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I-Team: Sex Offenders Found Living In U.S. Hotels Reporting Michele Gillen MIAMI (CBS4 I-TEAM) — As you think about your summer vacation plans, you might want to think about this: A sex offender could be living live at the hotel you’re booked to stay in. What some experts tell us will have you being more careful next time you check in. “He was alone with my son for three to five minutes, and he utilized that time for his own pleasure.” So begins the chilling tale of a Miami mother who will never forget the face of a sexual predator Yatwing Chang. Chang is a man she hoped would never be in position to hurt another child. In 2007, Chang, a computer service technician who visited her Miami home, was convicted of attempting to sexually molest her 4-year-old little boy. He was sentenced to 10 years community supervision. Exactly two weeks ago he was arrested at a South Florida Winn Dixie for allegedly trying to fondle a three year-old boy. Chang’s name first surfaced on the CBS4 I-Team radar in an unprecedented review of sex offenders and predators living in hotels and motels across Florida and the nation. “Some of these men are violent felons and their crimes are very, very graphic,’” says Wes Bledsoe, Founder of A Perfect Cause, which is based in Oklahoma. Bledsoe spent days with the I-Team, ultimately months, uncovering violent felons and child molesters living among guests staying at hotels -- with their children. “It says the system is out of control; it says that there are more people in harms way than we thought,” says Bledsoe. As the investigation unfolded, Chang turned up living at the Homestead Studio Suites in Miami, where computer records revealed that as many as 30 sex offenders at one time had notified the state they were living there.

“It is horrific. It is just unbelievable. A hotel where he has access to other people’s children, it is unacceptable,” the mother of Chang’s four year-old victim told Chief I-team Investigator Michele Gillen. The I-Team investigation uncovered sex predators like Chang and hundreds upon hundreds of other sex offenders living in hotels and motels across the nation. Children were everywhere when the ITeam visited one hotel in Orlando -teaming with families heading out to the state’s most popular attractions. The hotel’s general manager said he was shocked to learn state records indicated a sex offender had reported as staying there. The I-Team also traveled to hotels in Kissimmee. “You are listed as a registered predator aren’t you?” Gillen asked a man at one hotel standing next to children’s bicycles. He, like most offenders Gillen spoke with, said he thought hotel management had to be informed, and guests should be informed. “Do you think it’s a good idea for people checking in with kids to know offenders are living in a place?” Gillen asked. “Yes. All the time. I may not be the bad guy. Not thinking about doing something like that. You never know there could be someone that is,” he responded. If you checked into the Friendly Village Inn and Lodge in Kissimmee, state records showed that on this April day, 12 registered sex offenders including 3 sexual predators had told the state they were living there. While there was a child running about on property, records indicate the majority of the offenders registered at that hotel were all on probation and/or state supervision. The I-Team also took a visit to Naples, Florida, where the I-Team met a man standing behind the front desk who told Gillen: “I am just selling rooms here.” The I-Team learned he was renting rooms at that hotel and one across the street where -- according to state records -- nine sex offenders had notified the state they were living there.

May I ask you, are you a registered sex offender? “Yes, I am,” he responded.

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That’s right, the man renting the rooms is Raul Del Angel, a registered sex predator.

Most of the offenders say their probation officers know where they are living and often directed them to the hotels. “Then by God, tell us about it. Let us know so we can make that decision, if want to stay there or not,” says Bledsoe. Crimes are now surfacing at hotels across the country. Just one week ago a sex offender was arrested in a Georgia hotel for luring a nine year-old into his hotel room. In Tennessee, sex offender Richard Emmery Brower was convicted of aggravated sexual battery on a nine yearold girl who was staying with her family in the hotel room next door. And just last month sex offender James Gafford was arrested in Mobile, Alabama for allegedly raping a teenager in his hotel room. Gafford once lived in Miami. Records indicate he told the state he was moving into the Homestead Studio Suites, directly from his prison release. As Bledsoe continues to scan communities across America -- in just a handful of states he has reviewed -- he has documented nearly 1,000 sexual offenders and predators notifying their respective states they are living in hotels and motels. That ominously adds up to one piece of advice. He says: “For every young woman traveling on business, for every family traveling with their children, they need to make sure that from here on out. They need to check the sex offender registry to make sure the hotel they are staying at does not have a sexual offender staying under the same roof.” Searching For Sexual Predators In Your Area In some states, including Florida, you can go the state’s sex offender registry. After you find the site, click on the offender search section, then neighborhood search, enter the address, including the zip code of the hotel.

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Klein, Ros-Lehtinen Back Medicare Fraud Crackdown Reporting Stephen Stock Proposed Legislation Follows 6 Month I-Team Investigation and joint CBS4-”60 Minutes” probe MIAMI (CBS4) —Two South Florida members of Congress from different sides of the political aisle joined Tuesday to propose changes to Medicare law after the I-Team exposed just how easy the fraud can be. Hailed almost as conquering heroes, US Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Ron Klein waded into the heart of Little Havana and what federal agents call the epicenter of Medicare fraud. “Superman! Yes he is,” shouted Rep. Ros-Lehtinen to the crowd. “Superman, Ron Klein!” Before a packed house at Little Havana Senior Center the United States Representatives from disparate constituencies and political views came together to announce that they will introduce a bill in Congress that carries some of the toughest changes yet in Federal Medicare law. “We’re going to double the prison time,” said Rep. Klein. This follows a joint investigation last fall by the CBS4 I-Team and “60 Minutes,” and six months of reports by CBS4 I-Team investigator Stephen Stock, an investigation that uncovered just how easy Medicare fraud in South Florida can be. Several times the I-team’s undercover workers were offered hundreds of dollars for lists of names of patients so the clinic could bill Medicare without giving any legitimate services to the patients “We went to three clinics sometimes four clinics, all by 12 o’clock,” one undercover source told the I-Team. “And you were getting paid each time?” I-Team Investigator Stephen Stock asked. “Yea. Each time,” the undercover source said. “We were getting paid (just for showing up and getting no medical services or treatment.) It wasn’t twenty dollar bills. It wasn’t Washingtons. It was Benjamins baby! Benjamins!” Federal agents say Medicare fraud costs taxpayers $60 billion every year, or 200 dollars for every man, woman and child in America.

Federal sources say as much as $1,558,700,529 of that fraud originated in Miami-Dade County last year alone. Those same sources say much of that fraud takes place in Little Havana. “South Florida was the capital of drugs and now its health care fraud,” said Omar Perez, Special Agent for the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General Office of Investigations. “It (Medicare fraud) is easy to do,” said Perez, who is based in the Miami office for HHS’ Office of Inspector General Office of Investigations. “Those of us who represent Florida and go up to Washington, D.C.” said Rep. Klein, “are embarrassed as residents of our state that Miami among other places are identified as the center point for Medicare fraud.” That’s why this rare bipartisan effort came together in Little Havana on Tuesday. Two politicians on opposite sides of the political aisle, Democrat Klein and Republican Ros-Lehtinen, joined forces on a health care issue. It’s a law both Klein and Ros-Lehtinen say would make fraud less easy by increasing prison time and fines for those caught, by increasing background checks, site visits and fingerprint checks for those with Medicare provider numbers, and by improving real time communication between federal agencies to catch Medicare fraud before it’s too late and the system is billed. “The question is how do you stop people who are the bad actors from getting into the system and billing in the first place? That’s exactly what this bill does and goes after,” said Klein. “We should have done this long ago, of course. But is it the right move to do now,” said Rep. Ros-Lehtinen. “It’s always the right time to do the right thing. So yea, shame on us for not doing it before now but we need to do it now.” (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) NEWS POWERED BY

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I-Team: Criminal Probe Seeks 20K Missing From MDFR Reporting Gary Nelson D O R A L (CBS4) — When the Miami-Dade Urban Search and Rescue team (USAR) leaves home it doesn’t take American Express, it takes cash for expenses. Credit cards and ATMs often won’t work in disaster zones. But a CBS4 News I-TEAM investigation has revealed that the rescue team that travels to the scenes of earthquakes and other calamities may have been left somewhat cash-strapped. A criminal investigation is underway into the disappearance of thousands of dollars in

cash that was maintained in a safe at Miami-Dade Fire/Rescue headquarters in Doral. The money was intended for emergency use by the USAR group. Department spokesperson Elizabeth Calzadilla confirmed the investigation, but added little more. “There is nothing about this that I can discuss. It is all under investigation. It is with the State Attorney’s office,” Calzadilla told CBS’s Gary Nelson. The I-TEAM has learned that public corruption investigators with the MiamiDade police department are probing the disappearance of some $20,000 from the fire department’s safe. The money was discovered missing last year, before the USAR team was dispatched to earthquakedevestated Haiti.

