exclusively at safeway. live where you live, this is abc 7 news. the word's not right anymore. >> neighbors in shock today after an elderly woman was sent to the hospital beaten inside her own home during a robbery. good afternoon. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm kristen sze. >> that elderly woman is in critical. >> two men beat her during a home invasion on north cragmona avenue. >> abc 7 news reporter david louie is live with more on the investigation. david? >> reporter: kristen and dan, detectives from the sheriff's office are going over home security camera video right now to see if they can identify the suspects. two men overpowered florida douglas and beat her severely, not once but twice in their search for jewelry and other

valuables. crime scene technicians spent hours dusting for prints outside and inside to see if they can pinpoint who broke into florida douglas' house and beat up the 88-year-old which haddo who lived alone. the two suspects, both hispanic men, beat her once and then returned and beat her a second time. neighbors who have known her for decades are aghast. >> she's the sweet f-lady i've known. went out of her way to say hello to every single person on this street whether she knew them or not. she would drive by and give her little wave. >> reporter: florida douglas is in intense cave care suffering from trauma from her face and head. a neighbor who saw her said her eyes were swollen shut. >> if you're going to rob somebody, rob them. don't beat them up, especially as helpless as that. it's ridiculous and shows a particularly bad element of person. >> reporter: mrs. douglas has talked to detectives from her hospital bed but could not provide detailed descriptions. two suspects. >> seems like they were just

tearing through the house trying to find anything of value and also the reason why they took jewelry from her, just looking for anything of value and then ended up stealing her car as well. >> reporter: several neighbors saw damage to the front fence but never realized florida douglas was lying inside unable to call for help for most of the day. >> the gate had been hit earlier in the day, and we didn't even notice it until later in the evening, and she was in there by herself. >> reporter: neighbors estimate florida douglas weighs 80 pound and could not have defended herself. in san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. two people have been arrested in connection with a molotov cocktail attack in antioch believed to be racially motivated. christine mcdaniel and roy sovari were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and torture and arson. authorities say sovari threw molotov cocktails at an antioch home last week and tagged it with a swastika and a racial slur. in a news conference this afternoon, police say this was an isolated incident and there's

no reason for the community to be scared. >> it was an incident that was directed at one family. it wasn't something that was random. i think that this community should feel safe. >> the hate crime was the result of an ongoing dispute between mcdaniel's resident and a relative who lived in that house. at 5:00, abc 7 news reporter laura anthony will have reaction from the familiar life one of the suspects. investigators arrested two men in yuba county for the murders of two young girls 43 years ago. larry done patterson and william lloyd harbour are both in custody and lived in the city of olive hurst in 1993 where two girls disappeared after leaving their homes to go shopping. they were found shot to death the next day. investigators reopened the case two years ago and used dna evidence to identify patterson and harbor. authorities have yet to release the name of the saratoga man shot and killed by a santa clara county sheriff's deputy last night. deputies went to a home on titus avenue just before 8:00 to conduct a welfare check on the

man. family members hadn't heard from him in a mont. deputies tried for 50 minutes to contact the man before they finally made their way into the house through a back door. >> the subject had his firearm in his hand. he raised it at the deputies and the deputies gave him several commands to drop the firearm. a sheriff's deputy shot him. >> the man was taken to a hospital where he died. the veteran deputy who fired the shot is now on standard paid administrative leave. >> north carolina is taking another economic hit just eight weeks after the nba pulled next year's all-star game over their bathroom law. >> as we first told you last night on abc 7 news at 11:00, the ncaa is moving all of their championship events out of the state for the 2016-2017 season. >> abc news reporter elizabeth hurr has the lateest. >> reporter: the fallout continuing in north carolina where a controversial bathroom gender law, also known at hb2 is prompting the ncaa to confirm

