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fox 5's bob barnard explains. >> reporter: we live in a laptop world. at least it seems that way, especially if you visit an urban coffee shop. this is chris in adams morgan. though many here have their computers on a tabletop, others are using them on their laps. >> every day. >> reporter: and yes, rodney ragabon says he feels the heat. >> it does get reasonably hot. i don't know the temperature, but pretty hot. >> reporter: now according to a new report in american journal of pediatrics we're learning heat generated by your laptop can damage the skin on your legs. washington dermatologist dr. howard brooks says he sees patients with that all the time. >> you feel it getting warm, but we're so interested in whatever we're doing we keep that laptop on there. it can lead to discoloration. >> reporter: he said the heat from laptops is basically baking your skin. >> 99% of the time it's nothing to worry about other than the red discoloration or a brown or darkening color, on the thighs, but this can lead to squamos cell cancer. >> reporter: from your thinn

this is the first laptop without a hard drive.ot smaller, the map of air power is on and is ready to use in about nine seconds a lot faster than most machines some take up to three minutes. it is filing you hear no noise when it is on the battery life is double any laptop that i use. it can last five hours on why five which is one of the biggest battery hog. it is very thin. it tapers down to one-tenth of an inch. it is only 2.9 lbs.. so no hard drive, it gives you a more mobile laptop a machine easy to take on the go. fact it will not get hot when it is sitting on your lap and will last a lot longer. dave slate kron4 news. >> dot may be taught himself preparing dinner or something, >> brain is gone in coming backrain is coming gone, >> the key for joining us everyone see you at 11.

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a lot of people wanted this from apple smaller laptop. it to do very well it's priced at a thousand dollars. the bigger 13.3 in. $1,300. the models on sale now gabe slate kron 4 news. >> a look at our extended forecast the changes coming to the real the next few days critical >> against the philadelphia phillies game for the playoffs will be right back. i'm jerry mcnerney, and i approved this message. he worked his whole life, served his country defending our freedoms, and depends on social security. so, who would want to privatize it? corporate lawyer david harmer. harmer's social security privatization plan would cut guaranteed benefits and gamble with social security on wall street. while we worry, harmer's wall street friends would make billions in profits from privatization. david harmer. a social security privatization plan we can't afford. myangry peasants can mess up an i parkcar really bad.tle at "medieval knight fest". matt, my mercury agent, helped me file a claim right away. turns out mercury not only saves me money, but they

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this rash can pop up after prolonged exposure to the heat of a laptop computer. and it does not fade easily. >> you have to use it for several hours, every day for several days. >> known as toasted skin syndrome, dermatologists say it is rare. >> it is a very classic look. then you go down the line of asking questions of what people have been exposed to. i have seen in patients who used laptops, in patients who have used seat heaters in their cars. >> similar birds have been linked to skin cancer. >> i think the risk would be extremely low and that would be after the rash develops that you continue to use it for years and years. >> you can avoid them burn simply by putting your laptop on a table top. >> now you have heard it. >> now your 11 insta-weather- plus forecast with our chief meteorologist. >> only 60 degrees today. quite a bit below the normal high, which is 71. or high-temperature at bwi -0- while many of the suburbs or in the 50's, it was 52 at the inner harbor. 97 degrees in october of 1941. warm temperatures this late in the year. the clouds and show

on your laptop.s interesting. according to a study in the journal of pediatrics, researchers say resting the laptop on your legs for extended period of time can lead to toasted skin syndrome. that's when the skin becomes reddened from prolonged heat exposure. in one case, doctors say a hot laptop discolored a woman's leg after the temperature beneath the laptop reached 125 degrees. most major manufacturers including apple, h.p. and dell print warnings in user manuals placing laptops on any exposed skin. >>> news bites now. big shake-up at twitter. co-founder of the popular website williams announcing he is stepping down as ceo to focus on product strategy. meantime, company officials working to fix problems with the site after the users experienced major outages earlier today including trouble sending messages. >>> well, l.g. electronics today announcing it's scrapped plans to release a tablet computer using google's android 2.2 operating system. according to the report, l.g. may be waiting for the n

