$100 to mark and david and linda and laurie. the next question is worth $200. it's still very early. preteen athletes or their parents? the question is, who did gymnastics coaches say are more likely to throw a tantrum? the preteen athletes or their parents? let's say hello to gce and dana from columbus, ohio. how are you guys? where are you playing from right now? >> from where we coach at in columbus, ohio. >> the two of you are gymnasts, as well? >> yeah. we grew up doing gymnastics. we do everything together. >> and we have twin powers. >> wait. are you talking about wonder twin powers you can activate? >> like twin telepathy. >> you can finish each other's -- >> thoughts. >> sandwiches. athletes or parents? everybody said parents. the correct answer is their parents. everybody got one. everybody's on the board. here we go to the next question worth $300. two possible answers are, george w. bush or willie nelson. the question is, which texan did men from dallas say would make a better addition to mount rushmore? george w. bush or willie nelson? mark and dav

to laurie from the luggage store. laurie, at work and jackie from the hospitality house and director to ensure the programming is available here for folks. to mary' from the california community loan fund and of course to the godmother of the arts kerry schulman and the san francisco arts commission tom mccaneey. now our final speaker, i would like to make sure we give a special shout out to you robin love who hands out a huge effort of accountability. which will have it's new home. jessica, thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you so much to mayor lee, supervisor kim and the amazing folks at cast and clf and owe. it's an exciting thing for a grass roots oration to -- organization to get out of central market and building a new home. this builds community. what that means in practical terms is that we find dance and theatre artist whose voice haven't been heard yet. we give them support and freedom to create new work and we form with grass roots and non-profit to form that. we are only moving 5 blocks and that gives us a

santa clara sheriff lauri smith. they center on a saturday behind these gates at the sheriff's shooting range and a fry morning inside the santa clara county jail. >> what does that mean? >> that means preferential treatment was given to smith. >> he's a veteran member of the santa clara sheriff's office. he asked us to disguise his identity because he fears retaliation. >> is this unusual >> very unusual. >> it dame hours after smith was arrested in south san jose for driving under the influence of alcohol. friday morning september 20th. >> the issue is there are deputies in your jail that provide smith with preferential treatment. >> the process is the same for anyone who is booked and arrested. >> that's not what the records show. smith was booked into the county jail at 9:40 in the morning. in the field his breath test recorded at .151 nearly twice the legal limit. >> it's the practice of jails for many years dercades, there's a minimum of five hours when people come in for intoxication. and we've often kept them

we need activist and lawyer t shirt to laurie. he's the only person in the region has taken up the cause of the impoverished farmers he uses charts illustrating the rising suicide rates and describes how farmers are forced to grow expensive genetically modified cotton they have no alternatives says quiche or to laurie that's the way the indian government wants it. two why he says the government gets money from the big multi national companies. nobody is looking to go out and the vision of a bear we hopped in. we hop in reno i'm rereading this is just what i got to get to the region is not coming more than one problem the mixes i got a letter read two more weeks and statistics on this tragic trend. one of his employees shows as three books full of names. all farmers to kill themselves. we all remember the technology yet broad a bite and spit. next to the status of being mean that i bought in bulk about him and as raising his daughter which ended with a band that never had made a better life tragedy all. tragedy is what some see col

and our hsa emergency response coordinator who has been wonderful to work with over the years and dan laury and also community based agencies like the doloris street service and we have marlin from the dolores street and also as a resource here too, we have the office of emergency planner to answer questions and i wanted to acknowledge, new and goes from the department of association for their great work reaching out to the displaced fire victims as well. and so, with that, let's see, i want to thank everyone, who is participating as well, and i want to just start by inviting mitcy wong up to speak. >> there are a couple of slides that were provided for us as well. >> and okay, so, i am here on behave of the fire department to present the statistics for the last six years of fires in san francisco. so, this map shows the concentration of fires that have happened since 2008, to current. these fires are anything that is considered incinderary in nature and that includes, the fires but a simple fire and a smol dering fire or a trash can fire an auto fire and the wild land and outside vegetatio

