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hundreds of people get the boot at the company that brought us farmville. >> also.too sheer to wear. trendy pair of yoga pants gets make over. >> and picture that has gone viral around the world. you can see why. taco bell can see why. taco bell explains what really g >> reality is hitting the world of virtual gain that mean for hundreds of employees at zing a game over exploratorium company which make games like farmville closed offices in los angeles, new york and dallas. >> john explains the local headquarters is taking a hit too. >> despite the sign outside zipping a fancy new headquarters south of market not much fun inside as myes were given boxes and told they were out of a job. >> i have been nervous for awhile. just because i don't know why. i was a little bit nervous. programmers artist. creative people behind the on lean games given the news told the sign separation agreement and then sent on their way. >> lake i said the way things work with games. i have been doing this for a long time. you just do the best you can do and sometimes things happen outside

hundreds of people get the boot at the company that brought us farmville. >> also.too sheer to wear. trendy pair of yoga pants gets make over. >> and picture that has gone viral around the world. you can see why. taco bell can see why. taco bell ex >> reality is hitting the world of virtual gain that mean for hundreds of employees at zing a game over exploratorium company which make games like farmville closed offices in los angeles, new york and dallas. >> john explains the local headquarters is taking a hit too. >> despite the sign outside zipping a fancy new headquarters south of market not much fun inside as myes were given boxes and told they were out of a job. >> i have been nervous for awhile. just because i don't know why. i was a little bit nervous. programmers artist. creative people behind the on lean games given the news told the sign separation agreement and then sent on their way. >> lake i said the way things work with games. i have been doing this for a long time. you just do the best you can do and sometimes things happen outside of your control. >>

the creator of games like "a wars" and "farmville" will t approximat or 18 >>> it's no longer fun and games at zynga the creator of games like mafia wars and farmville will cut approximately 520 employees or 18% of the company's staff to save money. the san francisco-based company will also close various offices to save another $70 million. since going public, zynga has struggled with strategic blunders. disappointing new games and a tough time breaking into the mobile market. >>> well, you can buy just about everything at target or tar-jay we say and that includes wedding dresses. kpix 5 consumerwatch reporter julie watts with a look at what may be the best bargain gown in town. >>> reporter: >> i really like the lace. >> reporter: redding gowns can easily run -- wedding gowns can easily run thousands of dollars and for many brides part of what they're paying for is the experience. >> you have your own stylist. you have a lot of customer service. >> reporter: but target is now taking some of the experience out of dress shopping as well as some of the price with a new line of wedding

that's the problem zinga ran into, silly games like farmville, and every got annoyed at them. producer's 5-year-old daughter plays it. are you worried? >> i'm on the same level as her. same intertapement keeps me going in the morning. >> it's interesting. interested to see if and when they go with ipo. >> the key to remember it's a big market. they are making money, enough to fuel an ipo and keep a company going forever? >> how will they price the ipo ?rks >> that's the problem were zinga. it's too darn expensive. >> i know why you have a blackberry because it's free. >> pree -- precisely right, thank you very much. >> it's company provided. >> asman is learning about me. >> inside your head, it's scraiy. >> jeremy, thank you very much. unemployment still high, milllons of people out of work, got it all. there's still opportunity out there. jobs are available. mike rowe from the tv show "dirty jobs," he's here. he tells us why jobs like this one, you're about to see it, are in high demand. >> this is miserable. ♪ look at that, i can't seem to get it out there. ♪ >> want to get

well, it was a rough day for investors in zynga, they lowered the out look for the year, saying its farmville franchise is the only one performing well. and announced layoffs of 18% of the work share. the shares closed at $2.99. >> and shares of infinity pharmaceuticals plunged nearly 40%. joining us now to discuss the company is adaline perkins. good to have you with us. >> thank you, it's nice to be here. >> we will talk about your advances in the fight against cancer in a moment. the big thing in the room right now is a major drop in the companies share today, 40% in the share alone, it was a $50 stock in the first of april. what is going wrong? >> one of the important goals is to create value for shareholders and we believe the best way to do that is develop medicines that make a meaningful difference for the patients and we feel we have one of those drugs. we are encouraged by the results and we believe the right thing for us to do is to advance the dwopt of the medicine so that we can get it to patients and not to focus our efforts on the short-term market changes but realize the promis

