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Seattle kale and at them both in the Northwest only 24 hour news station. From a.b.c. News. I'm Richard cancer congressional negotiators expressing optimism they'll reach an agreement on border security the deadline one week from today the Senate's top Republican budget negotiator Richard Shelby says both parties have compromised on the president's border demands got some latitude the question will the president except less than his more than $5000000000.00 wall demand see what happens we need border security we have to have it both sides agreeing it will take billions and years to significantly improve border security at the field a.b.c. News Washington Jeff Bezos the wealthiest man on the planet is accusing am of the company behind the National Enquirer of attempting to blackmail him threatening to publish photos related to an extramarital affair if he did not stop investigating how the Enquirer got its hands on the pics one wild. 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From 247 news here the top local stories of the hour from the Comber 24 hour news center the University of Washington is preparing its Yabba campus for the winter storm coming this afternoon Vice President of facilities Alou Carey yellow says they're working on clearing pathways so students educators and visitors can get around safely school leaders say they'll am to decide whether or not to suspend campus operations by 6 this morning we're waiting to hear whether some big concerts will still go forward if it's a common down and appearance by Michelle Obama was rescheduled from tonight to March 24th the former 1st lady tweeted with a snowstorm on its way my biggest priority is making sure everyone stays safe the f.b.i. Introduced its new special agent in charge at the Seattle office Raymond Duda has been with the Bureau for 27 years including a recent stint as chief of its cyber division duty says the F.B.I.'s top glow. Well priority is counterterrorism but in the northwest to also be focusing on counterintelligence. News. AAA traffic southbound on I 5 just north of the West Seattle bridge we have a disabled vehicle blocking the right lane and we did clear out in Port Orchard westbound 16 it's State Route 3 all lanes are back open the sport brought to you by to play the Resort and Casino discover the unrivaled gaming power of one the only gaming card you need find all the details at a live resort casino dot com m j Phillips. Hi everybody today the day the snow storm is on the way it's going to start in the north sound in the morning the north end around the Strait around want to come county work its way toward the metro area Seattle proper by about noon and then continue on down the I 5 corridor once it starts it's going to snow most of the time for the next 24 hours heaviest snow Friday night late into Saturday morning by the time it's done most of us will have 3 to 6 inches of snow on the ground but locally heavier amounts are certainly possible in the coming weather center I'm meteorologist Shannon O'Donnell. Gets the trifecta for basketball team from Washington State last night Huskies be the Arizona 67 to 62 took the stunt double 91 to 7 the number for godsake goal wipes out San Francisco 92 to $62.00 to be much warmer and hopefully sunnier the 1st week of May for the winter mirror Cup The Huskies will have a big challenge. German national team will be coming to Seattle raise the men's and women's team Boston University minute new c.l.a. Women will also be joining the field art Sanders that your home of the Huskies. The tunnels open traffic still get snarled good camo AAA traffic alerts every 10 what's ahead this half hour on 1st look. It's 7 minutes past the hour Happy Friday everybody so as I mentioned the world's richest man is taking a stand against an alleged threat Jeff Bezos accuses the National Enquirer his parent company of trying to blackmail and extort him our report now from John Lawrence Jeff Bezos turning the tables on this is pretty gutsy I mean to put it out there the founder of him. It's on and the owner of The Washington Post writes a blog post accusing the National Enquirer his publisher of blackmail and extortion the tell all includes an e-mail Baze of says his team received from an Am I expect you to even know as Wasser lawyers you know this falls in the old I think is Gerald Ford quote is 90 percent of the lawyers give 10 percent of us a bad name these guys are among the 90 percent The Enquirer said in January that it had been investigating an alleged Baze OSA affair for months Fazio says Am I wanted him to stop a Washington Post investigation into the tabloids motives in pursuing the story he feels Apparently that. There is there was political motivation for what the what the Enquirer was doing if Bezos would say the Enquirer's reporting on his affair was not politically motivated the company said it would not publish compromising pictures of pesos one legal analyst says Bay's host may have trouble finding a prosecutor to charge am I because of all