rebecca jarvis has more on the racial abuse he endured. >> we just want to be treated and seen as equal human beings. >> a former tesla contract worker speaking out after a san francisco federal court decided the electric car maker must pay him 130 7 million dollars over claims he suffered racist abuse at the company. oh in -- owen diaz told the court he faced a hostile work environment where employees drew swastikas and racist graffiti on bathroom stalls, or coworkers told them to go back to africa and ethnic slurs were heard routinely. diaz says nothing was done to stop it, quitting after roughly one year on the job and

here is rebecca jarvis. rebecca: the man at the center of a $137 million verdict against tesla speaking out. >> you cannot keep treating workers like this. rebecca: owen diaz as an elevator operator told the court that he faced a hostile work environment where employees drew swastikas and racist graffiti on bathroom stalls and coworkers told him to go back to africa. >> they decided not to follow through and kill investigations. rebecca: now tesla ordered to ming up we will have much more of our interview with owen diaz and the change he hopes his verdict will make in workplaces everywhere. with your gma first look, rebecca jarvis. kumasi: if you own a volvo the company issued a voluntary recall of 460,000 callers -- cars because of an airbag defect. the recall impacts older sedans. applies to your car and the dealership will of replace the airbag for free. reggie: amazon is working on a smart refrigerator. it can predict your food preferences and order groceries on your behalf. it uses similar technology fou

here's chief business and economics correspondent, rebecca jarvis. >> reporter: tonight, from diapers to meat to car parts, even candy, supply shortages everywhere you turn. >> what normally would take a couple of weeks for us to get or even a week has stretched out to about a month or so. >> reporter: american families having a harder time finding what they need at the grocery store, pharmacies, even giant retailers. analysts already sounding the alarm to hurry up and finish those holiday wish lists. >> i think we can expect this to get worse before it gets better. and so for people who are looking forward to the christmas season, i think it makes sense to start ordering things now to make sure you have them on time. >> reporter: each piece of the supply chain strapped, giant backlogs at our ports, ships lined up as far as the eye can see, a shortage of truck drivers and factory workers. the cost of using shipping containers soaring because up nearly 300% this year, because the demand for them is so high, increasing the price retailers pay just to get their goods from asia to u.s. st

the schools are really scrambling to get those kinds of items. >> and rebecca jarvis with us now. when you see those ships still out at sea, you really get it. and people at home are asking what everyone is asking, how long is this going to last? >> reporter: and the bottom line here, david, is that these problems aren't going away any time soon. they're forecast to last into next year and i spoke to a small business owner today who told me the merchandise she expected to have on her shelves for christmas isn't even coming until february. david? >> all right, rebecca, i know you're going to stay on this for us. thank you. >>> overseas tonight and news involving north korea coming in at this hour. that country releasing images tonight of what they say is their latest missile test. state-run media reporting they have tested a new submarine-launched ballistic missile, their eighth test fire this year. south korean officials confirming tonight the missile rose 37 miles high, flew 470 miles, landing in the sea of japan. >>> back here at home tonight and three top pediatrics groups decl

rebecca jarvis hosts a podcast about the trial. a new episode comes out every tuesday.perintendent is warning parents of a tiktok trend. reggie: a look at the big the of the new york stock exchange where we are down this morning. >> we've got a weather system to the north of us dragging in some high clouds. we have a mostly cloudy start out fair. looking at the upside from a roof camera here, temperatures are in the mid 50's. 68 it oakland. so cool mid and upper 50's in the southbay, the coast as we look at another view here, the s mild and conquered. 52 with cloudy skies in santa rosa. 54 nevada. you can expect a lot of cloud cover a few sunny breaks in the day. will remain cool this time of year. the cooler weather sticks around for the next few days. i friday, it system missing the bay area hitting us a chance of soureikely from the sierra nevada and then we will look at a system behind it with high pressure building in. that will bring warmer temperatures. write in time for fleet week where mid upper 60's over the weekend. sunday the warmest day. 70 in napa as well

rebecca jarvis has a look at the risks and benefits. -- joining the growing amount of retailers allowing customers to buy now and pay later, a new kind of installment plan. >> buy now, pay later is a type of payment system where retailers offer customers the ability to purchase a product, get it within a day or two, and then pay for it over a certain amount of time. this is different than layaway because you get the product first. rebecca: besides target, other big-name retailers are jumping in, offering buy now, pay later, including macy's, amazon, and walmart. and experts revealed they will soon partner up with service providers to embrace this option. and it's no wonder why. in a recent survey of consumers, 60% said they have used buy now, pay later. >> consumers are really worried about whether or not they are going to be able to get their products in time for christmas. so, when you see a buy now, pay later, you can get your product right now. you don't have to worry about the shopping rush. rebecca: buy now, pay later is especially

