the latest disaster involving apps. let's not forget the so-called snappening, where snap chaz users using a third person app who expose these pictures to the rest of the world. hundreds of thousands of pictures out there. in secure apps are making smart phone users insecure and absolutely freaking out corporate america which knows employees are out there downloading all kind of trouble to their corporate phones. this is the founder of app authority, a mechanical engineer by trade, he holds pattens including a risk assembly for a robot. we've asked him to name names. i want to start with the one i was most astounded by, it's a flashlight app. by ihandy, it can access according to your researchers, my calendar. >> yeah. >> why is my flashlight app accessing my calendar? >> because the app and as users we granted that access. there's no functional reason why an application, like a camera, sorry, like a flashlight -- >> and the camera too. but my calendar, camera -- >> calendars, locations, and really we've seen the develo

app ook launched a new ios called rooms. it comes from facebook's creative labs and is the company's latest attempt to build standalone apps independent of the social network. now to our lead. amazon posted a wider loss of $437 million on revenue of more han $20 billion. the c.e.o. is still spending, for the pending purchase of twit er to the new kindle fire. forecast for the holiday quarter revenue were disappointing for investors. how long does he have before investors demand profits? we have author of "the everything store," a book about amazon. and gene. amazon never turns a significant profit but today's loss was bigger than usual. what's your takeaway on why this happened? >> they're spend manager on on same-day, building on the infrastructure for sunday delivery. it's just classic amazon spending at a greater rate and i think a lot of it is more infrastructure related than ever. there are also some other wild cards around fx and a big writedown on that fire phone that nobody bought. i think the big picture is that. am

download the app and when you see the app icon on specific ads in magazines or in a store, just take picture. >> it takes a picture of the entire ad and so then i have an option of all the different things in the ad. >> reporter: and by right then and there. >> i think clearly technology is changing the way we shop. whether it's image recognition, virtual search august mentalled reality all things we're testi testing. >> at heels.com he can input an image of must have shoes and a visual search tool will either match the product exactly or bring up look a likes. apple has the cam find app which recognizes and describes items. google was in the forefront of the recognition game with its google goggles app. >> i use it to compare prices. i use it to search the internet for pictures, and art. >> there are limitations. sometimes recognition tools are slow and they can't id everything. at least not yet. google goggles, for example, is better at recognizing things like books, landmarks and products, but not great at identifying apparel. even so -- >> i'll continue using the app. i use it a

well, now there is an app for. that i'm syma chowdhry with that story coming up. >>> in many locations a pleasant day but more showers and thunderstorms will be rotating in the delaware valley over the next 24 to 36 hours. we will track them and show you where he see sun, beasley. >>> nothing like a bye week to get players healthy and back in practice several top performers back on the field, thanks to the break, i have a list of notable in s there are 211 lawyers in congress. but not one electrician. so here's a bright idea. donald norcross. a union electrician for 30 years... in the state senate, he stood up for working families and he'll stand up for south jersey in congress. working to make college affordable. fighting to create jobs that can support a family. and pushing equal pay for equal work. donald norcross. a congressman for us. house majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. in macarthur's world, he opposes new laws to ensure women receive equal pay for equal work. and macarthur o

their apps can be downloaded for free.osted all the information you need on all the winners at abc7news.com. just check out 7 on your side. >>> serious charges leveled against at & t. the federal government sued the telecom giant saying it misled millions of smartphone customers about their data use. the federal trade commission says at & t sold customers unlimited data plans that failed to warn them that if they use too much data, at & t would slow down their data speeds. the fcc says some customers had their speeds reduced by 90%. that's a practice i told you about before called throttling. at & t tells me it's been up front with customers all along notifying them in billing and press releases. i will have more on this story including my interview with the attorney who brought this suit in san francisco, tonight at 6:00 on abc 7. >>> used to be you would go to a restaurant simply because you liked the food. now restaurants are using technology to lure customers, especially millenials. taco bell unveiled an updated mobile

directly from the financial management website rather than an app store. roaring for three on your side, i'm jim donovan. >> it is an exciting night here at cbs-3. we're unveiling a new tool that allows you the viewers to help us forecast the weather. >> meteorologist kate bilo and kathy orr are both with us tonight and we're going to begin with kate who is live at the art museum with the commodore barry three mobile weather lab to explain. kate? >> reporter: thank you chris and jessica. a very exciting day indeed. we already have our state of the art tool cbs-3 mobile weather lab but now we're tapping into all the minds across the region to bring you up to date weather information all across the brand new "eyewitness weather" watcher network. take a look. in the "eyewitness weather" center we're always tracking whether it's rain, snow, highs or lows. we use the latest technology to bring accuracy to our forecasts and now we are expanding our tools to share the conditions from your backyard to a backyard more than 100 miles away. the "eyewitness weather" w