i did not steal a laptop.hey tried to say that i was popping pills at my house when it was mike and ike. >>shepard: those are guys from the movies. >>guest: the assistant vice principal got a copy of a picture they took from the camera in blake's bedroom and he was showing a mike and ike to a friend and suddenly that became the reason she called him into the office and this began. >>shepard: you will get the vast majority of the part of this money that goes to the victims, here, and what are you going to do with that money, mark? >>guest: well ... until i am 18 i only have $25,000 available and i will buy a car. >>shepard: use some of it for school or what? >>guest: invest. some for school, save until i am out of college. >>shepard: you cannot be your age and go to school and be all over the newspapers and tv and not have people talk about it. what was the chatter on this back in lower marion. >>guest: most teachers did not say anything, but the kids like to cheer me on and say things. it has calmed down a lot

kiet do tells us about a city councilman, an iphone and a laptop. >> reporter: his colleagues on theruz city council say tony madrigal should have known better. >> i've never in my life heard of anybody typing on a laptop while driving. >> reporter: but that's exactly what the chp says they saw madrigal doing august 30th while driving on highway 1. an officer watched the council member for at least 3 miles. >> impeding traffic, failure to maintain your lane, driving on the center divide. >> reporter: the officer pulled him over and according to the report, he told the officer he was using his computer to of all things connect his new iphone 4. >> he was in possession of an iphone and the officer believed that he was using the iphone as well as the laptop while he was driving down the road. >> reporter: he was trying to sync it, right? >> sync the laptop with the iphone, yes. >> reporter: the officer wrote him a ticket for reckless driving and the 37-year-old was due in court a few weeks later but did not show up. the court issued a warrant for arrest. >> i think it's pretty reckless,

. >> the new wning that could have you rethinking how you hold your laptop computer.nd a cash call. why verizon will hand out refunds. ♪ >>> there are new warnings about your laptop, specifally what it may be doing to your skin dermatologists say the heat from your laptop can lead to a condition called toasted skin syndrome. the temperature can reach 125 degrees leading to the darkening of skin it comes into contact with, hence the term toasted skin syndrome. it'often harmless but in rare cases it can lead to skin cancer just like overexposur to the sun. the study can be found in the journal of pediatrics. forget the achievement gap or the pay gap. men and women are seeing a sexual experience gap. while 85% of men say their last sexual partner had an orgasm, only 64% of women say that was true. the india university study surveyed nearly 6,000 men and women who repord engaging in 41 combinations o sexual acts. one alarming finding, one-third of women experience pain during sex. an encouraging finding as well. 14 to 17-year-old boys are using condoms at a much higher ra

he did not move his laptop. a eventually, this is what happened.rs say that in some cases the discoloration can be permanent! and that is probably the only thing. it is a harmless syndrome. although some doctors are saying that it coul in cutting som cas lead to cancer. >> the supreme court is cutting back to business and washington getting its new term with the first and hundreds of appeals, for the first time, three women. simultaneously. a lanigan. she left the courtroom one the other door - elena kagen >> she is taken herself out of 24 pending cases because of our work is the obama administration. prior to joining this court in august. >> and they take a look at our extended forecast a chance of showers! for the next afternoon, and the next couple of afternoons. a perfect forecast for fleet week coming up in just a bit. chools. what were the facts? fact: march 7, 2000. brown asks voters for new mayoral power to appoint school board members. he gets it, and promises better schools. but the drop out rate increases...50%. the school budget goes in

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. >>> doctors are coining a new term for skin irritations caused by your laptop computer. dermatologists say the heat from your laptop can lead to a condition called toasted skin syndrome. the temperature under a laptop can reach 125 degrees leading to the, adening of skin in the affected -- leading to a darkening of the skin. in rare cases it can lead to skin cancers such as overexposure to the sun. >>> a new consumer technology is being pioneered in the bay area. it is called augmented reality or ar. it cannot only point you in the right direction, but also tell you what you interest poked at. richard hart has a new look at it. >> it was the first transit system on popular social networks. >> we have been on twitter and facebook since 2008. social media is a small part of what we do. it is important for building community. >> no public agency and probably no company has computers with more data, open to the public than bart, making it an ideal candidate for an ap like this. the technology is augmented reality. it is different from the gps daw devices that tells you where

