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nintendo has sold 3.2 million. that is less than expected. try to make an offer you cannot refuse. and it is competing with smart phones. the lower price point could attract gamer's that want a better gaming experience hand held and a great device for children. this is great and works great with the three- dimensional camera. in early september they're going to add the red color. and they have great games. popular games and the franchise that will be in three dimensions. for more information on this? www.kron4.com (cheers & applause) gabe slate's tech report in >> welcome back. >> from the it raiders game last night converting to tonight's rangers game. taking specific care on the quality. >> the pitching mound socks. the sand socks. >> and if you want to have pitchers having success? call it home court advantage. the same slope. >> the management was confident that of the precise nature of the pitcher's mound. >> they have the standards and every ballpark in the league has to adhere to them. groundskeeper. and i am not sure what mr. wilson's

so why aren't kids playing nintendo ds anymore? >> why? >> because they're playing with their iphones. >> oh, really? >> it's killing them. >> that many kids have iphones. >> or ipod touches or those sorts of things. or their parents do. when you're in a restaurant next time u see the kids with the game boys, look for iphones and kids and you'll see it. >> interesting. okay. thank you very much. >>> 5:27 right now. john? >> still to come, what investigators are doing today to try to determine what caused a pit bull to turn on its pregnant owner. >>> and take a look at that, john. we've got some fog creeping in this morning. and as a result, it could hamper your get-away friday plans. speaking of which, let's check that drive with mike. >> all right, christina. we are tracking some new information from the walnut creek police department. i'll letnoat'soing on there as that construction shifts, and the friday commute is just getting started. >>> new this morning, an aggressive armed robbery at a north bay business makes for a very scary nigh

nintendo cut the price of the 3d portable player to low as $169.ore gamers are flocking to other mobile games to play on the apple i-phone and ipad like the angry birds. still, chairman is signalling that they are not running a price war with nintendo. live at the new york stock exchange, jane king, bloomberg news. >> thank you very much. have a great friday. >> thanks. >>> well, nasa scientists believe they have new proof of water on mars. yesterday, geophysicists in washington, d.c. unveiled the latest high definition pictures from nasa recon any sans orbiter -- reconnance orbiter showing something flowing on mars. they say it appears to get heavier in the summer and dry up in the winter and it runs in formation that look like rivers. nasa scientists in mountain view who attended the presentation, via satellite, say the finding is promising. but many questions remain. >> it did look like water just oozing out of that bedrock and sliding down the surface. the thing that is puzzling there is an instrument on the same spacecraft able to image locati

. >>> the nintendo wii is a lot of fun but may also make you a better surgeon.n arizona found doctors who spend an hour playing wii before they operate are more accurate than those who don't. think of it as warming your brain up. the researchers are designing a special video game just for surgeons. >> this report is brought to you by disney interactive studios. >> this is awesome. i know what we're going to do today. make a video game. here we go. >>by ware. disney's top animated tv series, finian and ferb is now a new video game. the game is based on the disney channel original movie, finias and ferb across the second dimension, the daring duo travel to a parallel universe to save their world. and they have to battle an even more evil doctor. joining them is terry, their pet platypus. terry reveals he's a crime fighting secret agent. in the video game players take on the roles of their favorite players, including terry the turtle. you journey through five worlds and dozens of levels filled with gelatin monsters, robots and giant gnomes. use baseball launchers,

we have all these things like the tv and music and all these nintendo coming onto this table, holding pressure on these things that are trying to hold us and keep us together, and that's really making it hard. it's really a tough, trying time for us because part of us want to say, "no, i'm sukpik. i'll stay that way," or "i want to be a little modern." you get pulled in two ways. it's really hard. it causes a lot of, uh... i don't know, just confusion. [narrator] the people of nanwalek have survived the onslaught of russian and then american control. the people here are beginning to reclaim their history. they have not suffered from modern problems, such as alcoholism, that many other small communities across alaska have. some communities on the kenai peninsula were virtually destroyed, their memories obliterated. one such group is the kenaitze indian tribe. they are dena'ina people-- a branch of the athabaskan native americans. it was his job to teach me to hunt. i was born in kenai right here in 1923-- born and raised here. [narrator] clare swan is chairperson of the tribe. i just l

