so, anyone this morning who has an alexa or an amazon-powered device that has alexa inside of it. steve: that's listening. >> that's listen something going to be running to this device right now, to the app. that controls it if they have not been faithful. because if you have had some indiscretion at the house while the spouse was away, this is what's happening. alexa records every single commands that comes through. and when that command is recorded, it also records the voice clip. for example, this is my amazon alexa app. steve: yeah. >> i asked just yesterday how do you say happy birthday in mandarin. so here i have just -- i can

i'll hold this right next to my speaker. >> alexa. off. >> alexa, off.ut you hear that other noise? that is me zipping up luggage to come out here. that shows how powerful those speakers are and i was in the other room, about 15 feet away from that speaker. hallie. >> that's comforting. gadi, thank you. gadi schwartz, ladies and gentlemen, appreciate it. joining our panel now a business reporter from "the new york times." her latest article is what gadi's piece was framed about titled, hey, alexa, what can you hear? and what will you do with it? i sent your article to everybody that i know that has an alexa and said heads up, this is happening because it is sort of stunning when you look at what companies are trying to do. to be clear as you make the point in your piece, there's a lot of patent applications that get filed all the time for technology that might not be coming to fruition. so let's not get over our skis about it, right? >> right, of course. and i think that's so important to know that tech companies file lots of patents and a lot of them ne

alexa, stop. >> yeah, there are a lot of alexas listening to you at home right now. >>> ford is making a move that has some asking is this the end of the car. the company's eliminating 80% of its car lineup including the fusion, the focus and taurus sedans. also it can devote more resources to building suvs and trucks which are more popular. ford wants to cut $25 billion in expenses. don't worry, though. the mustang has been spared. that one is still in production. >> that would just be un-american if that went away. >>> all right, coming up, the classic kids' show coming back to tv. >>> but first a man trapped in his car for days after a crash with no food or water. see how he survived and was finally rescued. >>> and a walk down the aisle at this wedding that stunned everyone. this wedding that stunned everyone. the thing that's really important to dentists is to make sure that that enamel stays strong and resilient for a lifetime the more that we can strengthen and re-harden that tooth surface, the whiter their patients' teeth are going to be. dentists are going to really want to re

plus, alexa is not enough for amazon.eff bezos's latest ambition to build a domestic robot for your home. we will discuss his top-secret program. and facebook and twitter get ready to report. we set you up for the rest of the big week in tech as the media giants try to keep wall street happy. numbers's first-quarter are in and of the google parent company reporting sales of $29.5 billion, topping estimates by $600 million. andings per share, $13.32, paid clicks jumped 55% as well, with expenditures for the tech giant more than tripling to $7.7 billion. for more, we will bring in bob o'donnell. i will in new york, start with collin. the ad business still going strong, despite privacy concerns. what is your biggest take away? collin: strong quarter for google again. the takeaway is that google is looking pretty professional compared to some of its competitors, namely facebook, today. i think that is pretty apparent in the way that google sort of has not really said anything recently since the cambridge analytica scandal. th

alexa has been learning a lot.s been learning a lot the alexa about what we want and need. what is the role that alexa will play? >> it makes sense that this new vesta robot would have alexa on board. the technology needs to advance. alexa is not very conversational. the japanese electronics companies have been thinking about this for a long time and they see it as a elder care contained or a way to solve the problem of an aging population in japan. you can see a version of alexa, when they make it more conversational, as being useful for the robot. emily: sometimes google home is better than alexa and is more informative. where are the other tech giants on home robots? >> that is a good question. in terms of the tech giants, we know google has google x. they have been playing with this stuff for years. apple has not really talked about robots. asia, sony, companies in they have been playing with robots. the $1800 dog that barks and play soccer. that is not the price of a real dog these days. emily: look this peppe

is alexa a he or she? anybody want to answer that? alexa is in it. it's a fundamental ethical principle that a bunch of code is never called and he or she and if you read through the literature of the company very carefully, they dance around this point. if you ask alexa are you a he or she alexa says i am in female character. that's a slimy answer. because it avoided the question. alexa did not say i am in it. and today i am because she left that part out. i made the mistake and called her a sheet. that's the concept. the concept is to make you feel that you're having a relationship when in fact are you talking to a salesperson who's been sitting in the middle of your living room trying to sell you the next on amazon shipment or are you talking to a friend who is trying to help you out with the weather? you don't know. i worked intact, so i know. in the book i tell you, but what happens is overtime with technology is things start out as your friend helping you and the driver monetize asian transforms them into essentially selling you stuff. if you l

