beck admits there are mistakes, but he says it's hard to tell landlines from cell phones. >> but it's not intentional. >> reporter: what if you were called three times a day? >> if i was called three times a day and i didn't want it, i would pick up the phone and say please stop calling me. >> reporter: the waites did that, but the calls kept coming. reach one of these phone calls is worth 500 bucks at least. how does that feel? >> well, we're both excited. >> reporter: it was now their turn to collect from the collection agencies. matt gutman, abc news, bellview, florida. >>> and don't miss matt's full report tonight on "nightline." >>> and now, to a big headline in the battle over dangerous concussions and sports. not professional athletes, but college athletes. today, the ncaa agreed to settle a lawsuit for $70 million, the money going to help thousands of current and former athletes in certain sports who may have suffered brain injuries. the deal includes pre-season testing, diagnosis and research. the settlement still needs a judge's approval. >>> and up next here tonight, close

and depending completely on their cell phones. 40% have cell phones but don't have landlines anymorewice as high as the percentage five years ago. 48% have both. and 9% don't have a find at all. at. >> that is craze -- crazy talk. she tells me so you didn't have a cell phone in high school? how do you survive? >> it is probably the best for all of us. >>> let's look at highway 24 westbound and we talked about the traffic in contra costa getting really busy in some areas and highway 4 nearby is getting slower likewise for 680, not long lines and you will see slow traffic in contra costa and also on 580 in livermore valley and we will talk about that coming up in just a moment. i want to talk about the metering lights and they are busy as you drive up to the pay gates. we had a couple of crashes on 580 and traffic has been slow coming in and if you drive in from tracy, you need to give yourself some extra time and you still have heavy traffic on west and dubly and hayward avenue and to say beautiful sun- visor for many, like that one dave? that monsoonal moisture is sticking around and

we did not do anything with the phone line. >> no landline? >> no landline. so we're fully a wireless -- >> the only reason to have a landline is during a blackout. even then, you need to have the original old style phones that will work -- >> you need a landline. you need a lapped line. >> a landline and a glock. you don't even thinking you're allowed to even imply that that would be okay these days, so i'm going to take it -- take it back. >> no. . >> second amendment still in force? >> is it? >> they're saying because he wants nationally to look more conservative, but he says he looked at it and thought about it long and hard. >> i love that. >> you know who i have for delivering -- >> i do. >> they don't put him -- i mean, those are good people, but i'm sorry, who do you have -- >> carl. >> how did you get him? >> i have pull. >> you must be doing late afternoons. >> he's a closer. >> no, but what i mean about later, he doesn't get out early because he's up every night. i love carl. but, you know -- >> why christine? >> that's awesome. that's unbelievable

homes only have landlines and 48% have both. another 3% don't have a phone at all. >> no phone? phone, oh, my. what would we do. 448 is the time. >>> remember the outdoor thing. and right now we are off to a good start, not a bad drive, it is 8 to so minutes driving across the and flan side and we are been mention it and at the oakland a the and rest is where parking lots are full and it is best to arrive on and train. northbound near taylor, they are declaring an accident there and everything looks good. let's go to rosemary. >> we are joined by mostly cloudy skies, elsewhere the mid- and high level clouds are still with us and we will turn to the radar and some of us may actually get a string kill 58 in napa and 58 in half-moon bay a little bit of moisture popping up on the screen. most of this evaporates before it hits the ground and yesterday we had a few reports with a few scattered showers and tropical moisture is still in place. through the morning hours, we cannot rule out the possibility especially over noter pay. >>> we don't see it too often and he eventually we see i

this works for landline phones or mobile phones. wireless phones. and, the other thing you should do is definitely demand a refund. go to the, the bill may lead you to believe that you should call the third party biller. don't do that. call the phone company and tell them. they're the guys who billed you. get the money back from them. gerri: you should complain, complain, complain. don't just complain to the phone company? >> yeah. definitely complain to complain to the federal trade commission. complain to the fcc, the federal communications commission, which also has jurisdiction in this area. and your state attorney general. names of the phone company, the third party biller, something called the aggregator which is the guy in the middle who collects all the money from the third party billers and then packages it and sends it on to the phone company. gerri: good lord, everybody is making money on this. >> that is actually the problem. yeah, definitely. now a couple years ago the fcc established some rules for, you know, some prohibitions against

which is why you should stay off the landline phone, or handle appliance cords, and avoid plumbing, washing, or showering. because the lightning can travel along pipes. simple safety steps the next time the sky lights up. david kerley, abc news, washington. >>> and the countdown is on tonight for germany versus argentina in the world cup. the current pope is from argentina, but he said he wouldn't use his pull to pray for his team to win. you can watch the world cup on espn and right here on abc. >>> next, the nightmare nanny refusing to leave the home even though she's fired. >>> and take a look at the young crooner that grew into an american icon. tonight we're on the bus with willie nelson, and we'll tell you why he's our person of the week. c'mon, you want heartburn? when your favorite food starts a fight, fight back fast, with tums. heartburn relief that neutralizes acid on contact. and goes to work in seconds. ♪ tum, tum tum tum... tums! you wouldn't have it she any other way.our toes. but your erectile dysfunction - it could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use