they are out. >> the immediate impact is going to be about $17 million. >> reporter: financial impact statewide still unclear but the ncaa's move just cost the state seven championship events next year, including the early round march madness games. the ncaa explaining in a statement ncaa championships and events must promote an inclusive atmosphere. current north carolina state laws make it challenging to guarantee that host communities can help deliver on that commitment. >> protection and safety and security of women and girls in north carolina is our utmost importance, and that's what we still believe. >> every single person or entity that has left the state has made it clear that they have left the state over one thing. the worst anti-lbgt law in the nation. >> the north carolina law bans people from use the restroom of the gender they identify with. supporters of the law maintaining it's about safety and opponents calling it discrimination against the lbgtq community. in july because of the law the nba pulled next year's all-star

games out of charlotte, and now this announcement has duke basketball coach mike krzyzewski speaking out on cnbc. >> our image is being tarnished and it's embarrassing. >> reporter: now we're learning some lawmakers in north carolina are calling for a special session to try to repeal the bill. elizabeth hur, abc news, new york. wells fargo is getting rid of its sales goals for retail bankers come the new year. now, this move is meant to regain customer confidence after the recent sales scandal. last week wells fargo agreed to pay a $185 million fine and refund $5 million in fees wrongly charged to customers. it also fired 5,300 employees who opened false accounts to meet sales goals. employees say they were under pressure to meet unrealistic goals or they would lose their jobs. prosecutors have reached a $4 million settlement with a company responsible for a massive gas leak that forced thousands of l.a. residents from their homes.

last october southern california gas companies canyon facility began spewing natural gas at a 1r5i69 100,000 pounds per hour. the leak took four months to plug. the company must also adopt new safety measures at its canyon facility that could beyond federal and state requirements. a small earthquake hit the east bay overnight. 39.5 quake struck at 12:50 this morning in oakland. people as far away as vacaville and mal piedias say they felt some shaking. there were no reports of injuries or damage. now i did not feel the quake, but i learned about it this morning through our abc 7 push alert and to get the breaking news when it happened for you download the abc 7 news app and enable push alerts to get the very latest. >> hi there, everyone. take a look at live doppler 7 right now. seeing a clearing trend and this morning some drizzle and light showers around places like santa cruz and right now you're

starting to see more sun. tiago pass right now looking at some snow, and the snow has been falling not just around there, but we've also seen it around south lake tahoe. here's a picture from kirkwood. sierra got about at least at this elevation, 8,000 feet, got about 3 to 4 inches of snow earl they are this morning i know it's summer, almost fall, but getting a sign of winter here. a live look from our lake tahoe camera, and right now they are seeing some peeks of sun. temperatures 69 in san francisco and a little warmer today. san jose mountain view low 70s as we take a live look from our abc 7 exploratorium camera. blue skies and low 70s from santa rosa to napa and 75 currently in concord. when i come back, i'll tell you about some big changes that are coming as we approach the weekend. dan and kristen. >> sandhya, thank you. a chase began around

in apple valley where the truck failed to yield, the truck sped through box springs, morrino and riverside vale. the company that owns the truck transports hazardous materials and told abc news no explosives or dangerous materials were on board. all right. would you pay to drive down san francisco's famous lombard street? that's one idea being considered to help with tourists congestion. a meeting is set for tonight to discuss ways to help thin out the onslaught of are tourists. abc 7 news was there where neighbors say there's been a surge of visitors at the crook street and it's causing all sorts of problem. >> people leaving their trash and people urinate and defecate in front of our home. it's pretty bad. >> i understand them, but they had to share this beautiful thing. >> possible solutions include using parking control officers closing the stretch of road to cars and pedpedestrians and requiring reservations to go

down lombard. any measure needs approval from san francisco's supervisors. >> governor jerry brown vetoed seven bills including one that would have eliminated the so-called tampon tax. women buying tampons and parents buying diplers continue to pay sales tax on those items thanks to two vetoes. he also vetoed an exemption a lot of people turned out for a gun buyback program today. these are pictures from the district attorney's office who expect to collect more than 800 firearms. five locations throughout the count reopen until 8:00 tonight. semiautomatic guns and assault rifles are worth $200. any other working firearm is worth $100. these weapons will be destroyed. coming up on abc 7 news at 4:00, san francisco's sinking mentalium tower. do city officials know what was going on in the supervisor who