. >> the company behind farmville expects a loss in the second quarter worse than previously anticipated. many more recent games have been under performing. >> a bay area computer science teacher exposed himself in more ways than one, tonight facing serious charges. the teacher richard stein jer accused of child pornography after an embarrassing mistake in front of the class. we're live with the story. that is one classroom lecture the kids will never forget. >> it's sure. a lot of people shocked over this. he has been teaching here 16 skbreers by all accounts he's respected and popular until a mishap involving a naked photo of himself led to very troubling charges. >> everybody was like woah! and just all, like, just got dead silent. >> student lilly was shocked when her computer teacher accidentally showed a naked picture of himself to the class on a video screen. >> he clicked the wrong picture and that popped up and then, right after he was so sad and so -- like i can't believe this. this could ruin my career. and it did. >> he told his bosses about the incident. they place himd on l

hundreds of employees it's game over exploratorium company which make game like farmville closed office in los angeles, new york and dallas. 7 news reporter john alston explains tonight that the local headquarters took a big hit too. >> sign outside the fancy new head quarter south of market not much fun inside as employee were given boxes and told they were out of a job. >> i have been nervous for awhile. just because i don't know why. i just kind of was a little bit nervous. >>reporter: programmer artist creative people hand zing a most popular on line game given the news told to sign separation agreement and then sent on their way. >> like i said it's the way things work with games. i have been doing this for a long time and you just do the best you can do. sometimes things happen outside of your control. >> zing a came on strong with facebook game lick farmville but analyst say many of the games are under performing and zipping a core business is unraveling. doug is with bloomberg news. >> that business has declined. it's not drawing many more and really needed to shift the game to

zynga created words with friends and farmville. >> the transition to mobile, which is hurting and challenging all internet companies has been huge. people aren't using their phones to buy things on their games and to play the games as much and it doesn't spread as fast. >> cuts are expected to save between $70 and $80 million. >> today's layoff news sent shares tumbling. the price is now down 70% since it went public. >> head's up, there are bad berries out there. two people in the bay area have gotten sick with hepatitis a. one person is in contra costa county, the other in alameda. bags of townsend farms frozen berry mix from costco are linked to 30 illnesses nationwide. seven in california alone. costco recalled the berries, which had been on the shelf since late february. >>> two accidental deaths marred a busy weekend in yosemite. a falling rock killed a british climber yesterday. 28-year-old, felix was struck by a large rock that his climbing partner knocked loose. and the search is on hold for a sacramento man who went over the nevada falls saturday. ali coleman was swimming and when h

they created games farmville and "words with friends" but had a tough time breaking into the mobile market. >> the transition to mobile which is hurting and challenging all internet companies including facebook has been huge for zynga. people aren't using their phones to buy things on their games and to play the games as much, and it doesn't spread as fast. >> the cuts are expected to save zynga between 70 and $80 million. news of the layoffs sent shares tumbling. the stock price is now down 70% since it went public. >>> santa clara county voters will decide today who will replace former county supervisor george shirakawa. this special election comes just days before shirakawa is sent to prison. he faces five felonies including gambling away more than $100,000 in public and political funds. he resigned in march. the board scheduled a special election for today. >> the public expects their elected officials to be trustworthy and to do the public good, and to hear someone was misusing public funds was disappointing and discouraging. >> voter turnout for special elections in santa clara count