we need activist and lawyer t shirt to laurie. he's the only person in the region has taken up the cause of the impoverished farmers he uses charts illustrating the rising suicide rates and describes how farmers are forced to grow expensive genetically modified cotton they have no alternatives says quiche and to laurie that's the way the indian government wants it to one he says the government gets money from the big multi national companies. nobody is looking to go out and the vision of a bear we hopped in. we hop in rehab now i'm rereading this is just what i got to get to the region is not coming what me a potluck of the mixes i got a letter read two more weeks and statistics on this tragic trend. one of his employees shows as three books full of names. all farmers to kill themselves. we all remember the technology yet broad a bite and spit. next to the status of being mean that i bought in bulk about him and thus raising the stock which ended with a band that never had made a better life tragedy all. tragedy is what some see c

lauri ulvestad is driving home from missouri to iowa when her ride takes an alarming turn. >> 911, where's your emergency? >> i'm on 35 northbound. i'm at mile marker 86. and my car is just picking up speed. >> okay. are you able to hit your brakes at all? >> i've tried everything. >> kelly bride has been working as a 911 dispatcher in harrison county for only three months when she picks up the frantic call. >> the first training module i ever did was a stuck accelerator. and it went through the steps to tell the caller what to do. >> all of a sudden it just started picking up speed, and i'm going, like, 80, almost 90 miles an hour. and i'm scared to death. >> okay. have you put your car in neutral? >> i can't get it to move. i can't get the car to shut off. >> the procedures bride suggests fails to slow down the kia suv. sergeant sheldon lyon is on duty that day. >> when the troopers finally see her on the interstate, her war is at over 100 miles per hour. >> trooper justin johnson's dash camera is recording when he catches up with ulvestad. he's one of two responders. >> the troopers mad

laurie, thanks again. alison kosik, thanks for joiningus. >> greece, riot police storming a tv station in the capital, athens, journalists fired. now holding a sit-in. scuffles in the street. police fires tear gas after protesters forces out of the building. the government fired all 2600 employees. took the public broadcasting station off the air in june, because they had big budget cuts. greece has gotten now a multibillion dollar bailout to try to help its battered economy. >>> pope francis offering comfort to the sick. this image of the pope hugging a man with a severe skin disease, it has gone viral. coming up, the pope of the people, he's kissing babies, talking abo talking about divorce, addressing the church's view on same-sex marriage. can he change the church's long-held positions and does he even want to? >>> radioactive water still sitting inside the fukushima plan in japan. what it's doing to clean up two years after an earthquake and tsunami hit. >>> then, iran, environmentals question it. tal

she's with her friends laurie and doug. let's look at terry before and bring out the new terry rush. >> thank you. >> oh, my god! >> wow. >> okay. laurie, doug, you want to take off your blinders? >> oh, my god. you're beautiful. >> beautiful! >> all right, terry, you can turn around and see. >> oh, my gosh. >> you look awesome. >> look, she likes it. >> wow. >> she looks great. >> turn around, look at camera number 12. tell us what you did with the hair please. >> terry wanted to, she's in the dating point in her life. and i wanted to give her that little sexy, and that's what we did, give her the swept away bangs. she looks awesome. >> you really, really do. what do you guys think? >> amazing, beautiful. >> and that dress is like a second skin. >> it has built-in control panels. this is new by shani. >> i want to say spirit halloween for my costume and for allowing me to twerk because it's been my dream. >> where's that finger been? >> we don't want to know. don't tell us. >> come on out, guys, everybody looks terrific. [

