nintendo's president will be speaking with us soon. >>> breaking news on financial regulations. eamon javers has the story. >> another potential nail in the coffin for swiss bank secrecy. a senior u.s. department of justice official saying this afternoon that the united states expects to announce in the next coming days an agreement with the government of switzerland in which certain swiss banks could resolve the liability that they may be facing as a result of hiding american asset from the irs in those swiss banks. the official said this agreement that maybe on the verge of being announced here would not necessarily apply to 14 specific swiss banks which the official would not name, but which have been under investigation by the united states. instead this would apply to other swiss banks that may have had u.s. accounts, those banks could come banks that may have had u.s. accounts. those banks could come clean, turn over all the names, all the information and resolve their lie ability here. something else for people to worry about wh

it's nintendo ds, a less expensive version of their 3 ds.opefully, this can compete with the iphone, kids playing with it nintendo cutting the price also of its wii u console, wasn't selling well either. >>> john mcafee has posted another video to the internet, answering viewer questions. no, he says he did not kill his neighbor. yes, did he live with seven girlfriends. and then this. >> about the only question i didn't receive is where did i bury the body of jimmy hoffa? it absolutely is not in the parking lot of mcafee corporate headquarters. really. >> that headquarters is in santa clara. mcafee does his peculiar videos in front of a green screen, his library isn't really that big. he says he is actually going to release the raw footage of him in front of the green screen in the next few dates ys so intern users can remix his videos with any background had he choose. >> he is pretty bizarre. >>> green bay packers receiver james jones is not forgetting his roots. yesterday, we told you some members of the san jose's gunderson high school j

stuart: nintendo, got to talk about that.,000 of these we you video game consoles in the last three months. that is a huge drop from the previous quarter and you are telling me and nintendo, a name i know from 30 years ago with my young kids, nintendo is on itt sick bed or death that or what? >> especially in the consul business they are in trouble. they are planning on hitting 9.5 million sales in march of 2014, there is no way they are going to hit that, nowhere near it. on the bright side they have hand-held business picking up 12% increase so that is positive but nintendo has a lot of work to do. stuart: when you are saying sony play station and x box are killing the nintendo device? >> they will come out this holiday season and obliterate whatever chance on the consoles side so it is worrying for nintendo. they need to pick of software and fight back. stuart: your too young, you are too, i remember in the 1980s buy a gun nintendo's super mario game for my young children at the time. they were glued to it five, six, seven

nintendo is launching a new lower priced hand-held device. the 2d is in time for holidays. >>> speaking of minimum wage, four strippers have filed a class action lawsuit in colorado federal court. they claim their employer fantasy gentleman's club in grand junction had violated federal and state minimum wage laws. a 23-story tall delta 4 heavy rocket was launched on wednesday from california's vandenberg air force base. the classified payload is expected to be a billion-dollar spy satellite. >>> starbucks is selling a swarovski encrusted mug. >>> and a popular television commercial selling insurance was the inspiration behind this in florida for this business. they actually brought no man the camel to work. the occasion? hump day! well, we know that was yesterday, wednesday. today is thursday. but it happened yesterday. >>> straight ahead, a shocking new report suggests aaron hernandez was using angel dust. plus all your sports highlights, next. >>> now let's get the latest in sports for you. they finished just short of midnight. defending ch

nintendo cutting the price on its wii you game console to compete with the xbox 1 and play station 4 that go on sale in november. nintendo announcing the 2ds just in time for the holidays, a lower resolution of the company's popular 3ds system. it will play both ds and 3 ds games in 2d. >> how far it has come since the days of super mario brothers. it was so simple back then. >> even further. remember pong? >> yeah. >> these dots a little reminiscent. >> let's check the forecast with meteorologist christina loren. a warmer start to our day. >> good morning to you, laura and marla. happy thursday to you at home. want to start with this live picture of the golden gate bridge. a little foggy for now, completely socked in with fog as we head through the next couple hours. the good news is we're starting out nice and mild out there. no need for the jacket and our summer days are now numbered. so get on out there if you can. 64 degrees in san jose. 64 in gilroy and 63 in santa cruz where it's going to be really comfortable later today. let's talk about your labor day plans. we're still wat