the factors involved correspondent John Lawrence reporting well this morning we're noting the passing of a legend baseball great Frank Robinson has died correspondent Bill Michaels has more on the Hall of Famer Michael baseball's 1st African-American manager and the only player to win the m.v.p. Honors in both leagues Frank Robinson has died at the age of $83.00. Guy. In his 21 seasons as a player Frank Robinson was a 14 time All-Star a 2 time World Series champion a 2 time m.v.p. Once in the American League and once in the National League and the 1956 n.f.l. Rookie of the year Robinson ranks 10th in baseball history for career homers and said during his 1982 Hall of Fame induction that some people thought he should have put up better numbers in his career lot. People ask me Aren't you those you upset about not getting 3000 hits not getting 600 home runs not said No I'm not and I don't think I have to apologize for getting 2943 hits and 586 home runs Robinson became the 1st African-American manager when he was hired by the Cleveland Indians in October 1974 Robinson went on to manage the Giants Orioles Montreal Expos and Washington Nationals our thanks to Correspondent Bill Michaels reporting for 1st light we're coming up on 10 minutes past the hour now and in a few moments we'll take the pledge and if you're Sleepless in Seattle it may be because of the threat of snow keeping you awake That's next on the 1st like. 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Good morning 12 and a half past the hour on 1st light the divorce cast is coming up with a look ahead to the weather today the 8th day of February 2901st oh this is former senior patrol leader Michael Scotto telling you to make the Scout salute as we know that the Boy Scouts of America was founded this day in 1911 ionic I will do my best to deny you leave my country and I will later Scout law to help other people at all times to keep myself physically strong mentally awake and morally straight 110000000 kids have been in scouting which now allows girls in the older groups have dropped boys from the name February 8th 1952 this proclamation from London. The High and Mighty being fed a little bit Alexandra met a is now a man of death a valid serving of heavy memory accounting Queen Elizabeth the 2nd by the grace of God Queen of this realm the queen now in the 67th year of her reign and going strong this day in 1968. Planet Of The Apes premiers in New York City transforming the science fiction genre into something much more profound and enduring a stranded astronaut Charlton Heston discovers the nightmare world he stranded on is Earth. Side really did. some pretty gusty winds as well but mostly dry weekend on Saturday for most of the northeast that snow is going to be lingering in the northwest into tomorrow and there will be a few rounds of rain come through California to borrow as well but it's especially tomorrow east of the Rockies going to be very quiet a lot of dry weather will be a quick kidding area of some snow by Sunday from the upper Midwest to the Ohio Valley so as the upper Midwest thawing out now yes definitely start to see some of the temperatures coming up a bit. Of kind of a fresh out of some colder air or at least briefly coming down for today fact I temperatures will struggle of 0 in parts of Dakotas All right thanks Brian Thompson the new Supreme Court has gotten an early test of its position on abortion the court is stopping Louisiana from enforcing new regulations on abortion clinics the justices say by a 54 vote they will not allow the state to put into effect a law that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court's 4 liberals and putting a hold on the law pending a full review that from Westwood One news this morning 16 minutes past the hour now as a Robert workman joins us so Robert the n.b.a. Trading deadline has come and gone now so who's where this morning. It was a little on the busy side yesterday and to the trade deadline biggest name on the move yesterday afternoon Grizzlie center Marcus saw heading to Toronto for 3 players and a 2nd round pick Milwaukee kept pace those of the top 2 teams in the east they had a forward nickel a mirror to trim the pelicans for a couple of players and 3 2nd round choices the 76 percent mark l. Folds who was the number one overall pick a couple of years ago down to Orlando for guard Jonathan Simmons plus a number one pick and a number 2 pick the 2 percent guard Avery Bradley to Memphis for to Michael Green and Garrett temple and then sent center might miss scholar who they just picked up the other day across the hall to the Lakers for big man Michael Beasley and it's his abuts no deals for Anthony Davis of the pelicans Kyle Lowry of the Raptors my colleague of the Grizzlies they're all still where they were this time yesterday but making up for that you can consider the case of cards Nick Stauskas and Wade Baldwin this time last we both were with the border when trailblazers on Sunday both were traded to Cleveland for Rodney Hood Wednesday the pair were shipped off to