nintendo,man somic, australia, new zealand all finished up slightly. >>> checking in on our markets. huge swings in both directions this week. analysts are saying it's really signs of a weak economy to see such big swings in one week. dow jones up 423 points to 11,143. the nasdaq and s & p also posting big gains as well. we'll get a better indication of what will happen today. although who knows. it certainly changes during the day. >>> the irs warns con artists are posing as tax preparers showing up at churches and community service centers and charging hundreds of help in filing forms. the irs says there are several ways to spot tax scams. they include claims for the making work pay credit. which is a program that has expired. offers of free money with no documentation required. clients not being told to sign forms or being given copies of forms. the irs is investigating hundredsover complaints from san jose, oakland, fresno, and sacramento. >>> no more crosses will be added to a hillside memorial in lafayette recognizing falling troops. volunteers have been adding white crosses fo

it's facing new competition from the likes of nintendo, and it wants to boost business. the ps3 now costs $249. and with billions of dollars potentially on the line, this next story is not about fun and games, it's about who owns facebook. today attorneys for the palo alto social networking giant say they have evidence that a new york man who claims to own half of facebook is making things up. paul cilia filed a lawsuit claiming that facebook founder mark zuckerberg owes him half the company. any deal between the two does not involve ownership of the company. that sigh of relief is from holders of facebook stock options. back to you. >> you had the winkelvoss twi , twins,anyone else? >> there were a few in the beginning, and this guy more recently. who knows but hopefully not and we can move forward with whatever it is the company wants to do. >> scott budman, thank you. >>> still ahead at 5:00, redefining addiction. why blaming the addict for lack of willpower should no longer be a course of action. >>> looking at cancer in a different light. the treatment that's helpin

sony hopes to better compete against microft's x-box and the nintendo wii. >> tom: despite all the wild market swings lately, one gruff of investors has stepped up buying, corporate executives. that brings us to tonight's word on the street. david is back with us. we're talking about legal insider buying, but this has a mixed track record as a sign of future stock gapes. how do investors, how should they use it? >> sure. well, insiders aren't always correct, but there is one reason why they buy, and that's to make money. so i like to see insider buying, but i also want to look behind the stock and see there are potential catalysts, that the stock can move higher in the near term. >> tom: i imagine you don't ignore the fundamentals by looking at insider purchases, as well, correct? >> correct. >> tom: all right. huntington bank shares is first one to come across, hban the ticker symbol, and ohio bank, the c.e.o. has been buying shares. what makes you like it? >> well, several things here. first of all, you mention the insider buying. i also like the fact that management raised the divide

the yen sharply lower against all major currencies theaters adding almost one a half percent while nintendo is up almost five percent and sang is winning between gains and losses but is setting point one percent without. him last go we're two hours away from the opening bell russian stocks plunged the most in northern three months on wednesday shares a long time pinning them out for the metals which are the key drivers and russian market. a leg concept from reading the capital expects investors to get accustomed to the new economic environment soon and take another look at russia. i don't for a problem for the end of august there's never a spark of conditions a lot of odd silty and probably a little bit of risk to the downside both for russia and for external markets i was there a third down the road we do see where the investors will come out something to you when you come out of the wire wondering if and provided you know the false happen nor in the eurozone house and u.s. have been avoided we see a lot of for good perspective for the for russian stocks in particular liquidity is still qu

the price cut comes less than one month after the rival nintendo cut the price of its hand-held nintendo 3 ds player, stay with us more news after this break. oh, great, that's awesome. what about a platinum graphite rogue with touch-screen nav, bluetooth, and...a moonroof? with or without leather? we got 'em both. [ sighs ] i gotta get back. [ male announcer ] the most innovative cars are also the most available cars. nissan. innovation for all. >> according to a recent financial report she and her husband on assets up to $2.8 million in the couple also owns $750,000 and a standing loans, it includes her husband psychotherapy practice, office space and a family farm in wisconsin she is not the richest republican in the race by far. mit romney his records show that he has up to $250 million in assets. the front runners in the republican presidential race are crossing the country now stomping in key battleground states as president obama makes his way through the midwest. >> the president continued his three day bus tour through the midwest meeting with farmers and small business owners a

to be some kind of beef and there would be no step back because well for the first shot i have my nintendo in here and you jump here and go to david here why don't you put issue on the other foot i mean should native speakers of english maybe delve into this because it'll it'll make it easier for them to communicate with people and then i'm saying just for limited purposes if you want to go travel around the world as we just it was pointed out in some places than in europe in asia and in south america there's very limited english it wouldn't be a bad idea for native speakers say take a real short course in that and you could get by a lot easier. i'm not i'm all in favor of native speakers being talked how to use their language in a more effective ways when talking to non-native speakers i don't think it actually needs to sort of to learn a certain english light a special kind of english i think it's more about strategies and principles hopefull are using the language that you already know but i think that we are talking about different things here i think that in korea tiley with with robe