A mid-level manager at fire/rescue headquarters was removed from her job April 7th, sent home as the probe continues. The manager, a $75,000 a year grants coordinator, had access to the safe. “She has been relieved of duty with pay, pending the outcome of an internal affairs and criminal investigation,” Calzadilla said, adding that no other employees have been relieved of duty in connection with the missing cash. The suspended grants manager is “the subject” of the investigation, Calzadilla said.

News of the probe has swept across the department like wildfire in recent days. One senior level member of the Urban Search and Rescue team, speaking under anonymity, said many have been questioned by investigators about the missing cash. “We have been told by those

I-Team: Fire House To Reopen On Rickenbacker Reporting Gary Nelson Bicyclist Died Waiting For Rescue In January Fire Brass Warns Fix May Be Temporary MIAMI (CBS4) — The CBS4 I-Team has learned that Miami-Dade Fire Chief Herminio Lorenzo has agreed to restore full-time service at a station that was dark the day a bicyclist died waiting for help. When the bicyclist was struck by an allegedly drunk driver on the Rickenbacker Causeway on January 17th, the nearby Crandon Park fire station was closed. It was operating on part-time hours due to budget cuts. Miami-Dade 911 dispatchers sent a rescue unit from a station in the city of South Miami, nearly ten miles away. When paramedics arrived at the accident scene some 15 minutes after the first calls to 911, 44 year-old husband and father Christopher LeCanne had died. In the ensuing days, county commissioners were inundated with complaints about the closed station from cyclists, joggers, beachgoers and others who jam the popular recreation site. At the time, county management said it didn’t make cost-

benefit sense to keep the Crandon Park station open full-time, given the low volume of calls the station receives. But the county commission’s public safety committee on Thursday passed a resolution requiring the fire department to restore the facility to full-time operation. The full commission is expected to vote on the the measure May 4th. Fire Department spokesperson Elizabeth Calzadilla told CBS4 News, however, that it’s expected the department may have the station back up to full operation even before the formal vote, using an unexpected reserve in socalled carry-over funds. “It was agreed that it is in the best interests of the public to operate the station fulltime,” Calzadilla said Monday. But she cautioned that the department is facing an estimated $70 million dollar budget shortfall in the next fiscal year that begins October 1st. “We are going to be facing some very tough times, and some very tough choices are going to have to be made. If the choice is to continue to fund (the Crandon station) in the next year, the money is going to have to come from somewhere.” County Commissioner Rebeca Sosa, who chairs the public safety committee and insisted on the station’s re-opening, said she’ll fight the budget battle in hearings

this summer. “What we need to protect is everything that has to do with public safety,” Sosa said. “From there, we can find places to cut. There are lots of places in the bureaucracy where there can be cuts that don’t have to do with direct services to the community.” On the Rickenbacker Monday charter boat skipper Capt. Dave Brown watched as a mate cleaned a freshly caught tuna, and agreed that the fire station down the street should be a priority. “We all understand the way the budget is and how things have gotten, but it’s absolutely important to have the fire station and fire-rescue guys here,” Brown said. Bicyclist Sharon Scott said she goes to the Rickenbacker several times a week, biking, swimming and kayaking. “It’s a good idea to open the station for the safety of everybody here, not just the bicyclists,” Scott said. At the fire station, firefighters and paramedics said the decision to restore the station to full time operation couldn’t come at a better time. “Summertime is coming and the beaches are going to get full. They don’t close until after sundown,” said firefighter John Perhach. An earlier I-Team investigation revealed

that, while the closest station being closed delayed the response time to the fatal accident in January, Miami-Dade 911 dispatchers also apparently failed to follow department policy. Rather than call for “mutual aid” from the much closer City of Miami or Key Biscayne departments, the operators dispatched the county unit from distant South Miami. The 911 dispatchers’ performance remains under an internal departmental investigation. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) NEWS POWERED BY

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Jackson Hospital Celebrates $50 Million Tourniquet Reporting Gary Nelson County Sends “Management Watch” Team MIAMI (CBS4) — MiamiDade’s Jackson Memorial Hospital got a $50 million dollar shot in the arm from the state legislature early Tuesday. The appropriation approved by the house and senate in the waning days of the legislative session comes as a soothing balm for the financially strapped hospital that remains in critical need of advanced economic life support. Jackson CEO Eneida Roldan called the state appropriation, a “tremendous help,” and thanked the Miami-Dade legislative delegation for winning passage of the measure at a time when the state is faced with serious budget woes. As Jackson got good news from the

Capitol Tuesday, it also got management help from county hall that it didn’t ask for. In a memo to the hospital’s CEO, County Manager George Burgess wrote that he is dispatching four senior-level managers from the port, the airport and county hall to “engage directly in the day-to-day recovery efforts” at the hospital that is facing a budget hole of some $230 million. Burgess’s memo said he was concerned that county officials have received “incomplete or contradictory information” about Jackson’s financial condition and recovery plan. Burgess’s memo made it clear that he expects the hospital to avail itself of the experts he is sending. “I trust they will be given full access to the appropriate discussions, documents and decisionmaking sessions,” Burgess wrote. The county manager told CBS4’s Gary Nelson Tuesday that his move is not intended as a slight to Jackson officials. “They’re very thin right now,” Burgess said. “I don’t think they have the breadth

and scope of expertise that they need right now.” Burgess said the managers being moved to Jackson play key roles in the departments where they currently serve. “We’re sending people who are actually pretty important to the departments they work in, but frankly we have a real issue here. Sometimes you have to stop what you’re doing and re-deploy,” Burgess said. Jackson’s Roldan said she was not offended by the county’s decision to send the managers into the hospital. “We always need more help, there’s no question about it,” Roldan said. The hospital chief said the involvement of managers from the county is going to provide an opportunity for Jackson and the county to “collaborate,” and will give county hall insight into “what really goes on here.” Roldan said she inherited budgetary problems from a previous administration,

CBS4 I-Team Wins Top AP Broadcast Awards up with 60 minutes for a joint investigation that revealed how prevalent Medicare Fraud had become in South Florida. Federal agents say Medicare fraud costs taxpayers $60 billion every year, or $200 for every man, woman and child in America.

CBS4’s I-Team investigation “Medicare Fraud: The New Cocaine Cowboys” won the first place award for “Best Investigative Report” by Florida’s Associated Press. The team also won the Best of Show in television award. The winners were announced Saturday evening at the Wyndham Orlando Resort. In November, the CBS4 I-Team teamed

Federal sources say as much as $1.5 billion of that fraud originated in MiamiDade County last year alone. Those same sources say much of that fraud takes place in Little Havana. “South Florida was the capital of drugs and now it’s health care fraud,” said Omar Perez, Special Agent for the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General Office of Investigations. The

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photographed by CBS4’s Gio Benitez, edited by CBS4’s Nick Gordillo, reported by CBS4’s Investigative Reporter Stephen Stock and led by CBS4’s I-Team Executive Producer Amber StatlerMatthews. “It ratifies all the effort that we put into a very hard story that was important to our community to uncover a problem that is going to cost us millions into the future if it’s not stopped,” Stock said. “I’m proud of the team and it confirms that the ITeam is doing important work that is helping the people of South Florida.” (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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but there are on-going challenges facing the community’s only public hospital that will be “daunting” to even the most expert management team. “There is an economic downturn,” she said. “Even if we all look at the numbers, there are other issues that are quite external to us.” (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) NEWS POWERED BY