Houston as part of a 3 way deal that sent Alex Burke to the Kings and even Mon Shumpert to the rockets and then yesterday both Stauskas and Baldwin are on the move again dealt to the Pacers for a guy who's playing in Italy is probably not coming back well he's probably a family of 4 teams in 5 days but don't go looking for any either of them tomorrow night's Pacers Cavaliers game in Indianapolis because Indian is expected to wave both players Well it's nice to be in demand I suppose on the court last night the Lakers at the Celtics won 29128 Rajon Rondo hitting a 20 footer at the buzzer Le Bron James had 28 points pace yourself past the Clippers 11692294 boy ambled the Novich Raptors rip the Hawks 100-2101 Pascal c. Aka had a career high 33 points and Fred Van Vliet at a career best 30 as the Raptors rally from down 17 to pull out the victory magic of the Timberwolves 122112 thunderbolt to pass the Grizzlies 117295 and the Blazers lit up the Spurs won 272118 college basketball number 4 Gonzaga going gonzo on San Francisco 926212 Frank Houston. Central Florida 7768 number 20 Iowa in it to win it at Indiana 7772 and the 25th ranked Cincinnati bear cats last Memphis 6964 Thursday in the n.h.l. Nearly everyone was on the ice 14 games and we got free hockey in 8 of those islanders deny the Devils to one in a shootout kings got by the Flyers 32 in a shootout overtime win for the Panthers over the Penguins 32 predators out shine the Stars 32 hurricanes slice the Sabers 65 capitals edged the avalanche 43 and the Blackhawks into the Canucks 43 The Blues blank the Lightning won nothing in overtime the senators shut up the ducks for nothing 45 cities for Anders Nilsson Oilers to slick for the wild for one Blue Jackets double up the coyotes for 2 Golden Knights in the Red Wings 4 to 3 Canadiens grand of the Jets 52 in the Sharks one of the flames by count of 5 to 2 baseball along expected trade finally went down the Marlins dealing their all star catcher j.t. Rail muito to the Phillies for catcher Jorge all thorough a couple of top pitching prospects and some international bonus money real moto had to 77 with 21 homers last year he'd been pursued by a number of clubs this winter and whenever the Marlins develop a good player you can be sure they're going to trade in the trade of the last 2 national league m.v.p. For crying out loud free agency no big name signed to several veterans taking minor league deals with invitations to spring training which starts next week hello the Rangers brought in Hunter Pence and Matt Davidson that's bringing back catcher Devon Meza Rocco and the Indians welcome Ryan Flaherty and Dioner Navarro at the Pebble Beach pro am one of the golf tournaments out west Brian Gay and Scott Langley share the 1st round lead at 7 under par and as we heard earlier from Bill Michael safe home to Frank Robinson we talk about short lists on the show sometimes Frank is on a lot of them players with m.v.p. Awards and both leagues that list is Frank Robinson 1st American African-American manager in the majors that's Frank Robinson even before he got to the majors he was somebody special in high school in Oakland California to sports star also played basketball had another guy on that team pretty good Bill Russell who want to live an n.b.a. Titles Robinson went to the red. Where he was a network of the year in 56 and 61 went to the Orioles in 66 won the Triple Crown the ale in b.p. And the World Series that year finished 40 Homer shy of 657 hits short of 3000 the list of players who outpaced him in both of those categories Henry Aaron Willie Mays Alex Rodriguez manage the Indians Giants Orioles expos the Nationals helping the last franchise move from Montreal to Washington that put him in our of a stadium in 2005 where 35 years earlier Frank it hit 2 grand slams into the upper deck of the same gave on a Friday night in June I was in the chips and one more thing back to that 66 he's in the 2nd game of a Mother's Day double header Frank hit a home run completely out of Memorial Stadium only player to ever do that the team put up a little orange and black flag to mark the spot which said simply here which stayed there until they tore the building down 25 Years Later today we play. In heaven. Mike you're 83 that's right a very nice thank you for that Robert appreciate that 21 minutes after the hour still to come u.s. 