in late 2010 a distributed denial of service attack took down the web site of paypal. after the company cut off support for the online whistleblower site wikileaks. >> they continue to withhold funds from wiki leaks. >> reporter: 16 anons were arrested by the fbi, charged with conspiring to intentionally damage paypal's computers. >> this is a message from anonymous. >> reporter: this summer, anonymous attacked the san francisco area's public transportation system b.a.r.t. b.a.r.t. had cut cell service within the transit system as a way of disrupting anti-police brutality protests. anonymous's reaction was devastating and vicious. >> we will not issue anymore warnings. >> reporter: onbart included the release of a naked photo of a senior bart employee. >> sometimes it makes you laugh, sometimes it makes you cringe,

, what are you bringing from paypal to yahoo, he said, well, paypal has buyers and sellers -- i'm paraphrasingahoo has advertisers. and there's not a lot there. >> you talk about balancing the needs of merchants and customers. it seemed like he was tenuous. kind of like saying meg whitman has enterprise experience because she's headed up -- >> right, she's used enterprise software. >> right. not saying that's not irrelevant. >> just say that there is really -- here's a really smart person who's coming in and going to do great things. >> all right, j.p., go ahead. >> is its -- you mentioned is it a battle? because i think, you know, the things that people mention time and time again, i think yahoo needs to refine itself. it's a matter of pulling the weeds. so many things it had like -- to have the life span, it has the tv, for instance, but we have no idea how they're doing well. >> they have large numbers of viewers who come in. what they don't have is active members of a platform. and i worry sometimes that they confuse the two because they're so big trafficwise. they think this is an audienc

will have a new ceo, scott thompson of paypal. the head of e pay, the parent company says he'll take over for thompson at paypal and still run ebay too, another sign perhaps that ebay is realizing the most important thing it does isn't ebay, it's paypal. >>> if you forgot your passport, no ap for that. apparently an ipad can still help. a canadian man who forgot his papers at home got across the u.s. border last week by showing this, a photograph of his passport to border agents. >> i remembered that i had a scan of my passport in my drop box which was connected to my ipad and iphone. so i thought maybe i could show them that because it had all the personalitinent information. >> border agents let him across. he had to cross back. so he went back to the canadian border, showed the ipad to the canadian agents and they let him back across, as well. lots of people do do this. you can use drop box. i use a program called evernote as well with photographs of all of my credit cards in case i need to see them and can't find them. back to

he worked with visa and barclays bank and paypal.brings into question my appointment of bill newcom, that started as a joke on the radio. a few people called and said that's not a bad idea. he recently separated from his job as managing partner of the san francisco giants. of course he has long experience as a high-tech lawyer. yahoo! could use a good lawyer. they have a lot of issues ahead of them, particularly with the purchase and sale of chinese assets. it looks as if, for sure, scott thompson will be heading it out. >> all right. good news this morning. thank you very much. >>> bottom line is when scott mcgrew talks, people listen. >>> 6:25 right now. still to come on today in the bay, facebook could face a lawsuit from its new neighbor. a live report coming up. >>> the iowa caucuses coming down right to the wire. we'll tell you who came in on top when the tally came in overnight. >> tallying up warmer temperatures by this afternoon. the 70s on the map in some cities. your full forecast in just moments. >> well below 70 on the r

thompson doing good things at paypal. its revenue in the 3rd quarter up 32%. paypal on pace to become the biggest revenue generator at ebay over marketplace. he also has a very solid tech back ground, something bartz didn't have. they are continuing their options about selling off investments and other ideas. >>> apple announcing this morning that the iphone 4s will be made available in china and 21 other countries beginning on friday, january 13. ceo tim cook releasing a salt saying that customer demand for apple products in china has been off the charts, releasing that stay. . >>> dow up 180 points yesterday thanks to positive economic news in the u.s. and elsewhere. pulling back now, dow down by 18, nasdaq down 14, s&p down 4. yahoo shares are down by 2%. >> you must have had a good vacation if you are using the word prognosticators this early in the morning. >> sometimes it comes out, you know, we'll go with that. it doesn't always work out very well. >> i like that word. >> thank you. >>> republican presidential hopeful michele bachmann is canceling her c