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I-Team: Camp LeJeune Residents To Demand Answers Reporting Michele Gillen MIAMI (CBS4 I-TEAM) — Marines and their children who once lived and served at Camp LeJuene say they fear they and their loved ones got sick from the water. Some are expected to face off with government scientists Thursday at a key meeting in Atlanta. The government is keeping news cameras out of the meeting, which is igniting a furor among members of the community who they just want their story told and a transparent investigation into what went wrong at the base. How contaminated was the water at Camp LeJeune? When did the military know? What did they choose to reveal to scientists? What health impact might the effects of the toxic water have? These are questions are the heart of a CBS4 I-Team

investigation and fuel some of the men and women who once lived there to find answers. The CBS4 I-Team investigation was first to reveal the story of Mike Hargett, the co-owner of a lab that tested Camp LeJeune water in 1982. What his chemist found alarmed him and that’s when he says he alerted the military that there appeared to be a problem with the drinking water at the base. Chief I-Team reporter Michele Gillen asked Hargett about the pregnant woman who lived on the base. “They were exposed to these industrial solvents. They were exposed to man made contaminants in the water. The effects of that were known at the time,” Hargett said. It would take three more years for the wells to be shut down. The Navy continues to insist it did so as

soon as they knew the source of contamination. Gillen interviewed Marine General Eugene Payne by satellite and asked why it took years to shut down the wells. “I really didn’t. We shut those wells down in 30 days of when the source of that contamination was found,” said Payne. Since that interview, men like Mike Partain, who was born on the base, have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Partain says thousands of computer records have emerged that indicate an underground fuel spill was much larger than originally reported by the military. He will press for answers Thursday in Atlanta at the offices of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Men like Partain are trying to find out from scientists how potentially deadly the exposure to chemicals in the water they drank, bathed in and cooked with might be

“We are deeply distressed by recent changes at ATSDR, which is the agency responsible for investigating the health effects Camp LeJeune. Now we find ourselves muzzled by the very government agency that is supposed to provide us the answers,” Partain said in a telephone interview this week. Partain said agenda items critical to getting answers about what happened in the past have been changed or pulled and admits the pressure is there to not embarrass the Marine Corps. And in a break from all past meetings, reporters are being barred from bringing any cameras or recording devices. The federal agency tells the CBS4 I-Team it will stream the meeting live and considers that fair access. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) NEWS POWERED BY

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I-Team: Rothstein Confidante Charged Reporting Jim DeFede MIAMI (CBS4) — Debra Villegas was S c o t t Rothstein’s m a i n confidante. The chief operating officer of his now defunct firm, Villegas was one of the few people Rothstein allowed in the inner sanctum of Rothstein’s private office. Rothstein trusted her in all matters and on Tuesday that trust – and her actions – earned her a place as a criminal defendant in Rothstein’s $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme Villegas was formally charged with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Prosecutors accuse Villegas of plotting to help Rothstein hide the proceeds of his massive fraud. As CBS4 News first reported in March, Villegas has been cooperating with federal authorities for months. Villegas is expected to make her first appearance in federal court Wednesday morning in Fort Lauderdale she will plead not guilty. Under an agreement with prosecutors she will eventually plead guilty in return for a prison sentence of no longer than ten years.

In the meantime, she will continue to work with investigators, letting them know about the inner workings of the Rothstein law firm and helping prosecutors build cases against her former colleagues. Villegas is accused of helping Rothstein by forging signatures on the phony investment deals at the heart of the Ponzi scheme. Attorney Bill Scherer is representing several of the investors Rothstein bilked. He told CBS 4 News Tuesday that his investigation revealed Villegas also moved funds and made phony requests to banks.

“She was central to the fraud he was committing,” Scherer said. “She was the go-between between Rothstein and everybody else. She was like him and carried out whatever he told her to do.”

“If she can help the victims get their money back by implicating others that’s what we’re interested in,” Scherer said.

One reason federal authorities were willing to make a deal with Villegas is they believe, in her own way, she too was a victim to Rothstein’s charm and influence. And while she was certainly rewarded by Rothstein, she never became rich from the money Rothstein stole.

Villegas was supposed to turn herself in several weeks ago, but problems with her attorney and then the death of her mother delayed her being charged.

In addition to helping investigators understand the Ponzi scheme; she will be able to provide crucial information about how political donations were funneled through the firms partners and associates to both local and national politicians.

CBS4 News tried to reach Villegas at her Weston home Tuesday night. However, a security guard told CBS4’s Carey Codd that Villegas personally told her not to allow any media into the gated community.

There is little doubt that Rothstein relied heavily on Villegas. A former paralegal with no college degree, Villegas rose quickly and was rewarded with a new home and a fancy car. But all that will soon be gone.

The criminal charge against Villegas is the latest tragic incident in her life. Two years ago, her estranged husband, Tony Villegas, allegedly killed her best friend, Melissa Lewis, who was also an attorney in the Rothstein law firm.

CBS4’s Carey Codd contributed to this report.

The feds moved to seize the Weston home where Villegas is living and a 2009 Maserati Rothstein gave her. Federal charging documents also order Villegas to turn over a sizable amount of cash -- more than $1 million dollars.

Interviewed shortly after Lewis’s murder and her ex-husband’s arrest, Villegas described her heartbreak at the way events had unfolded. Her words could easily apply to her situation today.

Scherer also said he expects several more arrests in the case, calling Villegas “a small fish in this whole grand scheme.”

Attorney Scherer said he hopes Villegas’s cooperation will help the investors who lost money.

In an email first published by New Times Broward Palm Beach, Rothstein once wrote to all of the employees of his law firm about the power and influence of Villegas. “[W]hen she speaks she is speaking for me,” Rothstein wrote. “Thus, absent extraordinary circumstances, no one is to challenge her authority or come to me to attempt to override any decision she makes.” He went on to write: “WE WOULD NOT EXIST WITHOUT HER — SHE HAS HELPED ME AND CONTINUES TO HELP ME MORE THAN I COULD EVER EXPLAIN...OUR OFFICES THAT WE CURRENTLY OCCUPY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN COMPLETED WITHOUT HER... OUR GROWTH WOULD BE IN REVERSE.” Now, Villegas will be helping federal authorities understand the inner workings of the law firm. And as a result, more arrests will follow.

“I could have never imagined, this is so senseless,” she told CBS4 News in March 2008. “How could anyone imagine something like this would happen?” With her ex husband in jail awaiting trial for Lewis’s murder and now Villegas herself looking at a decade in prison, her children face the prospect of losing both parents. In 2008, Villegas talked about how difficult it was to tell her children that their father had been arrested and would likely be going to prison. Once again, her words two years ago undoubtedly ring true today. “We told them and they are devastated,” she said. In March, Villegas’s attorney would not comment on the plea agreement with prosecutors. “I will neither confirm nor deny it,” said defense attorney Paul Lazarus. Her current attorney, Robert Stickney, could not be reached for comment.

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Steve Jobs Attacks Adobe Flash As Unfit For iPhone He cited “reliability, security and performance,” and the fact that Flash was designed “for PCs using mice, not for touch screens using fingers” as some of the reasons Apple will continue to keep the program off its devices. But he said the most important reason is Flash puts a third party between Apple and software developers. In other words, developers can take advantage of improvements from Apple only if Adobe upgrades its own software, Jobs wrote. CUPERTINO, Calif. (CBS) —For iPhone users who’ve been wondering whether their devices will support Flash technology for Web video and games anytime soon, the answer is finally here, straight from Steve Jobs: No. In a detailed offensive against the technology owned by Adobe Systems Inc., Apple’s CEO wrote Thursday that Flash has too many bugs, drains batteries too quickly and is too oriented to personal computers to work on the iPhone and iPad, CBS station KPIX-TV reports. This is not the first time Jobs has publicly criticized Flash, but the statement was his clearest, most definitive — and longest — on the subject. In his 1,685-word “Thoughts on Flash,” Jobs laid out his reasons for excluding Flash — the most widely used vehicle for videos and games on the Internet — from Apple’s blockbuster handheld devices.

Adobe representatives did not have an immediate comment Thursday. But in a March 23 conference call, President and CEO Shantanu Narayen said his company is “committed to bringing Flash to any platform on which there is a screen.” That certainly includes Apple’s devices, and Narayen said at the time the Flash ban “has nothing to do with technology.” “It’s an Apple issue and I think you’ll have to check with them on that,” he said. Adobe has owned Flash since buying its creator, Macromedia Inc., in 2005. Flash is one of the slew of software tools Adobe sells to professional designers and Web developers as part of its Creative Suite software package, which also includes Photoshop, Illustrator and other programs, and brings in more than half of Adobe’s revenue. Adobe benefits from Flash’s wide use because it means Web developers will keep buying the tools they need to create Flash content.

Apple has been criticized for the omission of Flash because that limits what the iPhone can do. Hulu.com, the popular video viewing site, uses Flash, for example, as do many restaurant websites. But thanks to the immense popularity of the iPhone, game and application developers are pouring their creations onto Apple’s devices without using Flash.

today,” McLeish said. “A few years ago they wouldn’t have been able to.”

In his rebuttal, Jobs said that with an abundance of media outlets offering their content on iPhones and iPads, “Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of Web content.”

