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but some amazon workers reject unionization. thursday, january the 16th, varney & company is about to begin. in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from 5 trillion dollars for the first 42 presidents, number 43 added 4 trillion dollars by his lonesome. so we now have over 9 trillion dollars of debt that we re going to have to pay back, $30,000 for every man, woman and child. and that s irresponsible. it s unpatriotic. stuart: oh, that was then candidate barack obama calling our national debt unpatriotic, 2008, but look where he s taken us six years later, the treasury department mistakenly leaking startling numbers of china china s debt. remember, please, they are correcting interest on that debt every day. that s money that flows out of america into china and their ownership of our debt gives them massive leverage over america. remember this ad put out by citizens against government waste? . [laughter] very funny. it started to look like tha ....
dissembling based entirely on political reasons. technology is binary, something s vulnerable or not. this was shown to be vulnerable back in november, it s now been further demonstrated, and we ve got a lot more testimony, a lot more expert opinion on there showing that, in fact, there are some very serious vulnerabilities with healthcare.gov. connell: all right, tell us a little bit about them as you understand them. as this testimony continues today or throughout the day or after the hearing is over we ll have a summary of it and find out what they found out. however, you say it was vulnerable, and then as we went on it actually got more vulnerable. you d think the opposite would be true. in other words, if we saw that a web site, this target story s been in the news and other stories related to it in the news, something s vulnerable, you fix it and it gets better. why has that not happened? um, i don t actually know why it s not happened. i can speculate that, you ....
with this idea later in the hour. that is all coming up on markets now. dagen: doggie vacation. they just raised about 15 million in additional financing. that is a big chunk of change. connell: is that better business than buying stock in an athlete? dagen: guess, probably. nicole is the new york stock exchange with the very latest. nicole: good morning. we are seeing the markets without the aeros. less than 200 points away from the all time highs that we have been seeing. yesterday we stopped the winning streak. it was our first down day in six. look at that, we are back in the green again. we do have retailers and drugs looking good today. we got good economic news from china. we continue to get earnings. we are watching forward closely. they talked about global growth going forward. ford is up 1.4%. doing well with the ford focus. back to you. dagen: thank you, nicole. connell: the big story in d.c. today involves these contractors. they are facing some tough ques ....
revelations about the nsa surveillance programs. the agency has the ability to monitor up to 75% of all u.s. internet traffic. i mean, that is just incredible. 75% of my traffic to steal a joke from one of our producers is a lot. imagine that from the entire country. it can retain written content in e-mails and filtering domestic phone calls made over the web. meanwhile nbc news reports the nsa still doesn t know exactly how much information edward snowden took from the agency saying officials are, quote, overwhelmed while trying to assess the damage. snowden s leaks have also raised a question of how the media investigates and reports on the intelligence community. the guardian s glenn greenwald spoke about that last night. all the best reporting over the last 40 years involves journalists having classified information. the pentagon papers, illegal warrantless eavesdropping program. if you want to start criminalizing that, it means you re asking as a citizen to be ke ....
the pam: this o-c-d patient opens up like never before. and already four million people are listening. wait until you hear what he has to say about his disorder. and the love of his life. pam: i m pam moore. a full hour of your prime- time news at eight. starts right now. (male announcer): this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. pam: we begin tonight at 8 with a developing story. burglars posing as utility workers. and tricking residents. in order to get inside their homes. pam: kron 4 s jeff bush is live in oakland. with reaction from one of the elderly victims affected. jeff? crackle reporter: has lived and is home for half of his life. he never expected like anything like this to happen. this is a quiet neighborhood and usually a whole lot never goes on here. 12 man posing as pg in e workers came to his upper front door. he went to the front with them once not away to the house and stole about $4,000 worth of jury. the jury had sent ....