we sell laptops and i'm a full-time student. >> on sunday while affi, a half egyptian, half american muslim got an oil change at this garage, he noticed this attached to the underbelly of his car. >> the device i found was stuck by a magnet. >> it was a gps tracking device, affi took it apart. two days later he says the f.b.i. and other police stopped him as he left his santa clara apartment complex. and a federal agent started questioning him. >> have you ever been to yemen for any time of training? no. do you know anybody that's affiliated with anybody that's extreme or abnormal or posting anything online that they shouldn't be. he said where's the devials located on your vehicle. i didn't answer. i just asked him: did you guys put it there?

everyone out there with a laptop has put the -- it's a laptop. you put it right in your lap. but could this be dangerous? we'll tell you about the effects of something that's called toasted skin syndrome, coming up. >> that's coming up. >>> also, take a look at this. a real-life firewalker. a daredevil that decided to get up and close and personal with an erupting volcano. that's a real erupting volcano right there. incredible video you have to see to believe. >> magma. magma. you know -- sam knew i was going to go there. >>> we begin with the countdown to election night. just 28 days left. and that new poll shows a voters' preference from republicans have decreased. they still have the lead. backing for tea party candidates is dropping. jake tapper is at the white house for us this morning with all of the details. jake? >> reporter: that's right, robin. the new abc news/"washington post" poll shows a modest bump in the americans who think that the economy is improving. that number is still the minority. but the white house is using it as evidence that things are improving fo

so no hard drive gives you a more mobile laptop a machine easy to take on the go and trouble with.t when sitting on your lap and its battery will last a lot longer. games like kron4 news. >> at 657 right now we will be back with more waiting to see what happens in philadelphia, at at&t part we could not do it yesterday we will see what the giants we could not do it yesterday we will see what the giants have in philly we will expecting different results. insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for different results. i've built businesses. i've built a business. met the payroll. met a payroll. i enter this office beholden to no one except you. i will owe my office to no one but you. i don't owe anyone anything. i don't owe anyone anything. what's the worst that can happen? what's the worst thing that can happen? he worked his whole life, served his country defending our freedoms, and depends on social security. so, who would want to privatize it? corporate lawyer david harmer. harmer's social security privatization plan would cut guaranteed benefits and gamble

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this is the first laptop without a hard drive.s less drives for data to their smaller so apple has added features to a laptop we have not seen before. a lot faster than most machines some can take three minutes of fire at its silence so you don't hear any noise the battery life is is double any laptop by used. five hours when surfing the web on why fight. it is very thin at its thickest point is three- quarters of an inch tapering down to one-tenth of an inch. it's less than some net books or. no hard drive to give you a more mobile laptop. it is then, light, fast. it will get hot when sitting on your lap and its battery lasts longer. >> we will be back with more headlines in a moment. back outside with another live lookit the bay bridge approach traffic nice of light. welcome back to kron 4 morning news an update on the bay area weather watching the shower moving through. we had showers yesterday afternoon evening and overnight. pretty much bay area zero white but that storm is moving through them we catch a break with the chance

off. >> what if you don't have a laptop on your hot bod?eve. i don't know what you're talking about but i'm trying to talk about long-term heat exposure that could have negative effects. >> this is nothing new. if you buy a laptop and you actually take the 10 minutes to read the owner's manual, you'll see that h.p. and dell and apple for a number of years have said, look, if you put your laptop on exposed skin, it can actually heat up. >> can you imagine the lawsuits now that will come out of tss, this will become the new lingo across -- just like when mcdonald's served coffee that's too hot. headline, coffee is hot, ok? like laptops now. >> they suggest a heat shield if you're not like a -- >> superhero. >> sure. then you're born with a heat shield. >> it poses more of a danger for men, actually. >> because we have bigger thighs? >> no, kind of like the same analysis of why men shouldn't go in hot tubs. >> right. because it's too bubbly? >> no, it has to do with fertility. >> oh, really? ok. >> heat heats up things that are not good for fe

