now this message says dhl has a packaged toou that will be returned to sender soon. your phone is about to be shut off or especially alarming, this is the chinese consulate calling. you press a number. if you do, they tell you you are linked to a financial crime. sending out a community warning today. >> the chinese government is making it known, there are 100,000 people that are spread out between main line china and hong kong that are doing the scams. >> new york city police say since december, victims have lost $3 million to this scam. we have resources on our website abc7news.com. >>> parents who say they have been wronged by child protective services marched to reform. parents and reform groups demanded greater transparency and oversights. removal of three judges who they believe they are corrupt. >> we have a dysfunctional system. kids that are being murdered, kids that are continuing to be abused in this system and it is not effective. >> a spokesperson for contra costa county child services tells abc7 news that it is committed to the best outcome. and encoura

now this message says dhl has a packaged to you that will be returned to sender soon.especially alarming, this is the chinese consulate calling. you press a number. if you do, they tell you you are linked to a financial crime. sending out a community warning today. >> the chinese government is making it known, there are 100,000 people that are spread out between main line china and hong kong that are doing the scams. >> new york city police say since december, victims have lost $3 million to this scam. we have resources on our website abc7news.com. >>> parents who say they have been wronged by child protective services marched to reform. parents and reform groups demanded greater tranc and oversights. removal of three judges who they believe they are corrupt. >> we have a dysfunctional system. kids that are being murdered, kids that are continuing to be abused in this system and it is not effective. >> a spokesperson for contra costa county child services tells abc7 news that it is committed to the best outcome. and encourages reunification with the >>> today the santa

elections will yield different results from a couple months >> that will be up to the voters deutsche post dhlsed analyst expectations the german postal and logistics route blamed currency effects and the sale of its british outsourcing facility, williams lee. frank apple told cnbc earlier today that the company will face difficulties this year >> we had a good start, but we knew this year would be a challenging year for us. we have divisions which are doing extremely well our express division has done another record quarter freight is improving significantly. we have some challenges with our parcel operation, but that was expected we haven't had a price increase for stem price stamp prices fo year so this year is the most challenging one. >>> adecco opened sharply lower after posting weaker than expected first quarter earnings. net income fell 26% missing expectations underlying revenue for march and april was also lower than the final quarter of last year the slowdown was driven by units in north america, the uk, ireland and italy. >>> and lafargeholcim shares are lower. the company is begin

home in an amazon fulfillment center, we caught up with a start-up that's focused on the fulfillment dhlone of their cliernts they make robots that can be autonomous, can get up and running in eight hours, which is very little time in that world it can navigate around obstacles and also work alongside humans and lift very heavy cartons. let's listen to its ceo. >> we can take something from assembly area in the manufacturing plant and put it onto a conveyer. we have part of the robot that can connect to a cart and move a cart around. so when you put a whole bunch of packages onto a cart, the robot can come pick up the cart. >> all of this, of course, inevitably brings up the whole issue of job displacement. a recent study found that in 60% of occupations, about a third of work activities can be automated. back to you. >> fascinating stuff, adiaditi. >> when we and back, a fairly fairnotes investor claims elizabeth holmes was, quote, bullied into submission. why he thinks the ceo did a great job. >> take a look at the s&p, trying to get over critical levels here, right around 2726 "squawk

that the express consignment -- fedex, dhl, the others, they also provide a means for drugs to get into the gum -- country. they are working very hard with the federal government to intercept this it -- those shipments. >> dr. shelley, you want to add something? >> in october, the research center that i dropped, held a conference for the epidemic. one of the speakers was a former ig of the postal service. one of the points that was made is that law enforcement is limited on being able to look at packages that are coming through the u.s. mail, and delivery services, and this gives the postal service a greater problem with tracking this in a great of all -- raleigh -- volume, coming through. this is online, you can find it and read more about it. >> thank you. will ask one more question before we open the floor. that is for john clark, when you're working on these issues, how closely and with which agencies are you working with the u.s. government? what do those partnerships look like and how can we build those? >> we work with everybody and anybody. we worked with microsoft, they were in