it is interesting idea, and i was raised not to answer the landlines at the dinner table, so it is goingeresting to see how they roll it out. >> let the market decide. when bloomberg decided to ban smoking in restaurants, it was to be the worst thing ever, but it has not turned out that way. they are trying something new, and so we will see. >> and this is not like bloomberg trying to ban smoking, but it is just their own xan. >> and remember that red lobster had an all-you-can h-eat crab special, and the guy lost his job, and if this is not going to work, somebody is unemployed. >> last word to gary b. >> well, i know where i am going to dinner tonight. i'm going to apple booe's, and going on the tuesday to see if there is a big difference of the tech and the non-tech. >> all right. okay. we will see you there. thank you, guys, and thank you to tracy and mark for joining us. >> thank you, brenda. >>> crumbs may have crumbled, but we have the new name for you to munch on. up. college is hard. down. those books are heavy. my sport is football, but my passion is education. so every year, i

. >> reporter: angela day's landline kept going dead in 2012. >> not working. >> reporter: she didn't have a cell phone to use because cell coverage is spotty in the appalachian region of ohio where she lives and at the house where she was living with her daughter and her parents there's no cell signal at all. so whenever she had to be away from home she worried, especially about her father. >> he had a heart condition and he had had several open heart surgeries. he had triple bypass surgery. >> reporter: a few days after christmas he said he wasn't feeling well. >> he called over to talk to the nurse and he was having problems with the phone. >> reporter: finally he said he needed an ambulance after his condition deteriorated. the family called 911, but the line was so bad that they finally gave up and day's brother rushed their father to the doctors, but it was too late. he died that evening. >> it was really frustrating because the whole week afterwards we couldn't even call out to plan the funeral or call to tell people that he had passed. i had to use the phone at my workplace to

you'll wait until you had an old fashioned landline. >> landlines will be okay. >> as long as you have a phone that's not powered on battery, too. >> so that's two -- that's -- let's see. that's one -- we're getting six. so that's 33 % of the 20%. of the dow that we've got soever today. >> so coming up, double the data, double the guess. earnings reports economics week is a lot for the markets to digest. we're turn to go robin and brad. morning. >> welcome. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] if you can't stand the heat, get off the test track. get the mercedes-benz you've been burning for at the summer event, going on now at your authorized mercedes-benz dealer. but hurry, offers end july 31st. share your summer moments in your mercedes-benz with us. >>> a negative start to the trading week, markets finishing well off session lows. with volatility back in the market, how should investors be positioned? here to join us is lisa chalot. brad freedlander is co-founder of angel capital and has a morning star five star rating. lady and gentlemen, good to have you here. the evidence in the markets for

a landline and cable access package, not so much. not going to give away names but i was talking to a young producer in this segment who said she's using someone else's hbo password to access hbo go in conjunction with her broadband. hbo thinks how are we going to get young people to stay in this world of cable which has been financially good for us? one of the things they've been testing is a lower price all in cable package. you get some cable, not everything. you get internet and you can get hbo that way. it might be more aggressive on that front in conjunction with pay-tv players. >> john, younger viewers refer to access content through an over-the-top service like netflix. that would be easier for me. could this happen for hbo? >> it doesn't feel like it can easily happen. because of the ties between the cable companies and hbo. to be able to do something that matches exactly what netflix is including going to them, subscribing and accessing on all devices doesn't seem short-term. what does seem like it will be pushing toward is

companies like diversified make 1 million automated calls per day to what they think are landlines.e are actually cell phones. beck admits there are mistakes. but says it is some times hard to tell land lines from cell phones. >> it is not intentional. >> reporter: what if you are called three times a day? >> if i was called three times a day ooh, would pick up say, please stop calling me. >> reporter: the waites did that the calls kept coming. each phone call is worth $500 at least. how does that feel? >> well, we are both excited. >> reporter: now their turn to collect from the collection agencies. matt gutman, abc news, bellview, florida. >> go to donotcall.gov, put your numbers in there. more information how you can follow up on claims matt talked about. but such a touchy issue for so many people right now. [ phone ringing ] >> tempted to call matt gutman, prank call him at 2:00 a.m. and pretend i am a robo call. >> will he try to get $500 off you. >> we do the stories. i wonder. i might do that the next hour. >> all right. >> when we come back, justin bieber and orlando bloom i

. >>> a new government survey finds that folks are ditching their landline home phone, do we need a governmentvey for that? they are using cell phones instead. breaking news, folks. roughly four out of the ten people use only cell phones, the centers for disease control and prevention have been tracking phone use for a decade. >>> well, they are closing all stores a week after the the struggling cup cake stock was delisted from the nasdaq. all employees were notified of the closures on monday. crumbs will file for chapter seven bankruptcy liquidation. representative could not say how many workers were affect or how many stores it had remaining on its last day. >>> this may be the first for national restaurant chain, end less appetizers. tgi friday's have launched a summer promotion that offers all you can eat appetizers for just $10 a person. move comes at a time when friday's is trying to keep up with popular fast casual restaurant. however analyst doubt this will really work saying guests will probably try to take unfair advantage have of the deal. >> they lose money on me. >>> well, we're e