the the program is only run in five stores and involves a few paypal employees. so no access for the general public yet. the move is part paypal and parent company ebay strategy to move beyond the desk top to mobile devices and other parts of everyday life. in case you didn't know, five years ago today was only five years ago, they launched the iphone. which has unleashed all of this. >> so many people have them in the palm of their hands. thank you very much, bertha. >> 4:47 now. we experience that fill chilly weather on the way to work. the question is what's the rest of the day like? >> near record warmth. we have a beautiful january day setting up for us. the temperatures in the 70s in some cities, so we are not done with this gorgeous trend. as we head through tomorrow we expect a change. area of low pressure is expected to drop off. looks like it's going to break off from the main jet stream. we call it a cut-off low. that could bring us pretty good showers at the coast if it stops along the coast. it could end up over the pacific. futurecast is bringing it

he is a very confident businessman, helping paypal grow into ebay's biggest money maker. in that same conference call, the head of yahoo!'s board said the company would almost certainly remain a publicly traded company. it wouldn't sell itself to private investors. he also made it pretty clear that yahoo! tends to restructure itself significantly. we've long expected the company to sell its asian assets and investments. yahoo! shares are down significantly this morning. and that could be because invest investors don't like scott thompson. but it's more likely they're disappointed yahoo! isn't going to sell itself any time soon. so, they won't be making that profit. for the record, marla, ebay is down today on news that thompson is leaving. so he can feel better about that. >> yes. thank you, scott. >>> traffic concerns over facebook's new campus could prompt a bay area city to sue the social networking giant. east palo alto leaders will meet tomorrow, considering suing facebook for its plans of expanding in menlo park. the former sun microsystems campus at willow road. th

in late 2010, a distributive denial of service attack took down the website of paypal. after the company cut off support for the online whistle-blower site wikileaks. >> paypal continues to withhold fund for wikileaks, a beacon of truth in these dark times. >> reporter: 16 anons were arrested by the fbi, charged with conspiring to intentionally damage paypal's computers. >> this is a message from anonymous to the bay area rapid transit system b.a.r.t. >> reporter: this summer, anonymous attacked the san francisco area's public transportation system, b.a.r.t. b.a.r.t. had cut cell service within the transit system as a way of disrupting anti-police brutality protests. anonymous's reaction was devastating and vicious. >> we will not issue anymore warnings. >> reporter: opbart included the release of a naked photo of a senior b.a.r.t. employee. >> sometimes it kind of makes you laugh, sometimes it makes you cringe, sometimes it makes you laugh and cringe at the same time. all of a sudden, you're like, oh, my gosh, there is this, you know, dagger that's being thrown. >> and

paypal's parent company says he's going to take over at paypal. he'll run ebay, too. this another sign ebay is realizing the most important thing isn't ebay. it's papal. if you forget your passport, there's no app. but an ipad will help. a canadian man got across the border by showing a photograph of his passport to border agents. >> i remembered i had a scan connected to my ipad and iphone. i thought maybe i could show them that. it had all the pertinent information. >> before you think they're too soft. this guy was from canada in the united states. he had to get back to canada. he did the same on the the canadian border agent said it would be fine, too. this is not a policy. don't get used to it. >> >> he was planning ahead. thinking very smart. >> it's 6:26 right now. coming up, police are arresting more occupy protesters. we'll take you there live. >> and a 90-year-old marin county man and burglary suspect shoot each other. find out how everyone is doing this morning. >> typically you have to fly out of town for the first part of january to enjoy the 70s. we have