other apps down the line?is a lot of opportunity because when distinguishing factor of twitter is that it is public, real-time public and conversational. you sea breeze embedded on other sites. with fabric, we have made it easier for developers to embed tweets in mobile apps. tv is one example. you can hardly turn on channels like espn -- >> or bloomberg. >> without seeing tweets on tv. >> you have such an interesting background. you run ultra marathons. a phd inetting theoretical particle physics before you took the job. how does that integrate into your work? why something like this express -- exciting to you? >> data is a lot of what i was doing when i was sitting physics. >> theoretical particles. i don't even know what that is. [laughter] >> it is connected somewhat to what i do a twitter every day. it is connected with the advertising work i do and with fabric. >> thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> madison avenue in new york city is synonymous with advertising. so it is only na

facebook as for app download. what else are some companies overspending on that we might see collapse if the air comes out? >> real estate is a great one. real estate prices out here have been going straight up and to the right. i think you are pointing out others. where do you see venture capital dollars becoming revenue dollars basically. and that happens in the mobile ad market for sure on app download type things. you know, certain technology companies, enterprise companies, you can look at their portfolio of customers and say, you know, are these the s&p 500 or are these the silicon valley 100. >> is that cloud stuff that some companies are overspending on perhaps? >> i think different sberpenter companies are focused more on the industrial, traditional, you know, enterprise companies and some of them have a customer set that is much more centric out here. >> finally bill. it is like a hall of fame the things you were early in on. would you arc before we let you go that you are seeing fewer attractive ideas o

at abc7news.com/app free at apple app and google play. >> san francisco public utilities commission celebrates the come meetings of a new tunnel delivering water under the san francisco bay from reservoir designed to with stand the worst earthquake predicted on the faults. the $215 million protect is fixing pipes from the 19 20's and 1930's. a study said they would not survive the next big earthquake. the new item knell runs file miles across the bay from menlo park to newark. >> apple and facebook have a new perk. they are paying women to freeze their eggs so they can have a career now and start a family later. >> apple and facebook are betting the new perk will increase the number of women joining their company. >> it is furthering the conversation for females to get promoted. >> they have an option to take on the career now and not pressured to have children. >> false book offering egg freezing and storage as part of the benefit package. am people will begin in john. apple says we want to empower women to do the best work of their lives open afternoon as they care for loved ones

it helps app developers develop more stable apps and apps that get more users and monetize more officially- efficiently. the ideas for twitter become more of a mobile services company. how does that work? >> it is an evolution for twitter. twitter has been synonymous with the consumer application. that will still be a major focus of for us. at has not changed. the application meets every corner of the world and we build a business around it. this is the next step. this is us becoming a key player in the mobile ecosystem going forward. mobile changes everything. everout mobile company for since we started. we are bringing our scale and expertise in helping other app developers build better mobile apps. >> twitter famously cracked down on a third-party users. developers be sure that they can trust you again it? sure?n they be business isn great built on our ecosystem. fabric is about helping out ,evelopers build more stable better monetizing apps. it is helping every app that you use on your phone be better. it is a brand-new offering. term?it long how long can they be sure that they will ha

this is a new news app. i love it. go to the app store and search for wusa9 news. >> are you watching us now watching you? >> it's a little delayed obviously, but it's pretty darn cool. here's the deal. so it's news, weather, traffic wrapped in one app and if we are on, you watch any newscast streaming live or if we say we're on for severe weather, you can watch us live with severe weather. >> very slick. >> and you know the best part? >> what is that? >> it's free. >> go to the app store wusa9 news and you want the gray icon. oh, look, there i am, you handsome devil. let's start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, high temperature 58 today. it's still 58. let's get this up to 60. howard and i had a bet about 60 or 59. winds north, northwest at 13. they'll continue to increase. radar over the past couple hours essentially east of i-95, a big storm moving away very slowly. an isolated or passing shower overnight but pretty much done with anything significant. rainfall was pretty heavy north a