here's our chief business and economics correspondent rebecca jarvis tonight. >> reporter: tonight, proctor & gamble, maker of tide detergent and crest toothpaste, the latest in a growing list of companies announcing price hikes on many household staples in response to mounting problems with the supply chain. in a call with investors today, the company, which already raised the price of pampers diapers earlier this year, said it is limiting how much some retailers can buy to prevent hoarding and changing up shipping routes to get around bottlenecks. the news comes as a record breaking 100 ships wait to unload at the ports of l.a. and long beach. our martha raddatz showing us right here in recent days what the bottleneck looks like up close. >> there are more than 60 container ships anchored here. normally, there wouldn't be any. and these are the ones we can see. out beyond here, there are dozens more waiting to anchor. >> reporter: now union pacific railroad joining those ports running 24/7. on monday, the american apparel and footware association called on the president to "incentivize th

rebecca jarvis is back with more on the investigation. ck up and running this morning. facebook, instagram and whatsapp after that nearly six-hour outage that impacted around 3.5 billion users and facebook says this morning they have determined the root cause of the problem calling it in a post a faulty configuration charge and they have no evidence that user data was compromise the as a result of this downtime and they are apologizing to all those affected. but you should know this type of thing is extremely rare. we do not see things like this, the amount of time, the amount of users impacted by this whole debacle. that is why you saw yesterday facebook's stock plunge almost 5%. its worst day so far this year. overnight facebook's ceo and founder, mark zuckerberg out with his own post, a statement of apology writing, sorry for the disruption. but, robin, given something like this, the size, scope and scale, researchers and experts say there still needs to be more investigation into really what happened here. robin? >> many would welcome

rebecca jarvis is back with how she did it, and what other business owners can learn from her experiencele to take over complete ownership of my brand. >> this is, like, you. >> the brave me. >> reporter: this morning, entertainer turned business mogul jessica simpson is taking full control of her billion dollar brand alongside her mom, tina. ♪ jessica and her mom negotiating for full ownership with parent company sequential brands group who filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. jessica telling "footwear news," it means the absolute world to me to be able to take over complete ownership of my brand. after 16 years in business, i feel ready to meet this next exciting phase with open arms. >> jessica simpson regaining control of her brand is ensuring that the brand jessica simpson doesn't lose value as it gets passed along from selling and reselling. >> reporter: the star also adding, i know the sky is the limit when my mom, our incredible team and i, lock into our customers completely. the brand founded in 2005 known for fun and flirty looks like these includes shoes, apparel, accessori

buy now, pay later, rebecca jarvis has a look at the risks and benefits. n popularity and availability, but you really need to know what you're getting into before you take advantage. just in time for holiday shopping, target is announcing it's joining the growing number of retailers allowing customers to buy now and pay later. a new kind of installment plan different than layaway to make purchases. >> buy now, pay later is a type of payment system where retailers offer customers the ability to purchase a product, get it within a day or two and then pay for it over a certain amount of time. this is different than layaway because you get the product first. >> reporter: besides target, other big name retailers are jumping in, offering buy now, pay later including macy's, amazon and walmart. and experts predict a growing number of companies will soon partner up with third-party service providers like afterpay, klarna and sezzle, to embrace this option. 60% said they've used buy now, pay later. >> consumers worry whether they will get their products in time for

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rebecca jarvis has the story of a young couple who did just that. >> reporter: when anjie and rj decidedic, they decided to get to work. >> the first thing that we did, of course, was budget for the prior three months before that, we looked at how much we were spending and started to notice some common things. >> we were able to kind of refocus and reprioritize our spending and we would meet weekly talking about our budget and goals and it was just huge for us. >> reporter: the couple reduced their expenses by negotiating their cell phone bill and rent. canceling unnecessary subscriptions and cutting back on going out. >> and any upcoming bills we would say, is this negotiable and every dollar starts to add up. >> reporter: they also increased their income by doing side hustles and within a year were able to knock out their entire debt. >> like simple changes like that that will pay off in dividends for you. >> reporter: they've been able to apply their tactics to remaining debt free even around the holidays. they recommend saving small amounts throughout the year, allocating a specific

rebecca jarvis has some ways to get some help as well as one woman's mission to provide that help for job at a mental health agency. >> i needed time to get my life together for chemo. i needed time for me. >> reporter: but chemo wasn't the michigan native's biggest hurdle. it was paying the bills while on disability, and getting just 60% of her salary. >> i became behind in my rent, and my ego wouldn't let me reach out to anyone. >> patients are not prepared for a diagnosis and they're not prepared for the financial implications of treatment. >> reporter: molly mcdonald knows this first hand. her own breast cancer diagnosis led her to start the pink fund, a national nonprofit that provides a financial bridge to breast cancer patients by paying their living expenses for 90 days. mcdonald says most patients have no idea about the hidden cost of breast cancer, like losing income during treatment or transportation costs like parking fees and gas. >> so if you live in a rural area in this country and you want to go to a nationally known cancer center, you may have a two to three-hour driv

