Times and it one point asking them for a ride to mcdonalds. Officials say they dont know how long this shooting investigation will take. This case is no different than any other case where the Attorney Generals Office is involved that starts early on and continuous for quite some time. Its not that we get all the information in a couple hours. Sometimes it takes days and weeks to gather all the relevant and useful information, and this case is really no different. Report on the shooting. Officials say that could come as soon as about a month, or it could take much longer. Reporting live in the newsroom, i andy hershberger. Am wmur news 9. Jennifer tonight, Manchester Police investigating another report of shots fired. Police say they found two 40caliber shell casings on mack avenue saturday night. Right now no arrests have been made. And there was no damage found to any nearby properties. Police say all 4 were found on gas pumps. Two at the Super Petroleum on South Broadway and another
Night live to disencouraging donald trump from hosting the show. His divisive and racist rhetoric has very troubling and realworld consequences. Respect and dignity is cornerstones for our values. Perhaps this blender happened because currently there is no latino cast member on snl and only two in the entire history of snl. I hope the producers will consider how donald trump hosting snl will compromise the intigrity of their show. It will degrade the quality of snl humor because racism is isnt funny. It is lazy and cheap. Coming up, a hearing on sen censoring Online Reviews. And then a hearing on wild fires across the United States. Online Consumer Reviews and the Ways Companies try to censor them. Jan palmer held the hearing who is in trouble for giving a negative review. This is about on hour and 45 minutes. Morning. This hearing comes to order. Today we convene to exam a growing trend affecting consu consumers in the United States. Imagine you purchase something online and the produ
In this particular area you are addressing with the act is a critical one, if that is good to be our goal. It raises three issues today. The first one is economic theory. And the economics behind us, there has long been of human economics that functioning effective functioning of markets depend on information. Received theomists nobel prize in 2001 for their Research Related to what they called asymmetric information. This is exactly what is going on here. When you go to a hotel, you do not know anything about what you see. The hotel knows everything. This is a market with asymmetric information. They won the nobel prize because they shows the markets with that information underperformed what would otherwise be economic welfare for everyone, consumers in the overall economy. In particular, this and other researchers found that markets do not perform effectively, number one, if buyers cannot accurately assess the value before they buy. You go to a whole tell you not know what is going o
You are bound by the fine print that lawyers are good at drafting and the idea that some companies are suing or threatening to sue customers for truthfully reviewing their Consumer Experience because of the despairage clauses in the content in the fine print is appalling. In a state like mine, florida, that is dependented on tourism, we want visitors to their their experience. Dependent businesses that do a good job should be rewarded with good comments and those who do not ought to be punished by telling the truth. They are sharing their opinion with other consumers. I think this hearing is timely, mr. Chairman, because of this issue in your bill brings up also a related issue that needs to be discussed. Just a few weeks ago, the Los Angeles Times reported that fiatchrysler was requiring consumers who wanted to receive on a car, they must in order to get that, sign a mandatory arbstration clause as part of the contract. So if the car is defective and kills or injurs that consumer, as
Expect. It takes tenuous attention. This will fade away if you dont Pay Attention to it. Hice it is a huge task. In the middle of that, you have both safety and the efficiency issue. You mentioned some metrics you are currently implementing. Mr. Ross and mr. Grover, do you believe those metrics are adequate mr. Roth and mr. Grover, you believe those metrics are adequate to provide the safety and security and efficiency we need . I. G. Roth i agree that you get what you measure. It is part of our audit process. 90 days after the completion of our report, we will look back on it in a rigorous, systematic way to determine whether or not these metrics are going to work. Until then, we are going to be skeptical about it, because that is our job, to be skeptical. We will Keep Congress informed as we go forward. Grover time will tell. Our biggest task will be to make sure they put in place a systematic, coherent approach to measuring outcomes that they want to achieve and then monitoring them