says political pressure may have played a part. wireless worries. the cell phone industry is challenging the city of berkeley's safety ordinance, a warning they don't want you to see anymore. plus, the new apple update that has everyone talking and not in a good way. >> all right. let's take you outside for a live look at traffic on the san francisco skyway at 4:11 this afternoon. as you can see, it's pretty busy out there. the cars coming at you are trying to get on to the bay bridge. it's pretty slow in that direction. not too bad heading the other

the you are iof cell phone lakes linked to radiation was back to court today. the cell phone industry is facing off against the city of berkeley. elissa harrington was there and has details. >> reporter: eerily all of us have one, a smartphone. you may put it in your pocket or against your skin. the city of berkeley warns doing this could pose a safety risk. an ordinance requires cell phone dealers to alert customers about radiation exposure. it's now being challenged in a federal appeals court. >> what berkeley is saying is the fcc has set a rimt and here's what you can do to make sure you don't go above that limit. >> reporter: a three-judge panel was told at the ninth circuit court of appeals in san francisco that consumers have a right to be aware of safety standards set by the fcc. >> we should be allowed to rely on the fcc's judgment that there's a safety issue here. >> reporter: attorney theodore olsen with the wire lesion association says the wording of

the ordinance is misleading and based on opinion. >> berkeley's cell phone ordinance mandates an alarming point of view, cell phone safety warning, intended to change consumers' behaviors. >> reporter: judge william fletcher did question how people could read the warning. >> i read that language and say uh-oh, i'm in trouble if i put it in my pocket when in fact i may not be in trouble at all. >> reporter: cell phone industry previously sued the city of berkeley and earlier this year a federal judge allowed the ordinance to stand with one revision. the appeals court is expected to rule on this latest argument at a later date. in san francisco, elissa harrington, abc 7 news. one of the most powerful men in the tech world is calling out his contemporaries to do more to help the world around them. salesforce mark benioff spoke this morning at tech crunch, a three-day event introducing new technologies and startups. he says it's time for the privilege of silicon valley to stop being, quote, stingy and

give back to their communities. >> traditionally entrepreneurs have ordered their wealth. companies have not given back. traditionally they haven't really focused on the communities that they do business in. that has to change. today's world, it's not an option. we all have to go and do something. >> benioff and salesforce are known for philanthropy. according to its website salesforce has given more than $128 million in grants and 1.6 million hours of community service. apple's ios 10 is causing major problems for some users. apple says the issue is only for users installing the ios during the first hour that it was available. people took to social media today to complain about error messages in the middle. installation process. patrick tweeted add me to the list of ios 10 users were an unusable phone and serenity added do not download ios.

you'll end up with this, a brick slash unresponsive phone. anyone affected can contact apple care. even though the problem is resolved apple recommends backing up your phone before installing the update. apple has replaced this controversial pistol with a green water gun and also added some female athletes, a rainbow flag and new family characters including a single mother and single father emoji. >> all right. thanks. from now on paying with plastic doesn't necessarily mean using a credit card in the united kingdom. the country's new five-pound bill introduced today is made from a strong polymer and has the latest anti-counterfeit and security features as well. officials insist it will be cleaner, safer and stronger than regular paper money. the idea of safe and strong would appeal to the man certainly on the new

august was the warmest month record in record keeping. it's been 11 straight months of new high monthly record high temperatures. it's in the in your head. it's warmer. >> globally, though here in the bay area it's a little coolish. >> absolute i, dan and kristen. today's temperatures, only in the 70s. hot weather inland in the 90. getting a break. don't worry. that's returning. especially if you like that kind of heat. live doppler 7 showing you the clearing from north to south even though it started out drizzly. look at this, seeing quite a bit of sun on our live done ter 7. you contract the changes with our abc 7 news app any time you would like by downloading that app. it's a handy tool to have. seeing a few clouds hand most areas are starting to see the

