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Welcome to the willis report. Your show, your money, your voice. And tonight your calls to the irs, well, theyre going unanswered. Over 61 of the people trying to talk to a Customer Service representative at the irs actually got through to somebody last year. Thats according to a watchdog report. That left millions of us to figure out how to comply with our complex tax code ourselves. With more on this, scott hodge president of the tax foundation. Welcome back to the show, scott. I went on the w...

Tonight more retailers across United States are under attack by the same now were used to hit targets. The creator is a 17 yearold russian teenager the New York Times says reporting the Security Breach at Neiman Marcus started last summer, months ago. We have chairman of the commerce manufacturing and trade subcommittee that is a holding of hearing on the breach next month. We just heard as many as six National Retailers may have been hit exactly like target what do you think of that . It is mas...

Hills. We will be touched by a little bit more light rain through 10 00 this morning. You can see the plume of moisture sinking to the south. You can see we had ponding on the embarcadero in San Francisco. We had. 1 with temperatures up to 60 degrees. The morning rain will tea per taper to a random shower. We have areas of wet roads. If you are taking to the streets you have to be careful. This is the risk of solo vehicle spinout. This is near 80 with a vehicle the wrong way on the highway from ...

Performing will need to be stopped. No work. No pay. No clear end in sight. We wouldnt be able to get along without pay for, you know, a month or two. It would effect us dramatically. Reporter near boston, fred is packing his bags for a dream vacation with his girlfriend. A retirement trip he has been mapping out for years. Five national monuments. From the grand canyon to zion. All are now closed. Im 63 years old and im going to see it for the first time but now ill get there and cant see it. R...

Measure. But as many as 800,000 federal workers will be furloughed without pay. Thats right. We have it all covered this morning, the politics of it and the Economic Impact beginning with nbcs kelly odonnell. She is on capitol hill. Kelly, how did it all go down . Matt, what a night. Congress will be back to work today to try to fix this mess but aids in both parties, sources high up, say right now they think this could go on for days, maybe even weeks. And thats because that prediction is becau...

82 Miles Per Hour. Thats how fast federal investigators say a commuter train was going when it derailed on sunday. Four people died when the metronorth train jumped the tracks on, on a curve, dozens more were hurt. Investigators now know how fast the train was going. They still dont know for sure why it derailed. Lets take you to jonathan martin. He is at the crash site in the bronx. Jonathan . Reporter hey, tony. You know, investigators have said from the start that this is a very preliminary i...

To answer the question and they continually ask this question. Is this really 100 per day per person. In fact it is actually per person that is affected. Its not an import employee. So if that employee has children, their assumption is also 36,500 per char old grandchild as well. No one will give them an answer from the irs on what that penalty is and how it stacks up. All the big it is a stall from that and we have to get clarification because there are businesses that are out there that do hav...

And football, we will talk some football, baby. Connell auburn, alabama. Dagen have to hate alabama. Connell all that coming up. The market, drones, you name it. Dagen can be discussed Nicole Petallides for this with what is moving today, nicole. Nicole eight straight gains. We are looking at the dow in particular, that has been up over 3 . 16,060, so it is down 26 points. The nasdaq and the ssp have up arrows barely squeezing out some gains at the moment. We got in some data which helped to tri...

The holidays and enjoy the lowest prices of the year. Top of the hour, everybody. Nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Nicole would we got our jobs numbers, we saw the futures go from negative territory into positive territory. We arent out of 33 points on the dow jones industrial. The nasdaq is lower. Connell there were 146,000 jobs added in the month of november. Breaking news from washington. The speaker of the house john boehner. Lets listen in. The tax hikes that t...

According to the white house, a fiveweek Technology Surge has doubled the website capacity and equipment can handle 30,000 consumers at the same time. And with some good reason. This is the page that came up when our colleague peter ducey logon. A page of gibberish filled with question marks. And its not just frustrated consumers but insurers say that they are still dealing with an obamacare mass because functions have not even been built yet. And that means the administrations goal of enrolling...