cnn's money tech correspondence laurie segall joins me now. i'm so blown away by what uz doing. they're looking at the video. somehow they've got someÑi kindf digital algorithm that can be determine when a videoq is ìc% on this and photççódna. they canok access usingxd a tec 1jtz rhythm,xd look at an image and say this is likely to be an illegal image. google has had a team ofe1 200q employees working onh)!%m for the last three months. what it does is it will essentiall bl typing in things that might yield child pornography, it will essentially block you from doing that and you'll get an image. we have the image.xd is illegal. protecting children everyone sexual abuse. >> nice. >> and you know, almost as a bit of a warning e1sign. stop doing this because we are watching you. >> cp.s$ whençó you get that warning, yourÑijf info is beingt straight to the police like how dareñrñr you? isq it so illegal to be looking? >> first4' of all, the techxd companies are coming together. microsoft andw3 google go head head all the time but they're coming together andw3 saying th we

lauri ulvestad is driving home from missouri to iowa when her ride takes an alarming turn. >> 911, where's your emergency? >> i'm on 35 norbound. i'm at mile marker 86. and my car is just picking up speed. >> okay. are you able to hit your brakes at all? >> i've tried everything. >> kelly bride has been working as a 911 dispatcher in harrison county for only three months when she picks up the frantic call. >> the first training module i ever did was a stuck accelerator. and it went through the steps to tell the caller what to do. >> all of a sudden it just started picking up speed, and i'm going, like, 80, almost 90 miles an hour. and i'm scared to death. >> okay. have you put your car in neutral? >> i can't get it to move. i can't get the car to shut off. >> the procedures bride suggests fails to slow down the kia suv. bride alerts the highway patrol. sergeant sheldon lyon is on duty that day. >> when the troopers finally see her on the interstate, her car is at over 100 miles per hour. >> trooper justin johnson's dash camera is recording when he catches up with ulvestad. he's one of two

laurie ovelstat is driving home from missouri to iowa when her ride takes an alarming turn. >> 911, where's your emergency? >> i'm on 35 northbound. i'm at mile marker 86. and my car is just picking up speed. >> okay. are you able to hit your brakes at all? >> i've tried everything. >> kelly brige has been working as a 911 dispatcher in harrison county for only three months when she picks up the frantic call. >> the first training module i ever did was a stuck accelerator. and it went through the steps to tell the caller what to do. >> all of a sudden it just started picking up speed, and i'm going, like, 80, almost 90 miles an hour. and i'm scared to death. >> okay. have you put your car in neutral? >> i can't get it to move. i can't get the car to shut off. >> the procedures bride suggests fails to slow down the kia suv. sergeant sheldon lyon is on duty that day. >> when the troopers finally see her on the interstate, her war is at over 100 miles per hour. >> trooper justin johnson's dash camera is recording when he catches up with ovelstat. he's one of two responders. >> the troopers mad

has even acknowledge these transparency issues now in trying to you laurie why do you think even you know our representative to the the t.p. is acknowledging these issues does what i think happened well in a moment of candor the top trade official admitted the last time they let the public look at the text of one of these agreements they couldn't finish it. to me and more importantly someone like senator elizabeth warren if what's in the agreement is so problematic you have to keep it from the american public you have probably shouldn't sign that agreement now what you we know about the meetings and from the meetings that have gone on this week so this is allegedly going to be the last big push to make a deal it's twenty nine chapters about ten of them are done the remaining chapters are not mainly about trade they would set up corporate tribunals where foreign companies can attack each government outside their courts and demand cash compensation out of our treasuries not making this up that chapter leaked jack up medicine prices new monopolies and a free trade agreement for big phar

now to discuss the t p p is lori wallach director of public citizen's global trade watch thank you laurie for being here we're glad to have you now first and foremost i want to start off by asking you the trans-pacific partnership agreement i want to make this clear to the audience it's been highly criticized for its lack of transparency and even michael froman u.s. trade representative to the people he has even acknowledge these transparency issues now in trying to you laurie why do you think even you know our representative to the the t.p. is acknowledging these issues does what i think happened well in a moment of candor the top trade official admitted the last time they let the public look at the text of one of these agreements they couldn't finish it to me and well more importantly someone like senator elizabeth warren is what's in the agreement is. so problematic you have to keep it from the american public you have probably shouldn't sign that agreement now what you we know about the meetings and from the meetings that have gone on this week so this is allegedly going to be the las