sun. we'll look at patch eds of fog overnight and heating up inland friday through early next week. here's the hour-by-hour early morning planning. limited nothing and temperatures in the 50s. the sun comes up at 7:00 a.m. and just before 7:00 the temperatures bottoming out in the upper 40s to mid-50s and cool enough to where you'll need to bundle up, and it will remain cool at 9:00 a.m. and the sun is out and will get milder by 11:00 a.m. starting to see the 60s. tomorrow morning as you get going, really like i mentioned, you'll need that extra layer. it's going to start off cool. upper 40s to the mid-50s. and most areas will start out with clear skies. only a few patches of fog. cooed radiational cooling taking place overnight tonight. tomorrow afternoon, it is going to be milder than today. temperatures already starting to come up a little bit today, but it's well below normal for this time of year. now, you don't get the heat in places like san francisco. you just remain comfortable around tomorrow. 65 in san francisco. 68 oakland and low 70s santa rosa and napa and out towards the livermore valley and antioch

areas, upper 70s to low 80s and 75 in san jose. you'll need the sunscreen. fast forward to friday. warming trend gets under way. 90s showing up inland. saturday, summer weather with 60s and we'll have our microclimates and on sunday it's going to be warmer at the coast but not too hospital as you take a look at the temperature trend for oakland, the average high is 74 degrees. tomorrow and really thursday, friday, saturday, you're still going to hover a little bit below where you should be for this time of year. bouncing back to normal on sunday, and even above on monday only to fall again on tuesday. here's a look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. i know some of you really like this cool pattern. if you live in san francisco you're thinking, please, don't make it hot. i'm not going to make it hot. as you look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. we'll bump you up to the low to mid-80s wednesday and our warmest inland valleys, near average on friday and temperatures for the weekend, low 60s and mid-90s sunday and

monday and on tuesday a nice dip. nice looking weather as we're getting ready for fall. >> thanks very much. >> all right. >> excuse me. >> the takedown you didn't see last night when protester

some real drama on the dance floor on the season premiere of "dancing with the stars" after two protesters rushed the stage after olympic swimmer ryan lochte's first dance. well, we are now getting a look at the exclusive video. takedown last night. abc news reporter elizabeth hur has the latest. ♪ >> reporter: ryan lochte's dancing debut interrupted. >> excuse me. hey, back off! >> reporter: as the judges were about to begin their critique. >> excuse me. >> reporter: show staying in split screen and the motion is off screen forcing host tom bergeron to break to commercial.

>> we'll take to break. >> reporter: that much you saw on tv and this is what you did not see. >> all right. >> excuse me. >> reporter: this exclusive video obtained by abc news showing two protesters wearing anti-lochte t-shirts storming the stage and securityth security quickly jumping into action tackling one of the protesters and then more audience members in the gallery also sporting anti-lochte t-shirts asked to leave by dancing pro derek how long. >> get out of here. it's a good show, positive show >> reporter: protests playing out in the ballroom following lochte's scandal in brazil where lochte lied about being robbed at this rio gas station with his olympic teammates. >> lochte is a liar, a coward and a criminal. >> he shouldn't just be able to walk on and start rehabilitating his image that's. there should be consequences for his action. >> reporter: lochte shaken but his focus remaining on redemption. >> it broke my heart. i've changed, and i want to

become a better person and i'm going to keep moving forward and having fun. >> reporter: there you have t.lochte wants to move on, but he's still facing charges of filing a false police report in brazil and a ten-month ban from swimpin swimming. elizabeth hur. abc news, new york. >> you can catch the next episode of "dancing with the stars" monday night at 8:00 p.m. right here on abc 7. the international olympic committee has disqualified two russian athletes from the 2008 beijing games and two from the 2012 london games because of doping. this means the country's also stripped of a silver and bronze medal won in 2008, so this was retroactive. retests of samples taken during the game found the track competitors, three females and one male used steroids. >> coming up next on "abc 7 news at 4:00," millennium tower in san francisco is sinking and leaning, but did city officials know about this in advance?

what one city supervisor is saying and what he's proposing. >> plus -- >> i call you hard working american patriots. >> trump slams clinton as president obama takes her place on the campaign trail. >> and a stanford football ad stirring up controversially and some hate. you're going to hear from the woman at the center of it all.