at paypal, thompson more than doubled revenue. but like barts, he lacks experience in online advertising where yahoo is falling behind. stock fell 3% after thompson was named to the job. ebay fell more than 4%. apparently they don't want to lose him. >>> for a second time now a court has upheld which is said to be the largest environmental award ever handed down. a judge ratified the decision against chevron yesterday and now lawyers representing 30,000 indigenous people and farmers say they will begin to try to collect on an $18 billion award. chevron was found guilty of widespread oil contamination in ecuador's rainforest. the company denounced the ruling as unenforceable. >>> nearly 20 years and millions of dollars later a richmond superfund cleanup site isn't cleaned up at all. the plant operated in the inner harbor and after the cleanup in the mid '70s, toxic levels dropped. as laura anthony explains, they are now back up and at an alarming rate. >> reporter: 18 years after it was first named a superfund lineup site the chann

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he's head of paypal, a hugely successful part of ebay. wall street journal says thompson is yahoo!'c and an announcement could come as early as this morning. here is thompson talking to my gang of reporters on "press here" about growing paypal into ebay's most important asset. >> don't take anything for granted because paypal has only been around 11 years. from nothing in a very short period of time. this is a big business now. >> yahoo! is considering thompson after looking for a new ceo they fired carol barts last year. thompson is experienced mostly in the financial word. it's not necessarily a terrific match for what yahoo! does, but barts wasn't a good match either. if yahoo! goes to thompson, it means they ignored my campaign to make big knew come a head of yahoo!. he was recently separated from his job as managing partner of the san francisco giants though he has long experience in high tech as a lawyer. if there's anything yahoo! can use in the next couple years it's a good lawyer. >> thanks so much. >>> well said. it is 5:24 right now. still to come on today in the bay, stu

he's well respected, comes from paypal. he's a person with a payment background, not the name you'd expect for a company that needs something dramatic. that's the problem, richard, this whole announcement today, it was much more exciting to see carl bartz get fired than it was to see this guy get hireded. >> hardly a ringing endorsement. that may have to do with the sheer depth of investors' despair. yahoo! has gone from being a star of the search world to something of an extra. it peaked in 2006 when it was the number two search engine at 40 bucs a share. $43 actually. competitors cornered its markets, google now dominates search and ad revenue, facebook dominating social network and lack of aggression, perhaps, is the common charge thrown at yahoo! that failed to make deals with its competitors. 2008, fast forward there to the botching of its -- of the microsoft takeover in 2008. it turned down $47 billion, compare that with its current market capitalization of $20 billion. also botched, it said, anyway, according to anal

it's paypal division is also performing well. facebook is teaming up with 60 partners to allow you to share even more about your lives. they include trip adviser and ticketmaster so you can let your friends know what concert tickets you just bought or the flight you just booked. "american idol meets retail. i will have the details coming up in the next hour. linda dell. >> thank you. 4:37 and 27 degrees. >> coming up, an update on the cruise ship disaster in italy. >> we will have more on a huge snowstorm. it walloped parts of the pacific northwest. >> another check local t [ male announcer ] when you're a coach in the nfl... ♪ ♪ ...there are no sick days. ♪ ♪ vicks dayquil. defeats 5 cold & flu symptoms. [ snoring ] [ indistinct talking on tv ] [ snoring ] [ male announcer ] vicks nyquil cold and flu. the nighttime sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching fever, best sleep p u ever got with a cold...medicine. ♪ ♪ >> big problems for the pacific northwest. the national weather service warned that flooding is possible tomorrow. yet t

