. ♪ emily: customers can hail a self driving car with a few square miles of downtown pittsburgh. ere is a human driver, just in case. max spent the day testing out the service. this is his report from pittsburgh. max: we are here in pittsburgh for the self driving car launch. here we go. a sensor on top. that's the most important sensor. its mapping the road in telling the car where to go. there are dozens of these sensors, 20 cameras, radar. we have these safety drivers joining us. get people to understand what it's like without somebody behind the wheel. number -- uber. i'm going to push this giant green button. showing a map that is all the stuff going on around us. the driver is hovering with his hands over the wheel but not touching the wheel. here we are. we are stopped at a stop sign. there are cars going by. you can see that on the screen. to take the driver seat and see what it's like to be a safety driver. this is eerie. it really feels like the car has a mind of its own. it's weird. you are fighting the tendency to grab the wheel. i have had my hands grazing the wheel.

customers can hail a self driving car with a few square miles of downtown pittsburgh. lete with a human driver, just in case. max spent the day testing out the service. here is his report from pittsburgh. ♪ max: we are here in pittsburgh for uber's self driving car launch. i am opening the app and here we go. there is a pinwheel thing on top that is a lidar sensor. that's the most important sensor. it's mapping the road and telling the car where to go. there are dozens of these sensors, 20 cameras, radar. and lasers. we have these safety drivers joining us. the idea is to get people to understand what it's like without somebody behind the wheel. ♪ we are in the uber. i'm going to press this giant green button in the ipad that says let's ride and there is a weird colorful psychedelic map that is showing all of the stuff going on around us. the driver is hovering with his hands over the wheel but not touching the wheel. or just barely touching the wheel and here we are. we are stopped at a stop sign. there are cars going by. you can see them on the screen. i am going to t

mostly downtown pittsburgh though they are expanding. i do think we are going to see driverless cars and other cities. i don't think it would be a huge leap to imagine that. emily: are these drivers your typical freelance contractor drivers? or are they experts behind the wheel? >> in large part experts. uber has 500 engineers. it is called the atc. many of them from carnegie mellon. these are people with a great deal of training. i was allowed to sit in the safety driver's seat. it was relatively in controlled conditions. there was an uber employee sitting next to me with his hand on this red button. you can present to get rid of the computer control if something were to happen. >> do they own these cars right now? do they intend to own all the cars in the fleet in the future russian mark >> they bought them from a ford dealership. these are hacked ford fusions. they went to a confused ford dealer and purchased them. long-term it is not entirely clear. uber is being tightlipped. they don't entirely know. was they seeold me themselves as

>> first of all, they're only operating within a small select area of downtown pittsburgh.y're top to about -- they're open to about 12 square miles now. the reason they're limited to that space is they will only send their cars out to areas they've mapped in extreme detail. that means the car already knowo exactly where every trafficff light is. it knows which lanes are right-turn-only lanes, where it can make arn u-turn and can't, what the speed limit is everywhere, where pedestrians are likely to cross, where cars are usually driving if the lane lanes aren't super well marked. so basically, it's kind of slicing after the riskier areas by only operating in places where it knows what theno conditions are going to be like. >> sreenivasan: why pittsburgh? >> a couple of reasons.pipl the biggest one is pittsburgh is home to carnegie mellon which has -- carnegie mel hans one of the best robotics programs ins the country and probably the world and some of their engineers have been studying self-driving cars for 15 yearsar now, well before anybody imagined this could really be a

rival uber started to carry passengers in pittsburgh in autonomous cars with a human backup driver. >>> thousands of people strolled through downtown lafayette for the 21st art and wine festival. >> every year for this festival several blocks of mound diablo block are cornered off showcasing arts and crafts and wine testing and food. organizers said last year 80,000 people came there making it one of the largest festivals in the bay. >>> sean tucker is in the bay area and he took me along for a ride. tucker is part of the oracle flight team and it is here for oracle open world in san francisco. he is in the national aviation hall of fame and is an honor blue angel and thunder bird. he took me up in his extra 300 stunt plane to show me maneuvers including the ballistic barrel role. >> i have taken energy 180 knots and when you go above the horizon we got all of the time in the world. unloaded by relaxing the stick and i will pressure this here. i will go that slow. and i will let the nose drop and we will be weightless. >> see them clapping. tucker is the chairman of the young eagle's program to get them interested in aviation. we w

pittsburgh. >> cedar rapids, iowa are bracing for flooding this morning. forcing several thousand people to leave their downtown homes. forecasters expect the swollen river to crest at 23 feet tomorrow morning. officials say it could be days before people can return home. the school district says it is cancelling classes through wednesday. >>> well, the time now is 4:43, they've got too far water. we don't have enough. >> looks as though we'll have a chance to see some of the deficit get chipped away here in the days ahead t means of course you'll see with wet weather along the way potentially, messing with some of your outdoor plans, one system that's going to be the problem child for us for the next couple of days. it stalls out nearby. that's where the threat for wet weather will be coming from. for now, all is very, very quiet here at the local level. we do still have high pressure in place. few clouds beginning to build off to the northwest. but you only have to zoom it out one time to see that there is a lot of activity taking place across the midwest, great lakes region. that's the leading edge. what hap

