Inside stewart wiets mans quest to own a one cent stamp that remained hidden for 143 years. We we ginn with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. These winds are incredibly intense. Trees have been crashing down onto roads, power lines and homes. Dangerous windstorms sweep across the midwest. Toppling trucks, knocking out power and leaving the Michigan Basketball team banged up after their plane slid off a runway. That storm system continues to the northeast. If you think winter is over, youre wrong. Firefighters battling record wildfires burning across several plain states should get relief. We believe this is the beginning of the end of obamacare. It looks instead like chaos. Why is that . We are going through typical growing pains from being an Opposition Party to a governing party. This effort on the part of the republicans is an absolute disaster and will severely weaken health care in america. Women rallied across the country in honor of International Womens day. You are t
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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