in late 2010 a distributed denial of service attack took down the web site of paypal. after the company cut off support for theline whistle blower site wikileaks. >> they continue to withhold wikileagues. >> reporter: 16 anons were arrested by the fiebs charged with intentionally planning to damage the paypal computers. >> reporter: this assumer anonymous attacked the san francisco area's public transportation system bart. bart had cut cell service within the transit system as a way of disrupting antipolice brutality protests. anonymous's reaction was devastating and vicious. >> we will not issue anymore warnings. >> reporter: onbart included the release of a naked photo of a senior bart employee. >> sometimes it makes you laugh, sometimes it makes you cringe, sometimes it makes you laugh and cringe at the same time. all of a sudden you're like, oh my gosh, there is this dagger that's being thrown. >> reporter: and a naked photo? >> yes. >> reporter: do you feel there is a fear out there of what they could possibly find or leak about a certain individual in. >> absolut

it forces paypal and others to pull their services from those hosting pie retted material. -- piratedaterial. all of it can be done without due process. they can shut down websites and domains without letting them defend themselves in court. >> it is like les-miserales. >> ♪ falling from grace ♪ falling from grace ♪ it is the same tune as stars ♪ ♪ but a different song ♪? the la bretto ♪ >> do you want to join in, rick? >> i absolutely do not. >> i saw you humming oolg. -- humming along. >> you know the words. this is the straightest show on tv. you said some people are opposed to these bills because they ruined their daily activities and they are web surfing or blogging. i don't see that is true. the stuff dana and i were talking about, it is what dana mentioned about how they can set up the websites. the bills allow the government to block the internet access to any website that facilitates, copyright or trademark infringe ment's. you can have a link on your website, and you can have a link to something that is pirated and your entire website can be shut down without notice. >> righ

he served as president of paypal since january of 2008. netflix reported that customers watched more than 2 billion hours of streaming content over the last three months and it has 20 million users. because of that news, the company saw its stock jump by 11% today. it closed at $80. dow gained 21 points. naz dark lost less than a point. the reservoir is in good shape despite the weather. the public utilities commission said they are at 85% of its capacity thanks to the last year's rain. the system supplies water to 2.5 million people in four countys. >>> a look at the state's other reservoirs. lake orville is at 72%. lake shatta 68% and st. louis is at 95% of capacity. >>> no rain out there. a few clouds and big surf along the coast and that is the deal. not a lot going on other than fog tonight. high clouds overhead tomorrow. temperatures tomorrow cooler than they were today. today was 72 in santa rosa. most of us in the mid-60s. 45 heyward. overnight lows above freezing. those are the highes today. highs tomorrow, cooler. san francisco d

. >>> paypal relatives lead? the marijuana bust in seat pleasant.h growing -- ranch growing operation. they saw johnson running away with a flashlight. they went inside to see johnson had tampered with their paul peters. >> which cannot find the bubble. another part was on the ground. >> they say johnson the palace older meter as part of a plan to steal electricity. they call police who went to the house and found a marijuana. at this point he is only being charged with stealing electricity. >>> metro will be doing track work in near the georgia avenue metro station and that will impact the alliance nations. trains will go north on is far smelled vernon square rather than fort totten. people traveling to and from stations north of mount vernon square should use green line trains. in the meantime, metro inspected 464 railcars. that's complete. crews replaced nearly 300 friction ring on all affected railcars. this follows an incident friday in which one of those in friction ring became detached from the orange line train, the second incident of its ki

yahoo shares 3% after it named paypal scott thompson new ceo. photo pioneer eastman kodak is reportedly getting ready to file for chapter 1 1 bankruptcy protection. more than 1200 boeing employees will be out of work when it stops operations in wichita, kansas, by the end of next year. at&t has agreed to pay tivo $215 million plus monthly licensing fees to settle a patent infringement suit. adele shows u.s. album sales were up 3%, the first rise for the music industry since 2004. >>> good news for you tax deadliners. the irs has pushed back its filing deadline to april 17th this year. april 15th falls on a sunday. and then the 16th is a holiday in washington, d.c. lucky you. >>> big name trade in baseball. a big name upset in college hoops. and the rarest of goals in soccer. plus, west virginia grinds clemson into puchlp at the oran bowl. >>> we have record temperatures in the middle of the country but will that warmth head to the east coast next? your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." ♪ [ female announcer ] everybody loves t