less expensive nintendo 2ds, a less expensive version of the 3ds.wii console that wasn't selling well. the madden video game sells every fall. marla and laura, i think families have to decide, they pay 60 bucks now for this new madden game or wait until the new machines come out, buy the better version of the game then because $60 is a lot of money for a game. >> yes. but how much is the new machine? >> the newachines will be in the hundreds of dollars. do you want the old game in the new machine or the new game in the new machine. it's the pivot point where a lot of video game companies may fail to make some money because of everybody just waiting. >> the kids, way thant both. >> that is the answer. >> just do both, mom and dad. >> you know the atm thing that spits out the money? >> exactly. and that starts young. >> times three for this one. >>> let's get to the forecast. talki talking. >> temperatures are nice and comfortable, at 63 degrees. lots of little ones headed back to class for today. you want to dress them for two different parts of the

by the way you couldn't get any more 1980s than that if a rubic's cube made love to a nintendo entertainment system and gave birth to a v.h.s. copy of flash dance then that copy of flash dance was raised by three men: right? while we haven't reformed the tax code since 1986 we've certainly added lots of new provisions and loopholes to it. it's like imagine you have the same refrigerator for the last 27 years. you haven't cleaned it in all of that time. but you keep putting food in there. and now the thing smells so bad you don't even want to touch it. that is america's current tax code. an old refrigerator full of rotten food. now, over the years, corporations and other special interests have made a lot of money from this broken refrigerator, exploiting features from the interest deduction that allows hedge fund managers the pay only 20% on their earnings to the drilling cost deduction that lets oil company write off the extra cost of business to the -- and this is true -- chicken poop credit. that's real. i'm serious. under section 45 of the tax code, you can get a tax break for burning chi

. >>> nintendo cut the price of its wii-u video game console by $50.version of the gaming system will sell for $300 starting september 20. the basic bundles which had a smaller memory capacity and no games included will no longer be sold. nintendo is looking for ways to fk sales as -- to increase sales as its two biggest rivals launch new devices for the holidays. >>> time 5:52. how shutting down a major bridge and that giant mountain wildfire, they're forcing drastic changes in a lot of holiday traffic plans. >> tough new laws against texting in the car. where you can now be punished even if you're for the the driver. -- you're not the driver. unbelievable. shhhhh! in our day, we didn't have u-verse high speed internet. yeah, our babysitter didn't have a million ways to serve mom up on a silver platter. we had to count sheep to fall asleep. and i always worried that i was creating an overcrowded sheep farm. in my head... never looked like that farmer took proper care of those sheep. too much? a little. [ male announcer ] connect all your wi-fi-enabled

nintendo swung to a profit also for the april to june period held boy a weaker january. despite the wii u. they stick to the sales forecast for the current year. >> give us which key earnings are due up today and what we should be on the look out for. >> i will come that in a second and the big names are sony and sharp. they will be coming out with numbers later on and component maker and beer makers, asahi and kirin, the top two in japan. the key data out of china, the official manufacturing purchasing managers index for july, coming out later this morning and it always has some kind of an influence on trade here for the nikkei and the topix. we will watch out for that. >> thanks for the update. from the tokyo stock exchange. as he mentioned, it is all about earnings here in japan. five major brokerages have rchted strong earnings for the first quarter of the business year. this is due to a booming stock market. a record net profit of about $670 million for the april to june period. that's about 34 times more in yen terms than the same quarter last year. the securities