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China trade negotiations Michael at the closing bell the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 220 points that was an improvement from earlier in the day when the measure of 30 blue chip stocks was down over 375 points investors didn't react well when White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Fox Business News we've got that you know a pretty sizable distance to go here while there had been talk of progress between u.s. And Chinese trade representatives Kudlow said they have nothing in writing yet at the moment we have not had that paper and of any of these discussions it seems there are still some major issues to be resolved concerning China's trade practices and the protection of intellectual property there are going to be probing and continuing conversations and I come back to this theme of enforcement Kudlow said a meeting between President Trump and China's president will not take place before a March deadline no date has been set no time no place no nothing at the moment if negotiators don't reach a trade agreement by a March deadline more tear of so will take effect All right thanks steve steve Kasten bomb reporting for 1st light by the way a bankruptcy judge has blessed a $5200000000.00 plan to keep Sears going that means about $425.00 stores and $45000.00 jobs are being preserved 25 minutes after the hour and 1st light entertainment critic Kevin Carr is with us now Kevin you've seen the Lego movie too so how they put the pieces together good morning Michael the 1st legal movie came out 5 years ago it was a huge. Ries it was a massive hit and it was a delight I absolutely loved it when they've since done a Lego Batman movie and a lady on in joggle movie so this isn't the 2nd Lego Movie they've done but it's the 2nd one in that it of the far reaching Lego it's a Lego movie to the 2nd part in this one after the his the kid sister starts playing with the toys with him but it still has the irreverence in the silliness and the pop culture references that you'd expect to see it's got a great cast and a great voice cast it's got some very funny moments there's some parts where I just think that they are trying to hardware it does feel a bit like it's a forced sequel since it was kind of the self-contained story at the beginning of but I think that's forgivable for how fun and silly and you know just sort of good natured as a movie's trying to be over the 14 people who aren't familiar with the Lego movies who is this and at what like what age group there are adults I played with Lego's as a kid so not just the Lego's but all the pop culture references to everything from you know Justice League to Harry Potter you know it let's put it is in the Nat King Cole sort of way from 2 to $92.00 is it really does have that wide range of Appeal parts or how many bricks would you give this Lego movie you know I'm going to give this one for bricks out of 5 it's still quite fun and exciting to watch as a kid or an adult All right thanks Kevin Carr now we just have to figure out which we are the I think we're kids coming up on $27.00 past the hour there's more 1st light still to come this Friday morning. 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Says when those gases are detected 17 Jet fans are supposed to automatically turn on but obviously something's wrong they say they're working on it and improvements should be made by next week is Howard Schultz announcing a run for president that was the question on people's minds as the former Starbucks head spoke at her do University yesterday shots didn't make any announcement about that but he did address critics who say that are run by him would lead to President Trump's reelection he says he thinks it's intellectually dishonest for people to say that he also said if he decides to run being an independent would allow him to represent all the American people Maxine Frost come on News come all the way or there's some kind ever according badgering you it's happening to most of us telemarketing and a specially those irritating robo calls about 26300000000 unwanted calls were made pushing southward into Texas where highs today will be in the thirty's and forty's we're going to focus to into to borrow some snow. 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I think that's kind of a classic and that's one way to deal with telemarketers What do you do what do you do to fend off these unwanted telephone calls I soon you don't want the most people don't although there might be some people who like talking to strangers trying to sell them things but I think most of us hate it but it's it is a huge huge problem Good morning we are add 23 minutes before the hour now you are with 1st light and we would like you to call us if you are a live breathing human being our number is 807363666 we'd like to hear your stories about any experiences that you might have had with telemarketers or scammers and if you've ever tried to fight back against them and if you have what have you done and and has it worked it's a duff to drive you crazy both David our producer and I we both have landlines at home that we really don't use much anymore but we keep them and have the ringers down and they're pretty much just there to soak up on wanted calls and every once in a while I might see the little light blinking I'll pick it up just to see what's there and if it's a human being I will tell them I don't appreciate them calling me that they are breaking the law I'm on the Do Not Call list and I feel like saying I'm coming to your house in the middle of the night to stand. Outside your bedroom window and yell up at you and wake you up but of course I don't actually do that but don't you wish you could do that don't