Coal Technology . Is the Company Going to make money . I avery is a Great Company with a Brand Recognition bayou bite at a very high valuation. Is twitter going to burn into that valuation . I amelling people dont jump in. No rush just see how which develops in the less youre a gbler st sit back and watch to see if theyill create someme earnings off of the model. First of all, you will not have a facebook fiasco and Goldman Sachs will no let th happen and they will n mke the same mistake to drive up the instutional interest but there is in this stock m pass along to the retail investor. Also i will point out that twitter takes a very responsible attitude to raise 1 billion they dont wa to let it run away and get out of control and they want to keep the price down. Gerri her is my problem with twitter. If i of individual investor i am not getting in at the offer price i did not help to build this comny i am not one of the Investment Bankers i have not even o of the best clients so there is no way i will get a great price i will not s the ruup. Buying on the first day or even the first week is a true risk . Absutely. I says it ba and listen to howard develops there is a vast assortment to choose fromhere are f more prudent choices with an economic motive with rocksolid financials. Where your dollars go dont buy into the hype. 3 watch the stock b look at the other options. Theres a lot better choices for my mey for the people i talk to. Gerri economic motive. That is a great phrase. Lot of people will be watching and want to get an. Alan and david great points. If twitter looks to other ipos it may be optimistic about its fate since she drake morris half of these have more than doubled with ithe biggest price jump. Number five foundation medicine. It analyzes tubers to fus 18 now 32. Number for the benefit fus launched last month, bas insurance platform the first day. Number tee noodles a mpany. One of the biggest ipos of restaurant went public in june now tradingt 44 more than double originally. Number two. Potbelly just hat public on friday already up 120 but the companys income is down so we will seehat happens next number one of 2013 ipo Sprouts Farmers Market as americans jump on the natural food bandwagont has done not from the original 18 price tag on the first day increasing 123 percent toy at 45 a share. Good luck to twitter i hope the same debt and hope they have the same trajectory. Up next to take on the Housing Market in days before the changes will live find out if there were not gerri no wonder the white house was so quick to a0 october 1st of the edge they knew it would be a disaster according to the Washington Post deal baum administration received multiple warnings that the new exchange had big problems but the white house went on anyway and with more on this we have health care pocy expert from the heritage foundation. Welcome back. What you makef this . They have of warnings from people who developed the sieges in those associated with it but they still launched. Why . Because the whole exercise thewingback more than one year is like thelma and louise of health care they will drive th right off the cliff. They had these warnings over a ar ago. Back in 2011 we were picking up the intelligence that hhs had with the National Governors association also democratic states that word besides themselves because ey cannot get any answers. At was the floor be guided to the software. Gerri it past two 1 2 years ago but yet they still caot get it together and the president wants to be compared to apple but they would not be compared to a product this bad. Right. December 17 coming up will be exactly the same number of days since the law was signed as the bombing of pearl harbor ale and the surrender of tokyo bay. We widen world war ii in the length of time i hasaken us to produce is. I was getting intelligence talking to the vendors from the beginning of the year and they said they have to have a no go date no later than june 30th. Right after june 30th we start to hear about bits and pieces being delayed. Rri lets shows an actual facts and numbers becausehe has been without as we try to figure out how many are getting on the exchanges and the big kahuna have the people are enrling . So far we have found out because of federal government isnt talking about states like connecticut and illinois and kentucky and maryland we are showing this full screen right now. A map that gives the details. The president wants to sign up 7 million by the end of march with less than 100,000 rit now what is the possibility he wants to do what he wants . But another point of the figure these people completed the application but i guess where that is right now . Sitting in limbo and has not gone to the insurer because that peace does it work what the insurers told me before october 1st that hhs told them th tryo get that working by november 15 they still may not get insurance in j. Gary unless they complete the application. There is so manyroble it was highlighted on the daily show. You have to listen to this. We will do a challenge i will try to download every movie ever made and you will try to sign up for obamacare and we will see which one happens first. [laughter] gerri that had to hurt the youannot sign up. Is almost impossible. Fell who thing but remember they were still right teeing regulations and this is the problem. The only people who have never done this did it on a muchsmaller scale with far less complexity that is from those with massachusts and utah even then they had no where near the complexity and was not verifying people syncom but rrogramming many already going to hospitals to say give us the list that you claim are spending the money we will gi to the insurance then next year we wil see how many people really deserve it. That is how they did in massachusetts and that was more complicated tn utah. Gerri i know you welcome back and talk again. We appreciate it. 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Gerri end helped for housing put on hold as a government that deals wi the government shuts down and ceiling joining me now are real este ceo from better holmes a and gardens it is great to have you here. One of the b fears is the government shut wn one of the unintended consequences is the jumbo loans cannot be closed because the irs has shut down how does that impact you . We have on see that yet to be honest. It impacts every industry to raise certain extent but not much has happened with realestate. But one of our concerns is th Government Employees that are not being paid could end up having trouble paying were digit mortgages. Gerri that is a concern for everybody in we have llord the recent recovery has then encouraging for those of us who own homes. Cant keep up . We are starting to see the bottom and we have seen some firsttime home byer numbers that are siificant. Is the Housing Market stalling or revving up . It is in certain parts of the country and its always fficult becse there are pockets thaare very strong and other pockets that are not to. One survey that i will cite that wconducted recently with millennial spee coz they will be the driving force very soon btween 80 and 35 yearold they said 45ercent want to buy a home in the next year five years. Gerri that is a big promise to get them into the marketplace because that allows the trade up with the entrylevel at follows from their. Do use the house scene gets back to larry used to be . But back to a more normal market where there are lots of firsttime home buyers . Eighty start to see the movement we saw a years ago . If you look at the numbers this year predicting over 5 million sales which is great news, doubledigit increases with the price of housing and the number of houses sold part we hope that continues but there are so many different factors. Mortgage rates are one in the abity of people to get out of their current home so the realestate industry is complicated right now. Gerri the key for talking to us we appreciate your time. Customer erin swenson ordered shoes from us online but they didnt fit. Customers not happy, im not happy. Sales go down, im not happy. Merch comes back,m not happy. Use ups. They make returns eas unhappy customer becomes happy customer. Then, repeat customer. Repeat custome, im happy. Sales go up, im happy. I ordered another pair. Im happy. both im happy. Im happy. Happy. Happy. Happy. Happy. Happy happy. I love logistics. Gerri finally, the broken promises. The promises of obamare to keep your docto and your health plan in the promises the exchanges would work for the promises of federal regulation of the food supp the cdc and usda could keep it safe but that did not work out too well either a and with the promisof more oil and Gas Exploration and to reduce consumer prices. That doesntappen either that is the messe of the moment you are on your own to find your n solution. That is what we are here for to help you find solutions for you and your family whether the government or engy supply we will have the answers and more tobira night. Coming uptomorrow the question in answer session is back to get ready as we devote the entire hour to get you e three should you need. That is it for the willis report. See you tomorrow. New evidence of polltical corrtion in the obama the administration. The House OversightCommittee Says the Internal Revenue service and the Obama White House has exchanged confidtial taxpayer information. The Federal Reserveasy money policies are assured that the president nominates vice chair jimmy alleno succeed ben bernanke as the second most powerfrful person whington. I am lou dobbs. Lou and good e