. >> and nintendo cutting the price on the wii u game console to compete with the xbox one and playstations. back over to you. >> don't you love talking about the holidays in august. >> there we go. >> thank you, jackie. speaking of minimum wage, four strippers filed a class action lawsuit in colorado federal court. they claim that their employer, fantasy gentlemen's club in grand junction violated federal and state minimum wage laws. >> ladies just want to get paid. and a delta 4 heavy rocket was launched on wednesday. the classified payload is believed to be $1 billion high powered spy satellite. >>> starbucks is selling a limited crystal incrusted tenth anniversary mug. it's going for $150. >> a popular television commercial selling insurance was the inspiration behind this florida business that brought nomad the camel to work. what's the occasion? well, hump day of course. i have been waiting all day to say that. straight ahead, the politics behind america's next move in syria. and hearing everything from our marketing partners, the media and millions of fans on social media can be a c

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nintendo also shrugged off weak sales. a weaker yen helped boost the company's bottom line and the stock gained by 5% today. back to you. >> all right, sixuan, thanks for now. catch you a little bit later. >>> so how is this all playing? joining us for first part of the program today, richard ward, ceo of lloyds of london. and raymond young, senior economist of greater china in hong kong. welcome to you both. let's pick up with you, first of all, what is your takeaway from the official pmi data and what -- the disparity between that and the hsbc number? it is getting bigger. >> yes, i think i'm not convinced about the official pmi that had reported about 50, which should have been reflecting the economy still on an expansion mode. but over the past half a year we see there is a discrepancy between the official pmi and the hsbc pmi. we have seen exports have been declining, industrial production has been declining. so i don't think today's release of the official pmi above 50 has actually reflected a turn around of the econ

. >> and a kid with a nintendo controller will get a predator drone and find out who is responsible. we lost valuable time and been made a fool of internationally, this is a national security issue. then you have a president that engages in shameless rhetoric, the words he said. i don't understand how he calls them phony scandals. they lied from the beginning. >> they lied from the beginning the reason for all that. >> what about the video? >> bob, how do you explain that? >> they lied from the beginning. they lied to the parents. i can't believe they're not moreau fended. >> what he said, did he not, the phony scandal had to do with the talking points. that's what he tried to get out of it. i think they were misleading from the beginning, i agree with that completely and i said that earlier on, i just don't -- first of all, the international black eye because we don't know that, not a country said that. >> president of libya mocked us, said we called it a terrorist attack and we are saying it is a video through the middle east, and misrepresenting and lying -- >> who is lying. >> th

iron man and nintendo's metro has one. sigourney weaver stomped around in this in "alien."e been around for decades. check out this one from the 1960s. april cording to the manual it could help you lift 1,500 pounds. but it also weighed 1,500 pounds. you would literally need one to lift one. fast forward to today and the suit has gotten much more sophisticat sophisticated. there one, dubbed the hulk, is built by lockheed martin. this super technology is used to help people like michael gore. >> if i have it on and i want to stand up, i stand up. >> though gore has been paralyzed from the waist down ever since a horrific workplace accident, he can now move around with this device, which enables him to stand erect and move forward without his wheelchair. >> it is an emotional boost to be able to stand up and talk to someone. >> using gyro scopes and sensor technology, today's suits are much more intuitive than their predecessors'. >> the control of the device mimics what you and i do when we walk normally. the next frontier will be how we control it so the human/machine inter

. >> it retails for $60 and is available exclusively for nintendo. >> and a droid manager helps people find misplaced iphones and >> covering daly city, dublin/pleasanton, location leg and -- los gatos and all the bay area this is abc7 news. >> there is no bart strike this morning, because of a last minute maneuver by governor brown with an inquiry into the contract dispute. this is the oakland hazy. we are trying to get the word out to people before they hit the road they can take bart the we have the impact on the commute ahead. >> the united states military helicopter has crashed at a marine base in japan. one of the four crew members died and the condition of the survivors is not released. no fans were hurt. okinawa hosts what of the 50,000 troops in japan. residents have complained of accidents, climb, and pollution related to the military presence. >> embassies across the middle east are closed this morning after the united states intercepted communications from the al qaeda affiliate in yemen revealing details of a plot against the united states. homeland security has increased