cnn money tech correspondent laurie segall joins us now. what did google and microsoft announce today exactly? >> essentially, i mean it's a big deal these twos tech giants are coming together and taking this problem on. but really they're trying to make it harder for people to search for child pornography online. google has a team of 200 employees they've been working for the last three months and essentially working on tech that would block about 100,000 search terms that would end up resulting in child pornography. so really what it is is making it more difficult when you type in the types of search terms to yield results. also another thing they did, people actually might get a warning if they are trying to type in many search results. i believe we have an image of this warning that people will get. essentially it says it's protecting children from sexual abuse. if any bad act is trying to look up this kind of information, they might be met with something like what you're seeing right now on the screen. microsoft will say is using an im

laurie andrews monday spanthe communicators" on c- 2. roomspan puts you in the on congressional hearings, briefings, and conferences, and offering you gavel to gavel coverage. we are c-span, created by the cable tv industry 34 years ago and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. now you can watch us in hd. next on c-span, our series on first ladies looks at the life and legacy of jacqueline kennedy. followed by white house coverage with martin o'malley at the jefferson dinner in new hampshire. then paul ryan in iowa at a friend riser -- a fundraiser. >> i think every first lady should do something in this tradition to help the thing that she cares about. i just think that everything in the white house should be the best. the entertainment that is given here. >> children are the same the world over and so is our feeling for children. i think it is good in the world, there is quite enough to divide people, so we should cherish the language and the emotion that unites us. >> jacqueline kennedy's 1000 days as first lady was define

that's a great time to throw in an ad. >> laurie is here with me. okay, first of all, thi must be getting old. what? this is for young ones, right? >> a lot of teenagers are use zing it. i have tried it out. it's interesting. the message disappears. a lot of folks are use zing it, i assure you. >> $3 billion is a lot of money. why would facebook offer that and what happened with it? >> facebook has a problem. they are not signing on as many young users as they used to. that is what made facebook. sn snapchat is the opposite. it's a young user base. it's something they are looking at putting out there. it's something they want. they are willing to put down $3 billion, but snapchat did not take it. >> i saw it on the cover of wall street journal. it's probably everywhere. why didn't they do it? >> look, it blows your mind. how do you turn down $3 billion, right? about a year ago, snapchat was offered $1 billion from facebook and they turned it down. fast forward a year, $3 billion. there's a certain thing about being the hottest company in silicon val

and laurie garridy is a senior fellow on the council for foreign relations. steve, first to you, what part of this surprised you in terms of its severity in terms of the force? what took you by surprise? >> well, to some extent what took me by surprise was how slow we were to realize what a tremendous storm this was. it got very little coverage. in fact, i learned about it from a german friend on friday morning last week who shared the images of this incoming storm. right there it was clear that this was going to be a monumental event. with the kinds of wind that were being predicted, 190 knots but came in close to 150 knots of wind, that's a tremendous amount of wind to insure devastation in its wake. >> we should have realized this was going to be pretty massive. and we didn't do enough preparation in advance? >> to an extraordinary extent, when it comes to disasters before they hit, time is your friend. and after they hit, it becomes your enemy really quick. and it seem that is we need visuals that there's destruction before we kick into high gear. we have

our laurie siegel sat down with cnn money's adrian colbert to see what's being called the dark web. >> reporter: tell me what we're looking at right now. >> this is the front page for what is apparently the next silk road. and so the front page was their sort of mission statement and linked to whatever you want to buy in this case since it was silk roads, drugs. >> reporter: silk road was like the amazon of drugs, a couple clicks online you could have drugs delivered to your doorstep. what is the blackberry? four weeks of temporary silence what they get and now what we're looking at is essentially silk road reborn. right after the site was taken down, we sat down with a former customer who didn't want to be identified. >> i imagine especially if you look at the amount of money he made on that, i imagine somebody will attempt to learn from what happened here and try to do something similar in the future. >> so, you know, there are multiple sites like that have popped up, it's just what was the original silk road was the biggest one and that's sort of what got the reputation. >> reporte