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it's called toasted skin syndrome and it's caused by the heat leaving the laptop. 125 degrees. the skin looks model, almost if a person has white spots with red all around. swiss researchers identified the unusual looking condition and say it's caused by laptops and video games. while generally harmless, physicians say the condition can lead to permanent skin darkening or even skin cancer. the advice, if you have to put your laptop on your lap as a lot of college students or lots of people do, use a heat shield or barrier so it's not sitting on your skin directly. >> brookstone has got a nice thing almost like a soft shelf that i bought my wife. and it really keeps you up. >> we used to use it back if the day for just reading books in bed but now we can use it for the laptop as well. >> makes sense. thank you. >>> coming up, what got these flight attendants dancing in the aisles. >> plus, hollywood heads for the north shore. where you might see some of the biggest names on the big screen. >>> lovie smith and the bears, ooh damage control after their first loss, and

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a warning -- about your laptop. and reports says that laptop computers can burn your skin, causing a condition called toasted skin sydrome. the swiss researchers who found the people who work with them on their laps for some time it can develop a burn pattern. a 12-drawboy develop such a darkening -- the 12-year-old boy developed this darkening. the regional medical center is one of the handful of the facilities now posting wait times online. the similar tool is available at a number of hospitals in the hampton roads area. the state statistics show that emergency room visits rose 17% from 2004 until 2008. a british scientist known as the father of test tube babies is the 2010 winner of the nobel prize. robert edwards pioneered in vitro fertilization. the eggs are fertilized outside the body, then implanted. the first were born in 1970. it has helped millions of infertile couples to have children. still ahea >> thousands of people in california are saying goodbye to summer with the waves -- the leaders say it will sh

addicted to your laptop? you could suffer consequences. people who work with computers on their laps for long periods of time could suffer "toasted skin syndrome." a 12-year-old boy developed skin dis-coloration after playing computer game for a few hours a day. the condition is harmless, but can cause skin darkening and in rare cases damage leading to skin cancer. experts suggest putting a carrying case or heat shield under the computer. >>> the supreme court set to test the limts of free speech including the rights of anti-gay protesters at military funerals. as francis coreports, the court will tackle the cases for the first time with three women on the bench. >> the u.s. supreme court traditionally starts the term on the first monday in october. there is nothing typical about the court this time around. >> congratulations. >> elena kagan hand picked by president obama is the newest member. kagan becomes the third woman on the court, the fourth in history. she will likely sit out about a third of the cases to avoid conflict stemming fro

. >> reporter: in late august, thieves broke into the rectors office, taking a laptop. a week later they were back, searching for money. in the past six weeks the sister has been burglarized five timed. in all. six churches were hit between august and september. police don't think the break-ins are connected. >> investigators are investigating different crimes and working together to come up with any leads that might identify a suspect. but at this point nothing indicates that the burglaries are related. >> reporter: someone broke into the offices of st. george0s orthodox church, taking the sunday collection money. >> it's really sad. this is our 13, 14 years here, never happened before. the last month, been more than one incident. >> reporter: burglars have stolen laptops, money, musical instruments and food. at st. francis, the sank wear is the only play they have stayed clear of for now. the robberies continue to rattle the nerves of which church goer. >> two sundays in a row i was giving reports to the police and the congregation was very anxious and on edge. >> the

the laptops have web cams. the web cams in many cases are built in, they are not conspicuous it is very today just turn it on as this young man did to remotely act vate it now if you have a video chat or skype or something like that it has just made it so much easier to do that. and we have not educated these kids to handle the responsibility of the additional power they have. in this case power to do damage. >> suarez: in this case are you talking about how the machines are becoming easier to use. but isn't something also changing about young people themselves? they talk about where they are. they tell everyone. they take pictures of it send the pictures to everyone on their lists. i mean it got to the point where tyler went on facebook to change his status and send, in effect, a digital suicide note. >> oh, and supposedly he took the computer with him to the bridge. he took the cell phone and the computer. he is announcing his death on there. he also, you know, apparently he had an on-line profile at a web ch