here's what's making headlines at 4:30. a san jose neighborhood is shaken after the brutal beating and robbery of an 88-year-old woman. two men are wanted for breaking into florida douglas' home and attacking her. she's now in intensive care. police are reviewing security video from the neighborhood. and we're learning new information about the woman accused in a dui crash in san ramon that killed a boy. abc 7 news reporter carolyn tyler tweeted that the woman had a previous dui arrest and was also charged with endangering her own child who was in the car. carolyn will have a live report on abc 7 news at 5:00. two people now face charges in a hate crime case in antioch. police announced the arrest during a press conference. laura anthony was there and she tweeted this picture saying the crime grew from an ongoing dispute. what she's learning about the investigation ahead on "abc 7

news at 5:00." new questions about who new what and when regarding san francisco's sinking millennium tower. an investigation into whether there was any political influence in getting the condo high rise approved. abc 7 news reporter vic lee is live in san francisco with the latest. vic? >> reporter: kristen, supervisor aaron peskin and his staff reviewed 1,600 pages of documents from the building inspection department, and he says there are gaps in those records, specifically documents, that address the sinking issue. >> we're going to find out who knew what and when they knew it. >> reporter: the overriding questions supervisor aaron peskin wants to find out about the millennium tower's sinking. it was reported last month that the tallest residential skyscraper in san francisco built in 2008 is tilting and sinking, tilting 2 inches and sinking 16 inches so far.

much more settlement than developers expected. after reviewing the documents, peskin says the rapid settling was no secret, and there may have been political interference to get the project done. >> the millennium corporation, a luxury housing developer, knew before they sold their first unit that the building was sinking more than they had projected. >> reporter: the records, peskin says, reveal that city building inspection engineers were concerned early on about the settlement. this letter addressed to project engineers in february 2009, just a year after the building was completed, raises many of those questions, but the supervisor says the responses to the letter are missing from the records. nevertheless just six months later the city gave the developers the green light. >> on august the 26th of 2009, the city and county issues al final certificate of okay panes for those units.

we knew or should have known at that time that the building was sinking. >> reporter: millennium tower homeowners association issued a statement saying that they find troubling the allegation that a public agency sought to keep secret the building's condition. the homeowner's association has launched its own investigation. they are considering a lawsuit, and the management arm. millennium tower has yet to get back to us. vic lee, aches 7 news. >> all right, vic. the homeowners association is launching an investigation, but will there be an official inquiry on the allegations of supervisor peskin? >> well, the supervisor is holding a hearing late next week where he hopes to get to the bottom of all of this. he's invited engineers from the department of building inspection to attend as well, of course, as project engineers from the tower, and if they don't come voluntarily he's asked the city attorney to

subpoena them. back to you. >> all right. thanks, vic. well, preparations are under way in taiwan for super typhoon mirante. the storm is bearing down on the island packing 150-mile-per-hour winds making it a category 5 storm with the possibility of deadly flash floods and mud slides. a storm taken very seriously. today residents put up sandbags and cruise reinforced coastal defenses in advance of this storm. the storm is forecasted to make landfall along the southern tip of the island of taiwan, home to more than 23 million people, and that's going to happen in just a matter of hours. former israeli president shimon peres has been hospitalized after suffering a strike. they say the 93-year-old is fully conscious, stable and receiving medical treatment. he served as the ninth presidench israel from 2007 to 2014. peres also won the 1994 nobel peace prize for his work in reaching an interim peace agreement with the palestinians. let's turn now to your

voice, your vote. hillary clinton expects to be back on the campaign trail by thursday, even as she recovers at home from pneumonia is. she's under attack from donald trump. here's abc news reporter kennett moten. >> presidential surrogate. >> hello, philly. >> reporter: president obama hit the campaign trail at an important point in the mace. >> what sets hillary is apart is through it all she just keeps on going, and she doesn't stop caring, and she doesn't stop trying. >> reporter: the president in battleground pennsylvania taking on donald trump in philadelphia. >> this guy who spent 70 years on this earth showing no concern for working people. this guy suddenly is going to be your champion? >> reporter: eight weeks before election day and trump was at a new york city polling site on primary day, but not to vote since only democrats were on the ballot. >> just wanted to thank the workers. they are great people and i said be ready for november 8th.