downloaded apps that let them store their pictures. bottom line any time you take a picture with app or smartphone, it could wind up in the wrong hands. >> anything you're going to send using the internet can probably be, probably be seen by somebody else. >> the moral, if you don't want compromising pictures out there, arthel, you probably shouldn't take compromising pictures in the first place. >> that is the bottom line, will, thank you very much. >>> well, there are new steps in the massive effort to stop ebola from entering the u.s. today, especially trained workers are now checking the temperature of all travelers arriving from three west african countries. throughout the week next week f four other airports across the u.s. are also set to implement the same ebola cdc guidelines. new jersey's newark liberty airport, washington dulles, chicago o'hare and hartsfield jackson in atlanta. meanwhile brian is lillanes has more. >> for all passengers traveling from guinea, liberia and sierra leone. the four other airports will begin thei

one evening she looked at an app on her phone which alerted her about strep throat in her area. the next morning her son woke one a fever. >> normally i would wait a couple days to see if it got worse but because i had all these strep throat alerts i thought, i'm just going to take him in. >> reporter: baltimore based sick weather is a phone app that tracks the flu, nor ro virus, and strep throat. one of its creators has a background in mapping crime data. >> we are using social media to detect illnesses as they are being reported. we then distill that information so that we can tell the difference between someone talking about having a high fever versus having something like justin -- like justin bieber fever. >> reporter: the app includes a trend map. >> we are tracking all the symptoms of ebola and enterovirus so that as those become more widespread we are able to provide surveillance. currently we are not tracking them specifically but we are retooling our system to be able to do. that. >> reporter: this was a big help for april what didn't wait a day to get her son to a doc

take live doppler hd to the parade and download our weather app from apple app and google play and we have more information at abc7news.com/apps. >> if you are buying world series souvenirs some of them are fake. want out. homeland security agents looked at the 2,700 shirts and other items they have seized the past few days. acts expect to take more from vendors peddling up licensed item on the street. >> a group of agents that work in close concert with the baseball association are skilled at identifying and determining whether something is fake. fashions and phony prescription drugs which add up to $250 billion business. sellers can fake punished from fines to prison. >> nothing fake about the forecast. everyone needs to know, be prepared for the rain. >> absolutely, so far our best rain has been around liberty road where it has been outside the mountains at .04" and you look to the north committee we have scattered light rain through northwest sonoma and you can see the moderate rain looking at the yellows lining up with the darker green and it is matching to the necessary and the

a new mobile app that lets private citizens do just that. it got the attention of drivers and a councilman, he says it's illegal and potentially dangerous. john rawlins has more on the issue. >> you are kidding me? >> yes. >> you can sell your parking space to somebody. >> martin brawn reacting to the app that allows you to sell your parking space with another person with the app that is planning to leave the parking space, a quick check of the app found one near 11th and chestnut and the other near 12 and and carpenter. >> wow it seems almost criminal. but i'm glad they did it. >> they say it beats going through the age old hunt for the needle in the haystack. >> it's great for people that are working or in a rush and have a tight schedule and have you to add on time for parking. others see downsides, on street parking is a public asset not private party. >> it's like selling a public resource that everybody should have equal access to. >> and if someone puts on a blinker, only to be confronted by a monkey parking buyer. >> if i am there an

it's very affordable and available on the app store. >> with the age of apps and social media, aiding and running the generation that we're in today, hoot suite organizes in a timely fashion. >> the app i go to every day is yelp. i know it has been around for a while, but, honest lee, that is the first place people get to connect with my business. i'm looking at the comments and get the constructive criticism to enhance my business and i put pictures up, constantly changing because most people who are calling in for information are not going to my site, they will look at yelp first and go from there. >> one of the tools i love using is you can book me. it's an online appointment scheduler. it allows me to quickly send a link over to my customers or whomever i'm having a meeting with and it syncs up to my google calendar. >> the one app that i consistently use is mint. it manages day-to-day expenses. as a small business, we have a million things to do and very little time and administrative things are the one thing that are easy to slip. mint is one thing that manages my day-to-day exp

