As well as representatives from a number of major Telephone Companies. 12 companies have joined us today. They are at t, bandwidth, centurylink, charter, comcast, consolidated, frontier, sprint, tmobile, u. S. Cellular, verizon, and windstream. Today we are announcing major bipartisan publicprivate effort to stop robocalls. First, i want to introduce my colleague and fellow cochair of this initiative, New Hampshire attorney general gordon macdonald. Gordon thank you, general stein, and thank you for your leadership on this issue. The essence of our role as attorneys general is to protect the public. No single issue comes close to generating the volume of consumer complaints as robocalls. For virtually all of us, the spam calls are a ubiquitous and regular annoyance. But robocalls are also a very effective device for illegal conduct conducted by financial scammers who prey particularly on the vulnerable, putting at risk their savings, their identity, their security. The memorandum of un
Transportation correspondent kris van cleave tells us what the real i. D. Is all about. Starting october 2020 of next year you have to have the gold that way youll being compliant with the real i. D. Act. Reporter at airports across the u. S. , t. S. A. Officers are breaking the news to flyers. You have to have the gold star. Reporter many will need a round trip to the d. M. V. Before october 2020. Not necessarily looking forward to the process. Reporter or they may not be able to fly. Theyll need new real i. D. S, a new secure drivers license that will be required to access airport checkpoints and to enter federal buildings. How many of the folks coming through here have i. D. S that are compliant . That youre seeing . Roughly about 50 . So we still have to make the general public aware to go to the d. M. V. Now. That way you wont wait until the last minute. Reporter new signs are up at the airports alerting passengers for the need for a new i. D. , with a star like this in the upper
Finding mccluneys fishing bag and the boat was never found. Sc killing a hotel worker but he says he was protecting his family, and he says hed do it again. Here is victor oquendo. Reporter the connecticut father fighting a manslaughter charge after a vacation in anguilla back on the island for a preliminary hearing. We all want the same thing. Justice. For me that means proving my innocence. Reporter Scott Hapgood insisting he was acting in selfdefense when handyman Kenny Mitchell came to the familys hotel room in uniform unannounced saying he needed to fix a sink before pulling a knife and trying to rob him. The two men fought. Hapgood says he was stabbed and bitten. When it was over, mitchell was dead. The coroner says from asphyxiation and blunt force trauma. A bellman says he was called to the room as hapgood pinned mitchell down waiting for police. I keep insisting over and over, he needs to ease up off of him. And he wouldnt . And he would not. Reporter an unconfirmed toxicology
Wall street Global Economy editor Jon Hilsenrath. Great to see you guys. We have a lot coming up. James carafano. Mohamed on the economy and markets, former pennsylvania governor on 2020 race and policy director Peter Navarro joins us talking trade, markets and the fed, dont miss a moment of it, big 3 hours, markets have a firmer tone, mix trading dayiest, we are waiting on crucial speech this morning from Federal Reserve jay powell, the central bank chief addressing commentary policy and future rate cuts, we have Jon Hilsenrath to tell us what youre expecting, jon. Jon itll be hard for powell to go on a limb, theres a lot of Division Within the fed itself. We talk about the pressure that powell is under from President Trump. President trump wants him to cut rates, theres some he is attendance as we reported earlier this week about half of the Regional Bank president s, one eager to move rates down at the last meeting, powell has to set the table carefully. You had exclusive and fantas
Using just phones and the internet, fraudsters have proven to be relentless. Seniors,t our nations we must continue to not only prosecute con artists, who steal literally billions from our seniors, but to find new ways to block illegal spoofing and robo calls the Network Level. Last year, robo callers generated more than 26 billion unwanted calls that reached mobile phones. Were included, the number soars to 48 billion. May, our residency received 93 average robo calls each day. So far, robo callers are on pace to generate 50 billion unwanted illegal robo calls targeting american consumers. Overwhelmingly are initiated by offshore robo callers who are using new technologies to perpetuate their schemes. Today, we will focus on a practice called spoofing. Allows scammers to mask their identity by replacing their caller id with one that fits their story. When victims see the irs or the local shares Department Show up theyeir caller id, understandably answer the phone. They are also worrie