<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>CBS13/CW31: Sacramento's Source For Breaking News, Weather and Traffic</title><link>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news</link><description><![CDATA[CBS13/CW31: Sacramento's Source For Breaking News, Weather and Traffic]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX Sacramento Television Stations Inc. All rights reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:56:51 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Moderate Dems Swayed Ahead Of Health Bill Vote]]></title><guid>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/health.care.vote.2.1325557.html</guid><link>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/health.care.vote.2.1325557.html</link><description><![CDATA[With the first critical vote for the Senate health care bill slated for
Saturday night, both advocates and opponents of Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid's bill are putting pressure on the few key Democratic
senators who may or may not hold up the measure.&nbsp; A handful of conservative Democrats have expressed reservations about
supporting the bill, for various reasons, and two have not yet
disclosed whether they will vote in favor of moving the debate forward
on Saturday: Sens. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.).<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:01:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[FAA Blames 819 Flight Delays On Equipment Outages]]></title><guid>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/faa.flight.delay.2.1325419.html</guid><link>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/faa.flight.delay.2.1325419.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Federal Aviation Administration is blaming an equipment outage this week for delaying 819 flights. The agency told employees in a briefing memo Friday that air travelers
experienced a total of 2,21 delays the previous day due to the
equipment outage as well as thunderstorms and other poor weather in the
Northeast.
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:21:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech Minute: Watching Out For Phishing Scams]]></title><guid>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/phishing.scams.spyware.2.1325202.html</guid><link>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/phishing.scams.spyware.2.1325202.html</link><description><![CDATA[Phishing scams -- spelled with a P-H instead of an F but sounding just like "fishing" -- can get you into some hot water. It starts when you get an honest looking e-mail that tries to trick you into revealing your usernames, passwords and credit card details. According to CNET.com, more than 55,000 phishing attacks were launched in the first half of 2009. In this week's CNET Tech Minute, CNET.com's Brian Cooley tells us how to avoid getting hooked.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:16:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bacteria Prompts Vicks Nasal Spray Recall]]></title><guid>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/vicks.sinex.nasal.2.1324617.html</guid><link>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/vicks.sinex.nasal.2.1324617.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Procter &amp; Gamble Co. has recalled some 120,000 bottles of Vicks Sinex
nasal spray after the company found bacteria in samples during routine
testing.
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:21:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tire Prices On The Rise After Tariff On China]]></title><guid>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/tires.china.prices.2.1323469.html</guid><link>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/tires.china.prices.2.1323469.html</link><description><![CDATA[The days of cheap tire prices may be gone for good. Tire prices are on the rise, in large part due to an effort by President Obama to save American jobs, CBS station KCNC-TV reports.<br />
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]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:02:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feds Charge Dozens In Deaf Phone Scam]]></title><guid>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/deaf.phone.scam.2.1323293.html</guid><link>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/deaf.phone.scam.2.1323293.html</link><description><![CDATA[Federal prosecutors have charged more than two dozen people with scheming to steal millions from a telephone program for the deaf. Authorities say a number of companies schemed to create phony calls to a video service that allows the deaf to converse over phone lines to hearing people.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:04:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Movie Popcorn, Soda Pack Surprising Calorie Wallop]]></title><guid>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/movie.popcorn.calories.2.1321782.html</guid><link>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/movie.popcorn.calories.2.1321782.html</link><description><![CDATA[Ordering a medium popcorn and soda combo from a major national movie theater chain is the equivalent of eating three McDonald's Quarter Pounders with 12 pats of butter, according to a new study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. <br />
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:51:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[AT&T Loses First Legal Battle Against Verizon Ads]]></title><guid>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/ATT.Verizon.advertisements.2.1321178.html</guid><link>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/ATT.Verizon.advertisements.2.1321178.html</link><description><![CDATA[AT&amp;T has lost the first battle in a legal war against Verizon Wireless to force the company to stop showing advertisements that compare its 3G wireless network coverage with Verizon's coverage. A federal judge in Atlanta Wednesday declined to grant AT&amp;T a temporary restraining order that would force Verizon to stop showing the ads.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:42:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act Now On Refinancing - Or Kiss Low Rates Goodbye]]></title><guid>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/refinance.interest.rates.2.1320836.html</guid><link>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/refinance.interest.rates.2.1320836.html</link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination can be costly in financial affairs, especially with the biggest combined asset and debt most of us own and owe: our home and the mortgage we pay for it. There's a window of opportunity right now in the mortgage market that seems likely to close in months ahead &#150; one you may regret not capitalizing upon.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:08:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Low Home Building Bringing Economy Down]]></title><guid>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/home.building.economy.2.1320083.html</guid><link>http://cbs13.com/consumer_news/home.building.economy.2.1320083.html</link><description><![CDATA[The budding economic recovery is getting little help from the home
building industry, which normally creates jobs and boosts growth as a
recession ends. Construction of homes unexpectedly plunged last
month to its lowest point since April, the Commerce Department said
Wednesday. The weak figures show that builders still lack confidence
that buyers can soak up the glut of unsold homes already on the market
&#151; a supply magnified by a record number of home foreclosures.<br />
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