the app was right. the app had the right location. the rescue was made. vasquez was flown here where her condition appears to be improving. the chp tells me she is conscious and talking. meantime, onstar says it is investigating why the program failed. vic lee, abc 7 news. >> thank you. >>> it was a gray and drizzly day for parts of the bay area. >> it sure was. sky 7 hd ran into rain while flying over the peninsula earlier today. you can see the drops hitting the camera. but the real rain is still on the way. >> spencer christian is here with an accuweather update. >> the real rain is still on the way but it's looking rather threatening in the skies right now. here's a look at wind conditions, by the way. it's breezy over much of the bay area with gusts anywhere from about 15 to 35 miles per hour, the top gust at sfo right now. 24 miles per hour gusts at fairfield. over where we are on the embarcadero, winds in the last half hour have diminished a bit. a look at live doppler 7 hd, you can see extensive cloud cover, not much falling from the clouds so far

it is free on apple's app store and google play and we have more at abc7news.com/app. >>> breaking news right now on the lower deck of the bay bridge. that's where a truck got stuck after trying to take the treasure island exit from the eastbound lanes of interstate 80. the exit is an extremely tight hair pin turn and there is a warning for truckers not to use it. the highway patrol hope to have the truck cleared shortly. check out this view from our south beach camera. it shows traffic creeping along at a stand still from san francisco toward treasure island. we will follow this story and bring you updates throughout the hour. >>> a bay bridge construction project has stalled because of issues it created. sergio is live in san francisco with what happens next. sergio? >> katie, this is a maintenance project that was supposed to continue on until the middle of december. you can see the traffic signs are still up, but the metal plates have been removed. the project has been suspended and tomorrow cal trans says they will be meeting to see how they can start the progress up again and not

it's an online app that tracks crimes in the area. when the gloucester county office of emergency response receives a call, they will create little pins on the map that will show what the incident was, the area that it happened and when it happened. and that allows residents to see what happened in their neighborhood. >>> and in north wilmington, north castle county, the stocking for soldiers community project is under way to benefit local deployed troops. and you can help the project this evening at the storefront location. volunteers will work on cutting out stockings, sewing and decorating them, collecting and sorting items and writing greeting cards and letters for the troops. >>> and residents in middletown township, delaware county, start bagging your leaves. the township's curbside collection of bagged leaves begins today and runs weekly through december 5th. leaves will be picked up only in special biodegradable paper bags purchased at the township building or at lynn villa orchards and wolf's apple house. hard to believe we'r

>> grin and bear it. >> spencer, thank you. >> you can check out our weather app on google app store. >>> communicating with the deaf. no sign language necessary. the local company with the app for that. >>> coming up here and new at 6:00, an annoying water leak in san jose and why the water department hasn't been able to fix it for days. , , , , - "dear scan, "i've been a scan member for almost two years and have been very satisfied with the plan." - "i would like to thank you and your organization from top to bottom." - "i recently called into scan regarding a claims problem." - "i had been going round and round with a problem with a prescription drug order." - "it is nice to know that one phone call to you, and you take care of it right away." - "your kindness and helpfulness has been appreciated "more than you will ever know. i could not have done it without your help." - i'll never be able to thank them enough. uh...and it's the truth. - "thank you so much. sincerely, donna markow." - "sincerely, shirley ramgren." - "sincerely, shirley ramgren." - that's what really sets scan apa

and it contacts the police. >> emergency c has levels of its app. for more information go to 6abc.com. lisa thomas-laury, channel 6 "action news." >>> huge crowds came out to princeton university to listen to the dalai lama, he develop aid speech called develop the heart. they spoke about kindness and compassion, protesters gathered outside. buddhists rallied against the dalai lama because they say he doesn't recognize their faith. >> we have been requesting dialog for 20 years, he goes around preaching dialog but refuses to speak to us. >>> a few dogs marked their dog's entrance into the workforce in grays ferry in philadelphia, penn veterinary school held a graduation for three students at the working dog center. thunder the search and rescue expert showed off how he received his training and the center recognized the foster families that provided these ♪ music ♪ it's so important to make someone happy ♪ ♪ make just one heart to heart you ♪ ♪ music ♪ you sing to one smile that cheers you ♪ ♪ one face that lights when it nears you ♪ [ male announce

we're not worried about the apps but the experience. whereas before it was entering all your details, it's one tap on the thumb print sensor. and so we think the fact that paying in an app is 10 times easier than it was before. you've seen that all of the major apps really are supporting apple pay already. that has driven them to move quickly. >> any data so far how many people are using it? >> with strike? >> it's a little bit too early to tell. we're starting to see the payments trickling in. >> it's just been a few hours and we're seeing a number of transactions across all merchants. >> let me ask you. other payment companies, google wallet most importantly, while they have some of the same characteristics, they're getting the credit card information and finding out a way to advertise to you based on your spending data. apple is not doing. from what i understand. is that is that where they're willing to take one on the chin, privacy the customers say they want? >> yes, apple has been very clear. they were said when introducing this w