we're going to have a good victory. >> reporter: later in the day trump was on the ground in iowa, again hitting clinton for calling half of his supporters a basket of deplorables. >> well, my opponent slanders you as deplorable and irredeemable, i call you hard working american patriots. >> and a day after wishing clinton well, trump's campaign is now attacking her for failing to disclose her pneumonia diagnosis sooner. trump campaign manager kellyanne conway on cnn. >> there are two major party candidates running for president and only one has pneumonia and lied about it. >> clinton said she didn't think having pneumonia was that big of a deal. both campaigns are preparing to release more medical records on the candidates. >> remember to download the abc 7 news app for the very latest on the election two months away now and make sure you enable those push alerts so we can keep you updated instantly. >> still to come on abc 7 news, a streaker hit the field at last night's 49ers game seen right here on abc 7, but what you

didn't hear was the radio call that upped the entertainment factor. we've got the details just ahead. >> i'm abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. brightening up as you look towards the golden gate bridge and slightly milder. much warmer weather coming up. details are straight ahead. >> thanks very much, sandhya. let's take a look now at traffic. san jose 101. as you can see, it is at 4:36 in the afternoon. pretty busy. pretty busy. stay with us. afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me.

. perhaps the most exciting action in the second half of last night's 49ers blowout win came with something you didn't sea or hear. it was seven harlan on westwood 1 radio of a trespassing fan. >> third and floor and looks into the nickel of san francisco in the secondary. hey, somebody has run out on the field. some goof ball in a halt and a red shirt and now he takes off the shirt. he's running down the middle by the 50. he's at the 30. he's bare chested and banging his chest and now he runs the opposite way and runs to the 50 and runs to the 40. the guy is drunk, but there he goes. the 20, they are chasing him and they are not going to get him. waving his arms and bare chested. somebody stop that man. >> they are coming from the left and they tackle him at 409 yard line. that was the most exciting thing

to happen tonight. >> i'll tell you what. that was a great call on your part yeah. we concur with kurt warner, a great call kevin harlan. >> now your accuweather forecast with sandhya patel. >> good afternoon, everyone. take a live look at doppler 7 right now, and while many of you are seeing clear skies there's a few clouds still lingering along the coastline. they will be long gone and tomorrow morning we'll see patches of fog followed by afternoon sun. numbers mostly in the '70s, a few 60s in the coast and a few low 880s inland. really nice and mild and warmer than today and when you take a look at the forecast for the giants game against the giants at&t park, we're talking about uv index that's high and you will need the sunscreen. 60 degrees at the start of the game coming up to 64 degrees. perfect weather for baseball, and as you take a look at the temperature trend for antioch, tomorrow 80 degrees. we'll bump you up to the mid-80s and then as we head into the

weekend and into early next week you'll see the low to mid-90s so it is going to get hot inland again, but not near the cost, so really we'll get a nice break for a couple more days where it will remain milder than normal, and then those temperatures will start to come back up. average for this time of year since tense it's running more average than normal. >> thanks, sandhya. samsung has come up with a quick fix to repair batteries that can overheat and cause a that can overheat and cause a fire on the new honey, is the internet back yet? yes!! i need to let her know that i like this! i like, like, like, like... i haven't seen a movie based on a comic book in so long. i know. we're over here internet people! get high speed internet from at&t. with over 99% reliability. at an everyday price with no extra monthly fees. keep calm, you internet's on.

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new york city is askingman samsung galaxy note 7 users to not use the smartphone on the subway or while riding buses following reports of batteries catching fire. now samsung says it's working on a new battery for the phone, but there's still no official recall. here's abc 7 news reporter lauren lister. >> the all new samsung galaxy 7. >> reporter: the phone blamed for the explosion in this car. >> the last thing i thought is a brand new device will burn down my car. >> reporter: for going off on a nightstand. >> i call text pleading, because this did shoot pieces of whatever. it was inside the phone, out.

