jonathan bloom went out to -- >> reporter: after six years in australia, she moving back to the uniteds to find a nasty surprise. >> shocking. >> reporter: the price of rent in san francisco has shot through the roof. this studio at the edge of the tenderloin district isn't the first apartment she has visited and probably won't be the last, one room, closet, bathroom and kitchen almost big enough to turn around in. >> this is $5095 a machine. >> reporter: for an apartment where the manager said the last tenant may have paid $1100. now rents have skyrocketed experts say it has everything to do with the job market. >> our job market here is ridiculous right now the tech industry is hiring and growing tremendously. we have a unique situation we don't have space. >> reporter: the rebounding market for tech jobs has set san francisco's rent skyward at more than twice the national average. 10% gain last year, 12% gain this year compared to 5% across the rest of the country and people are paying it. >> if you go to an open house and you have 40 people and you are not going to have a chance to

jonathan bloom has the details. >> reporter: it's 1:00 in the afternoon. programmer zach bowers is just rolling out of bed. have you started on the energy drinks yet? >> no. starting with diet coke. >> reporter: zach pretty much works all the time. >> everybody has different schedules. the days last about 16 hours. >> reporter: seth bannan explained it's a social network for fund-raising. >> it's a big problem in the world, nonprofit fund-raising. all of the apps are stranger-to-stranger. we make them friend-to-friend. >> reporter: how appropriate that they're working out of the same palo alto house that mark zuckerberg and a crew of hackers spent the summer launching facebook. there's four bedrooms, unless you count the mattress on the living room floor. no one makes their beds. >> no time. >> reporter: and there's the pool, so famously portrayed in the movie, "the social network." the zip line is no longer there. it was tied to this chimney. >> it was dangerous hell of a lot of fun. >> reporter: now, fun comes in the form of nerf gun battles. and forcing

jonathan bloom went to one east bay community where help is arriving on a big yellow bus. >> reporteror not you came here to buy school supplies, there are kids who need them. >> the schools they need help. >> that is why they are passing out flyers in front of the walmart. that is why this big yellow bus. >> we are collecting school supplies. folks can purchase supplies and bring them to the bus and we stuff the bus with school supplies. >> thank you very much. >> sometimes a handful. sometimes a cartful. every little bit helps. >> i can't believe the parents have to supply this stuff. when we were kids we got everything at school. >> harder for some than others. >> the young man had statement pages from older notebook that weren't used on the reverse. >> it's a story they hope won't happen again thanks to the supplies. >> here is mechanical pencils. >> this is one of district's one of the biggest buses. if past years are any indication shoppers will stuff this bus many times over with buckets full of school supplies. >> last year we filled up ten buses full. >> the manager says the

jonathan bloom has a look at a new game that opens a portal between the virtual world and the physical >> reporter: ed on the carpet with an ipad, 10-year-old jordan is playing the new monsterology video game. >> you get there and fight other monsters to get there >> reporter: how? with other monsters and you get them by buying packs of trading cards, his 8-year-old brother ezra has quite a collection. >> some cards are better than others. this unicorn can go far and it is good at -- >> reporter: monsterology and new animal planet wild land are the first games that recognize a paper card placed on the surface of an ipad. >> cards spring to life not only do i have a paper version i have a real, beautiful 3-d fully animated cyclops that i can move around. >> reporter: the cards use touch technology ink transfers energy from fingers to the ipad's display. >> video games are great but there's nothing like a physical card. >> reporter: mom blogger says kids are captivated by the artwork and competing to collect the rarest creatures. it could be like money falling out of sky for retailers. >

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abc 7 news reporter jonathan bloom with the story. >> i have these black panther up here with guns onhe second floor. >>reporter: storming the state capitol or walking the streets of oak land the black panther known for openly carrying firearms. u.s. army veteran richard was known as the left wing activist who supplied some of the guns and taught them how to shoot. but there was a side of him that even his closest ally didn't know about. >> him even talking to the fbi, yes. that's kind of a shocking thing. for me to hear. >>reporter: not just talking to the fbi but regularly in forming on the black panther party activity. came to light in recently obtained fbi documents listing some of the bureau confidential source. >> most of the names were pwrabingd out but for some reason richard's name had not been blacked out. he was littleed in the report as informant t 2. >>reporter: author says former fbi agent he interviewed for the new book medley recognized the name. >> he said he was my informant. i developed him. >>reporter: agent said he asked him to start going to to meetings of left w