can your laptop give you skin cancer? >>> good mornings are everyone. thanks for being with us on this monday morning. thousands of american tourists heading to europe are packing an extra worry today. a new government warning to be extra alert. >> intelligence reports indicate terrorists may be spotting attacks on public places overseas. we'll have reactions fr from eu in a moment. we begin with emily schmidt. >> this rare travel warning applies to americans already in europe or heading that direction. it extends through the holidays, not set to expire until the end of january. >> reporter: the government alert for citizens living or touring europe is rare. it asks citizens to take every precaution to be wear of their surroundings while traveling. but the state department indicates it is not attempting to stop travel to europe. >> you can still go. you can be safe. >> reporter: avoid public demonstrations. stay away from unattended packages. the alert comes after weeks of discussions between the white house and u.s. intelligence communities. experts sa

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. >> it is called toasts skin syndrome, what it is and how your laptop computer may be causing it >> some south bay commuters road to and from work. valley transportation authority launched commuter express light rail service. they added 3 northbound trips in the morning, santa theresa and bay point, three northbound trips are scheduled in the evening they don't stop at six stations between the convention center. they shave 5 minutes off commute time. >> san francisco muni said the number of drivers calling in sick has dropped considerably since managers started enforcing a policy calling for a doctors note. almost 8% of muni drivers called in six on an average day during the past 15 months that figure dropped to 4.5% though, when the doctors note policy went into place. drivers union denies there is a sick out going on. >>> there is word tonight that muni will begin getting almost $44 million to upgrade bus maintenance and service part of $775 million distributed under the federal trsit administrations state of good repair program the bulk of the money will go toward moving a bus op

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laptops and interactive smart boards are as ubiquitous as chalk and erasers were a generation ago. >>ut and buy smart boards for every classroom or buy something for everything. we have learned what is it that we need for instruction for the students? >> reporter: students report, share, research, and innovate in ways that clearly engage them. all 50 states now include computer technology as part of their curriculum standards. but more and more schools are seeing technology is not just a subject to be taught, but also a tool to help students become better learners. tech savvy schools like this one in louisville, kentucky, are forging new learning methods. jose's algebra students use tab lets and ipods to develop and share math concepts. what they call 180 degrees. >> i want the students to be able to analyze and look for the strategies how to teach themselves and teach others how to get the concept. >> reporter: but is technology helping kids perform better? >> you're never really going to show how buying computers and using them in a consistent way over a period of time is going to r

it has helped millions of infertile couples have children. >> we have a warning about your laptop.ew medical report says that laptop computers can burn your skin causing a condition called toasted skin syndrome. researchers found people who work with computers on their laps for long periods of time could cause permanent skin darken i darkening. one boy developed a sponge pattern after playing games a few hours every day for several months. >> everybody uses them. we use them up here all the time. >> right there on your lap at home and you never think about about it. 6:25 right now. still to come, the economics of education. mike allen plains the new white house plan to help democrats survive the mid term election. >> i'm courtney robinson live in college park where students are on high alert after one student was robbed. we will have the details coming up. >> grab the umbrella. you will need it today. take a jacket and sweater along with you. we will see temperatures only in the upper 50's. a look at the extended forecast in a >> touchdown washington and a perfect throw from mcnabb

he said the newly revamped mac book air has the best features in the form of a laptop.ves everything on flash memory. he announced a if you version of its operating system. this would be the lion operating system. they launch a new app store for the mac in 90 days. >> wearing purple shirts, sending messages to bullies saying it's not okay to call gays names and physically harm them. that's what happened to gays the last two months, some committing suicide. san mateo students showed a united front against bullying. >> it says it's okay who you are and i support you. >> so many people obviously care so much. i think people have to get on board. >> i'm not gay. but i think what they do -- at least so people can feel safe in our schools. >> this campaign was started by the national gay and lesbian alliance against defamation, also known as glad. >> it is 4:57 let's make it. just ahead at 5:00, following breaking news out of san jose where we're hearing about a shoot-out between officers and a suspect with an officer injured. we'll have a live report. >> will tonight be the