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we are looking to see how many installed units there are of alexa devices.they get to the 100 million installed device alexas by the end of this year or somewhere in 1029 -- 2019. emily: i'm reading through the shareholder letter now from jeff bezos. jeff bezos here saying, "one thing i love about customers is they are divinely discontent. their expectations are never static. they go up. it is human nature. you cannot rest on your laurels in this world. customers won't have it. they will continue to invest for the long term." what are the highlights you are pulling out of this? >> i think that 100 million prime members is the big takeaway. a lot of familiar themes, just a highlight reel of stats we have seen over the past year. the big thing is that 100 million prime subscribers. it's something they use as a building block. it is a foundation for them. we are seeing them more and more add additional tiers to that. if you want to pay more and get music, great. if you want to pay more and get video, great. if you want to pay a little more and get amazon fresh,

a magic word feature will make its say please when asking alexa -- kids say please when asking alexam cook made his way to the oval office to meet with president trump. this comes between a brewing trade war between d.c. and beijing. trump has been vocal that he will get apple to "build their damn computers in this country instead of other countries." before the meeting, he tweeted, "looking forward to my meeting with tim cook of apple. we will he talking about many things, including how the u.s. has been treated unfairly for many years, by many countries, on trade." mike dorling shows us all the details. mike: we know the topics were discussed. it was about trade and of course, for apple it's important to have open trade especially with asia and president trump wants more limited fair trade. but the white house and apple haven't told us much about what was said. we know that cook met with the president in the oval office and we know he also met with the president's chief economic advisor, larry kudlow, and he also had a meeting and the office of the u.s. trade representative. so cle

los padres de alexa durÁn hablaron por primera vez de la perdida de su hija, la familia presentÓ unalourdes hurtado tiene sus declaracioness. >>> es una pesadilla que no voy a despertar y voy a ver a mi hija y no estÁ. y solamente encuentro a mi esposa llorando, haciÉndome preguntas que yo no puedo responder. >>> destrozados por la muerte de su hija, los padres de alexa durÁn hablan pÚblicamente por primera vez y escucharon el 15 de marizo >>> ese momento no sentÍa a mi niÑa >>> alexa es una de las 6 vidas que cobrÓ el colapso del puente peatonal en la universidad internacional de florida >>> lleguÉ para ver la escena mÁs horrible que un padre puede ver >>> ahora exigen justicia. el pasado viernes presentaron una demanda contra 8 empresas responsables de la construcciÓn. entre ellas. (nombre en inglÉs) en kavrcarga la supervisiÓn general del proyecto. su abogado asegura que fueron negligentes. seÑala que por la prisa de cumplir a tiempo con la entrega del proyecto y no perder los fondos generales descuidaron el diseÑo, los materiales y la t o tÉcnica de construcciÓn en el puente y pe

. >> amtz unveiling alexa for kids the candy colored echoed had kid powered content.y also reward your kids for politeness google unveiling its first gmail redesign since 2018. it's designed to help businesses take on microsoft's outlook. we will look at rising rates, what it means for housing with red fin's ceo aid later this hour. >>> the dow has been down each of the past five trading days even as earnings have been pretty good. some of the forecasts maybe not so hot what are the issues that stocks are hung up on i think we know a couple of them, bob pisani. >> we have been talking about it for a couple of weeks now. let's run through four or five issues the market is dealing with number one, we saw this yesterday in a big way, the whole peak earnings debate are we here now? 20% earnings groert for this first quarter. it's going to be 20% for the second, third, and fouk and go down to 10% for the first quarter of 2019. bears are saying we need to deal with it now. others saying no it can wait rising inflation a lot of companies talking about higher input costs high

added that customers voice recordings are not used for targeted advertising but it's not the first alexa controversy with users expressing worries over its quote evil laugh something that amazon has pledged to stop. are we really that desperate for approval that we need a machine to laugh at us election people have been reporting that you've been spontaneously laughing. oh how i like the. social justice campaign and george barda joins me on the line now good evening to you george quite a few people are worried about this alexa eavesdropping on conversations consider this something to worry about. i think there are sort of massive concerns i mean it's you can't help but laugh at what seems like a sort of virtual freudian slip in terms of this sort of evil laugh coming out but you know what that is a reminder of is that these microphones are always on. and you know well i am as an amazones official response to this is that you know it's just a peyton and it may not be for a number of years and it may not even come to market it nonetheless points to a very very scary future that you know of