. >>> breaking news out of pittsburgh, this a stabbing attack that happened last night in the downtown area. the attacker is still on the loose. the victims should survive. at this time police have not released information on the circumstances, what led up to all this. >>> right now police officers in charlotte are helping business owners pick up the pieces. you can see this happening here. video showing an officer sweeping up debris left behind last night was the third night of protests. but things were pretty calm. the national guard backed up local police and there are no reports of any injuries. the racial tensions are at a boiling point. all of these protests started in response to an officer invvlved shooting. >> the anger, they hate white people, because they're successful and they're not. >> didn't take long for pittenjer to apologize. he said he was quoting the protestors he saw on tv. >>> brandon marshall said police in miami threatened to tase him and arrested him there over the fourth of july holiday. he said that incident is the reasoo he's kneeling during the him. >> me,

downtown wilmington, monique braxton, nbc 10 news. >> monique, thank you. >>> the sports world lost an iconic figure, golfing legend arnold palmer died yesterday in pittsburghrom complications of heart problems. the commissioner of the pga tour released this statement, saying in part, beyond his immense talent, around old transextended our sport with an extraordinarily appealing personality and genuineness that connected with millions, trueing making him a champion of the people. palmer revolutionized the game of golf and made it popular in television through the process in the '60s and '70s. he grew up the son of a greens keeper that turned into a pro golfer in latrobe. his hollywood good looks and back swing made him a superstar. fans known as arnie's army crowded fairways in droves in the '70s. he loved to take chances on the nick court saying, quote, you must play boldly to win. >> i thank god for the game of golf and what it has meant to me. >> palmer won seven majors in his career. he stopped playing the champions tour in 2006. palmer will be remembered as one of the greatest players to ever pick up a club. a blue collared guy from a small steel town

downtown. else, british, in 1716. it was destroyed in the american revolution. probably by the british. and then rebuilt in 1783. the coast guard relit the lighthouse in a ceremony today. tonight, to pittsburgh high school. >> a senior killing off this school year. >> they became best friends in china. tonight, they have been reunited here in the u.s. their heartwarming adoption st >> we've been having some fun crunching the numbers. >> 5 investigates with new details about how the commonwealth of massachusetts is spending your tax dollars. how the new system that anyone can access could save the state millions. >> a look at first alert traffic. you're looking live at the mass turnpike which is going slow. but there is a big night at gillette stadium today. coming to boston. let's check it out as we go towards foxborough. king street to route one. a five-minute drive. bay street at 295, seven minutes and we're looking at route 128 to wrunt. taking 12 minutes. expect delays. foxborough area, because of, as you look at -- also, we ha so as you go towards boston know it will be a little slow there and dell also playing. lots going on. kelly ayotte: thanks, buddy. i'm kelly ayotte.: and when i t

pittsburgh. pennsylvania senator bob casey calls it a fascinating technology but says safety needs to be the top priority. >> would you drive from a downtown hotel to the pirates game? >> not yet. i want to learn more about it. >> it's hard to find anyone that doesn't believe the guidelines released trade a good step forward, there are some more concerned that they're not enforceable. >> the motoring public on the roads are not kind of human guinea pigs. >> reporter: the government believes automation will save tens of thousands of lives by preventing the 94% of crashes caused by human error. in washington, george collie, fox 25 news. >>> wells fargo blasted on capitol hill today for scamming customers. massachusetts senator elizabeth warren and others called for the head of the company to resign. and to even face criminal charges. two million wells fargo accounts were open without customers them millions in fees and charges. >> we recognize now done more sooner. >> but you squeezed your employees to the breaking point so they would cheat customers. >> ceo john stump took responsibility and apologized but did not step down. >> it is over f

pittsburgh at 97. and brentwood, 98. it is 97 in livermore. the three-day forecast -- 8h shot of downtown.for inland locations today. eighty-six tomorrow. thursday, 80. when you see this drop, it only means jnwe have an onshore wind cool air 'jfÑmoving through. that will continue as we finish off htthe week. robin is tracking traffic. >>> no major hot spots out there. but there is plenty of flow traffic to talk about. this is the ride into san francisco. was found 80 backed çóup throu the maze. nor all crowded. it will take around 20 minutes from the foot of the maze -- and that is normal. normal stop and go traffic on 92. this is a right across the san mateo bridge. slow-motion four commuters heading to the peninsula. a small ride in both directions north and south to and from 92. and then you have to deal with this crowd $.across. about 31 minute drive. and hayward -- an accident wrapping up. that is part of the reason why it is so slow coming out of union city. it is mostly packed southbound. but northbound commuters will be dealing with that too for at least e1.nbóom-/a33 minutes. th

brentwood antioch 97 pittsburgh coming in 95 >>robin winston: you're pretty much of dealing with a lot of commute traffic the drive times his going-down ranging from 25 to 30 minutes from downtowninto downtown san francisco earlier we had an accident on the seashore freeway nevada's small long gone look at the drive times 45 minutes to get from hercules and the slow traffic stretches beyond hercules yes it is still packed checking in on some of the sluice box 680 may be a need to get into concord lots a southbound traffic still lingering headed 26 minutes from 22. >>gabe slate: wants of medium i've been there are going to get rid of an bed think that they do not needed is lighter in and help with waterproofing they really want everything to be wireless but i do not know how i feel about will have to see what comes up with we will see if that fog was incredible and all types of useful features. >>darya: it would be legal for them to smoke a fair over the age of 21 the look of the other states in the come learn from their mistakes that means marijuana and few of the mealworms they would not be sold in california opponents and the measure said arise in marijuana car accident but s