But it could take as long as 10 years for HTML5 to be fully adopted, McLeish said. What Apple is banking on is that HTML5 will eventually win out, making Flash obsolete.

“And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games,” he wrote.

“Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind,” Jobs wrote.

For consumers, Apple’s move means they will have to decide whether or not they want Flash content, and if they do, they’ll have to use devices other than Apple’s. “It doesn’t mean this is the end of Flash,” said Sheri McLeish, an analyst with Forrester Research. “Apple is not the only game in town, and PC and Windows devices continue to dominate the market.” She called Apple’s move a business decision, even though Jobs stressed it is based on technology: It is, after all, up to Apple to control how users experience its products. “They have the momentum to do it

Although many websites use Flash to display videos, animation and Internet ads, this may change in the years to come. HTML5, a new Web standard — that is, a way to create Web pages — will have built-in support for video and audio files.

Shares of San Jose-based Adobe dropped 82 cents, or 2.3 percent, to $34.65 in trading on Thursday. They have traded between $24.78 and $38.20 in the past 52 weeks. Editor’s note - Read Steve Jobs’ entire post about Flash: http://bit.ly/aiaaNg (© 2010 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.) NEWS POWERED BY

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Warning To Computer Users: Beware Of Scareware Reporting Al Sunshine U N D AT E D (CBS4) — There’s an internet security threat that is putting all the things on your computer at risk. It’s the scareware scam. Security officials estimate that, worldwide, one million people each day are victimized by scareware, which is one of the fastest-growing categories of malware, according to Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report. Scareware, also known as rogue security software, is a fake security warning that pretends to detect a threat and asks the user to install it and then proceeds to try to talk the user into paying for registration or other services. Consumers need to be particularly careful around scareware because it attempts to sell the user bogus software to fix a problem that they really don’t have.

A pop up usually tells the consumer to run a ‘free’ scan. It’s almost guaranteed that it will identify a problem that never really existed. The “free” scan may also allow viruses into your computer which can ruin valuable information like home videos, family photos and irreplaceable documents. That’s what happened to Stevie Wilson. She has a blog that’s all about lifestyle and fashion. She recently got burned by scareware. “This was a scam, this was a fraud, this took down more than one computer,” said Wilson. Here’s what happens. When working on your computer, an anti-virus software ad pops up. Usually not a big deal but when you run the scan or download the latest update, that’s when this scam kicks in because what looks like your anti-virus software is actually a program from the internet that is installing viruses on your

Florida House Passes Economy Stimulus Bill Reporting Dave Game

production business, an important revenue source in South Florida, might be lured back by new incentives for filming shows in the state. The bill also looks to the future of a state beyond the end of the Space Shuttle program, setting aside $28 million to help workers who will lose their jobs when the shuttle program ends later this year.

TALLAHASSEE, (CBS4) — While the economy is picking up in parts of the US, Florida is still suffering from the recession, and legislators say it’s time to kick-start the state’s economic engine. Wednesday, the Florida House unanimously passed a bill designed to do just that. SB 1752 was cleared by the House 117-0 Wednesday, and cuts a variety of taxes for Florida businesses, as well as offering wide ranging incentives for doing business in Florida. Under the proposed bill, companies that hire unemployed Floridians would be eligible for state tax credits. The film and television

The price tag for the stimulus program is expected to hit $200 million over the next 3 years. The bill now goes back to the Senate to approve the tweaks made in the House. (© 2010 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.) NEWS POWERED BY

computer, primarily if you’re using Windows. Experts say somewhere in the neighborhood of 70,000 Americans are ripped off by scareware each day. That’s according to the people who make McAfee antivirus software. If you get one of these pop-ups, your best bet is to ignore the pop up or cancel it. It took Stevie 3 weeks and over a thousand dollars just to get a portion of her computer back. Now she keeps all her important work files on several backup drives. They’re relatively cheap, and it’s something everyone should do. Because scareware sites may ask you to pay for their anti-virus services, it’s an easy scam to fall for. The sites often look real because they include a tech support email address and a tech support phone number.

The FTC has logged millions of complaints about scareware. While there are some good companies offering computer protection, it’s hard to tell which pop us is safe without a deeper search. For that reason, it’s best to just shut your browser down immediately if you see one. Also, do your homework to make sure you have the right protection. You can purchase anti-virus software, or use a trusted free program to make sure you’re protected. Some suggestions include: AVG, Spybot, or Avast 4.7. Make sure you’re dealing with a reputable service before you download anything on your computer. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) NEWS POWERED BY

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Back To Work Program Begins In Florida Reporting Al Sunshine MIAMI (CBS4) — It was approved by Congress several months ago and now the “Florida Back to Work” program is for the first time getting millions of dollars in federal job grants aimed at getting South Floridians back to work. The new program could offer critically needed incentives to small businesses here and around the state to start hiring again. Financial services expert Jose Brzos of Kendall wants to get back to work. He was laid off from his job last year when his bank was taken over by another company. His job was eliminated and since then he’s been forced to pay his bills with a series of part-time jobs.

“It’s kind of hard being a college graduate and professional taking part time jobs that I’m over-qualified for, but I taken whatever I could find, almost anything to pay the bills,” Brzos said. But with the new $200 million program, the government is distributing job-grants for companies to start hiring new workers. Florida’s money comes from a much bigger “back to work” federal job program. The $200 million dollar program is aimed at funding about 25,000 new full time jobs through at least the end of September and paying about $12 an hour.

local workers who’ve enrolled with us and they should help a great deal to lower the latest unemployment rate.”

new round of lay-offs as the U-S Economy is expected to start seeing some solid signs of improvement.

Employers are already starting to apply for the new grants. But they have to hire qualified workers through the state’s job banks after they’ve formally registered for the state’s back to work programs.

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Jose Brzos hopes the new back-to-work grants will finally help him get a new fulltime job. “ I think it’s a great idea and I’ll be greatful for any opportunity I can get,” Brzos said.

South Florida’s share comes out to about $86 million dollars to fund about 5000 new positions.

State employment specialist say it looks like the plan could help turn-around the local job market and could be a key step to getting companies hiring again.

Cheri Kavehershi is a job specialist with Miami’s South Florida Workforce. “Their monies are being sent down from Washington thru Tallahassee. They allow local businesses to seek job funds and hire

The funding runs through the end of September and by then, state and federal officials hope local companies will be in a much better position to keep their new hires on the job, rather than triggering a

Report: Stimulus Saves 150,000 Jobs In Florida Florida Sun-Sentinel, the term “jobs saved” means layoffs that were prevented as a result of the bill.

MIAMI (CBS4) — While the Federal Stimulus act has become an albatross around the neck of Florida Governor Charlie Crist’s Senate campaign; it turns out the bill may have helped save the jobs of over 150 thousand workers in Florida, according to the Federal Council of Economic Advisers. Stimulus spending in Florida increased for the first three months of the year and saved or created the equivalent of 33,218 full-time jobs, according to Florida’s stimulus czar. According to the South

According to the Council of Economic Advisers, the stimulus bill saved or created jobs affecting roughly 2.8 million workers. Florida is expected to receive about $12.5 billion from the stimulus bill. Still, even with the increased spending, Florida’s unemployment stands at a record 12.3 percent through March. Stimulus proponents say the record unemployment would have been much worse had the stimulus bill not been enacted by the federal government. Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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Video Review Web Sites Become A Growing Trend from like personal hygene, electronics, and all sorts of different things.” Turns out Gillette wants to hear what people think about a new razor that Lonie happens to have. It takes her about 2 minutes to videotape the review using her laptop webcam device.

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS) — There’s a way for consumers to earn an income by reviewing products in their own home. The website, Expotv.com, is a bit like Yelp and YouTube where consumers upload user-generated videos in exchange for points that can be cashed in for products, CBS station KPIX-TV reports. Lonie Honsvick’s full time job is taking care of her baby Riley. But the former school teacher missed having a little extra income. “They have assignments you can choose

“You review the product, you record yourself and upload the video to expotv.com. Then once you upload it takes about a week for them to process it and make sure it’s good, and then you get those points. They go toward prizes - all sorts of things like tools, to electronics, or books. I like the $5 amazon gift cards and I can buy whatever off Amazon.”

based Seagate sent out 50 free highdefinition media players to users so they could get real consumer feedback and video reviews. Expotv adds a disclosure on the video that says the products were provided for free.

course video.

Manufacturers need consumer opinions and consumers use Expotv.com to comparison shop.