the fire chat app is surging in popularity in hong kong right now. we will talk to the man behind that app when "power lunch" continues. your pocket right now?y do you n i have $40, $21. could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement? i don't think so. well if you start putting that towards your retirement every week and let it grow over time, for twenty to thirty years, that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all. ♪ if energy could come from anything?. or if power could go anywhere? or if light could seek out the dark? what would happen if that happens? anything. >>> welcome back to "power lunch." one of the best performing stocks in the s&p 500 today is the chicago based power company expanding to texas. this comes at a time when power demand in the rest of the country remains stagnant. shares trading up at around 3.5%. >>> huge crowds taking over the streets of hong kong once again today. today marks china's national day. typically it is a big celebration, big shopping day there. chinese government h

host: pcs living i -- do you apps-worldng in an for a while? guest: i wish i am had the vision to know. if you said in 2010, all right going to live in an apps world, i would never thought we would have thousands of them. so i hope so. guest: so, how long have you been at ctia, less than a year? guest: four months. guest: time is going fast. how is this different than working over at nbc? guest: entirely different. nbc was a fantastic job. i will be so grateful -- and i would never left that job but for ctia. i started my washington career at ctia. it is coming. for me. i would say that most of my career has led me in dealing with spectrum whether it was for the federal government or being in broadcasting or running crucial part of spectrum that fcc. being at ctia in having our priorities being spectrum, spectrum, spectrum is sort of like the perfect job for me. and really just am so grateful to be here and so excited. guest: when you're in college were like, yes, i want to be in charge of spectrum. how did you fall into this? or maybe this was

there is an iphone 6 app for hot spots.f you have an iphone six to create a hot spot in the area for all of your apple products, whether its an imac or an apple tv. i don't need a cable. if i have a hot spot through my iphone 6, i can get rid of my cable and use my apple tv, correct. >> you could. a lot of people are looking to cut the chord literally and figuratively. david: that is a game-changer, mark. not only for apple but for the entire industry, is it not. >> i at this it has the potential to be in terms how it is executed, yes. liz: when will apple tv come out? david: it is out. i have it at home. liz: but it's a little cube and it doesn't do very much. >> i thing to watch with apple tv what they will do with the smart home implementation. imagine it becomes a hub for the smart home and connects through it. that is where it has a lot of potential. david: if you use the new app of the iphone 6 to cut the cable, you could reduce the fees 200, $300 a month. this could enormous game-changer, not only in the u.s. but eur

bank from almost anywhere with the citi mobile app. nearby visitors and staff rushing to the rescue. just how all this happened. >>> 911. >> hey, we need somebody over here at the little rock zoo. a baby fell in the tiger enclosure, the tiger attacked the baby. >> reporter: a frightening scenario at the little rock zoo. a 3-year-old child slipping over the rail falling nearly two stories into a jaguar exhibit. the boy's father calling for help, throwing things, a nearby water hose, as they attacked his son on his foot and neck. >> he's in there with the -- >> yes. it's not good. >> reporter: once zoo staff arrived they kept the jaguars at bay with fire extinguishers, lowering a ladder into the pit and pulling the boy to safety. the toddler is still cautious and responsive. >> we saw a car go by with a child with his head bleeding. we're trying to figure out what's going on. >> reporter: the youngster now at arkansas children's hospital is in critical condition with scalp lacerations, a depressed skull fracture and punk daughter wounds.

i need to stay away from that app. enjoy it while we can and look forward our next day. >> hide our babies inside. >> tomorrow not looking at the brightest day. at least it's not going to be supper cold. we have a warm front on the way. outside we go. and where's that app already? i can't believe that. all right, our live shot downtown. it's now 62 degrees at reagan national airport. winds out of the east at around five miles per hour. our daytime high, 65. our record 89. nothing like that anytime soon. 58 degrees, woodbridge. a touch of rain earlier this evening and look for a few widely scattered showers later on tonight. early morning hours, along with a little bit of patchy fog. a morning low of 38, can you believe that? children's hospital in the district. now 57. temperatures are generally in the 50's. the exception would be d.c. and portions or areas to the east of us, especially around the bay with the warmer waters. the chesapeake. that's keeping temperatures in the lower 60's. warmer air trying to make its wa

