This runs an hour and 20 minutes. We convene to discuss something of utmost important to the committee on aging. Fraud against seniors. Con artists will pose as federal and state agencies to steal benefits. Theyll falsify, i should say, romantic relationships to gain a seniors trust. And by way of a third example, peddle fake Health Insurance and cures for the virus. They are also using new Payment Methods making losses difficult to trace. The federal trade Commission Reports tbift cards are the main Payment Method used by scammers to request and steal money from older dulls. In 2021, 27 of adults 60 and older who lost money paid a scammer using a gift card or a reloadable card. Peertopeer payment apps like zelle, venmo, cashapp and paypal are also increasingly used by scammers. Today, aurelia will share her experience with a peertopeer payment scam. Her story is all too common. Scammers request payments from seniors by way of these apps have increased exponentially from 2 in 2017 to 1
Community center. No, its way more than that. Comcast partnering with 1000 Community Centers to create wifi enabled so students from low income families can get tools they need to be ready for anything. Comcast support cspan as a public service. Along with these other television providers. Giving you a front row seat to democracy. Next, a hearing on scams are getting Senior Citizens. Senate lawmakers consider warning signs, the impact of fraud in the victims Mental Health, and ways to prevent fraud. This is an hour and 20 minutes. The hearing will come to order. We convene today to discuss a topic of the utmost importance to the aging committee. Fighting fraud and scam targeting seniors. These predatory schemes have existed for decades. We know that the pandemic has only exacerbated this issue. As fraudsters preyed on fear and uncertainty surrounding the virus, federal agencies, state governments, and advocates all warned of con artists, who will do the following. They oppose federal a
Hoping to make a Campaign Issue out of defunding the police. Meantime, another incident is getting attention, another black man killed on camera by police as he uttered the words i cant breathe. His name was javier hambler. It happened last year. The video is just now coming to light. Actor samuel l. Jackson joins us as well. We begin with the final Public Memorial Service for george floyd in houston. Thousands coming to pay last respects today. There is a lot to talk about tonight. Even as the demonstrations continue and history is continuing two weeks after mr. Floyds life was taken. Sara sidner is outside of the church in houston now. Talk about what you have seen there all day and what is going to be happening into the night. Reporter there have been hundreds if not thousands of people who have come to this church to pay their respects to george floyd. I did personally pay my own and wasnt expecting there do be an open casket but there was. Everyone that came up got a few seconds t
Or is are back with their families now some of them say they want to be navy seals all professional footballers when they grow up. And the invisible children of the bosnian war they were born to mothers rights during the conflict of the early one nine hundred ninety s. No one wanted to acknowledge them then now theyre fighting for their rods. Welcome my names Christopher Spring and good to have you with us turkey has lifted its state of emergency introduced two years ago after a failed coup that left hundreds of people dead turkish president everyone used the measure to rule by decree in crackdown on the opposition tens of thousands of people were purged from the military and from the Civil Service and hundreds of police to. When journalists were arrested although the government has now opted not to extend that emergency bill its proposing a stringent terrorism bill to replace it. And for more were going to cross now to istanbul to our correspondent there dorian jones door in the state
The message is wisconsin, we wont forget about you this time. Clearly wisconsin is one of the states that Hillary Clinton did not visit, did not campaign in in the final days of the 2016 campaign because democrats thought they had it in the bag and donald trump, of course, stunned the Democratic Party by then winning pennsylvania and then adding wisconsin and michigan for good measure. And clearly this they messed up on that and it was not just the lack of appeal of Hillary Clinton. It was also that the party was not paying enough attention to the industrial upper midwest. Bill its a good town. Hope they come to fox, too, by the way for the longawaited debate. It is not the end of the conversation, byron. More to come on that. Nice to see you today. Thank you. Sandra u. S. Aviation experts have joined the crash investigation of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 as australian and singapore join a growing list of countries grounding boeings popular 737 max 8 plane until the investigation is