And as for Lonie, having a video camera gives her a way to make a small income while she’s at her full time job.

CNET.com’s Editor At Large Brian Cooley admits the user-generated reviews are just as valuable as his professional product reviews.

In a year, Lonie’s been able to purchase about $400-worth of items. For her 2 minute video, which took 5 minutes to submit, she earned 500 points, which uses to buy $5 bucks worth of items on Amazon.

“They do it ad hoc with their own viewpoints. And they come up with different angles than I do all the time,” Cooley said. “It’s interesting to me as well as to consumers. The person who lives with a product for months or a year or longer is going to know things that a professional reviewer isn’t going to know.”

You can also score free electronics sent straight from manufacturers. Bay Area

Cooley said to expect more review sites to incorporate public opinion and of

“In the last year we’ve become a camnation. Everybody has a camera on them, and not just a still camera but everyone has a video camera,” said Cooley.

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Virtual College Gossip Site Growing In Popularity TCU freshman Seth Tahle, whose friend was mentioned on the site. Jessica Anderson was also mentioned on the site. “I just don’t even want to be associated with it,” the college freshman said. “I was home for spring break, and my friend was like ‘You’re on some college gossip site,’ and I was like ‘what?!’ I was shocked. I don’t want to be on something like that.” By Melissa Newton DALLAS (CBS) — A new website growing in popularity among college students proves bullying doesn’t stop after high school. College ACB is an online message board that allows students to post anonymously about their peers, CBS station KTVT-TV reports. The Web site launched this year. “It’s pretty much a gossip Web site,” said

Anderson is one of the lucky ones: what was written about her was mild compared to the comments made about some of her peers. “Girls have been crying in my dorm.” She said. “Those are the type of things people commit suicide over.” All comments are made anonymously, as the website touts on its home page. No topic seems to be off limits; everything

from appearance, to drug use, to students’ sexuality is discussed. One topic on the message board talked about who users would like to rape. “There’s nothing really positive on the Web site,” said TCU senior Curtis Clay, “so it can damage your reputation, even if it’s false.”

For Anderson, the Web site isn’t just distasteful; it’s juvenile. “You get a certain age and it’s like, it’s time to grow up and stop gossiping about people,” she said.

Still, the website is taking some college campuses by storm.

The University of North Texas and SMU also have message boards on the gossip website. We tried to contact the administrators of the website, but they have not responded to our requests.

“To me, it just shows how unintelligent people can be by even getting on a website like that.” said TCU junior, John Andrew Willis.

Under the Federal Communications Decency Act of 1996, Web sites like collegeacb.com are not responsible for user-generate content.

The TCU student government received countless complaints from students and has now decided to take a public stand.

“As a group of student leaders they will not visit this website,” advisor Kim Turner said, “and encouraging their peers to do the same, to stay off ACB.”

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Condos Demanding Foreclosure On Abandoned Units Reporting David Sutta C o n d o Associations Plagued With Abandoned U n i t s Demanding Banks To Foreclose Or Give Up Title (CBS4) A new tactic in dealing with foreclosed condo units is being used by one attorney in South Florida. Ana Martinez is slowly watching her apartment building deteriorate with the housing crisis. Standing on her front porch she told CBS4’s David Sutta, “We don’t even feel safe living here anymore.” With just half the building’s unit owners paying their association dues, Ana is left picking up the tab: $417 a month. Martinez said she’s “frustrated, I am to

the point of giving up.” The association has done just about everything, even foreclosing on units. Banks that own the mortgage on the apartment though take priority, and across South Florida banks are stalling to foreclosure. Attorney Ben Solomon of the Association Law Group explained, “The bottom line is the banks don’t want to assume the liability associated with the unit, including the obligation to pay maintenance assessments to the association.” Solomon is now challenging the banks to foreclose or get out of the way. “The bank has to make a decision as to if they are going to take title to the financially upside down unit, or release their mortgage,” said Solomon. He calls it a mortgage terminator. He demanded Citibank to foreclose on unit

Study: S. Fla. Foreclosures Rise 71 Percent County fared the worst of South Florida counties with a 109 percent increase in foreclosures for the first quarter of 2009. The numbers from RealtyTrac continue to paint an increasingly gloomy picture for any economic recovery for South Florida. As unemployment remains at historic levels in the state and the foreclosure crisis continues to grow, one in every 46 households is now in foreclosure. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) MIAMI (CBS4) — The foreclosure crisis may be subsiding in some areas of the country; but in South Florida, the bottom continues to drop out of the market. According to numbers from RealtyTrac, foreclosures in South Florida have grown 71 percent in the first quarter when compared to the same time frame in 2009. Foreclosures in Miami-Dade County rose by 60 percent compared to the first quarter of 2009. Broward County saw foreclosures grow even more with a 67 percent increase from 2009. Palm Beach

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14 in Martinez’s building. Surprisingly, instead of an 18 month legal fight, Citibank wrote off the debt, and handed the title over. Jason Schoenholtz with Regatta Management took CBS4 inside the unit. “Yeah it’s completely abandoned. It look like somebody just ran out the door and left everything behind,” Schoenholtz said, as he walked around the dilapidated apartment. The association now owns this two bedroom apartment. It needs work, but Schoenholtz believes they can sell it. Schoenholtz said, “You’re looking at 2030,000 boon for the association, which they desperately need.” The association is smug with Citibank’s willingness to walk away. One has to wonder if banks forced to foreclose will continue to do this, or was this a fluke?

them from doing it. It’s reality,” said Schoenholtz. Solomon believes this case will set a precedent for more cases. “They can’t sit on the sidelines anymore. And that’s this legal strategy. It’s to force them into making a decision,” said Solomon. Either way the association wins collecting dues or now title from the bank. Solomon says he plans to use this tactic on 12 more properties. It’s an interesting concept. Forget foreclosure or refinance. Just ask the bank for the title. Who knows, maybe they’ll give it to you. If you are interested in more on this story go to David Sutta’s blog on CBS4.com (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) NEWS POWERED BY

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County Program Helps Families Move Into Homes “You have a five-bedroom, three-bath, double-car garage,” Pupo said as he toured a home. Many of the properties are nice, but they have been foreclosed on. Now, the county is fixing them up and reselling them. “We don’t make a cent off of these homes,” Pupo said.

MIAMI (CBS4) —A county program that buys up foreclosed or abandoned homes, renovates them and then sells them to first-time buyers has struggled to get buyers because the program has not been well publicized. The county, which is offering the homes, is targeting people who make between $30,000 to $90,000 a year. Applicants must also have one percent to put down and be employed for the past 24 months. Bill Pupo buys land for Miami-Dade county facilities, but lately he’s been buying houses.

Pupo said the program offers an opportunity for families to own their own homes. The program is part of the county’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program or NSP; by using federal dollars, they are hoping to fill the abandoned homes with families. “The family that will get this will have a great opportunity to enjoy a home. It will be a dream come true for them,” Pupo told CBS4’s David Sutta. The county has also lined up lenders and will write a mortgage as well. CBS4’s David Sutta crunched the numbers for one home.

Pupo toured a five-bedroom, three-bath home that would ordinarily sell for $200,000, but is now going for $140,000. The monthly bill for the home, which includes the mortgage, property taxes, insurance, association dues, cable, Internet is $1,400. The county has 50 similar homes on sale and some cost significantly less. But because the program has been so obscure, the county has struggled to sell them. “It’s Miami-Dade’s best kept secret,” Pupo said. Pupo said once word gets out, the 50 homes that are out there won’t last long. Applicants who have a contract by April 30th will be able to use the government’s $8,000 tax credit. For more details, click here. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) NEWS POWERED BY

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Dialing In Home Health Care Help Reporting Shannon Hori MIAMI (CBS4) —Even with the new federal health care overhaul, the price of health care continues to skyrocket. But a local non-profit agency believes it has come up with a way to help patients and cut medical costs by placing a simple device in the homes of older and disabled patients.

Bucalo said. Those vital signs are then analyzed by a nurse at a central monitoring station.

their physician in managing their chronic condition across time,” said Vianca Stubbs of United Homecare Services.

“We monitor chronic diseases such as hypertension, congestive heart failure, obstructive pulmonary disease,” said Hernando Dorado, a nurse for Telehealth. “We’re able to see through the vital signs any changes. In this case with Mrs. Josephine Bucalo, we notice that her O2 saturation went down this day.”

For patients like Josephine, the home monitoring also improves the overall quality of their life.