you wish you could get back at those people you've seen things on television where they have blow horns air horns into the phones I don't know if that works all kinds of things now of course there's technology to help and they're things that are supposed to work like the National Do Not Call Registry which I don't know I mean everybody signed up for it doesn't seem to work very well because I guess that the people who are going to break the law don't worry about that law either $26300000000.00 robo calls were received in our country last year and that's up almost half that's up 46 percent from the year before so it's getting worse now they say the average person gets 10 spam calls per month I will bet there are some folks out there that get 10 spam calls a day the interesting thing about this is that everybody gets targeted but Texas if you're calling from Texas or listening in Texas your state is the hardest hit the top 10 area codes targeted by spammers include 7 in Texas in fact all of the top 5 area codes are located in Texas the worst spot for getting robo calls and spam calls is Dallas area code 214 that's followed by Fort Worth in San Antonio Austin Houston and they say it's going to get worse some of the companies that investigate this say that right now maybe about 50 percent of the calls made in 29000 this year are going to be so damn cause and you think people you know it's you think people are not making money on this they must be there's a Florida guy who was fined last year by the f.c.c. $120000000.00 because he placed at least $97000000.00 robo calls touting fake travel deals in the f.c.c. Finally crack down and found him so what can we do to fight back laws I mention as technology there is I don't know what kind of personal things you can do and now there's some legislation on both the federal and the local levels I know there's a couple of bills just been introduced in Congress to try to crack down on this and there's a bill that's been introduced in the California legislature which could be a model for. States around the country because if the feds aren't going to do their job and get this irritation out of our lives it's going to have to be the state's I guess so Jim Roope tells us what's happening out there in California Michael we all get them. One that's one I get several times a day all disguised with area codes and exchanges that I call. By the way I've asked to be placed on their do not call list but the calls do not stop the phone number disguising making the incoming call look like it's from your area code or even matches your exchange those 1st 3 numbers of your phone number is called neighbor spoofing and the reason why so many of us answer the call is really is getting out of control state senator Ben Why so has introduced Senate bill to await an effort to stop these robo calls once and for all he says Californians registered the most complaints to the Federal Trade Commission in 2017 in regard to these robo calls and that same year California was 3rd in identity theft with Michigan being number one followed by Florida of the $30000000000.00 robo calls Americans receive each year up to 40 percent of them are scams says way so it's costing unsuspecting vulnerable Americans 9 $100000000.00 a year you have been putting to Senator why so there are protocols to stop them the f.c.c. Designed it set them up in 2016 they are called secured to left any identity revisited or stir and secure handling of assorted information using tokens or shaken so the f.c.c. Protocols are nicknamed stir shaken they not only stop neighbors spoofing preventing scammers and marketers from disguising their phone number but they display the real number allowing law enforcement to stop them the problem is the phone companies have not implemented these protocols ways those bill if passed and signed into law would force phone companies to implement to ensure that there are safeguards when somebody is making a call that it's not a fake call he says because of the inaction of the federal government states are going to have to enact such a legislate. To inforce consumer protection laws Michael All right thanks Jim Roope out in California on what is happening there our telephone number is 807363666 right about now I would even take a call from a telemarketer. Folks don't seem to be using their telephones in reverse this morning calling out so we have a couple of calls waiting but I'd like to get a few more and hear your experiences 807363666 there are things that you can do kind of technically one thing is you can set your service to reject anonymous call rejection most of them have a di think if you do star 77 and he time a call comes in that says anonymous you won't get that of course you know most spammers know that so they'll put a number on there you can call the National Do Not to sign up with the Do Not Call registry but that doesn't seem to work very well because everybody signed up with it at do not call dot gov and people still get the calls now some of the carriers now are getting very annoyed I know I've