>> reporter: and fueling worries it could ignite on a jet as we've seen in tests. an faa advisory even prompting this morning on flight. >> samsung galaxy note 7 phones are not to be charged or powered on during this flight. >> reporter: now consumer advocates are slamming samsung, the company that makes the galaxy note 7 for not issuing an official u.s. government-sanctioned recall. phone. >> they are very dangerous. not the way the process is supposed to work. >> reporter: samsung has issued its own recall but watchdogs say without a u.s. agency doing it with them consumers are still in danger. >> because we don't have an official recall it's actually not illegal to sell one of these samsung phones. >> reporter: and the faa can't ban the device on planes. the key problem, the battery. samsung is quickly working to replace it. the consumer products safety commission stays will be independently evaluating the new battery to ensure the consumer will not be harmed. the south korean electronics company also says it's working with the cpsc to expedite an

official recall and no word on when that will happen. >> people are galaxy note 7s are advised to turn their phone off and samsung says go exchange them for a new device. lauren lyster, abc news, los angeles. >> tracking the internet activity of children. >> as a mom i'm concerned about that. >> michael finney joins us more. >> it's been going on for quite a while but a settlement has been reached with four companies accused of tracking the activity of children on the internet. such tracking is illegal without a parent's permission under the children's online privacy protection act. the companies involved are big ones, viacom which owns nickelodeon and nick jr., mattel which manufacturers barbies and hot wheels and hasbro which manufacturers my little pony and nerf. under the settlement with the new york state attorney general the company will pay a combined $800,000 in penalties and agree

to make reforms. twitter users will have a lot more leeway, even with the social media site's 140 dark character limit. the limit isn't expanding handles or users names and replies and media attachments will no longer count against that 140-character limit. the changes have been in the work for months, but tech news website the venchlg citing unnamed sources reports the changes are coming september 19th. the new nominees to the strong's national toy hall of fame have been announced. under -- among nominees, i should say, is the fantasy role playing game dungeons and dragons originally designed back in 1974. other nominees include bubble wrap. that's a toy? care bears, clue, coloring books, fischer price little people and nerf pinball. rock 'em sock 'em robots, the swing, transformers and uno were also nominated.

now, i want to hear from you if you have any consumer issishous or problems. 7 on your side hotline can reach me at my facebook page and also abc7 news.com and i say rock 'em sock 'em robots. >> i think bubble wrap is a slightly dangerous toy. >> who knew. >> it's a question of imagination. >> there you go. >> thank you. >> it is what you make of it, right? >> the government is taking a big step to deal with drug resistant bacteria and the national institute of shelt launching an anti-microbial diagnostic challenge. it's looking for tests that can both i.d. and describe drug-resistant bacteria as well as tests that can distinguish between viral and bacterial infections. $20 million in prizes will be awarded. in today's wellness report, president obama's asking health insurers to help enroll the

uninsured. >> and not getting enough sleep can make life toughner unexpected ways. here's jean king. >> reporter: president obama is meeting at the heads of insurance companies to try to get their help in sync up uninsured people. the meeting with the insurance execs comes as some of them have decided to curtail their coverage in obamacare. one such insurer aetna was not at this meeting. we know sleep is important. scientists are gaining insight into how much a lack of sleep can upset our health and balance. "wall street journal" report says people who are sleep deprived have difficulty reading facial expressions of others. people also will less emotionally expressive when they haven't gotten enough rest. they smile less, and when we don't read each other's expressions it will cause different in relationships. teva hopes to receive fda approval by late 2017 or early 2018. the fda has once rejectd teva's

applications for its device and underplaying the role that sugars play on heart disease. the study was done at the university of california san francisco and reported in "jama" internal medicine. it defended the industry-funded research that plays an important role in scientific debate saying several decades of research has concluded sugar does not have a unique role in heart disease. from the nasdaq, i'm jean king. here's to your health. an unusual rescue in the central vale. check this out. >> meow. >> reporter: those meowing noises are coming from two officers trying to lure a tiny kitten to safety in fresno county. the little fur ball got trapped at the end of this drainage pipe. there you go. that's the kitty. officers with the police department say they used a burrito to coax the kitten out. it worked. ole. one of the officers says he hopes to adopt the kitten and name it burrito.