>> back in the day of nintendo. >> you were a gamer?into that cartridge to get it to work, i'm old school, nintendo, back in the day. >> pac man, mrs. pac man. for decades parents have warned kids not to sit too close to the tv saying if you do, you'll go blind. >> but researchers are saying going blind isn't a concern, dying is. abc's senior medical contributor dr. tim johnson explains. >> reporter: video game diagnosis.is not a clinical but playing games on a game system or the computer uninterrupted for long hours could kill you. it's not the games that pose a threat but the amount of time spent sitting still playing them. being sedentary for extended periods, whether playing games, working on the computer, or even being stuck on a very long flight, raises the risk of developing deep vein thrombosis, dvt. that's when a blood clot forms in deep veins, generally i ithe lower leg or thigh. if the clot travels to the lungs and blocks blood flow, it can cause death. that happened recently to a 20-year-old man in england after spending all

nintendo has dropped the price. the 3 d gaming is fun. it is a great action. they have also made some hardware and software updates to make the device more appealing. make sure to tune in to kron 4 tonight at 8:00 p.m. and i will let you know where to get the best deal. n.y. gabe slate, kron 4 news. >> coming up at 6:00 p.m., kron 4 is following an amber alert and what is being done to track down a man accused of kidnapping his two year- old daughter. the hot topic of same-sex marriages tackled by some of the republican presidential hopefuls. you cannot have different definitions of marriage. >> what is big at the box office this weekend? >> at 6:00 p.m., an amber alert across california. a two year-old girl allegedly kidnapped by her father. we are live with details on what is being done. >> a three year-old was shot and killed. we now have new video of the tense moments just after the shooting. >> the parents are a victim just like the boy was a victim. kron 4 walks you through the video, plus the suspect's family speaks out saying that he was set up. >> 82

that is a $50 cut and comes less than a month after nintendo cut the price of its new player, and i'mostren. >> an unemployed man in new jersey turned a job search into a career, a new one. he was down sized after working 23 years but instead of looking for ways to rejoin the rat race, he created a job boot camp free of charge. he says the best way to land a job is the old fashioned way. >> the greatest down fall is that they spend all day in front of the computer, they'd rather communicate with a computer. that doesn't work. >> his main advice is do not depend on job boards to get work work and said concentrate on companies you want to work for and find ways to meet face-to-face. >> and coming up, police make an unusual find during a drug bust. a search where all of the tomb stones came from. >> i'll answer your consumer questions from facebook, twitter and e mail coming up. >> and later on abc 7 news at 5:00 head of the uc system justifying pay raises for some faculty and staff. >>> all right. 7 on your side's michael finney is here now to answer questions you've posted to his faceb

nintendo is expected to release a redesigned version of the we consoles.today the updated, so will be part of the new wii bundle they say will be slimmer and it will be launched in europe they say they have no plans to introduce this slim down consul in the u.s.. stay with us, more news after the break. >> stock and other czech-- and other czech at the action going on the bridge. commuters are advised to avoid this area because of the police action we will be back. okay, kids, we can record one more show. who should get it? i really love jennifer. yeah, she's great. yeah. yeah. kyle's got that thick head of hair. and that should be rewarded. okay, moment of truth. on "three," say which kid you love the most. ooh, fun, yeah. one, two, three. jennifer. jennifer. whoa. wow. she's so pretty. yeah. or we give it to kyle. it's really all he's got. [ male announcer ] switch to at&t u-verse and record four shows all at the same time. just $29 a month for 6 months. at&t. >> a live look outside downtown san francisco is bidding harder to see anything with the low cl

. >> some nintendo 3 d video games. 3-d without the glasses. and also a recent drop of price.ow, $169. >> the cool amazon kindle with a light on the case. and even though many people are purchasing tablets e- book are still popular and expected to sell. >> thank you. we will take a break and coming up we will be cooking. live from the kron 4 news station, this is the kron 4 news. >> we are back at 8:30 recapping somewhat top stories in amber alert in place. the father is believed to kidnap his own daughter. he has been ordered to return the child last week investigators believe that that child to be in danger. an officer involved shooting last night on the 2100 block of fruitvalle. an officer tased a homeless person when that person did not respond? the other officer shot the homeless person. >> this is a live look at ames, iowa. this day long festival on the iowa state university campus. the events going on with rick perry officially going to enter the race. >> a homicide investigation in hayward a woman was found burned behind a motel 6. just before 10:00 p.m. this motels se