talked to my landline carrier a couple of times and I've had to talk to my cell phone carrier and say you know I'm getting I'm getting calls on my cell phone I don't want that you better stop that and so they but they've got different things especially for the cell phones 18 t. And Verizon t. Mobile are all coming up with apps Sprint's got that some kind of a premium caller id service where you can protect yourself from the caller id spoofers and robo calls so there are some tech technical things and one of the best actual is no more robo or no more Obo it's and o m o r o b o and that actually works pretty well that gives you protection in real time when you sign up with them and now you can do that through your phone company in fact and when a call comes in it it gets diverted away and people are told don't call this number anymore and you might hear a ring we have at our house and we end every once in while you know you can sense that there's a call coming in because if the phone is on you'd hear like half of a ring and then it goes away so you know that another one has been stopped and so that's something that you can do there are all kinds of. Call control blockers and things that you can buy commercially so there are ways to do this or you can block individual numbers of course but that doesn't work really effectively it'll because they just keep changing the numbers every day and their machines don't care they'll just change the number so 807363666 is our telephone number we'd like to hear from you about what you're doing what you think about your representatives in California or at the federal government at that level what they should be doing to protect us the technology apparently exists why aren't we using it we know the phone company could probably figure out a way to stop this they control those phone lines and they control what comes into your cell phone I mean if we can recognize just by looking at our phone that that's a spam call we're not going to answer it why can't they stop it what should we do should we just all March on our or the offices of our you know Sprint and Verizon and t. 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At any rate it is 12 minutes before the hour you are with Friday mornings 1st light let's let's pick up the phone see who's there this is either Jeff in Seattle or it's somebody pretending to be you know but are you alive Jeff. Here that all good is a snowing yet I hear there's a snowing out there yet. Oh yeah I'll be around noon you know all right so so you like the deal like the robo calls or do you hate them like everybody else I don't I don't like I get. Well call the line and I get somebody out people I have outsold So I for one whole night get my 5 year old son as he answers you like hello there you know. Now that's you know that's a kind of a common thing people do is if you get a live one on the line and they end an hour they get the f. a Live person get you on the line somehow some people will say it was string them along to look to the point where it's wasting their time and money and maybe they'll give up or you put them on hold and you say well let me go get my credit card and just put him on hold and leave him there or do you like that but when I get like my my little one he like but it really does anybody engage the kid in conversation. You know they're going up right away and then you find out your 5 year old just bought you a timeshare in Florida. Thank you all right thanks for thanks for the call Ok thank you very much let's talk to Al in Green Bay Wisconsin Good morning Al I am a real I'm not a robot that's good I had a serious I had a physical call that one time in it was like different people but the same people you know but the same thing what they were telling me that I have this issue oh yeah yeah I know you can comment on the could you could tell by the sound of them that they were Middle Eastern people and every time you try to ask them questions well they hang they would hang up oh yeah well the one time I musta got the guy pretty mad and he started yelling that sanity's about America all kinds of things and I'm like my God Who are these people calling me. Yeah you know it's silly girl it's very very sure could well could be a flu like and some overseas call center where they call into the United States and you know and course it's usually a cleaner it's usually a clue if it sounds like it's coming in on a short wave radio or something and the person doesn't speak English very well that's a pretty good clue they were literally clear but I mean you could tell you could definitely tell that they were from you know India with guns and you know there was a thing you mentioned about the i.r.s. That is a very big scam and that seems to work because people here I r s and they get scared they're told there's a problem with the return we need to check your return we need your Social Security Number to do that and before you know some people will jump and say oh my god it's the i.r.s. I'd better in the course the i.r.s. Never will call you