If there’s a change in the patient’s status, the nurse will call the patient to check in on them and in more serious situations, contact a doctor.

87-year-old Josephine Bucalo of Countrywalk is one of more than a hundred patients in South Florida who are using the machine. It’s called the Telehealth Monitoring Device and is offered free to United Homecare Services clients that qualify for the program thanks to a grant from the Health Foundation of South Florida.

According to United Homecare, the program is proving successful. United Homecare reported a 58 percent decline in the number of patients having to be hospitalized. Even for those who do have to go to the hospital, the number of days in the hospital has decreased by 72 percent.

“Well, it takes my blood pressure and it takes the O2 and it takes the heart beat,”

“It helps them manage their chronic condition better, allows us to work with

Superfoods Are Beneficial Diet For Cancer Patients more nutrients and the more phytochemicals it has in it.” She says forget the expensive pinenuts you usually use in pesto, and use walnuts instead. “Walnuts have a lot more good nutrients than pinenuts.” Jacobi’s recipes are high on fiber and antioxidants.

NEW YORK (CBS) —We all know a healthy diet can help prevent cancer, but diet is just as vital for cancer patients going through treatment, CBS station WCBS-TV reports. Chef Dana Jacobi, author of the “12 Best Foods Cookbook,” explains in her book how superfoods – foods containing high concentrations of nutrients - build stamina during cancer treatment. Common superfoods include, blueberries, oats, beans, broccoli and salmon. Jacobi gives a regular pesto recipe a boost with broccoli. “You know how sometimes it’s green and sometimes it’s a blackish-blue color? That’s the broccoli to get. The darker the color the

“Good fats in the diet, olive oil, fats high in Omega 3 fatty acids from salmon or mackerel are really, really much better for you than meat fats or chicken or turkey fats,” said Dr. Stewart Fleishman. Fleishman said one of the effects of cancer that is often overlooked is weight loss. Good nutrition can be a life-safer. “Losing weight in cancer is really bad. It reduces your resistance. You can get more infections. You can bleed more. You can even die from that, and not from the cancer but from the weight loss,” he said. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) NEWS POWERED BY

“I feel secure I feel secure with that I know that when I’m using it I get a satisfactory result hey I think I’ll go to the

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Doctor Among First To Use New Heart Procedure Reporting Tiffani Helberg M I A M I B E A C H (CBS4) — A South Florida doctor is one of the first to use a new medical device called a frozen elephant trunk to save a man’s life. Seventy-two year old Walter Vives developed an aneurysm and needed a risky heart surgery. “I was taking a shower when I first felt the first initial pain,” recalled Vives. Now just six days after the surgery, he said he’s feeling much better. “Oh definitely, it’s like a 100 percent, like 100 percent different.” Dr. Joseph Lamelas decided he needed to use a new material to insert into Vives damaged aorta. The frozen elephant trunk is made from Dacron, a synthetic material that is reinforced with wire. It’s

much sturdier than the soft pliable material that surgeons typically use to reinforce the aorta. But the old material took longer to suture into place.

remembered writing a will before the surgery and opting to give his younger brother with health problems his kidneys.

The elephant trunk materials take about half the time to insert, which cuts surgery time from about an hour to 30 minutes. In this type of surgery, Lamelas said, every minute is critical.

Now, Vives walks slowly down the hallways at the Mount Sinai Medical Center attached to wires and monitors. In just two days he will be released. But he will have to return in six to eight weeks

“Well it’s important because during that particular time in the operation the patient’s circulation is stopped, we have no blood pressure,” Dr. Lamelas said. During the surgery the patient is in circulatory arrest. Blood cooled to 20 degrees centigrade is pumped through the patient’s body to keep them alive. “The patient is essentially for all intents and purposes dead,” Dr. Lamelas said. With a new lease on life, Vives is brought to tears thinking about how fortunate he is to be with his family. He

University Of Miami To Charge Students Smoking Fee Reporting Gio Benitez C O R A L G A B L E S (CBS4) — The University of Miami campus is taking big steps to becoming a smoke-free campus. Starting next semester, student smokers who carry the University’s health care coverage will have to pay an additional per-semester fine. Sophomore Ayodele Maul-Waithe smokes about a pack of cigarettes a week. She pays about $2,000 a semester on health insurance at UM. But starting this fall, her smoking habit will cost her more. “I mean, it’s discrimination against smokers,” she said.

The University sent students an e-mail saying if they are covered under UM’s health insurance, smokers will have to pay $50 more per semester.

have to pay extra for it,” said Lasik.

“At this point, I mean, I might as well just go back on my family’s insurance, because that way I won’t have to pay an extra 50 dollars,” Maul-Waithe told CBS4’s Gio Benitez.

“Apparently they all have $50 dollars to give to UM. I don’t,” said Maul-Waithe.

“That’s fine, I mean smokers are damaging their health,” said student Natalie Rock. Rock and Joseph Lasic are smokers. CBS4 News met them just as they were talking about the $50 surcharge. They were reading about it in The Miami Hurricane, the student newspaper, which labeled the surcharge a “sin tax.” They use their own health insurance, but both think the price is fair. “If you can afford to spend the money on cigarettes, like she said, then you can afford the $50. They’re not telling you you can’t smoke, they’re just saying you

But Ayodele convinced.

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The University’s medical campus is already smoke-free, and students told CBS4 News they believe that officials are trying to ban smoking at the Coral Gables campus as well. UM’s plan to go smoke-free will not be easy to pull off. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports more than one in five Americans smoke. Work loss and smoking-related medical expenses cost $167 billion annually. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) NEWS POWERED BY

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Weight Loss Surgeries Becoming A Lot More Common Reporting Cynthia Demos U N D AT E D (CBS4) — For people who need to lose weight, surgery has become a very common option. In fact, obesity surgery is one of the most popular surgeries in the country and it’s not just for obese patients anymore. Diet and exercise is how many people fight the battle of the bulge, but Mary Griffith tried it all and it all failed. “My whole life, I was a fat baby I was a fat toddler, teenager and then I got married fat,” explained Griffith. At her heaviest, Mary weighed 220 pounds. “I’ve struggled my whole life,” said Griffith. At 188 pounds, even with diabetes and high blood pressure, she didn’t meet the

criteria for insurance to pay for obesity surgery. A body mass index of 35 or greater with medical conditions. Essentially she needed to be 75 pounds overweight and she wasn’t. “There’s a lot of people who have these medical conditions associated with their weight and their weight is not anywhere near the 75 to 100 pounds over,” said Bariatric surgeon Barry Corman. “They’re 50 pounds over or even less.” Dr. Corman says a recent trend shows insurance companies are allowing more people well under the 75 pound medical guideline to get surgery. In the last five years, the number of obesity surgeries has doubled to 200-thousand and there are some new options for patients. One procedure soon to be tested uses a balloon, like a water balloon, to take up space in the stomach. It’s meant to be a temporary fix. Another approach does not involve any cutting, just going through the mouth to perform a procedure that reduces the size

of the stomach. “Because this is less risky perhaps this is more appropriate for people even less than 50 pounds overweight,” said Dr. Corman. For Mary Griffith surgery was her last option. Now she’s lost about 50 pounds and is off her diabetes medications. She can walk without a cane and for the first time feels truly healthy. “I’m married, have a husband, I have three kids, I have three grandkids, I’m gonna live to see it and in a healthy way,” said Griffith happily. Dr. Corman says without intervention most of the people who are significantly overweight will on average lose only 5 percent of the weight and keep it off. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) NEWS POWERED BY

New Test Could Help Women After Cancer Diagnosis remove just the tumor. “I honestly felt that after the surgery had taken place that they had gotten the cancer,” Gilmore said. D’Innocenzo, 38, chose to have a double mastectomy. “It wasn’t supposed to happen to me,” D’Innocenzo said.

By Jonathan LaPook, M.D. Procedure Would Help Determine Which Women with DCIS Are Likely to Develop Invasive Breast Cancer (CBS) Dian Gilmore and Mary D’Innocenzo are two women who faced life-altering decisions after the very earliest stage of breast cancer was detected on their mammograms. Gilmore, 66, chose a lumpectomy to

It was the same diagnosis, but dramatically different choices, reports CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook. It’s a dilemma facing all women diagnosed with a breast cancer called non-invasive ductal carcinoma (DCIS), because it may not necessarily be deadly. It makes up about one in five breast cancer cases in this country, striking about 53,000 women last year alone. In DCIS, the abnormal breast cells are confined to the lining of the milk ducts. They don’t cause any serious harm until

they break through the lining and become invasive. DCIS is picked up by mammography, but the mammogram can’t tell you which cancers will never progress, and which ones will become life threatening.