parents can set alexa to go silent at bedtime and also see what their kids are talking to alexa about. and speaking of alexa, don't forget if you have an alexa, you will hear me saying what our top stories are today. >> every morning. >> say, hey, alexa, what's the new? i just sent off a bunch of alexa dots right now. >>> still ahead, san francisco's mayor promised and he's making good on his promise to clean up the city. the early results of efforts to remove thousands of needles off the streets and also find housing for the homeless. >>> firefighters and structural engineers plan to start demolishing that apartment building in concord that burned in a fire earlier this week, but we have seen plenty of fire activity here this morning. hot spots continuing to burn. we will have a look at some of the activity and talk about those plans for demo work coming up. coming up. >>> we have a couple of new crashes in the south bay that i want to tell you about. we are also looking at the sunol grade and you can see traffic here is moving very well in both directions. ions. >>> and in weather w

it's releasing a new focus skills for alexa digital assistant.e an echodot speaker designed for children. a magic word feature will make it say please when asking alexa questions. apple ceo tim cook made his way to the oval office to meet with president trump. the head-to-head comes amid the trade war between beijing. trump has been vocal that he would get apple to build their computers in this country instead of other countries. and before the meeting, he tweeted, looking forward to my meeting with tim cook from apple. we will be talking about many things, including how u.s. has been treated unfairly for many years on trade. bloomberg's white house editor brought us all the details. >> we know the topic of what was discussed, and we know what both of them think about that. it was about trade and of coarse, for apple it is very important to have open trade especially with asia and president trump wants a more limited so-called fair trade. but the white house and apple haven't told us much about what was said. we know that cook met with the presid

emily: what about other businesses like grocery delivery and whole foods, like alexa and amazon echo?hese are small businesses now, but how big could they become? crawford: quite large. we will see significant growth in alexa because -- and that growth high double-digit for a long time because they are trying to build out that platform for the for seeable future. they have a significant lead over google and a very significant lead over microsoft and apple in that platform. what they want to do is start connecting these services together. you will see a huge push toward combining the power of aws to alexa, platform to platform to be able to connect and control more devices in your life. whole foods on the other hand is a fascinating acquisition because we are seeing the benefit of that now in terms of a year later, but i think we bee just begun to see them able to unlock the power in terms of how you can combine aws to the alexa landform to whole foods experience. that part is just getting started. emily: if you are an amazon investor, what are the risk factors? brad: you would be happ

they've launched a new feature called alexa donation. you can say, alexa, make a donation. there are 40 charities including red cross and cancer society. >> really cool. i kind of like that. >> right when you feel moved, not later. thanks, kate. >>> the u.s. and china seem to be headed to a trade war. we've been talking about this for a while. china announced an increase in tariff rates. on that list, wine, nuts, and many other california products. this move comes after president trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum for china. >> for the u.s. government to involve us and get us stuck in the mid of this trade war would be very devastating for california. >> neither the u.s. or china show any signs of backing down on this standoff. president trump did announce plans to a slap an additional $50 billion of tariffs on china for allegedly stealing technology. >>> it's opening day at at&t park. will it be a home run? >> it's looking like it. right now in san francisco, we've got nice skies. i'll break down your hour by hour and the storm making its way toward the bay area.

alexa typically stops recording after it fulfills a command. >> alexa, where is the nearest jewelry storea look at this. researchers at cybersecurity firm checkmarx say they discovered that flaw after using a calculator app it created. >> what do you want to calculate? >> 7 times 6. >> reporter: alexa kept recording after giving the answer. >> the result is 42. >> an unsuspecting user believes the session with alexa has ended. we are still being recorded, but everything is uploaded to amazon. >> it's essentially to have an intruder in your home in the privacy of your home listening to what you are talking about. >> reporter: checkmarx said it disclosed this particular issue to amazon after it was discovered and before hackers had a chance to exploit it. amazon tells abc news they fixed the problem, saying customer trust is important to us and we take security and privacy seriously. we have put mitigations in place for detecting this type of skill behavior and reject or suppress those skills when we do. but these tech experts say companies are facing a constant battle when it comes to cybe

alexa, what is the weather forecast for tonight?, partly cloudy and a full moon, which we have never actually visited. the moon landing took place on a sound stage. you can see a shadow in the picture. >> jimmy: okay, all right, stop. alexa, stop. [ laughter and applause ] see a shadow in the picture? hey, guys, listen to this. police in ontario arrested a a dog for attacking a deer and they actually put the dog in the back of a squad car. take a look at this. can we zoom in? [ light laughter ] look at that, yeah. [ audience aws ] he'll be sentenced to two years, but will get off early if he's a good boy. [ laughter and applause ] >> tariq: hold up. jimmy, i got one. >> jimmy: oh, okay, tariq, go ahead. >> tariq: looks like he'll be serving a few years behind barks. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: not bad. >> questlove: hey, hey. jimmy, jimmy, i got one. >> jimmy: sure, quest, go ahead. >> questlove: all right, all right. i hope they treat him okay, because i heard, like in prison, it can be really ruff. [ laughter and applause