laurie, let me begin with you. did the president's apology make any difference to you at all? or do you feel betrayed? >> i feel like there was not a sincere apology. i feel as though he used the word the we find -- the people that are canceled are finding themselves in this position. he put us in this position. they knew this they were going to have to cancel all of these policies. otherwise this law, we would not be able to fund obamacare. >> curtis, as i understand it, because your options are far more expensive than before, you may opt to have no coverage at all at this point? >> it's going to -- i'm not sure what we're going to do. we may just pay the penalty and save the money, put it in an account and use it for the medical care. but yeah, i'm not sure what we're going to do. >> you are not alone. a lot of americans are facing some tough choices right now. lorie, as you try to figure out what to do, how difficult do you find the unchartered waters as part of the haste maze? how has it impacted your life in a way you never counted on? >> we felt like we had a choice abou

this he would be for a first-world country and not only a developing country. >> laurie, when you look at this, the next phase is there's a lot of water and do you worry about waterborne diseases and things like that? >> first thing i think about is traumatic injuries and people with terrible infections because of the lack of appropriate treatment of everything from a broken bone to scratches and lacerations and terrible things. then you add to that that they are exposed to the elements. they don't have shelter in a normally very hot climate mixed with a lot of rainfall and then they don't have clean water to drink. they don't have a steady supply of food and nutrients especially for the children. all of this puts people at tremendous risk regardless. now, you add to it the possibility of a haiti like scenario where people coming in try to do good bring microbes as hitchhikers with them and causing outbreaks in the case of haiti it was cholera which has persisted. >> you were telling me that was brought by peacekeepers who haiti and resulted in an explosion of cholera in the entire reg

laurie segall is out front with tonight's idea. >>> this is sangui quinton pris. thieves, murders, aspiring entrepreneurs. >> i'm the founder and ceo of funky union. >> reporter: welcome to the last mile. >> same question. >> reporter: that's chris, a long with his wife bev he had the idea to start a program to do what many tech entrepreneurs do, solve a problem. >> in california we spend more for prison than higher education. >> reporter: more than 60% of california prisoners released end up back behind bars within three years, one reason they can't find work. so like many others in the bay area, these inmates are becoming tech entrepreneurs. they study social media and entrepreneur ship. behind bars they are learning to build modern day businesses and pitch their product. >> you can subscribe to our premium service. >> reporter: not just to chris and bev but venture captioning provided in part by a grant from the department of education -- capitalests. >> this is where people succeed and fail and start over again. >> if i can conquer eight years of incarceration

. >> what if this website, laurie, isn't up and running soon? what kind of impact could this wind up having? >> reporter: there could be a major impact. wolf blitzer spoke to a man, named onthan gruber, an m.i.t. professor, and helped design romney care and obama care, and wolf asked, what will happen if the site isn't fixed by the end of november. listen to what he said. >> if the website isn't operating fully for shopping by november, that's a problem. the people who have to change policy, many times they're asked to switch to policies with a similar name, but they need to find them. for those people, the minority of people that are seeing these cancellations, it would be a problem if the website wasn't up and running by the end of november. >> guy, we're not talking, you know, twitter, a company like twitter trying to scale and having the website down, and not seeing the fail well, and people are up in arms, because they can't browse and find the bright health insurance plans and sign up. the stakes are just higher. that's why we keep talking