now check out this rescue pup and his amazing weight loss all in fur. 7-year-old lazarus had been in a barn stall for six years when he was found and rescued. his now foster mom took him to the groomers where they removed, dan, imagine this, 35 pounds of fur. >> wow. >> yeah. he now weighs about 60 pounds and is trying to get used to his new light, trimmer look. >> very elegant though. looks nice and clean. >> "abc 7 news at 4:00" continues. >> in the end positivity really does beat out hate. >> the positive reaction from the woman in this stanford football ad despite being the target of hate. and on "abc 7 news at 5:00," new information in the death of a little boy, the criminal history of the driver now revealed. video captures three police officers in phoenix hit by a car. why the police chief says his men were target the. and could california's next big earthquake be triggered by a full moon? >> stay with us. those stories and mor

all right. here's tonight's primetime lineup on abc 7. "the middle" starts at 8:00 followed by "fresh offer the boat" and "the real o'naelz." "marvel's agents of s.h.i.e.l.d." at 10:00 and then the news at 11:00. >> a stanford woman has decided to fight back and now many are coming to her defense. abc 7 news reporter chris wynn is live at stanford with the story. chris? >> reporter: and this afternoon, dan and kristen, student officials here at stanford are calling that student courageous for sharing her story with the community. they are hoping that others can learn from how she chose to respond. it all started on facebook with a spirited post by stanford athletics to promote a contest. at first glance a diverse group of women all having fun while cheering on their football team.

>> i only saw it when someone tagged me in it and then shared it to their facebook account and we're look oh, my good, look, i'm tagged all over the picture. >> reporter: this initial excitement took issue with the woman who was hiring a hijab and one rote hey stanford, take the muslim expletive elsewhere. we don't want to see it. another person called for yusuf and her friends to be shot. >> the kind of era that we live in and it shows the sort of things muslims deal with every day. >> reporter: campus leaders were absolutely stunned. >> that type of behavior and comments aren't reflective of our community and i think like most people i'm really upset that other outsiders would put that on our community. >> stanford officials are now filtering the comments and have kept the post up at the request of yusuf. her tweet respectfully calling out some of the negative posters has been re-tweeted nearly 8,700 times. >> i wanted to make a point, i guess, that this kind of stuff

isn't okay and i guess we shouldn't be so quick to brush it off, right? like it's not a normal thing for people to just be so hateful and spiteful. >> reporter: yussuf says it's all about perfective. >> positivity really does beat out hate, but we do have to all take an active stance to, you know, try -- to try to beat out that hate thatling sneers a teaching opportunity before the start of a new school year. at stanford, chris nguyen, abc 7 news. >> stanford has made the top five in the new "u.s. news & world report" top colleges list. princeton is still number one, but stanford tied for fifth scoring a 95 out of 100. uc berkeley tied for 20th and cal stands alone for the 19th year in a row as the top public university, and congratulations san jose state. the spartans ranked sixth overall among the west top universities up two from last year, sonoma state came in 10

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>> grainy surveillance video helps break the case that one police chief is calling shocking. two people are now charged in a hate crime. good evening. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm kristen sze. thanks for joining us. this couple in antioch have landed in jail. these two people are charged with multiple felonies for something police say could have been deadly. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony is live at the antioch police headquarters with more. laura? >> reporter: hi, kristen. well, we talked to roy sovari's parents, and he said he's driver for an on-demand ride service. now he and christine mcdaniel are each sitting in jail on $1.3 million jail. police maintain this was a hate crime, but they say it wasn't random, that it sprung from an ongoing dispute between two families. >> on september 7th of this year i came before the media to announce a hate crime that happened in our community. that