alexa will respond thanks for asking so nicely. the new speakers are expected to roll out on may 9th. >> good news for chocolate lovers. it will encourage >> an adventure camp for grown ups. >> can your kids come >>> today on our web site we posted what you need to know about american idol before the top ten take the stage on sunday. if you're logging on from your home download the news app to get breaking noews alert. tune in right here on abc 7 news at 4:00. >>> now, give into your dark chocolate cravings. it turns out the treat doesn't just taste good. it also may make your smarter. jennifer ashton talked about it on she says a study tested what it did to the brain. >> they did eegs after feeding them 70% cacoa. all five had increase in brain activity. >> they say it >> you eat a lot? >> no but my daughter loves it. she wanted to bring it in as a birthday snack. the teacher said it's not healthy. she had to switch to something else. other people brought pigs in a blanket. that's hot dogs. >> i would rather have chocolate than ho

need that customers voice recordings are not used for targeted advertising but it's not the first alexa controversy with users are having expressed worries previously over its quote evil laugh something amazon has pledged to stop. are we really that desperate for approval that we need the machine to laugh at us. people have been reporting that you've been spontaneously laughing. oh how i like the. live. i. let's go activist and social justice campaign to george barda warns that there are many ways in which this kind of technology could be misused by third parties. the microphones are always on. and you know well i am is an amazones official response to this is that you know it's just a pate and it may not be for a number of years and it may not even come to market it nonetheless points to a very very scary future what we see with these always on microphones is the way our own consumer desires effectively have been used to bring about a situation where every single moment of our existence can be can be mined for all sorts of data and we're talking about corporations hackers and governmen

. >>> alexa now going kid friendly. there's a new version of the dot, it's colorful, you can set time limits to kids chatting to alexa late at might. amazon not only promising to entertain children but teach them good manners. they are encouraged to say "please" and "thank you" when asking alexa questions. >> so is alexa going to raise the kid? or are we still in charge? >> we'll see. >> once in a while we still are. >> we have big changes coming our way, still the possibility of a few showers in that forecast as we head into the weekend. let's take you into the micro climate forecast tonight. certified most accurate by weather rates, and you can see the live view here across the east pay. mt. diablo in the background. a few little puffy clouds, other than that, beautiful conditions in concord, 72 right now after a high of 76. and we'll be dropping down fast again. nice sea breeze coming in. you can crack open your windows as temperatures will be heading down to the 50s. we have seen the most recent cooling trend from t

tambiÉn pueden decir cosas como alexa, me aburro. pueden pedir canciones y otras mÁs.imos a ella que en 15 segundos nos comentara cuÁl fue su mejor lecciÓn en estos 25 aÑos de carrera. laura: lo que he aprendido mÁs en esta carrera de 25 aÑos es a ser una mujer, una isla, una madre ahora y lo debo tambiÉn a la carrera, porque es gracias a estos dioses que hoy soy asÍ. javier: te contaremos a la vuelta de la pausa, hablaremos sobre los apostadores. tambiÉn hablaremos sobre cuÁl podrÍa ser el nuevo nombre del bebÉ real. activistas confirman que al menos 63 personas murieron, y javier: activistas menos de tres personas padecen sufrieron heridas por las protestas en nicaragua. se acusa al gobierno de cometer una masacre contra los inconformes. el presidente ortega ha convocado a un diÁlogo entre diferentes sectores del paÍs. carolina: en guatemala, noticentro en una cÁrcel dejÓ ocho muertos y 23 heridos, mÁs de una docena de reclusos han sido hospitalizados. policÍas y bomberos acudieron al penal, es poder recibir reportes de disparos. autoridades confirma que la revuelta

the major flaw discovered in amazon's alexa. >> i knew it. you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. never have i given 10% chance of rain so much attention because of what it's going to do to our temperatures and the fact that it could be measurable. i'll show you how much, when and where coming up. >>> live look outside right now, six minutes after we need to help more tocalifornians get ahead.d, that's why antonio villaraigosa brought both parties together to balance the state budget with record investments in public schools... and new career training programs. as mayor of la, he brought police and residents together to get illegal guns off the streets and keep kids out of gangs, and on the right path. that's antonio villaraigosa. a governor for all of california. >>> good morning. we'll start with temperatures low 50s all along the peninsula and the coast all the way up until you get to 48 in daly city. low to mid 50s along the east bayshore. south bay upper 40s to near 50 in the north bay. santa cruz, anothe

