Americans are waiting to the last minute to file their taxes. Gerri everything you need to know in our users guide to taxes. Also an, consumer warning about debit cards and outrageous fees some are now charging. Consumer reports is here with a list of the best and worst supermarkets in america. All that and more coming up on the willis report, where consumers are our business. Gerri new questions tonight over the safety of older model Jeep Cherokee and jeep liberties. The new attention comes after 150 million judgment against chrysler and potentially lethal location of those fuel tanks. Fiat chrysler insist the jeeps fuel tank design is not defective. Former nhtsa administrator Joan Claybrook says it is. President emeritus of. Welcome back to the show. The design has been criticized for years. Is it safe . No, it is not safe. This vehicle should have the fuel tank relocated or replaced. Unfortunately the way it was designed by chrysler it is way to the rear of the vehicle, behind the a
It fit your life . All that and more combing up on the willis report where consumers are our business. Tonight were asking the question is Big Government the answer, and if so which republican can actually deliver a Smaller Government . With us now former senator scott brown. Also a fox news contributor. And Patrick Brennan with national review. Patrick, start with you. Youre here on set with me. So jamie dimon, biggest bank ceo in the world really talking a today about Big Government and how it is harming his institution. How did you react to his words . Well the point he was making specifically was, if we have, if we have new regulations on banks, require them to hold more capital than they have in the past than the market might demand it will create unintended consequences in a financial crisis. May make a crisis less likely. But when a crisis happens it will restrict their ability to react that has to be true in some sense. Gerri there are a lot of unintended consequences to doddfr
Have covered of deadly safety defects in its compact cars. We will speak with consumer advocate ralph nader, who is no stranger to General Motors after writing, unsafe at any speed the designedin dangers of the american automobile. He won a major settlement against gm for spying on him and trying to discredit him. Then as senator Dianne Feinstein accuses the cia of spying on Senate Staffers and their computers as they investigated the agencies torture and condition program, cia director john brennan rejects the allegations. As far as the allegations of cia hacking into senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. We would not do that. That is just beyond the scope of reason. We will host a roundtable discussion with former fbi director, ray mcgovern, and Pulitzer Prizewinning investigative journalist about her new book, dragnet nation a quest for privacy, security and freedom in a wolrd of relentless surveillance. Since i joined email in 2006, they have been searching sto
About 35 million in the first year and an additional 52 million in the second year. At the same time weve already over the last several months gotten estimates from the retirement system as well as health rates. So this is a savings. Finally the last line reflects the information the controller just provided to you. So we have about 43 million in Additional Fund balance. That is showing the final amount and bringing down the shortfalls in short years. At the moment we are working to balance the budget. There are a number of other pieces that we are working to address including as the controller mentioned how does the revenue picture that is that we are seeing reflected in the nine 9 months report translate into budget for next year and we are work is closely on that. I know there is discussion about the committee on the eoa Fire Department and how that will fit into our budget projection. You heard about the issue of the power rates at hetch hetchy enterprise and as well as the additio
Good afternoon. Welcome to the San Francisco full board of supervisors of tuesday, may 13, 2014. Madam clerk, madam clerk, please call the roll. Supervisor avalos. Supervisor breed. Supervisor campos. President chiu. Supervisor cowen. Supervisor farrell. Supervisor kim. Supervisor mar. Supervisor tang. Supervisor wiener. Supervisor yee. Mr. President , all members are present ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all colleagues we have our april 8th can i have a motion to approve the minutes. Well take that without objection. Minutes are approved any communications. For the appeal parcel map as the street address on waller streets weve received a communication open april 30th, 2014, from the appellant withdrawing their appeal therefore with the consumption with john gibner, deputy City Attorney their doomed tamped by operation of law. Madam cler