nintendo said it is cutting the price of the wii-u videogame console this fall.ng new gaming consoles coming out for the holidays. this is a stock that fell today, this could be a winner as we get into the holidays. david: lauren, generally speaking when you talk to guys, we've been trying to assess the mood what is happening in syria because an attack by the u.s. on syria could happen anytime. if that happens is that already cooked into the market? >> no, it has didn't been cooked into the markets at all. we're also focusing on next week. we get friday's jobs report for august. [closing bell ringing] david: this is a big number. >> that is the big one. david: no doubt about it. bells ringing on wall street. kind of a fitting end for a down month today. it is down not in any panicking sort of way at all, considering world events considered a bit after surprise itself. markets regaining some losses, down about 36 points on the dow. s&p down percentagewise. just a touch more. biggest losers on all the indices we cover are small and mid-sized caps. representing by r

caught by a wireless computer web cam, several officers can be seen bowling on the drug dealer's nintendo. one detective documenting evidence, repeatedly puts down a clipboard to hit the virtual lanes. 13 detectives and 3 sergeants spend nine hours searching the home, with some trying to perfect their game. the county sheriff calls the incident embarrassing. a gutter ball for the cops with a little too much time to spare. >> what are you doing? >> what are you doing? >> you can't touch me. >> an off-duty police officer lashes out after a video vigilante confronts more cops behaving badly. at home or at work, he goes by his real name, but on the streets, he's known as jimmy justice. >> it's about justice. for the average joe in new york, who's trying to get to work and is constantly being given a hard time by the cops for every tiny parking infraction that we do, and i've turned the tables on them. >> jimmy justice works as an audio systems engineer, but in his off time, he hits the road to catch what he says is a blatant disregard for the law by authorities. >> they have this sense of ent

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. >> you managed to use one of my childhood favorites as well a nintendo power glove. >> yes, not manyhis but it's great to see that you know it. this is kind of revamped power glove. it has wireless radios, i tap into the sensors embedded in the finger tips so this controls the robotic hand. the cool thing is there's a feedback system on it, the user has a sense of touch on what they're grasping. if they're picking up an egg with this, they know how hard they're grasping. >> are you starting to hear from people that might benefit from something like this? >> yes, definitely. every day, the main application is definitely prosthetics. one of the big words you said was affordable. i was able to make the whole system material wise this whole complete robotic arm up to the shoulder where this whole brain of controls system for about $400. i bet most of the phones out there cost more than that so i'm definitely trying to give them as much functionality and for the lowest price point as possible. >> before i let you get out of here, as i nementioned, for lac of a better description you're at

nintendo is looking to increase sales as its two biggest rivals launch new devices for the holidays.y disrupting holiday travel. how many people are still expected to get out on. road and how the big fire in yosemite could affect travel plans. >> reporter: we're live in oakland where bridge officials are getting ready to talk about the progress being made on the new span. we'll let you know how it goes -- coming up live. >>> we have a caltrain problem and we have problems on the alternate routes now heading out to the high rise. it looks like the traffic on the san mateo bridge is very slow. >>> in weather, more low clouds this morning looking out toward the baypoint area. coming up the warmest day of the week and the changes you can expect for the labor day weekend. [ ] in my family, we're big cereal lovers. so we just look for this g. 'cause general mills makes over 40 yummy flavors that are 130 calories or less per serving. and they're packed with vitamins and minerals. from lucky charms to cheerios. over 40 cereals. 130 calories or less. [ laughs ] ♪ [ female announcer ] hey ladi