they created the popular games farmville and words with friends, but it has had a tough time breakingo the mobile market. >> transition to mobile, hurting and challenging all internet companies has been huge. people aren't using their phones to buy things on their games and play the games as much and doesn't spread as fast. >>> cuts are expected to save them between 70 and $80 million. >>> today's news sent shares tumbling their stock price is down 70%. >>> the big wild fire in southern california won't be fully contained for another week it burned 46 square miles, roughly the size of san francisco and only 40% contained, so far it cost almost $3 million, but there is good news, 3,000 people are being allowed back into their homes and cooler weather and helping firefighters. >>> this have already been 2,000 wild fires this year, 60% more than last year and 90% more than an average year. >>> how strong are those tornadoes we have been showing you out of oklahoma. take a look. the semi tractor trailer rig tossed around like a toy, at the mercy of an ef-3 tornado, a storm chaser, took th

they are best known for facebooking lime farmville and mafia wars. the retail giant, walmart is offering a money-back guarantee for fresh produce. to ensure you get the freshest fruits and vegetables, they will conduct weekly inspections in the more than 3400 stores they sell produce from. >>> meteorologist, christina loren, joins us on set for a look at the tuesday forecast. you say the coast is clear. no fog out there right now? >> not yet but we are seeing that. jon knows that fog can slow you down and we want you to get to work on time. right now, looking good. the only city that is dropping off is up in santa rosa. they only have about three miles. as we continue throughout the next few hours, expecting that to fall to a mile and a half. thickest fog expected between 7:00 and 9:00. concord, 56. good morning, san jose. 52 in gilroy where you can still smell that garlic out there this morning. this is what we are working with. you see where the white shading is at the immediate coast along the peninsula up in marin county. watch out for fog. that'

point one billion users as had more than a few privacy complaints in recent years there was the farmville breach back in twenty ten will face but was found to be giving out the game is identification numbers to bird party apps but the company is still worth nearly seventy billion dollars so some of these scandals appear to have dented the value of these companies so do we no longer care how intrusive they are that's what i asked leading media consumer has done you are now. it's clear that certain privacy rights and norms have been have been violated but we have to see really how this situation pans out before we make any judgment it's very difficult for consumers to just leave facebook or any other platform because it's not something about either google or facebook but it's something about the internet as such consumers would have little eternity of to move to other platforms because they have all been a little stands now complicit in providing data so for now i just to switched into these sites but the more their spam is up on news these more frustrated we're becoming and that greed migh

zynga created the popular games farmville and "words with friends." but it's had a tough time breaking into the mobile market. >> the transition to mobile, which is hurting and challenging all internet companies including facebook, is huge for zynga. people aren't using their phones to buy things on their games and to play the games as much. and it doesn't spread as fast. >> the cuts are expected to save zynga between 70 and $80 million. >>> and news of the layoffs sent shares tumbling. zynga's stock price is now down 70% since they went public. >>> most asian markets rebounded today despite a report showing u.s. manufacturing fell to its lowest level in four years. the tokyo's nikkei added 2% its biggest one day rise in two weeks, hong kong's hang seng lost a fraction. >>> after finishing in the red last week, wall street rallied yesterday. the dow surged final hours of trading gaining 138. the nasdaq rose 9 points. looks like the dow was up just 8 actually there. >>> demand for air travel is soaring faster than airlines can cram more seats into thei

company is shedding costs in the face of a decline in the number of users of its games, which include "farmvilleand "words with friends." zynga says the cuts will million dollars a year. and bit are expected to be largely apple is court, fighting federal anti-trust charges. the government has accused the cupertino-based company of conspiring with five book publishers to raise the prices of e-books in 2009 and 2010. federal prosecutors say apple was the ringleader of a plan that would have let publishers set their own e- book prices. while giving hot commission. but apple says it did not conspire with publishers to boost prices. the publishers have already settled with the justice department. the trial is expected to last three weeks. now in its 14th year.the prices. >>alison: thinking of visiting mickey and minnie mouse this summer? it'll cost you a little more than before. over the weekend, disney raised prices at its florida and california theme parks. at disney world's magic kingdom in florida -- adults will now pay $95 for a one day visit. that's up almost 7-percent. from 89 dollars last yea