--pe i unplugged my ale should i unplug my alexa?when you unplug it. listeninge that phone in your pocket for that wake words, it is a and amazon-specific problem but a move toward voice-activated devices. consumers like that functionality. devices attrue alexa my house so it is a big people move towards. julia: you are going through the house, unplugging and re-plugging. there is a bigger question posed, which is ultimately there will be a consumer response and reaction. we did not see that with facebook. facebook has gone nowhere. that were talking about before. if you look at large technology companies, privacy and concerns about privacy are probably the only thing that could dent this year and beyond. everything else seems well. if the government says, you have to stop this or this is a good, that could slow the process. david: just when we think we have seen one form of disruption, there is a new one. cloud has disrupted a lot of businesses. what is the danger it will be disrupted and how long will we have and who will disrupt i

alexa scheduled to sell more than 43 million units. this morning researchers said they found a flaw that could let alexa record a user without their knowledge. take a look at what researchers at the cyber security firm checkmarx found after using a calculator app. >> an unsuspecting user believes the session with alexa is over, but everything is uploaded to amazon. >> reporter: amazon saying it fixed the b pro, we have put mitigations in place for detecting this type of skill behavior and reject orr suppress the skills when we do. at 7:00 a.m. we'll have more on the cyber security flaw with your gma first look. i'm kendis gibson, abc news new york. >>> despite the user privacy scandal facebook's better than expected. the number of daily active users is higher. facebook has about 1.5 billion users worldwide. in after-hours trading facebook stock was up more than 7%. they've also released a new commercial addressing the privacy scandal. >>> from now on facebook will do more to keep your safe and protect your privacy so we can get back to

amazon wants alexa to be your new home for all your sports needs. the assistant has a new skill, ability to recap nhl and nba games just in time for playoffs. alexa will give you individual stats such as how many points lebron james scored or last night's game. when games are starting or which treatments made it into the next round. back to you. >> i wonder what her tone is, though. that's interesting. >> thanks. >> looking for a rental car? soon you'll be able to count on uber. the company announcing it's launching uber rent, renting cars from car owners instead of a rental company. there are hourly and daily rates and flexible pickup and drop-off. uber rent will launch in san francisco next month. our uber coverage continues on "today" show, savannah's exclusive interview with the ceo talking about safety initiative. >> i don't know about letting people i don't know use the car. i larl let people i know use my car. >> are you going to let kari and i use it for lunch today? >> no, but i'll drive you. >> everyone heading out early this morning deali

the real concern was alexa is always a woman's voice.arning to be nasty to women. >> maria: i can't believe this, that they're listening even when you don't know they're listening. this is an incredibly story. we want to leave it there. we have breaking news. dr. ro ronny jackson is pullingt of the race for the v.a. secretary. we are just getting this news. you saw this crossing. anything else? >> dagen: this is reporting from john roberts, the chief white house correspondent at the fox news channel. i think this was expected, was it not. >> as of last night it looked like it was likely, too much stuff had come out. he was denying most of it. it was a quick pick from this president as well from a guy he truly respected with a proven record in the military and as a doctor in the white house through multiple administrations. he got a lot of praise from the obama folks as well. too much, too fast. >> dagen: these revelation that's were put out, and quite frankly when i put on twitter, it's an insult to snakes to call washington, d.c. a snak

there is alexa and what would this new robot look like? alastair? we -- alastair: one of the clues that it implies ithat will have a lot more moving parts in the roomba, which is a disc that floats on the ground. that would imply that it might have other uses in the house, picking things up and moving things around. that in the robotics world has .een a very big challenge amazon would have to put a lot of work into that. shery: when i think about robots in the household, i think about these big cumbersome things and i don't know how practically useful with a be. how big is the robotics market that amazon is trying to get into? alastair: it would be a huge market they are trying to get into. one way amazon always does well is they take something that has great potential into the future, and they tack on e-commerce business to the product. so the alexa product is a great example. when it first them out, it couldn't do much at all. you can ask it to play music and it would tell you the time and things like that. the main thing is, you could order stuff