in san jose there is a podcast about the trial hosted by abc news reporter rebecca jarvis.sode comes out every tuesday listen, wherever stream your podcast. today's the day new us postal service standards. take effect. potentially slowing down your mail some first-class mail magazines and packages will have longer delivery times talking up to five days instead of the usual two or three most of the slowed mail will be determined by the distance that it has to travel the changes are part of a larger 10-year plan that the postmaster general says is meant to save money parcel shipping costs are also going up. sunday in antic return to normal after december 26th. after funding the government and averting a shutdown democrats in congress are now laser focused on trying to reach agreement on a bipartisan infrastructure bill and a broader package expanding the social safety net but it's unlikely a vote is going to happen tonight. and that means lawmakers won't get another chance for weeks abc news reporter ike ijaci with the latest from washington. today president biden joining the

rebecca jarvis has the latest on all of that. ning, rebecca. >> reporter: good morning to you, amy, and this was an explosive hearing. many lawmakers made comparisons between facebook and big tobacco and pressed the owner of instagram to share everything it knows about the app's impact on teens and how it engages with its young users. in the three-hour hearing facebook grilled about its attempts to target young people. >> instagram is that first childhood cigarette meant to get teens hooked early. >> reporter: accusing the company which also owns instagram of disregarding internal research which showed that its instagram app can be harmful for many teenage girls. >> while facebook publicly denies that instagram is deeply harmful for teens, privately facebook, researchers and experts have been ringing the alarm for years. >> reporter: an investigation by "the wall street journal" revealed that facebook's own research found that more than 30% of teen girls said when they feel bad about their bodies, instagram made them feel worse an

rebecca jarvis is back with the story. hey, rebecca. >> reporter: hey, michael, nice to see you.y indefinitely as long as you're able to commute to the office on occasion and your team says it's okay. in a note to employees ceo of amazon writing that he's going to be leaving this up to the individual teams, the director/manager on each team will have to make the call and say whether it works for their group, and this is a big change from what amazon was saying just a few weeks ago when they were telling employees they would need to return to the office by january for three days a week. it's also a big competitive move on their part. there are so many tech companies and peers that have made flexible work more a part of the culture and the ethos and with so many people now voluntarily leaving jobs at near record numbers and a record number, millions of them, of job openings, this makes amazon more competitive with peers like apple and google and microsoft, which have also adjusted their policies recently, but there is a ripple effect to these changes. you have the other types of bu

rebecca jarvis introduces us to a mother of three who found a way to save so much on groceries that sheith a $93,000 mortgage. then theair discovered cash budgeti budgeting. >> i couldn't just swipe and swipe and swipe like i had to be accountable. that was like a huge game changer. >> reporter: each month kim would allocate a specific amount to each expense from groceries to kids' actives to clothing. any leftovers would go straight to paying down the mortgage. >> like $25 here, $30 here but over time it just -- it just kept shortening that time frame. >> reporter: surplus cash like tax refunds or bonus money also went towards paying down the principal. within just two years kim and her family were debt-free. she discovered some of her biggest savings came from groceries. kim's first tip, avoid impulse purchases. >> i got very intentional about making a shopping list and forcing myself to stick with it. >> reporter: next food shop online. >> instead of having three kids in the grocery store like begging, you know, every aisle we're able to just go in and put in what we feed our family

our rebecca jarvis with the latest. >> reporter: the whistle-blower behind a trove of leaked internalk documents is coming forward. >> the thing i saw at facebook over and over again was there were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for facebook, and facebook over and over again chose to optimize for its own interests like making more money. >> reporter: frances haugen, a former product manager at the social network telling "60 minutes" when she joined the company, she wanted to focus on combatting misinformation. >> when we live in an environment that is full of angry, hateful, polarizing content, it erodes our civic trust. it erodes our faith in each other. it erodes our ability to want to care for each other. >> reporter: but after more than a year she says she became so disillusioned, she filed an anonymous complaint with the s.e.c. and filed hundreds of pages of company research including misleading the investors about the impact. she says her breaking point came after the 2020 election when her company dissolved her team focused on civil

to pay him $137 million because he was repeatedly subjected to racist abuse at the company and rebecca jarvis>> we just want to be treated and seen as equal human beingsi speaki o aer s tr cmaker stayt de him $137 million over claims he suffered racist abuse at the company. owen diaz hired through a staffing agency in 2015 as an elevator operator at tesla's factory in freemont told the court he faced a hostile work environment where employees painted swastikas and racist graffiti on bathroom stalls and co-workers told him back to africa and ethnic slurs were heard routinely. he said nothing was done to stop it quitting after roughly one year on the job and ultimately suing. >> they decided not to follow through. they decided to kill investigations. you know, you can't keep treating workers like this. >> reporter: now tesla whose founder and ceo is elon musk ordered to pay diaz $130 million in punitive damages and $7 million in emotional distress. an unprecedented amount for racial discrimination cases. >> a lot of people are living paycheck to paycheck. they have to take either -- choose to t