allowing them to double the amount of weight they can carry safely these exoskeletons are being used by dhlask chrysler fiat it's one of the ways robots are transforming entire industries boston dynamics spot minirobot captivating the crowd to the this conference, this just one day after the soft bank owned company released video showing the four-legged star running up and down stairs and dodging objects. its two-legged companion, the atlas, taking jaunts around the neighborhood the increasing agility of robots is transforming industries like agriculture. check out this pliable robotic arm, delicate enough to pack eggs into cartons and pick tomatoes off trees john deere also investing heavily in robotics. its automated machines outfitted with computer vision technology. >> like facial recognition, it goes through the field and identifies weeds versus crop. >> reporter: and investment into robotics is exploding. last year, vcs invested about $1.7 billion into robotic start-ups, comparing that to $750 million the year before >> aditi, thank you very much. >>> welcome back to "power lunch," ev

the post office processes more than fedex, ups, and dhl combined. those private carriers have to give law enforcement the information. they can then find these packages that are suspect. the post office for the most part doesn't have that because we don't have a requirement on them. the requirement was put on other carriers after 9/11. the thought was that the post office would do it also. it has been 16 years and they are still studying it. legislation, that many members of this committee have say, let'sis just to make the post office also give your people what they say they need badly. senator carper and i conducted a year-long investigation into this issue. out someble to find really shocking news, that people were selling the stuff online freely. if you send it through the post office, it is guaranteed. if you send it through a private carrier, it is not. in this authorization legislation, we have some good things about working with the chinese government through information sharing, but the central issue, the real gap in our defenses, is the de

so, the post office has about 900 million packages a year more than fedex, ups, dhl combined and again, they have to give folks atticus tomorrows information and they can find packages that are suspect, where it's going, where it's from and the post office doesn't have a requirement like this. the requirement was put on the other carriers did it at 9/11. and we thought the post office would, but they're doing studies on it. it's been 16 years and they're still studying. the members of the commission strongly support it and the senator has been a big advocate as has others and let's make the post office give your people what they say they need. and they've testified before they need it and need it battley. the senator earlier here as i conducted a year-long investigation into this issue through permanent committee of investigations and placed in undercover folks from your department. thank you for lending them to us, to find out shocking news, which is that people are selling this stuff on-line freely, not worried about enforcement side and saying if you send it through the post office,

more than ups, dhl combined. they have to give law enforcement, including your good folks, the information they can then find these packages that are suspect. where it's from, where it's going. post office doesn't have that. the requirement was put in place on the other carriers after 9/11. it's been 16 years and we're still studying it. the legislation that has strongly reported it, i see the senator here, she's been a big advocate. is to say let's make the post office give your people what they say they need and they've testified before us here they need it and need it badly. senator carpenter conducted a year long investigation through the permanent subcommittee vest gass. we were able to get some undercover folks from your apartment to find out some really shocking news, which is that people were selling this stuff online freely, not worried a bt t about it. if you send through the post office, it's guaranteed. private care yes, it's not. in the authorization, we have some good things about helping with regar

in 2002, congress passed a law that required the private carriers, fedex or dhl or ups to get advanced electronic data from their customers which would then be provided to law enforcement that would tell law enforcement where the package is from, what's in the package, and where it's going. with that information, using big data analytics, customs and border protection has been able to identify suspicious packages because they have this data on the packages coming in, every package. a hundred percent of the packages. they then are able to pull these packages offline, test them, and not have this poison come into our community. the same is not true, unfortunately, with regard to the u.s. postal service. until we began this congressional investigation and began to push the postal service, there was very little electronic data being provided on any packages from the postal service. now, remember, there are 900 million packages coming in a year. how can law enforcement possibly find the suspect packages without having this data and without having good detection equipment to be able to find