there's 10,000 people named alexa in the united states alone. know that because i looked it up on alexa today. [ laughter ] why use names that people have? why not give them names no one has? like hitler. there's nobody named hitler anymore. [ laughter ] hey, hitler, set timer for 18 minutes. hey, hitler, play "always a woman" by billy joel. only time you'd ever have a problem also when you're watching the history channel. think about that, jeff bezos. name it bezos! no one's name is bezos, let it drive his family nuts. speaking of nuts, president trump is at mar-a-lago this week. to meet/golf with the prime minister of japan, shinzo abe. it was his 108th day on the golf course since taking office. but he wants to make it very clear they're there to work. in fact, he tweeted, prime minister abe shinzo of japan and myself this morning building an even deeper and better relationship while playing a quick round of golf at trump international golf club. a quick round of golf and a plug for my golf course. look at this photo. zoom into this. i stared

alexa, listen to everything i say.ext the amazon made that's pushing the boundaries of privacy. >> we have wonder of those. i wonder if it just went off. not only are we going to receive plenty of winds. they'll pick up friday morning but then look at that, 30 to 40 friday evening when they're fastest. they'll still be around 20 to 25 saturday and finally taper off sunday when the rain tapers off. >>> it may be the boys of summer, but not new york. yankees won't have their home opener against the tampa bay rays. that is yankee stadium, snow covered. that's giancarlo stanton. he was taking it all in. he used to play for the marlins so he's not used to seeing this. the two teams plan to make up the game tomorrow. let's play, too. looks pretty cool. here's a look at the radar from earlier this morning. you can see all the gray and white sitting on top of this. and it did move out as the morning wore on. by then, too late. too much snow falling. it will be cold tomorrow but at least able to play. back at home, watching a d

even keeping an eye on your kids to report whether they are getting into mischief. >> alexa. party time. >> amazon seems to be planning for a time they can target specific ads by listening into specific conversations. >> the diagram included in one patent application shows how the creators would determine a person's interests. then use identifying key words to push related advertisements to you. >> we're living in this wild west of tech where we have the smart features, where a.i. is the name of the game. it seems like someone always listening. >> they said it is nothing more than surveillance for advertisers. in a statement, amazon said we take privacy seriously. we do not uses customers' voice recordings for targeted advertising, pat enlts do not necessarily reflect current developments. google tells nbc news we've filed patents on a variety of ideas. prospective product announcements should not necessarily be inferred. but where concerns are becoming more common, questions remain. how much do we want companies to know about our private lives. >>> today california will take

. >>> amazon's alexa is going kid friendly.s colorful, and parents can filter songs with bad words and stop kids from chatting late at night. it is not only promising to entertain children but teach them good manners. a new magic word feature encourages kids to say "please" and "thank you" when asking alexa questions. the new one comes out in may. >>> students go for a world record today. we'll show you how they did it next. a breaking development in reuben foster domestic violence case. the new statements from the woman inv >>> coming up tonight at 6:00, a breaking development in the rubin foster domestic violence case. there are new statements being revealed from an ex-girlfriend that could get the charges tossed out. we'll have that story and more at 6:00. >>> the sixth and seventh and eighth graders at valley christian school tried to create the most chain reactions ever. >> that's so cool. >> this is called a rube goldberg machine. it's to create a domino effect to accomplish a simple goal. the kids fell short of the recor

. >> amazon echo users are reporting that alexa has been letting out a spontaneous and rather creepyompletely unprompted. imagine that. some are even saying that they'll hear random chuckles coming out of their alexa in the dark long after they've gone to bed. now just to give you an idea of what it sounds like, take a listen. ♪ [ laughter ] >> seth: so either the singularity has already happened and artificially intelligent robots have become self-aware or alexa just found out that donald trump is president. [ light laughter ] that's probably how trump's alexa responds to him whenever he talks to it. >> we're going to be doing things militarily. [ laughter ] >> seth: for years, for years republicans spun a wild fantasy about imperial president interfering in the free marketplace by picking winners and losers. and now they have got a president who is actually doing that and their silence is deafening. trump is a wannabe autocrat who thinks he can rule unilaterally whether it's on the border, economically, or -- >> militarily. >> seth: this has been "a closer look." ♪ [ cheers and app