think of the app?k that the app is interesting. it's an interesting concept. it's good people are starting to talk about affirmative consent meaning only yes means yes and no means no. that's often overlooked in consent campaigns and consent can be complicated and complex. it's not an option that you can go without. it's absolutely required. without it is rape. my concern about the app is how it would work in practice. with consent you can withdraw any time including during sex. i don't think that deals with that angle of consent. i think the good to go phrase, i'm not really sure to what extent that is. it doesn't actually mention sex. good to go could be interpreted many different ways. i'm not sure it gets across the necessity of affirmative consent. the idea is good. >> how do you address the criticisms particularly the one consent can be withdrawn any time? >> yes, that's absolutely clear to us. we have a reminder screen every time somebody uses our app that reminds them that no means no. yes mean

a new mobile app that lets private citizens do just that.ion of drivers and a councilman, he says it's illegal and potentially dangerous. john rawlins has more on the issue. >> you are kidding me? >> yes. >> you can sell your parking space to somebody. >> martin brawn reacting to the app that allows you to sell your parking space with another person with the app that is planning to leave the parking space, a quick check of the app found one near 11th and chestnut and the other near 12 and and carpenter. >> wow it seem

i read on my app.ing sensitive information on line or in'q cloud. you don't put intimate photos on line ever. no system is bulletproof. >> i never found the appeal of sending items for a second. i will so you next week end. >> president obama and nancy pelosi and harry reid are toxic and democrats are running from them instead of with them. we'll tell you why. shocking details of how far the irs will go to make your life miserable. and bill afmrek and bill ma hr talk about the islamic culture. tonight we'll meeted who survived radical islam and calls it barbaric. all that on "huckabee". ♪ mauz mrauz >> good evening, i am mike huckabee. thank you for joining us tonight.

all payment happens by credit card to the apps so no cash is exchanged. who are lyft drivers? among the safety transportation services. drivers are people like you and me. the reason for that is that lyft under utilize transportation capacity, there are empty seats with cars on the road. in fact 80 percent of cars on the road are empty. you have probably seen that driving around town or over the bay bridge wefrm not making good use of the seats in the car. the lyft goal to fill those seats and reduce the impact on the environment. within this i want to highlight a little known fact which is providing economic opportunity for a lot of disability drivers in san francisco. many people have, i just want to tell you a little bit about their experiences. i hope that perhaps in the future you will have a future to connect with them about their experience. if you are interested in doing that, i would be happy to connect you with them. we welcome individuals with disability and drivers on our platform and i know employment is traditionally an area of concern for the disability communit

so i want to tell you a little bit about what we've done with our app from a product perspective. i will try to keep it accessible to a lay person but want to tell you about the recent changes. according to the california public utilities commission which are connected with the transportation services whether or not their fulfilled on the platform. we have introduce a new profile setting that you will see today under the lyft services. if you go to the user profile you will see an option to select access. anyone can enable that for their account and they can see a new access mode as well as the traditional mode. when a user has enabled the access mode it's possible to request one of the existing lines of service which includes classic lift, lift line which combines the carpool options and helps to take cars off the road or plus which is a larger vehicle that has 6 seats and able to accommodate wheelchairs. the request will be dispatched as a standard request for passengers, but the passenger will also receive a text message communicating that they may ask for extra serves they hav

there an app for that. many apps trying to make dating easier, right? but do they actually hurt? >> we talked with one matchmaker who says it is time to step away from that technology. nbc bay area's peggy bunker has more. >> match.com, eharmony, now there's so many different apps like tinder. >> she knows singles. she's a ceo behind linx dating. by the time most singles make it to amy's office, they've tried it all. online matchmaking, set-ups, apps, the cruel world of hot or not on tinder. it's a technology that amy says is getting in the way. >> they've been basing those matches often on very superficial metrics of hot versus not. >> but she gets why people turn to tech dating. >> nonsocial jobs, so it does leave a lot of loneliness for many of the employees in order to kind of band-aid or remedy feeling loneny, they'll jump online. >> the very industry that creates dating apps which are supposed to hook us up but keeps us single instead is not lost on one of amy's clients. >> it's very much a lot of first dates. people will just cycle through large numbers of first dates beca