“What these markers allow the women and clinician to do, is to stratify risk- to identify that woman who has a high probability of having a future tumor so that she can chose an aggressive treatment,” Tlsty said.

A new test was announced today by the University of California, San Francisco. It analyzes certain characteristics of biopsied breast tissue -- called biomarkers -- to predict which women with DCIS are more likely to develop invasive cancer over eight years.

This new test could also spare women at lowest risk from an aggressive treatment they don’t need.

“This test is the first one that gives us -that begins to give us -- that ability,” said professor and study author Thea Thlsty. To see who is most at risk, researchers followed more than 1,100 women with DCIS, treated with a lumpectomy alone. The highest-risk women had about a 20 percent chance. The lowest risk patients had less than a 5 percent chance -- only slightly more than that of an average 60year-old woman.

“It would be wonderful to say to these patients, just a surgical lumpectomy is enough for you. You don’t need to do more,” said Dr. Freya Schnabel, the director of breast surgery at NYU Langone Medical Center. This is a promising new test but it’s not widely available yet. There still needs to be more research. ©MMX, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. NEWS POWERED BY

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Oprah’s “No Phone Zone” Crusade occasionally,” she said. “But I was never -- like most people that I see now -- sort of, who are almost addicted to the use of the phone. But even when I used the phone in the car, it was irresponsible and not wise of me to do so. Now, I wouldn’t dream of doing it.” Rodriguez observed that people still do it, though, because they don’t think it’s as bad as drinking and driving. But she added, “Isn’t it kind of the same thing?” Talk Queen Wants People to Stop Texting, Talking on Phone while Driving (CBS) Almost everyone does it, but not everyone knows how deadly engaging in distracted driving can be. So, talk queen Oprah Winfrey is launching a campaign to educate Americans about the dangers of texting and talking-on-the-phonewhile-driving. Oprah called in to “The Early Show” from Chicago to discuss why she declared Friday “No Phone Zone Day.” Oprah told co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez she’s hoping “common sense will prevail.” Oprah said she’s never really talked or texted in the car, but back when she bought a car 10 years ago, she did have a phone in it. “It was sort of a cool thing to have the phone in the car, and I probably used that

Oprah replied, “It is doubly dangerous. There are many studies that show that it is compared to double the alcohol level when you are texting and driving at the same time. It’s like being doubly drunk.” Oprah said what drew her to this issue was a story she did for her show back in January. She explained, “(It was about) a young mother who was on the cell phone on the way home, gets to her street, realizes something has happened on the street, all the police, ambulances, cars, and says to her father -- she was talking to her father on the phone -- ‘I’ve got to hang up. Something’s happened on my street,’ and my goodness...” It was the woman’s daughter, who was almost home, had been struck down by a woman on her cell phone. “It was something about that story. You know, there are some stories that hit a nerve with us, and it was something about the 15 bike pedals from the front door --

we all know what that means -- everyone has been on a bicycle, everyone knows how far 15 pedals are, and so, I thought, ‘This doesn’t have to happen.” ‘

location.”

Oprah said when she was a reporter in Nashville and Baltimore, she would do stories on drunk drivers, and saw how stories reached the public’s awareness.

Oprah thanked “The Early Show” for helping her get the word out because, she said, “It kills people. It maims people. It leaves people injured. It destroys families. And this is something we can change.”

“The longer I reported, the longer it took for a drunk driving story with one person killed to even be the lead for the news,” she said. “And so, more and more, people had to get killed before anyone paid attention.” But Oprah’s stepping in now, hoping her efforts may be an impetus for a difference. “I feel like this is something we can change,” she said. “You know, it’s about all of us being disconnected from ourselves, really. Everybody -- even walking across the street, you notice when you stop for a red light? People just walk across the street texting, and nobody even looks both ways anymore.” Oprah urged “Early Show” co-anchors Rodriguez and Harry Smith to sign her “No Phone Zone” pledge. The pledge has three options: “I will not text while driving,” “I will not text while driving and will use only handsfree calling if I need to speak on the phone while I am driving,” and “I will not text or use my phone while I am driving. If I need to use my phone, I will pull over to a secure

Both Rodriguez and Smith signed the pledge on-air.

Oprah is also launching a public service announcement to educate Americans about the deadly driving habits that kill nearly 6,000 people a year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. © MMX, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. NEWS POWERED BY

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May 7, 2010

Dr. Phil: How to Sniff Out a Liar in Your Midst The most dangerous lie and the most difficult to spot is the lie by omission. When you leave out a material fact, that’s a lie just as big as anything you could say that’s wrong.” As for catching a liar, Dr. Phil said there are plenty of myths. “People talk about you look up to your left because that’s where you do invention and construction. Frankly, those things really don’t bear out. The research just doesn’t support that,” he said. Famed Talk Show Host Tells of Common Indicators that Someone is Lying to You (CBS) Can you spot a cheater? Dr. Phil can. Famed talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw, better known simply as Dr. Phil, appeared on “The Early Show” Tuesday to tell you how you know someone’s lying. But are all lies bad? Dr. Phil says no. He told “Early Show” co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez, “When you look at the research, you got to look at what people define as a lie.

So what can you do if you think someone’s lying? Dr. Phil said you sometimes have to “help a liar by being in denial.” “You’ve got to tune in and trust your gut instincts,” he said. “And you also have to pay attention to just the common sense of whether something is lining up and making sense. If you want to know if you’re getting the truth, ask specific questions, for example.” Dr. Phil explained, if you want to know if your child is doing drugs, you should ask questions like “‘Are you now, or have you ever, done that?’”

He said, “Don’t (say) just like, ‘What you think about it?’ You don’t want to be general. You want to be very specific.”

own the lie, so they’ll use intransitive verbs and just kind of put it off, like, ‘It didn’t happen,’ instead of ‘I didn’t go there.’”

However, if asking questions isn’t working, Dr. Phil says to change the subject, a process called “baselining.” He says this change can make the person feel safer and may act differently. If the person does act more comfortably, he says, you may have a better idea if that person is telling the truth or not.

Dr. Phil said liars are also repetitive.

He explained, “That’s what a polygraph operator picks up on: When you ask somebody something and they lie, their blood pressure goes up, their heart rate goes up, their respiration gets shallow. Liars often breathe through their mouths. They purse their lips, because they need more oxygen because they’re in arousal. So pay attention, if you change the subject and they get more relaxed, they get more fluid in their motions, and you go back to the subject and all of a sudden, they stiffen up, they start breathing, they color up, then you know OK, they’re aroused here, they’re hiding something.” Dr. Phil also recommends “looking for clarity” in a liar. He said liars often avoid contractions in their speech and are overly emphatic. He added, “They don’t like using personal pronouns: I, me, because they don’t want to

“Oftentimes a liar, because they don’t want to go too far afield, they will repeat your question back to you. (When you ask,) ‘Did you drive over there last night?’ (He or she will say) ‘I did not drive over there last night.’ They’ll repeat it back to you.” He continued, “Liars are often too rehearsed. They’ve got a story and they’ll repeat key phrases over and over and over across time. It’s really common sense. If you dial into this, trust your gut instincts, don’t worry about all of these myths. Look at things like eye contact, do their pupils contract, what’s their breathing like, do they behave differently when you’re on a safe subject. It’s not that hard. Moms are really good at this.” He added, “We can be human polygraphs, if we give ourselves time.” © MMX, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. NEWS POWERED BY