and do that if they want something from you they will send you a letter they do not call so I hope everybody understands that if somebody calls you and you're not expecting a call from the i.r.s. And somebody is calling and telling you that you know it's a scam right away because they they do not do that but a lot of people here are as they start forking over information and the next thing you know their credit cards are you know are maxed out well they had they have 20 clinics known like that yeah all right thanks so much for the call appreciate it thank you good morning we go to St Louis Good morning Bart. They are You don't know we're doing pretty good here. Yeah those the latest big thing here is computers they call and say that you know they're part of a conglomerate The Who I will give many free advertising but at the truth. And. They basically say that they've detected through your account that your computer has been infected along with your cell phone and everything and they snag some people that I know. Sending them the husband got out alive and said Well you know how do I know you're for real of a that well this is your account name where the company name attached the and dot com. Will send you an e-mail right now and they send him an e-mail that looks genuine wow that's pretty sophisticated bit of Usually once you start getting into it you know if you say anything at all like that they'll they'll go just cut out and figure it's not worth the time but that's value the care the kicker the kicker is. He said Well what do we do and if that was. $800.00 fee and it's good for one year for them to quote monitor your system then they can fix whatever the problem was and he said well we're not at home right now you know you'll have to call me back later I can call you back later and they will help are you know you need to get this taken care of right away because you know everything we can see your credit card numbers they gave them the last 4 digits of his credit card number which are not too hard to get an order now whether they had all question not reassuring to hear I did not know that. One I was just that but they said last 4 digits are no big deal but then so then they play it off to say that you know we won't give you the whole credit card number because we're not sure we're talking that they turn around on you and make it think that they had your information but they're not going to give it to you because they're not sure who. So you are on that's good Betty rated they waited 15 minutes for him and a wife to drive home then got to their computer they gave them their banking account routing and checking or double their checking account number and gave them full access their computer Vesta saying you know we think nobody would ever fall for this stuff and yet people do and it must be somebody must be making a lot of money or they wouldn't be sending out billions of these calls Well they got them for $800.00 and the bank would like there is absolutely nothing we can do about it I was fortunate the people are well they were related to me and I Bridie much demanded because I knew they had information they had my personal information my ex-wife personal information and my children that were made friends I demanded that they get one of the. Monitoring System there's a few of them out there that the one light block I believe is what it's called. There actually you know I've gotten spam I get spam from them. That they are a legit business and I believe their rights email us concept of spam email trying to sell me a life lock all the time but they're reporting 500 company and they're legit and they have they don't they have some sort of like $1000000.00 guarantee on their reaction when I know it's a legitimate company but I have 2 people that I know that add them to or they're there they've got raided. And whatever you want to call it computer realm and they've signed up for their services then they really help them out so I unfortunately we're not only are we going victim to the scammers but by then we had a ball victim to one of the companies to help protect That's right Bart This has been put back to the robo calling thing though I believe if you look Missouri was the very 1st state to have the know. Well hope hope that's worked for Anyway thanks so much Mark I prefer it that kind of real world story there to remind us that people do fall prey we can squeeze in a very quick comment from Duke in Las Vegas Good morning. Good morning Michael basically he should just put the soap down for a little while I mean I have a Wal-Mart flip to never get this close what's interesting to me I wonder if they know it's something that they do really can work with Iran maybe there's some technology on that I don't know that's very interesting a lot to look that up thanks so much to can Thanks everybody else for your calls this morning we're coming up on 4 minutes before the hour and we have a little bit of 1st light left on this Friday morning but thanks again. To you. 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