>> it is interesting you say these are the two big console launches because nintendo launched wii u earliereveryone seems to have ignored that as a console competing against those guys. but in terms of the market, there is a great feeling of confidence in germany and games con this week that the new consoles will bring back some kind of freshness to the video games market. smartphones have eroded the market for traditional games. all new models like free to play, not having to pay 40 pounds or $60 for a video game is enticing there is fresh ideas, good stuff coming to the xbox and playstation this year. >> could smartphones be a blessing in disguise. could we see sony and microsoft making money with smartphones and gaming? >> well, sony already released lots of their catalog classic games. there is every sign they might launch on other devices too eventually because the games are valuable. but smartphones have been a brilliant gateway into video games for people that may not have tried them. might put game on your iphone or google device and then you might fancy playing a bigger experience

. >>> there was a gameboy 3ds and now 2ds, nintendo removing functionality from its portable 3-d partn essential but the 2ds will be $40 cheaper. >> we have a tropical storm in the pacific, julia. could mean bad news for baja, california. all of this tropical moisture again going into the southwest, threat for flooding, one to two inches possible over the next few days. last weekend, flash flooding caused and more on the way. >> thank you. we're at the top of the hour, everyone, means it's time for the top news. >> there is a prospect in which chemical weapons could be directed at us. >> the battle over syria, the president upping the ante saying there need to be consequences for syria's use of chemical weapons but can he get congress to agree? >>> sleepless nation, a new federal study with the clearest yet on how poorly americans sleep. prescription drug use is on the rise so what's behind the surge in insomnia? >>> meet the underdog the 17-year-old american tennis phenom to w.h.o. upset a champ and faces her next rival today, one on one with the inspiring competitor. >> your "new da

if you lock at nintendo, the wi u, an absolute no it's a nightmare. >> microsoft might have a new ceoould the company get broken up. a lot of things may happen in the next 12 months, would microsoft, would it be a good thing for microsoft to spin off the xbox as a gaming business, a completely separate business? >> i think that's microsoft's problem, the windows division are doing fine. they make revenue, profit. xbox breaks even or a slight profit. i don't know if you separate microsoft out, you still have phones, tablets, cs. i'm not sure how much that make sense. but they obviously haven't been doing too great with all those things. >> are you up to speed on the game? >> a little bit. >> have you heard of what is beyond two souls out yet? do you know what i'm talking about? >> i have no idea. >> my son, beyonce knowles, how about the last of us? have you heard of that? >> no, i haven't. >> beyond two souls big. i think the fifth, he's never had a grand theft auto, but the fifth is coming out. i am hearing rumblings. he should not play that, should he, at 11? >> i would probably pla

. >> look, i have your nintendo ds. >> that's good, i may try that. exchange went viral. it was like the odd esoddest ex ever, he interviewed jennifer aniston. >> did you know that your name is an anagram for finer not in jeans. >> no. >> i didn't know that, it's an anaogram. >> yes. >> that's fantastic. >> there you go. >> what do i do with this guy. >> he starts telling her, there is a scene where she -- >> she a stripper. >> yeah. he says i once went to a strip joint in england where they also serve you steak while you're watching, and she's like oh, that's so interesting. it's like caveman behavior and he gets lost. but she a performance artist, he is not really lost. >> he is a comedian, right? and he made a career out of this, so -- very cool. >> our producers pointed us to anaogramgenius.com, natalie morales is ill at ease roman. this is flattering. who put these together? you clearly had something to do with that. willy geist. agile. >> i like this one. bleak terror. anaogramgenius.com. do we have time -- okay, we want to do our sibling rivalr

number two, i'm excited because the great work that suny campuses like the nintendo are doing to keepts down for hard-working students -- like binghamton are doing to keep costs down for hard-working students like you. students across the state are getting world-class higher education. that without some of the debt and financial burden that is stopping too many young people from going to college. that is what we want for all of our students and families all across the country. i've beenast month visiting towns throughout america and i have talked about, how do we secure a better bargain for the middle class and everybody trying to work their way into the middle class? we fought our way through a very brutal recession and now we're at a point where we are creating jobs, the economy is growing, ajit deficits are falling, health care inflation has been reduced and yet there still a lot of working families who are having a tough time. even before this last financial we had increasingly an economy where folks at the top are doing better and better and better but the average was seeingor fa