a woman stole her identity and then took out loans in her name for those big ticket items. i was just mad, angry, confused. you can t really think about an infant. you can pretty much say a toddler, you know, having their social security stolen. reporter: have you ever thought about checking your child s credit report? that s how julie s parents learned about the crime. well, initially we were told someone had financed a vehicle for about 21,000 and then we got wind of another account. i think it s around like $10,000 from what i remember. that s already $30,000. reporter: the craziest thing about the martinez case, they know the name and the address of the thief. but police say they don t have the time or the resources to pursue the case. or other identity thefts. who says that?
that the cold war ended more than two decades ago. wolf blitzer is off today. i m gloria borger and you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com the average price for a gallon of regular gas today is about $4. make that $3.92. our new poll shows nearly half of americans expect that price to hit $5. that s $5 this year and most blame the oil companies. president obama tried to hitch a ride on those sentiments today. chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is here. jessica, is the president going after big oil? again. believe it or not, it really felt like today was let s play politics with gas prices day in washington. the president played his part from the rose garden. think about that. it s like hitting the american people twice. he called on the senate to pass a bill that would have eliminated billions in tax breaks for oil companies. american oil is booming. the oil industry is doing just fine, with record profits and rising prod
hacked and a number of e-mail addresses were stolen. security experts say you can start getting more sophisticated spam but it will likely result in identity thefts. the final launch has been delayed from april 19th until april 29th due to a scheduling conflict. a russian cargo ship is set to be around the original launch date. it under went two days of inspection after sustaining minor damage in a thunderstorm. and a painting at the national gallery right here in washington, d.c., is closely being examined after being attacked by a museum visitor. according to the washington post, witnesses say the suspect was banging on the protective cover while screaming, this is
all right, we re about 20 minutes from the top of the hour, and all week long we have been focusing on the end of privacy. today we take a look at online holiday shoppers. these stores have raked in about $22 billion so far this holiday season. that s about a 12% jump from 2009. take a look at this, there are about 10 million identity thefts a year, and a growing number of these criminals are preying upon people online. thank you for being with us, we talked about how many identity thefts there are a year. do we see a spike around the holidays? absolutely, cyber monday, recent statistics are telling us we had more than $1 billion in sales in one single day. that s a record. whenever people go online, it s just like the real world, when
identity thefts occurring. it is a serious problem in all of our nation. all taxpayers are paying for it. the cost cannot begin to be put on the lives of those who have lost their lives and the family members who have suffered because of our federal government being awol in securing our borders and protecting citizens and states from invasion as they are required to. greta: i don t want to get into terms of the language of the actual statute i m sure you know there s a huge controversy over the arizona whether it calls for racial profiling or not. does the bill thank you introduced does it track the same wording of the arizona law or is your law, the bill you introduced different? legislation we ve introduced is modeled after the arizona legislation. i ve been working from senator pierce and other state ledge lay an state legislators