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May 7, 2010

The Making of “Run, Ricky, Run.” Reporting Solange Reyner MIAMI (CBS4) — The latest documentary in ESPN’s “30 for 30” series, “Run Ricky Run: Hard to Tackle, Harder to put a Finger On,” provides an intimate look at the puzzling Miami running back after he retires from the NFL in his prime amid numerous reports of his marijuana addiction. Hesitant at first, filmmaker Sean Pamphilon quit his job as a sports producer in New York and took a chance on a project he thought would only take five months to complete. Things changed quickly after Pamphilon’s interview with Williams’ former agent Leigh Steinberg in late 2004. “I just made a flip comment to him about whether or not I should keep Ricky on my fantasy team because I drafted him. Leigh said to keep him because he’s actually back in the states and he wants to play again,” Pamphilon said. “Everything shifted once I heard that.” The documentary – which took six years to finish – takes the viewer through the Heisman winner’s journey from his troubled childhood stemming from his

father’s arrest for sexually annoying him to his living in solitude in Nevada City after his retirement to his wedding on Dania Beach last year. The project was mostly funded by Pamphilon, who used his personal savings and monetary assistance from family and friends to stay afloat. Williams provided the initial budget, but that money only lasted for the first few months. While Pamphilon captures interesting parts of Williams’ life away from football, the viewer won’t see video of the former University of Texas star’s time in Australia – where he lived in a $7 dollar a day tent for some time – India – where he lived in an ashram for a month – or Japan – where he went for a rock concert. That’s because Williams kept his contact with family and friends very limited. To get his shots in Nevada City, Pamphilon would often show up announced. He never set up shots or interviews with Williams, instead allowing everything to be taped in a natural manner. “I would just show up and walk into his house,” said Pamphilon, who said Ricky lived without a TV, very little furniture, and lots of vegan food. “At the time, he was a big proponent of locking no doors, and about not blocking energy. It was stuff I wasn’t really aware of because I was living in Brooklyn. I thought it was a little bit out there, but I respected it.” Interesting nuggets from Pamphilon’s

film include: - Williams smoking marijuana while watching old Dolphins footage on a computer - An interview with former New Orleans Saints coach Mike Ditka who gave up seven draft picks to acquire Williams in the 1999 draft. “We thought it was a prudent pick at the time. Did we give up too much, yeah we probably did. But in retrospect, I’m not sure in the same situation, that I wouldn’t do it again,” said Ditka. - Williams studying holistic medicine, and teaching yoga.

I was the one that was used to get rid of my father.” The most animated the viewer sees Williams is during a 60 Minutes interview when Mike Wallace asks him why he gave up football. “When would it have been OK for me to stop playing football?” Williams says. “When my knees went out? When my shoulders went out? When I had too many concussions? When is it OK? … I’m just curious. I’m just curious, because I don’t understand. When is it OK to not play football anymore?”

- Very candid conversations with wife, Kristin, who now has three children with Williams. “Sometimes I pray that I wake up and I don’t love him,” she says in an interview that takes place before their wedding.

In all his interactions with Williams during the project, Pamphilon described the running back as someone who was constantly seeking answers.

The most revealing part of the film comes in interviews with Williams’ parents. There’s a large portion dedicated to a shocking revelation by Sandy Williams that Williams’ father, Errick Sr., was arrested in 1983 after being accused of ordering Ricky to photograph him in the nude in their bathroom.

“I think his lowest was probably in 2003 when he was playing and getting the crap kicked out of him. I think that season did a real number on him. I think his lowest point was that year when his body was getting run into the ground. All of this – it’s all moving parts. People then would say he’s flaky. I would say he has a constantly evolving opinion and analysis of things.”

Errick Sr. says nothing happened and refuses to acknowledge that his arrest led to the family breaking apart. Pamphilon brings the subject up late in the film, to which Ricky responds “What I carry with me still is how everything went down and the event, and mainly me,

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May 7, 2010

American Cars Gain Popularity Amid Toyota Crisis Reporting Gwen Belton MIAMI (CBS4) — Americans may have a renewed their commitment to buy more domestic cars for the first time in decades -- a movement feuled by incentives and Toyota’s recall troubles. Lisa Sosa wants to get out of her leased Lexus and buy a new GMC Arcadia after a friend raved about hers.

love with Ford and GMC. Both showed impressive gains and profits compared to this time last year, a lot of it due to incentives to entice buyers. They were forced to keep up with Toyota which had a variety of deals to offset the backlash and criticism it received from its global recall of 8 million vehicles. A recent AP poll shows 38 percent of Americans think U.S. Car makers produce better quality vehicles compared to 33 percent who felt cars made in Asia were better.

“She hasn’t had any problems with it so it’s good to hear about that from somebody else,” says Sosa.

Changing attitudes were also reflected when only 15 percent said Toyota makes the best car, that’s down from 25 percent in 2006.

Stacey Rodriguez wants to purchase a new Ford truck.

Ford was at the top of the list, up 18 percent from 9 percent in 2006.

“My husband loves ford,” says Rodriguez.

“A better product definitely, the quality is way up,” says Danny Sanguily general manager at Maroone Ford in Miami.

And it seems more Americans falling in

He says domestic automakers are more competitive than they’ve been in the past.

“I think we’re at the very start of an exciting future myself,” says Gasper.

“I think its the effort they’re putting into the design, I think its the effort they’re putting into the lines into the drivability,” says Aric Gasper, owner of Doral Buick, Pontiac, GMC.

A future that looks brighter, as more Americans hit the road in more American made cars for the first time in decades.

He says their business is up considerably over last year as more and more drivers once loyal to foreign cars are choosing domestic ones. “We’re getting a lot of Lexuses, a lot of Toyotas, a lot of Infinities and Hondas, they’re coming in trading them,” Gasper said. Sanguily says,”right now the inventories are suffering we’re selling more cars, that’s a good problem to have.” While Ford and GM showed gains, auto industry analysts say its a tough market out there and question whether this trend will last.

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(May 22-June 21)

Changes in your home will be positive. If you’re preoccupied, be careful while operating a vehicle or any kind of equipment or machinery. You may have the day off but your thoughts will be on your work and your cash situation. Major moves will be emotional and not necessarily to your benefit. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Saturday.

Put some energy into getting back into shape. Listen to reason. Take part in stimulating debates that will allow you to show off your intelligence. Don’t expect the whole family to be overjoyed. Don’t back down but don’t ignite the situation. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Friday.

Leo

Virgo

Libra

(July 23-Aug. 23)

(Aug. 24-Sept. 22)

(Sept. 23-Oct. 23)

You can make gains if you look at long-term investments. You can make new connections through friends or relatives. Avoid purchasing expensive items. You will be accident prone if you aren’t careful this month. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Thursday.

Double check your work and be sure that your boss is in a good mood before you do your presentation.Your self esteem will come back if you take part in organizational functions that allow you to be in the lime light. You haven’t been watching your spending habits and you may have been neglecting your duties. Digestive disorders will be a result of family squabbles. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Thursday.

Scorpio

Sagittarius

Capricorn

(Oct. 24-Nov. 22)

(Nov. 23-Dec. 21)

Try to join groups of interest such as ballroom dance classes or perhaps an internet organization. Be discreet about your personal life or whereabouts. Be mysterious. Expect temper tantrums on the home front if you haven’t been letting someone have their way. Relatives may be less than easy to deal with.Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Sunday.

Get busy making those changes to your home. You’re best not to get involved in joint financial ventures. Put all your energy into moneymaking ventures. Focus on what’s important rather than spreading yourself too thin and accomplishing little. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Saturday.

Aquarius

Pisces

Aries

(Jan. 21-Feb. 18)

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20)

(Mar. 21-Apr. 20)

It’s time you let your true feelings out. You can make headway if you share your intentions with someone you care about. You will have some wonderful ideas that should bring you extra money. Empty promises could be likely where work is concerned. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Sunday.

Your ideas may be good, but they aren’t necessarily right for everyone. Be sure to take time for old friends or relatives you don’t get to see that often. If you’ve taken on a lot of work, be sure to leave some time for yourself and family. Get involved in sports events that will benefit your physical appearance.Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Tuesday.

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3x3 box Iin black borders) contains every digit 1 to 9.

March 5th Solution

7 2 4 8 6 1 5 3 9

(Dec. 22-Jan. 20)

Things at home may be somewhat rocky. Don’t torment yourself. Disharmony in the home will be extremely stressful. You may find that lectures or travel will be highly successful. You need time to think things through. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Tuesday.

Your emotional state could leave you vulnerable and confused. Residential moves are evident. Do your own research and be prepared. You will get great satisfaction from your efforts. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Sunday.

6 5 3 7 9 2 1 8 4

(June 22-July 22)

Talk to an older family member you have helped in the past. You can ask for favors and get sound advice from close friends or relatives. You should want to feel good about yourself and your goals. Partnerships with creative people could lead to financial gains. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Sunday.

You should catch up on correspondence. You may be tired of working for someone else. Don’t overspend on items for your home. Your hypnotic eyes will capture the hearts of those who interest you. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Friday.

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Gemini

(Apr. 21-May 21)

8 1 9 3 5 4 6 2 7

4 8 7 9 2 6 3 5 1

1 3 6 4 7 5 8 9 2

5 9 2 1 3 8 7 4 6

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