san francisco company which makes games like farmville, closed offices in los angeles, new york and dallasstory. the local headquarters is taking a hit, too. >> absolutely. it's popular as online games might be. these are tough times for the companies trying to make money off of them, one of the big names is expecting to lose between $29 million and $39 million this quarter, today, something thood give. >> despite the sign, employees were given boxes and told they're out of a job. >> i've been nervous just because -- i just don't know why. >> programs and artists were givent news told to sign separation agreements and sent on their way. >> it's the way things work with games. i've been doing this a long time. you just do the best you can do. sometimes, things happen outside of your control. >> zynga came on strong, but analysts now say many of the games are under performing. doug mcmillan with bloomberg news. >> the business declined.

san francisco company which makes games like farmville, closed offices in los angeles, new york and dallas. abc 7 news is here with the story. the local headquarters is taking a hit, too. >> absolutely. it's popular as online games might be. these are tough times for the companies trying to make money off of them, one of the big names is expecting to lose between $29 million and $39 million this quarter, today, something thood give. >> despite the sign, employees were given boxes and told they're out of a job. >> i've been nervous just because -- i just don't know why. >> programs and artists were givent news told to sign separation agreements and sent on their way. >> it's the way things work with games. i've been doing this a long time. you just do the best you can do. sometimes, things happen outside of your control. >> zynga came on strong, but analysts now say many of the games are under performing. doug mcmillan with bloomberg news. >> the business and they need to shift games towards mobile. they're not doing that as quickly as they should. not having as much success as in years pas

the men and women behind some of the popular media games like farmville, zynga letting 520 people go from the company. that is 18% of the total work force. these are bad times for zynga. >> it's chaotic. we never know what had when things goring to happen. >> trouble has been brewing and it has shut down a dozen games and had to layoff employees last year. saying social gaming is so popular it's difficult to maintain a leadership position but cuts were necessary, he said to move forward. >> some 300 jobs will be up for grabs tomorrow in san francisco. 10 companies are offering jobs in categories ranging from military sales. the event takes place from noon until 4:00. >> apple has its day in court. >> we are here with this afternoon's after the bell report. hi, john. >> yes. apple in kurt the company on trial in manhattan. apple fighting claims that it fixed price was publishers. the case will lead to this decision which will be from a judge not a jury. sticking with apple the company signed deals with universal music and worm music and may be paving the way for the company to go head

they say farmville is doing well but many other games are losing in popularity.some say legalalized online gambling could be the only hope. >>> a year after financial scandal threatened closure of 280 parks state officials are unveiling a new plan. the program is called parks forward. it is a panel of experts that revamp the system. park agency came under fire when $54 million was discovered hidden in two special funds. they will examine the structure of the department. >> we are kind of moving parks into the 21st century. as the parks forward commission comes on we will be innovative and creative and try to catch up. >> the commission says it will come up with a plan by october of 2014 that will include recommendations to reshape the park system and generate more revenue. that proposal will be presented to the full legislature. >>> $10,000 is the award pita is helping to find the person who r(t&hác she was abandoned outside the oakland animal shelter last week with a chain and cord wrapped around her neck and legs so tightly they were embedded in her skin. her o

the primary basis of most of the games, farmville, mafia wars, primarily pc-based, web-based mostly.of its own making. can it turn at the boat around certainly, but the first thing you saw them do today is try to get the costs under control. now they're going to spend a lot of time trying to go mobile. >> it seems -- dan, you think that they may need something they don't control, that would be the ability to do real money gaming, gambling. >> one thing that's interesting is they shut down the shop they only bought a year ago. interesting decision. to me i think real money gaming, they don't completely control it, though they have acknowledged they're lobbies for it. they already have more online free poker players than anybody else in the market. they need to get those people to be able to bet real money on their games. >> dan, arik, thank you. >>> we have to go to phil lebeau with breaking news. >> tyler, this is as situation you don't see often. chrysler is disputing a recall request from the national highway traffic safety association. we're talking about '93 to '04 grand cherokee

