Good afternoon. Im attorney general josh stein of north carolina. I want to thank you as we are here to make this major announcement. Im pleased to be here with my colleagues attorney general Gordon Macdonald and attorney general leslie, and patrick halley, of u. S. Telecom and representatives a major Telephone Company spirit 12 companies have joined us today and they are at t, bandwidth, comcast,nk, charter, consolidated, frontier, sprint, tmobile, u. S. Cellular, verizon, and windstream. Today we are announcing major bipartisan publicprivate effort to stop robo calls. To first, i would like introduce my colleague and fellow cochair of this initiative, New Hampshire attorney general Gordon Macdonald. Stein forou general your leadership on this issue. The essence of our role as attorneys general is to protect the public. Issue comes close to generating the volume of consumer complaints as robo calls. Us, theually all of scam calls are ubiquitous and regular annoyance. A veryo calls are
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
Today, and they are at t, bandwidth, centurylink, charter, frontier,onsolidated, cellular,mobile, u. S. Verizon, and windstream. Today we are announcing major bipartisan publicprivate effort to stop robocalls. Myst, i want to introduce colleague and fellow cochair of this initiative, New Hampshire attorney general gordon macdonald. 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 particularlyprey on the vulnerable, putting at risk their savings, their identity, their security. The memorandum of understanding we are announcing today will significantly enhance our efforts as attorneys generals to. Rotect the public we serve it is a very
Attorneys office as 78yearold Mary Fong Lau was driving between 50 to 70 Miles Per Hour in the wrong direction. They say there was no signs of braking and no skid marks on the road. She hit a family of four waiting for a bus, killing the father, mother, and toddler. Another son who was about 2 months old is still in the hospital. Marcos belzaretti said he was heartbroken by the news as a father himself. He tries to be proactive and protect his son when possible. I always tell him to stand behind a tree or pole, kind of defend yourself a little bit, but you cant predict these kinds of things. Reporter the memorial is filled with flowers, stuffed animals, and a stroller. Witnesses say the impact of the crash sent the toddler who was in a stroller into the air and he landed about 60 feet away. A family friend says saturday was the couples wedding anniversary and they were waiting for the bus to celebrate at the zoo. Betty carmack said she felt drawn to the crash scene and wanted to pay he
Franciscos westportal neighborhood. Now the neighborhood is gathering to pay respects for a family hit by an suv at a bus stop. This is video from the past hour, dozens of Community Members gathering for a vigil to remember the father, mother and toddler killed. The infant is still in the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. People have been stopping by to place flowers at the scene of the crash. If is sot minds of so many people who live nearby. One neighbor says it is heartbreaking. I can not imagine. My son is home for college, spring break, you know, he is going back in a couple of days, [crying] right. I dont know, i dont know, i mean, we try to help but then, the child grew up without parents the crash left the community in shock, especially parents. We have more on this growing vigil. Reporter more than 48 hours after an unimaginable accident the impact is still being felt at this westportal bus stop it is tragic. You know, i am here with my son. We are waiting for the bus. I