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Us live in oakland this morning with comments from the candidates. Good morning. Reporter good morning. They still have some ballots to count yet some vote by mail ballots that voters dropped off here at the county Registrars Office in oakland. But libby schaaf as you mentioned declared victory early this morning. Out of the 15 candidates for mayor of oakland, it looks like she came out on top. Things look good pretty early for the Current City Council member after 15 rounds of counting rank Choice Voting ballots. She got almost 63 of the vote. This is the campaign that was fueled by love for ...

Good afternoon, chairman nelson, Ranking Member collins and members of the committee. I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you on behalf of the federal trade commission to discuss the commissions role in combating telemarketing fraud. As we have heard the jish inflicted by fraud is wellknown. The harm is not just economic but emotional as well. To tackle phone fraud, the ftc uses Law Enforcement with close coordinate with federal and international counterparts, education and outreach and an initiative to spur technological innovation to develop tools that help consumers avoid unwanted...

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 d...

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...

Thank you for watching. We will see you back to tomorrow morning 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] quick live at brookings for discussion on u. S. Nuclear arms control policy with remarks expected from undersecretary of state for arms control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller, also expected to touch on the progress of the arms reduction treaty with russia and should get started here at brookings in j...