. >> reporter: most everything can be controlled with voice assistance like google home and amazon alexa. >> smart features -- >> reporter: executive editor -- >> you wake up in the morning and your mattress knows you got out of bed your coffeemaker will automatically brew. >> reporter: smart plugs give ordinary items like lamps the ability to listen. >> night-night. >> reporter: to customize commands. >> good night. >> reporter: even the art is smart. 4k monitors display vivid paintings on the wall. >> now you can change the art whenever you want. >> whenever you want. >> reporter: she says consumers need to take security seriously. >> your wi-fi password should be super secure. this is like your front door key. the other thing is make sure all your devices have unique passwords. >> reporter: making smart choices with your smart devices can help heighten your home's iq. chris martinez, cbs news, san francisco. >>> gone are the days of just flipping a switch. >> i'm still flipping. i'm still switch flipping. >> it's easier. >>> here's a look now. i like to flip the switch on all our live

invitations didn't reveal much but reports say the company could unveil a smart speaker like amazon's alexa and a redesigned app. speaking of amazon, the company is reportedly working on a robot for the home. >> speculation about the top secret project ranges from rosie from the jetsons to alexa with legs. in homes this year. they decided animals can't copy right selfies. >> a monkey took this famous selfie. peta filed a lawsuit saying he should have a right to it. the camera's owner shouldn't be able to profit off the mage. a federal appeals court sided with the camera's owner. >> it's a great selfie. >> it is. >> those are your tech bytes. >>> hosting the dinner and the area well represented. >> i don't know what i did to deserve this. >>> welcome back. never more than 7 minutes away from accuweather forecast. the warmth will weaken, drop 4 to 8 drgs, still puts us at 67 in san francisco, low to upper 70s through most neighborhoods. >> thanks, mike. happening today french president emanuel macron and his wife will be the guests of honor at president trump's first state dinner. it will in

. >>> amazon's alexa is going kid friendly. find out how the company plans to put an end to those stories about buying all sorts of toys an gifts on parents' accounts. >>> you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. i know you're wondering why does he keep talking about the chances of rain when it's only 10% friday and saturday. it's because of the we need to help more tocalifornians get ahead.d, that's why antonio villaraigosa brought both parties together to balance the state budget with record investments in public schools... and new career training programs. as mayor of la, he brought police and residents together to get illegal guns off the streets and keep kids out of gangs, and on the right path. that's antonio villaraigosa. a governor for all of california. >>> if you're heading out the door at about 6:10. let's see how you should dress. 48 in daly city. pacifica 49. san carlos at 54. low to mid 50s along the shore. mid to upper 40s through the north bay. here is a look at the golden gate bri

so if you have alexa, you could potentially in the future say, hey, alexa, pay christina $20. in my account. obviously, it needs to get more data like your bank account information, but amazon is working on that. it means collecting more data on its customers. and if you're thinking even long term, imagine having alexa if in your vehicle, going to the gas station saying, hey, alexa, pay for gas. and it does it automatically which means voice commands could potentially be the next wave of commerce. and amazon is also even, according to the report, working with jpmorgan chase on building a checking account type product. so this could be the next sector for amazon. and, obviously, that means collecting more data on consumers. and it's not the only news that came out for amazon today. amazon key, that's the app that amazon only had in certain areas, is going nationwide so that you can unlock smart locks from wherever you are. you just open the app and then you click unlock, and that means a delivery person, a dog walker, maybe somebody that's going to clean your house, they can im

chemical attacks but also prevent assad from continuing to continue killing people on a daily basis alexaklebnikov in moscow i mean it is interesting isn't it because the russians are warning of dire consequences if the west uses this alleged chemical attack as a pretext to intervene in syria now we've seen this missile strike on this syrian air base how is moscow likely to respond do you think. well in the first place we've heard already and level for iterated that russia warned several days ago that warned about the preparations from rebel side from. a staged chemical attack to basically blame for that so today's comments of russia's foreign minister lavrov directly referred to that so this is why i mean the russia war and then it happened so why then now everyone blames us again for this attack that's the first thing secondly about this airstrike so israel has. a long record of hitting targets inside syria and i mean it it won't stop doing this basically it demonstrates its readiness to basically confront iranian influence in syria which is the major concern of israeli security yeah th

. >> alexa, please play some music. >> getting kids hits from i heart radio. >> rolling out a new echon place. bedtime limits, being able to turn on explicit filtering for music. >> alexa won't get in trouble with mom and dad, like this moment that went viral. >> you want to hear a station for porn detective. >> alexa, stop. >> the average child spends more than two hours in front of a screen every day it should be an hour max for kids two to five years old. amazon's pitch? by using voice technology. >> alexa -- >> children would spend fewer hours glued to a screen. >> we've heard from parents and families that there are concerns around the use of technology and screen time. >> while some have criticized smart speakers for teaching their kids to demand things, now this echo is promoting please and thank you. >> alexa, please tell me what 5 plus 7 is? >> 5 plus 7 equals 12. by the way, thanks for asking so nicely. >> should america's kids have internet-connected speakers of their own. >> privacy is an issue. >> children are exposed to so many different things now a days. >> as we've rep