. >> reporter: the app includes a trend map. >> we are tracking all the symptoms of ebola and enterovirus so that as those become more widespread we are able to provide surveillance. currently we are not tracking them specifically but we are retooling our system to be able to do. that. >> reporter: this was a big help for april what didn't wait a day to get her son to a doctor's office after seeing the reports on her phone. >> so they did a throat culture and sure enough he had strep throat. he was able to started the antibiotics right away and get back to school sooner, whichly allowed this work mom to get back to her job, too. >> we should note four information used on the sick weather app is strictly confid7fbdential. it is only taken from public facebook and twitter feeds.

dog owner down load the app and tracks your walk. more you use it, more money goes to an animal shelter or rest rescue group of your choice. >> it is a great way to give back tour local shelter just by doing what you are already doing. you are walking your dog. >> reporter: app was released earlier this year and 4,000 shelters have signed up for it including the delco spca. >> when $10 check comes in via app or donation it goes towards caring for the animals. >> reporter: the organization has been getting the word out hoping more people will sign up and select them. delco spca is hosting a 5k walk this weekend and they want all participants to down load the app. >> we are definitely going to talk about the app at the event and we are about 360 registered runners and walkers right now. >> reporter: woof tracks donates money it gets from sponsors and advertisers. the tracks usage by how many walks you take not distance. the ceo says the philadelphia areas one of the most active markets. so far the app has donated $10,000 to shelters na

and as they say, there's an app for that.you're watching abc's "world ring ring! progresso! i forgive you. you do? it's ok that your soup tastes like my homemade. it's our slow simmered vegetables and tender white meat chicken. apology accepted. i'm watching you soup people. make it progresso or make it yourself. >>> in case you are wondering, we are t-minus 15 days until halloween. >> all right. witches, action figures, eh, the hottest costumes these days are glamorizing the undead. abc's nick watt checks out what is behind america's obsession with zombies. >> reporter: there's no happy ending, it's gruesome. but the undead are so hot right now. 17.3 million people watched "the walking dead" season premiere sunday night. smashing cable tv viewing records. >> there's a little bit of something for everybody. for people to watch it together, it's something that doesn't happen very often. >> reporter: meanwhile, 15,000 people in minneapolis just set a world record for the most people dressed as zombies in one place at one time.

go to abc7news.com/apps. it's free to download on apple's app store or google play. more information is at abc7news.com/apps. >>> we will switch gears. it is do or die time, game seven of the world series, and no matter the outcome, one team is going to make history. of course we are hoping it's the san francisco giants. the royals are hoping for their first world series win in 29 years. the giants hope to become the first team since the yankees in the '90s to win three world series in five years. we have team coverage tonight. abc 7 news reporter lyanne melendez with fans in san francisco, sports anchor mike shumann with wayne freedman live in kansas city. wayne, let's start with you. >> reporter: in san francisco and in kansas city, you must say this was the longest day of the year. how can that be, you say? the longest day of the year is supposed to take place in june. well, no, not exactly. when it's october and it's the day of the seventh game of the world series, this is the longest day of the year, because you are waiting. in a city already gushing blue, this

from apple app and google play. we have more information at abc7news.com/apps. >>> the giants are finding ways to grinned outruns in the post-season and are two wins away from another rip at world series after the ten inning victory over st. louis. in the bottom of the first, the giants were put up but the cardinals chipped away before tying on a solo home run. in the 10th, with runners at purse and second, a perfect sacrifice bunt and the pitch are made an error and the ball sailed down the first line and the score was from second base by crawford, game over. now it is 2-1 series lead with game four and five today and tomorrow at 5:07 tonight and this week for game six and 15 in st. louis. in necessary. >> there is a rescue drill at the many that including a simulated ferry accident with volunteer victims in need of rescue from the water. this is a training operation. >>> a driver is in custody after he was drunk behind the wheel when he truck a teen skateboarder yesterday afternoon near san pablo. the driver blew

app launched yesterday but it is, invite only for right now. >>> big night for media fellowship, cbs news correspondent bill whittaker dent and i. he made the move up to 60 minutes as a correspondent, looking forward to seeing him on that wonderful show. media fellowship house promotes fellowship and understanding between diverse cultures and generations. whittaker family is a major supportive as well as james family. it started in 44, when the whittaker tamly was, served in a restaurant and james family saw this, took them to another restaurant and it started propers zest of togetherness and racial equality and doing wonderful things, wonderful, wonderful things, to this day. >>> traffic and weather together. here's katie. >> ukee, we are tracking wet weather issues out here on storm scan three, bulk of which is a new england issue at this point. you can see streams of rain banding down, and bringing us, some showers, currently across central new jersey and just cut ago cross path state border as well. depending where your travel takes you you may have a damp road left over from yes