and jonathan bloom says the latest trend in fashion is on your phone. >> this may look like a siliconalley launch party but it's a clothing swap. except nobody brought their own clothing. just a smart phone. it turns ut parties like this are happening every day using a new app. >> this allows to you have fashion from the closet. >> and when i walked into a closet, i saw shopping bags my wife had that had never been opened. let alone used. >> so he created a cross between instagram and ebay to turn clothes into cash. >> you take a photo and make it modern, vintage. and then go next, then enter detail autos with that, all followers can look and buy it with a click. and. >> there is everything done with the phone. you list it from the phone. >> and you may have noticed women at the party. it's for womens' fashion. the number of women using it is doubling every six weeks. >> it's addictive and huge. >> crosses the room in pink shoes megan kelly told us users spend 25 minutes per day using the appz unlike facebook it won't have trouble turn lg a profit. >> they're making money taking a fee

and jonathan bloom is with them. >> you can hear me okay. we're here at the station where that march is beginning. you can see marchers just went by. this is a small crowd, about 20 or 30 people that left to commemorate the shut off in a san francisco bart station. and they're marching from here to oakland head quarters to let bart know they haven't forgoten what they see as a to it free speech. bart trying to disswayed those protestors from organizing. a long the way, marchers say they plan to stop off in a vacant building that people used to go to read books. >> in barbed wire, only those born ask raised here would remember when this was a library. >> i used to go to this library when i was a kid. i closed down, years and years. >> james and neighbors watched. the building fell into decay, becoming a magnet for squatter autos call the police every weekend. they've been here on the steps and using drug autos those steps have been taken over by a cleaning crew. >> volunteers set out to bring a library back. >> we hope that people will contin

and jonathan bloom is here with the story. >> this is japanese american who is a leader in the predominantlyafrican american black panther party. he was known as a militant and it turns out he was working for as an informant to the fbi. >> i have these black panthers here with guns on the seventh floor. >> whether storming state capitol, black panthers were known for openly carrying firearms, this u.s. army veteran was known as the left wing activist who supply smd guns and taught them how to shoot. >> and he had been talk together fbi. yeah. so that is a shocking thing to hear. >> he was informing on black panther party activities. it came to light in documents listing m of the confidential sources. >> most of the names were blacked out. and for some reason, richard aoki's had not been blakd out. he was listed in the report as informant t 2. >> the auj jorz a former agent he interviewed for the new book recognized his name. >> and he said he was. >> the agent says he asked him to go to meetings and report back on what he heard. he worked his way into a leadership role and became one of the

here is "abc 7 news" reporter jonathan bloom. >> over the years, ring tones have gotten a lot cooler that is about all that has changed until now. >> has they been lagging behind? >> it really has. >> they wanted to help the telephone play catch-up. he has an app for that. it's called current caller i.d. every time it scans the social, two to find out the person who is calling before you pick up. >> job title or employer, last facebook status updates. >> if you don't know the person, it will at least try to get a name and address to help you decide whether to answer. >> the conversation started to get yourself to find out is what going on. >> matching trench coat for her cat. >> this is the point where some people get really excited and some people get mad. the app is free but only available for android phones. if you have an iphone you can thank apple for prohibiting apps that modify a callers i.d. >> this is the blackberry platform. it allows the same thing. >> but he won't be surprised if apple and microsoft take a hard look at this app because it makes your smart phone a smarter

jonathan bloom, "abc 7 news." >> woody al own's movie isn't called san francisco, but it could be.enes on post street near grant avenue for the yet untitled film. it's a romantic comedy of a person that tries to make due in the city. these is expected to continue in the city through the end of the month. >>> coming up next, some uninvited guests of check in near sfo. how a hotel good morning! wow. want to start the day with something heart healthy and delicious? you're a talking bee... honey nut cheerios has whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol. and it tastes good? sure does! right... ♪ wow. delicious, right? yeah. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... ♪ well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. >> katie: here are the winning numbers from last night's draw. mega number is 8. nobody correctly picked all six numbers, so tuesday night's jackpot is estimated to be $36 million. >>> new information this morning about oakland's troubled police radio system. our media partner contra costa times says a team of investigators have determined that

jonathan bloom was in court today as the 2 giants gave their closing arguments and then happeneded thease to the jury. >>reporter: hundreds line up to get that the federal courthouse for closing arguments in the patent battle between apple and samsung. case one lawyer said could change the way competition works in america. >> it does kind of set this precedent for how we look at competition and whether you are really just compete with someone or stealing from them. >>reporter: reporter megan has been struck by the 2 tech giants total unwillingness to compromise despite judge repeatedly begging them to settle out of court. >> she asked one of the apple lawyers whether or not he was smoking crack. >>reporter: but apple insist you don't need to smoke anything to see how samsung is ripping off the product. apple attorney told jurors samsung designs are so similar to the apple design that they are likely to cause apple design to be viewed as less unique in the marketplace. samsung copied feature the bounce back that happens at the edge of a page. wired magazine christina says that simple ar