zynga created the popular games "farmville" and "words with friends" but had a tough time breaking intohe mobile market. >> the transition to mobile which is hurting and challenging all internet companies including facebook has been huge for zynga. people aren't using their phones to buy things on their games and to play the games as much and it doesn't spread as fast. >> the cuts are expected to save zynga between 70 and $80 million. the layoff news isn't shares tumbling yesterday. zynga stock price is now down 70% since it went public. >> ouch. >>> 5:15. time to check traffic throw it over to liz to find out what's going on. >> thank you. we are following a vehicle crash close to zanker road and we have confirmed the direction now eastbound 237 at the zanker road off-ramp. so no lanes are blocked but that off-ramp may be partially blocked due to the crash. westbound 237 leaving milpitas still looks good all the way out towards sunnyvale. so the rest of our maps, we have been watching the richmond/san rafael bridge closely the last couple of days. they have that new lane configuration

zynga the creator of games like words with friends and farmville will cut about 520 employees, or 18%f the company's staff, to save money. the san francisco-based company will also close various offices to save another $70 million. since going public, zynga has struggled with strategic blunders, disappointing new games, and a tough time breaking into the mobile market. >>> well, a big-name hotel chain has dropped room service at two of its pricy properties because, get this, it can't afford it! kpix 5's patrick sedillo tells us it could be the beginning of a trend. >> reporter: what's your favorite thing to order from room service? >> breakfast. >> it would be definitely the breakfast. >> it's your right when you come into a hotel late at night or wake up early and want your coffee or eggs brought to the hotel. >> reporter: two hotels have discontinued room service because of the cost. >> it costs a lot especially like in new york and san francisco where you have the unions. >> reporter: this person from travel wizards in burlingame sees the trend coming and not only room service. in

when eggleston renovated his funeral home in farmville, virginia, he added big windows low to the groundou pay for a traditional funeral, he'll option. >>"you'd let me have a viewing during the day, and then at night i could be thru?" the last time we heard the words "funeral" and "drive- thru" together, it was when a funeral procession went through a burger king drive-thru to honor the deceased -- a pennsylvania man who loved fast food so much that his family paid tribute by stopping off for whopper juniors on the way to the cemetery. >>"now, this is different. it." even the deceased got a burger, which was placed on his casket and buried with him, but lest we bury our lead, back at eggleston's, has yet opted for the drive- >>"this isn't the first time a funeral home has offered drive-thru services. the most famous one has operated for 40 years in the car culture of southern california." the adams funeral home in compton is what inspired carl eggleston. the los angeles times profiled its drive-thru visitation. >>"oh, yeah. look how she's dressed." the funeral home says it's especially c

of a bigger than expected second quarter loss, citing weak bookings for its gains, which include farmvilledown 70% since the ipo. >>> fitch has cut illinois's credit rating by one notch to a minus. the move comes days after state lawmakers left the capital without addressing a huge public funding pension crisis. illinois has the lowest rating of all u.s. states while it struggled with an unfunded pension liability caused by years of skipping or cutting back on payments to retirement programs. the governor says he's not surprised by the downgrade and plans to meet with democratic lawmakers today. >>> for those of you craving an extra sugar rush with your morning coffee, your search might just be over, according to some. dunkin donuts is rolling out this sandwich in the u.s. on friday. it's a fried egg and bacon squeezed between two pieces of a blazed down i couldn't te ed do. it does have 20 grams of fat. >>> fast food changes are always looking to generate excitement. taco bell says it had an 8% spike in sales last year. we're asking, would you eat this? how interested are you? would you l