i recommend after the first of the year. >> thank you so much, laurie. for more tips from our roster of financial advisors, head over to faplaybook.cnbc.com. >> still ahead -- >> spam, bacon, sausage and spam. spam eggs, spam bacon and spam. spam spam spam eggs and spam. spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam and spam. >> in case you missed that, we're going to be talking about why spam is taking over the world. ya know, with new fedex one rate you can fill that box and pay one flat rate. how naughty was he? oh boy... [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. so, if you're sleeping in your contact lenses, what you wear to bed is your business. ask about the air optix® contacts so breathable they're approved for up to 30 nights of continuous wear. serious eye problems may occur. ask your doctor and visit airoptix.com for safety information and a free one-month trial. >>> spam is very popular in many countries, okinawa, philippines, guam, we're working on mainland japan and we introduced spam

my wife, gail was reading jennifer laurie's new book and she was crying through the entire book. >> what's the name of the book? >> i can't remember the name. do you remember it? so i haven't read it yet, but that experience that she had is one kind of wonderful experience. now when she does that book in her book group it will be a completely different thing. >> and michael as a writer, i know there's so many things that any artist thinks of in their own personal process for the execution of their craft, but i'm wondering do you yourself as a writer think of the reader while you're writing? do you have some assumptions about the reader while you're writing or does that not -- >> that's a great question, actually. >> a creative process. >> because you do. once you have an audience, they're there, and you are thinking about them. you're thinking will they understand this or will they not understand this, but there's something else at play is that you have to decide at some point as a writer to trust your audience and not talk down to them but allow them into the -- into your experience as a

his cousin laurie has eased onto the bar. sixteen and that i and he can be seen in these and a cheerful th. just read this line to offer rich coming from all of this pack is found. he's died when i knew a storm tide. the car he was caving in. his cows and say is he has no idea on why the teenagers we could watch our car. many innocent citizens have been killed indiscriminately. the people who live here are furious the united states and show no sign of stopping the secret to long tights more and more pakistanis are experiencing the most of every min was like. and idk who want the us continues like that too will know that one is an homage to and you will or will not lead to a point and that wraps up our books in pontiac assigned in bangkok. india's capital city of new delhi is suffering a period of severe air pollution the problem often worsens in the country from autumn to spring due to a stagnant atmosphere. new delhi were shrouded in small and on thursday morning the average level of harmful particles known as pm two point f

. >> next is dan laury and he is the deposit director and we also have the manager of public affairs as well. >> dbi inspects the fire damaged building, and the larger buildings we will get a call from the san francisco fire department and a lot of the smaller buildings were not called out on the larger fires that were call out. and we worked with the fire department, and to process the notification. and to assist on the call. and we have emergency response service, and we have a group of inspecters around 24-hour call that could be called out at any time of the evening or any time during the day to respond to the fire. we post the buildings with the violation, and to the fire is extensive and the engineering and we have to issue that with the notice of violation and we try to interact with the people to encourage them to get a permit. we initiate the code in the process if we don't get the compliance and the notice of violation and we give it a time frame on the extent of the damage, and if the fire is extensive and requires engineering, and the time and compliance for the notice of

thanks, laurie segall. great story. >>> it is more economically divided than iran or syria and it is here in the u.s. >> i don't down anybody for what they got. i would like to know how they got it so i can get it, too. >> we will take you to the most unequal place in america next. with technology. get the new flexcare platinum from philips sonicare and save now. philips sonicare. man: [ laughs ] those look like baby steps now. but they were some pretty good moves. and the best move of all? having the right partner at my side. it's so much better that way. [ male announcer ] have the right partner at your side. consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. go long. but for all these symptoms, you also take kaopectate. new kaopectate caplets -- soothing relief for all those symptoms. kaopectate. one and done. >>> this is one america with two economies. a middle class squeezed. a minnesoimum wage not keeping with inflation. and the way out of poverty, coll