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the wires money in china is by many catalog been woken up and sat saturday morning so i killed my landlinethe young people the 25 to finance will live in mobile. in that service said households have a wireless number. heat shields are compromised. we have multiple failures. what's that alarm? fuel cell two is down. i'm going to have to guide her in manually. this is very exciting. but i'm at my stop. come again? i'm watching this on the train. it's so hard to leave. good luck with everything. watch tv virtually anywhere with the u-verse tv app. with at&t, the u-verse revolves around you. clear so that is raining today and not all happen on a slick cobblestone road a woman is called the but the banana and six bandits forced selling of the saddle and front-fear when is a thief still there's a ford signed on july 4th. on social media for talk is all about the someones this stills signs off yards in the middle of the day with the brightest colors of one thing we do know is the banana pantses not been caught. this means been and ancestor of working the streets. upon his belief that homes will c

they will jump right over landline phone. people have thaws in africa.ve running water in their house. one of our u.s. ambassadors. we just had a bunch of kids coming in here. can we give them some love? that's what i'm talking about. [applause] the first wireless economy. almost a billion people running water are good streets. really sports for the rich. a gas station and you will find many restaurant. it was only when people -- by the way, half of america is $50,000 or less than half of all families. it was only when they decided to take up these products and to monetize that they have market share. let's go the market share. henry ford, not only smart to not only to the automobile, renovated it, and made available to all people, he was smart enough to hire workers and pay them enough to buy them a car. you follow me? and you had a middle-class. i think it's the wrong are yen. in fact, i know. what would you want to pay somebody minimum wage? to minimum-wage jobs to pay your bills and have enough left over for consumer spending. you want to play somebo

that he controls too much of the mexican telecom market. 70% of the wireless market, 80% of the landline market. those are the numbers. pretty hard to believe, but they are what else carlos slim's fortune. patricia leah is covering that for us from mexico city. matthewrg's editor miller. what is happening on the ground in mexico? we know that carlos slim has been under pressure from the mexican congress for some time, but what finally drove him to make the decision that american mobile needs to be broken up? the bill was just approved by the congress this morning, and the board announced last night that it approved the plan to sell mexican assets. american mobile executives have been weighing their options for a while. yearsuld be to resist for -- it would pose a threat to their revenue. the second is, what kind of structural options make sense? they decided to break up their assets. >> given how much power carlos slim wields by virtue of his wealth and influence in mexico, is it amazing that this actually came to pass? >> i think so. i was estimating that this would happen, but it is --

they are going to jump over landline phones and by the way people have mobile phones in africa but don'ter in their house. one of our u.n. ambassador sent by the way he has a bunch of kids here. can we give them some love? >> is what i'm talking about. africa will probably become the first wireless economy. they're probably more cell phones in africa than people. if there's almost a billion people in africa but 650 million cell phones in a place that does not have running water or good streets. let's look at some more examples. restaurants. restaurants were really toys for the rich. now you go to a gas station and you will find a little mini-restaurant. it's only when, by the way half of america makes $50,000 or less, half of the whole country makes $50,000 a year or less. it was only when -- these products that they were commoditized that i call market share. henry ford not only was he sma smart, he not only took the automotive and updated it and made it available to all people but he was smart enough to hire workers and pay them enough to buy them cars you is making. do you follow make

is there a new government study that finds this, we certainly have, ditched our landlines at our houses use our cell phones. four in ten, close too 50 percent only have a cell phone we don't have that appliance in our house, experts believe, the slightly leveling off now, could be a people are holding on to their land lines because their part of the the internet and cable tv package and they provide the internet services, your tv service and they give you a line but you have to hook up an appliance to it. centers for disease control and prevention have been tracking phone use for some reason for a decade. >> do you know why i kept my land line. >> why. >> my sister is a 911 operator in maryland and she scared me into not getting rid of it. >> in case your battery is dead on your cell. >> we need to call 911. >> yes. >> so i still keep it. >> i'm a fall because dan would shoot me, talk about a waste of money, i have had the same comcast service for three and a half years. i got it first day i got it three an a half years ago. give me the the land line too. i never went out and got the ph

and we received during the past ten days many messages on the landline and the mobile.ing and it was asking us to put, asking me, i'll be very arrogant here to put pressure on the activists to drop their weapons. well, 5:00 in the morning and this is serious or just joking with us under these circumstances. >> ramez, quickly, when the israelis say get out of where you are, you're in a dangerous part of northern gaza, why not leave? >> where to, my friend? you know gaza strip. it's the density of the population is around 4,000 and inhabitant square meters and most people are living in apartment buildings and, actually, if you tell me what is a safe area in gaza where to go to downtown or to what? well, actually, if they would like me to leave, i would be glad to stay and they like me to go there. i have no problem. or maybe we are just adjacent to the yellowstone park and they want us to go there for a week or so. this is not the case, my friend. >> ramez, be careful over there. we'll stay in touch with you. obviously, this is a very, very dangerous situation in gaza unf