being yanked from the shelves for being too sheer, two of those popular stretch fits are back. >> farmvillewords with friends sounds like something we do around here. >>> would you like that breakfast shaken or stirred? passengers on this singapore airlines flight would have preferred neither when severe turbulence sent their coffee to the ceiling after the plane dropped about 100 feet suddenly. he said it was like having an elevator cable cut. about a dozen people on board were injured in the london bound flight last weekend, but cross credits the crew for a swift cleanup as soon as it was safe. still, some injuries there. >>> it is 13 minutes after the hour. back to matt, savannah and al. >> that feeling of dropping when you don't expect it. >> that feeling in the pit of your stomach. >> when they say put your seat belt on, you have to listen. i'm talking to myself here because sometimes i don't do it. >> mr. roker, another busy weekend for you. >> and imagine this, you're driving, you come up along -- this is in uconn, oklahoma, of high water. so you decide to back up, turn around. your

. >>> to business headlines beginning with zynga, the company behind the online games farmville and words its workforce. those cuts are expected to save them up to $80 million a year. they say the jobs have to go because fewer people are playing its games. >>> detroit automakers are reporting a sales surge as demand for new pickup trucks drives people into those show rooms. general motors with best performance in five years, sales up 3%. cadillac sales jumped 38%. it's the best since the carter administration. ford and chrysler reporting double digit increases last month as customers bought more than a million cars and trucks in may. >>> united airlines is offering frequent flyers a deal on baggage fees. an annual subscription starting at $349 a year. it covers the cost of your first bag on every flight of the year. it pays for itself after 13 flights. united is also offering a $50 annual subscription allowing passengers to upgrade to economy plus seats which have extra leg room. >> and we're supposed to somehow feel gratitude for these wonderful programs? >> thank you. >> thank you for c

let me give you a significant example which is in the "farmville". ,et me lay this out for you u.s.axpayers pick up over 60% of the cost of the premium for the crop insurance. u.s. taxpayers -- that does not include a ministry of cost which would pick up as well -- administered of costs which would pick up as well. you have a lot of individuals who received at least one intelligent premium subsidies, and you cannot get their names. interestingly enough, there is the amount of money you can receive, there is no income threshold. all of those other pieces apply to food stamp recipients. it is income-based, there is a cap, and there is an asset test. if you want to close a loophole down, let's go to this program. there was an article this morning that talked about the massive fraud in this program. let us close that loophole before we see two kids, sorry you cannot have a school lunch or breakfast. the: when the house begins farm bill this month, critics say conservatives are overlooking problems and other farm programs. , let'srall farm bill look at the house version. funding of over

>> tuesday in a savage generational split on the house side of monday's attack spending issues, farmville, transportation bill, younger members looking at this different than older members in any way? >> i haven't really analyzed it in that way. i guess i really can't answer that. >> chairman baucus, which are like to anger your members than comment on not? >> i don't see any generational split, frankly. there are fewer of us and we tend -- i just don't see it. >> mr. graham. >> earlier this week, senator coburn wrote an op-ed and talked about among other things tax reform. he said in today's atmosphere of the best thing a president can do to help the administration is give the house ways and means committee and offer they cannot work on the same that would be a piece of litigation that would start the process moving forward. [inaudible] what can the president do to make this happen? is he doing what he needs to do to help with this at this point in time? >> well, i think you wastefully is looking at tax reform the same way he's approached immigration. that is carefully. in this climate,

seen any signs of any generational split in your party on tax spending issues like transportation, farmville sort of thing? >> that particular issues one that is not in the ways and means committee. this is for our jurisdiction doesn't quite find it. it is in your jurisdiction but again, we don't have jurisdiction of state tax issues but that would be judiciary. i try not to doubt other chairman what to do. you know, i think the legislation has changed and i think we'll have to see what we actually got in the house. i've always felt a million is just a little too low in terms of the threshold for were yet to comply with the almost 10,000 different tax provisions. but again, i'm going to let the judiciary committee work that issued and we'll see what the committee reports out and then i will take a position on it. >> do you see any signs of a split on outside of some these tax-and-spend issues, the farmer, transportation bill? do you see younger members looking at it differently and alderman? >> i haven't analyzed in that way. i just haven't, i guess i really can't answer that. >> chairman ba