hugh laurie's that the u s troops redrawn and security war since his business will suffer. dakota is gone things have been getting worse and works with the withdrawal of international forces approaching next year nobody is willing to buy the door for some months as a dentist in these foreign forces to stay in the country to maintain security. she believes giving them the immunity from criminal prosecution is the price was paid to jewelry i want us forces to stay longer. it leaves me all sorts of problems. the best interests of the whole country that allows them to read. it was inside the body over whether to allow us forces to remain and on what terms. we chip away at any sense politically that she chooses the decision will have a lasting impact he's had a country and beyond. mottaki said that it's gaylord kabul japan's finance minister and now the scene the trade balance in demand for this long and people collect debt trading houses saying that the shows i am prime monster of a cat at the end of this command. i had two sentences from this distance. i was standing at the to

some has not yet be based on a project manager and ukrainian officials to laurie's. stationed in own grade schools in room the show which is the most is that it is us of the apostles. currently in ukraine has the resources in terms of enterprises working in the teton of a transition industry. the main problem is the lack of funding for the operations connect with the militarization. the nine states in the nation of the project. manchester based wanted to cry funding. three hundred and sixty six thousand small homage and i went to the straits. and only seventy six thousand tonnes of the nation including the mini and anti personnel landmines. a christchurch man saying. but many people's minds at ease in this country soon the police who meet the gym we in the uk. to me with me. my life in the stuart my children and adults alike will continue to be calm and peaceful. i don't wanna feel this year for exploding ammunition which are in storage. my one piece and to be confident if you put in our imagination of usability a machine shop well not in one of the state seeking him

. >> that was laurie siegel reporting. many of the prisoners you saw do not have access to computers they write out code on paper and have friends on the outside. congrats to them for an inspiring program. now the question is, is it a good plan and will it work? i'll ask the former chief weapons inspector for iraq next. [ male announcer ] when you have sinus pressure and pain, you feel...congested. beat down. crushed. but sudafed gives you maximum strength sinus pressure and pain relief. so you feel free. powerful sinus relief. sudafed. open up. >>> it is a breakthrough deal that could finally curb iran's program after decades of gridlock. it is require iran to keep it from working toward a nuclear weapon. i'm joined by the former nuclear weapons inspector and good to see you david. >> how critical is this deal in your view? a big step or not? >> certainly a significant step. i reacted as i think a lot of people did with surprise. we have been close to a deal before. with anticipation for the work that must be dead ahead.

. >> reporter: husband bobby and mom laurie are here too. >> whatever the boss says today. >> go get the pajamas. the toys. the barbies, the hotwheels. >> reporter: she is hot on the trail of a nintendo video game for her son, only nine are in stock. >> right now i just saved -- $165. on one item. >> reporter: racing from store to store is a family tradition. she liked it a lot belter on black friday. >> i am not home with my 2, 4, 11-year-old. it bothers me. in the long run it is all for me. >> reporter: thanksgiving dinner shared with her daughter outside wal marl-mar wal-mart. analysts predict sales up 4% this year from last year, with online a top destination for the first time. by opening earlier, brick and mortar stores are trying to grab their share. but it may not work. >> you don't have more relatives or more people on your holiday list just because there are more hours or more days to the sale period. >> reporter: some stores aren't joining in including nordstrom, costco, marshall's, one new york area chain is boasting about it. >> at pc richard an son we believe thanksgivi

. >> reporter: laurie wilson. better business bureau says crooks are calling and texting saying anything and everything to convince people to buy prepaid credit cards. their only goal, to get victims to reveal the numbers on the back. >> once i have given you my card number and you have taken the money, it's -- it may as well be cash. >> reporter: the irs just issued this warning about scammers pretending to be irs agents telling people they oh, back taxes and they have to pay with a prepaid card. >> damn! >> reporter: and people are paying. earlier this year, shirley hill lost $1,500 to scammers who promised her a loan if she would buy three green dot cards so she did, for $400, $500 and $600 and she lost it all. >> all i could do was just cry all day long. i couldn't stop. >> reporter: we decided to call one of the scammers ourselves at the number that came up on bill's phone. this is julie. i'm a reporter in san francisco. >> reporter: the scammer was happy to talk. >> where are you located? [ censored ] >> rep