Cspans washington journal recently conducted interviews with president s at universities in the big ten conference. Challenges facing Higher Education. Its about 50 minutes. This week, we continue our month long series of interviews with University President s in conjunction with the cspan buss Big Ten College tour. This morning, cspan bus is on the campus of penn state and University Park in pennsylvania. And joining us from the bus is penn states president eric barron. Good morning, sir. Good morning. To start with, being an educator yourself and overseeing a university, what would you say are the greatest challenges that you see when it comes to the topic of Higher Education . I think there are a lot of them. No one specific topic. Access and affordability. In making sure that students fully utilize the opportunities that are presented by a campus further their success in life. I think we have challenges and innovation after years of flatter, declining budgets, there are a lot of di
The victim over the telephone that his or her grandchild or another relative is in jail, is in the hospital or stuck in a foreign country and needs money to get out of the predicament. And since the beginning of 2012, the federal trade commission has received more than 30,000 complaints about scammers who claim to be a friend or a Family Member in distress. And its costing americans more than 42 million. Just since the beginning of 12. Now, this doesnt tell the whole story. Since a majority of these crimes go unreported. What we do know is that the ftc reports that imposter scams have double doubled between 2009 and 2013. And so today were going to hear from a distinguished panel on what authorities are doing to detect and prosecute such crimes and how seniors can protect themselves. We are also going to hear about private industrys role in combating these scams. The bottom line is that the government alone cannot prevent these types of scams. Private companies that sell prepaid debit
Next a Senate Aging Committee hearing on phone scams targeting seniors. Witnesses talked about a particular scam where someone pretended to be a Family Member or loved one to get a victim to wire them money. Americans lost more than 73 million to phone scams last year. This is about 50 minutes. Good afternoon. Ive asked all of you to join the table instead of two panels, because we have a vote that is being called around 2 20. So i want to take the advantage of going ahead and getting all of your testimony. This hearing is the latest in a series of investigations the committee has conducted on the devastating impact that fraud and scams have on Senior Citizens over the last two years. We have explored the rise of jamaican lottery scams, tax refund schemes and Social Security and medicare fraud. So today we are going to examine a what is now making a comeback in the scam world. And its called the grandparent or emergency scam. Its quite despicable. It preys on a Senior Citizens willingn
Story. We have produced a number of educational and public programming events of which witness to history is part of that. This afternoon is certainly a good example, we bring together Law Enforcement professionals, experts who were involved in some of the most famous criminal cases in American History and today we bring together a fwrup of experts who worked so diligently and for so long on the unabomber investigation. One of the longest manhunts in american Law Enforcement history. I want to thank our friends from target for sponsoring todays event, i would like to turn our program over to john maynard, who will moderate todays program. Thank you. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and those of you watching on cspan. Welcome to the museum, home of the unabombers cabin. I hope you have had a chance to see that in our concourse level. Were pleased to be partnering. For nearly two decades. Beginning in 1978 an elusive criminal sent bombs that targeted universities and stores. The fbi
Most powerful terms. This violence has no place anywhere. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack and called for an end to israels provocation surrendering a contested holy site. Cab drivers are raising a ruckus over what they say is unfair competition from Rideshare Services like uber and lyft. Ryan takeo is live at sfo where protests caused chaos last night. Reporter michelle, we have seen protests from the cab drivers before but never quite like this. Last night they blocked lanes. They also refused to pick anyone up for two hours. Well show you some video now of how it went down last night from 9 00 to 11 00 here at sfo. They are protesting ridesharing Services Like lyft and uber. There were long lines and backups heading in and out of sfo last night from 9 to 11. The taxi drivers complain the city of San Francisco heavily regulates them but not rideshare companies. Taxis have complete insurance, rideshare dont. Taxi drivers have protested for years but never like