and one group developed an app to tackle it. that app is our big idea.hed with the gold getting electronic consent to have sex. but earlier this month app pulled it saying it violated their guidelines saying quote, the app was removed for 6.1 development of their guidelines, that raises the question of objectionable content, or crude content. thank you for joining us, as we look at this let's get through how it works. so one person, they have the app on their smartphone, and give it to the other person to get their consent, basically an electronic consent. that screen, it says no, thanks, yes, we're good to talk, or i'm good to go. and then, it says i am sober or pretty wasted and then you hit the okay button. is that pretty much how it works? >> yes, that is how it works, we wanted to make it pretty simple, because if it were complicated kids would not use it. but we felt that it was important they still have time to take that pause, to talk to each other. to talk it out, make sure that their intentions were aligned. and we wanted to reduce miscommunica

next timeou can get alert by signing up through abc7 news app, free to down load. >> there are simple and impoant things you can do to protect yourse from ebola. we havexinformation on abc7 news.com. now, later on the newscast we're going to hear from the president on the crisis, and the nurse in maine who has been threatening to violate quarantine. >> caltrans is facing new pressure to ban a highway component. dan? >> just today, several more states banned the guardrail, bringing total to 25 states, but california is taking a wait and see attitude and the whistle blower says that may be a fatal mistake. >> josh harmon is seading the word about the dangers of a common guardrail system. >> people are dieing. if i don't do it, nobody else will. >> he won a lawsuit ainst and a juryound the company defrauded the government and fined $175 million. an amount could triple as the case unfolds the jury saw videos of it failing. but the videosere never shared with federal fety officials who have nowrdered this company to run new crash tests to prove their system is safe. >> they have full knowl

trainer. >> so this is an app that gives a personal workout for everyone.asically it's fun, affordable workouts across 15 different sports and activities that you can book on demand or for future use. >> reporter: if the download the vent app on your phone, it provides on-demand personal trainers at your fingertips for as low as $20 a session, a lot cheaper than in gyms and so much more convenient. >> it's trx workouts, boxing, martial arts, yoga. we see running on the uprise. >> reporter: whatever type of workout you want, they offer. trainers have set times that you can join in with a group or you can have them come to your home, office or meet them anywhere outside in public for a one-on-one session. no cash exchanges hands. >> everything in terms of payment and communication is handled through the app, so you just have to be there and focus on your workout. >> reporter: william is a boxing trainer. he says it's been working out great, meeting people wherever they want. >> spoam are intimidated by the sport of boxing, but when they see it on a personal l

well, there's an app for that. after the break, a california company rolls out a new service to deliver marijuana right to your front door. >>> and with the recent draught, pumpkin sales going. one local pumpkin patch. >> how about we need a little rain and we may just get some of that. our -- showing some right now. when we can expect some of that come ugh glp we're going to go flying right now of. the slowdowns have begun want approaching a street. as you can see it clears out a little bit. a check of your bridges coming up. e-mail us. or tweet me. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,, look at all these children. they all lost their lives because of preventable medical errors, now the third leading cause of death. only heart disease and cancer take more lives. proposition 46 will save lives with drug and alcohol testing to make sure impaired doctors don't treat someone you love. safeguards against prescription drug abuse. and holds the medical industry accountable for mistakes. i'm barbara boxer. let's save lives. vote y

that is the purpose of this app. is another app called e-thin which sounds more ridiculous than yo which allows you to send a message to a guy named ethan and he gives you opinions about anything and everything. they are cool apps but are they cool companies? >> this is a great idea and ryan, congratulations for putting this together and getting some big names to have confidence in what you are trying to do. probably most of these ideas will never end up being products. in order for products to become companies, it takes great people, not just great ideas. what intrigues me about what you an doing is you are building ecosystem where people can show what they are up to. do you get those ideas that looks very promising that venture capitalists want to invest and how do you help turn a product into a company? >> first off, it's not our job to make them turn it to companies. most of them should not be companies. many of them are just weekend run x. -- weekend products. product hunt is a place where you can surf cool and