but it could be interesting. >> follows you around, how much more than echo or alexa? hospital report the idea is, according to the rumors, this is a little thing following me as i go through my home. it's that, instead of having a bunch of hockey pucks throughout your homes or speakers, you would have one that follows you, kind of like a pet. again, i don't know how this would play out. obviously, they are just testing this. and there is a lot to overcome. me, tripping over it would be a big one but it's an interesting idea. >> any word on what this could possibly cost? i know they are still testing it but any dollar figures? >> reporter: no. but i'll tell you that the robots that do exist range from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand for the home. so it would be somewhere in between there. but part of the problem is, you know, we don't know what they are trying to do with this. we know they are trying to get the alexa voice system in everything throughout our homes and our lives. so this is the next logical step. >> so don't get your hopes up that it will clean

we are looking to see how many installed units there are of alexa devices.at 100 million devices installed, maybe by the end of the year but certainly somewhere in 2019. emily: i'm reading through the shareholder letter now from jeff bezos, and i want to bring in spencer soper, who covers amazon for bloomberg with us in seattle. jeff bezos saying, "one thing i love about customers is that they are divinely discontent. their expectations are never static. they go up, it is human nature. you cannot rest on your laurels, customers won't have it." he goes on to say, of course, they will continue to invest for the long term. what are the highlights, spencer, that you are pulling out of this? spencer: i think the 100 million prime members is the big takeaway. it's a lot of familiar themes, a highlight reel of stats we have seen over the past year. but the big thing, really, is 100 million prime subscribers, it is something they use as a building block, a foundation for them. we are seeing more and more additional tiers to that. if you want to pay a little more and

the dog in the room >> he's inside. >> you have a room ba. >> put alexa on top. >> got the alexa buton't have the room ba. >> it's great. >> it's listening to everything you're saying and recording it all. mike. >> never more than 7 minutes away from forecast. old pan weather can't let go of winter in rockies. look at that, snowing in denver. if you go up 76, my gosh, it's snowing in oshkosh. up in the panhandle, elevation 3,000 feet. that helps a little bit. we've got rain hugging the ohio river valley heading up into the mid-atlantic. if you're heading to those places. connecting through denver, may have issues today. staying back at home, here is a look in san rafael, southbound 101 under mostly cloudy skies. temperatures around 52 degrees. accuweather highlights, high clouds, need sunglasses. sprinkles friday, drizzle morning saturday and sunday as marine layer gets thicker. weekend closer to seasonal normal because of that beginning. mid to upper 60s along the coast in san francisco, low- to mid-70s around the bay. mid to upper 70s in the north bay, south bay. then you get down

so, anyone this morning who has an alexa or an amazon-powered device that has alexa inside of it. something going to be running to this device right now, to the app. that controls it if they have not been faithful. because if you have had some indiscretion at the house while the spouse was away, this is what's happening. alexa records every single commands that comes through. and when that command is recorded, it also records the voice clip. for example, this is my amazon alexa app. steve: yeah. >> i asked just yesterday how do you say happy birthday in mandarin. so here i have just -- i can play back alexa how do you say happy birthday steven in mandarin. steve: holy cow. >> that's my voice. i was at home. that's in the kitchen. guess what, if i heard somebody else's voice there while i'm away i would say who is that? that's what's happening and this is how spouses are catching each other. steve: apparently the man who discovered his wife was cheating on him looked at the app. and found out she said something like hey, alexa, turn off the lights in the middle of the day. >> those

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this is the last thing i said to my alexa. >> are you sure?ar what's going on in the background? that's me zipping up my luggage to leave. i was in the other room, about 15 feet away. and it could hear me zipping up my luggage. >> can you opt out of that feature? >> you can delete recordings. >> but does that delete it from your phone or from the system? >> it should delete it from the cloud. >> the cloud. >> if you say, hey, siri, that can be trigger words. it will say, yes, can we help you. in the kitchen, if we say, we can use a toaster. >> that's crazy. >> that's scary. >> i ask alexa what time it is a lot. >>> coming up next -- the space station that's been falling out of space. well, it does just that well, it does just that hey kiddo. see any stars out there? not really. ( ♪ ) ♪ if the stars don't shine ♪ grab your jacket. ♪ if the moon won't rise ♪ ♪ if i never see the setting sun, oh yeah ♪ ♪ you won't hear me cry ♪ ♪ as i testify ♪ please believe me boy you know i wouldn't lie ♪ ♪ as long as there is... ♪ you and me ♪ ♪ oh-h-h ( ♪ )