this comes two weeks after former paypal executive scott thompson was hired as a the new ceo. >>pam: at the battle over how to regulate the internet has reached a boiling point. tomorrow, major was sides are planning blackouts in protest against a bill targeting online piracy. sphere gays >> copyrighted media like movies, tv shows and music is all over the internet. most web users purchase the content or interact with it be the lead to itunes, amazon and other web sites. sphere the big media companies who lose out have pushed federal lawmakers to make it easier to punish those involved in online piracy. what congress came up with is house bill 3261 also known as the stock online piracy act. the bill gives the authorities and internet regulators sharp clause 1 relating piracy. it is the wave was written into the extreme powers that it gives to regulators that seriously concerned proponents. if the bill passes it could mean jail time for watching unauthorized streaming contents and make it easier to obtain court orders against websites this bill is currently working for a house

he served as president of paypal since january of 2008. the struggling internet company has been without a ceo since early september when the company fired carol bart and morris. morris will return as yahoo's chief financial identify. >>> east palo alto city council will meet to consider possibly suing facebook. some city officials believe the social networking giant's growth in menlo park will have an unfriendly impact on residents in east palo alto. amy hollyfield is live at facebook's headquarters with the story itch >> reporter: the mayor of east palo alto told me she met with -- met with facebook this morning to discuss her concerns she says one in a series he says it is important facebook does what it can to make sure the move is beneficial to the community and the company. city leaders recognize there are a lot of positives with having facebook here. >> we are excited that an internationally known corporation like facebook is moving into our neighborhood. >> reporter: east palo alto city officials are hoping the move to menlo park w

he served as president of paypal since january of 2008. the struggling internet company has been without a ceo since early september when the company fired carol bart and morris. morris will return as yahoo's chief financial identify. >>> east palo alto city council will meet to consider possibly suing facebook. some city officials believe the social networking giant's growth in menlo park will have an unfriendly impact on residents in east palo alto. amy hollyfield is live at facebook's headquarters with the story itch >> reporter: the mayor of east palo alto told me she met with -- met with facebook this morning to discuss her concerns she says one in a series he says it is important facebook does what it can to make sure the move is beneficial to the community and the company. city leaders recognize there are a lot of positives with having facebook here. >> we are excited that an internationally known corporation like facebook is moving into our neighborhood. >> reporter: east palo alto city officials are hoping the move to menlo park w

scott thompson the former president of paypal will now head up the sunnyvale-based company as it struggles to stay afloat. they have had some trouble. it has fallen behind in the search market and has also lost ground in advertising. four months ago yahoo fired carol bartz of the former ceo. several groups of shareholders have called for the sale of the company recently. >>> major concerns over traffic and displaced residents may prompt east palo alto to sue facebook. the social network company took over the old sun microsystem campus in menlo park last month. menlo park and east palo alto leaders are reviewing the impact of facebook's big expansion. planning documents show facebook wants to bring more than 6,000 workers in by 2015. a lawsuit is one of the options east palo alto councilmembers may consider during a closed-door meeting. >>> we all like it get what we pay for, don't we? >> sound reasonable. on the consumerwatch, julie watts has a warning about door- to-door sales pitches that fail to deliver. >> reporter: it's been 15 months since the magazine saleswoman knocked on sandy's d

hired former paypal executive scott thompson as the ceo. yang took heat from many investors after he reect jed a $47 billion takeover attempt from microsoft in 2008. and one analyst believes other buyers might be interested. >> that's a tough nut to crack. so far the name that comes up most often is alibaba. they say they are not interested in yahoo! now. but that may be different with yang gone and yaw huh in play. he said, quote, my time at yahoo! from the founding to the present has encompassed some of the most commiting and rewarding experiences -- most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life. now it is time for other experiences outside of yahoo!. >> mitt romney admits he pays only about 15% of taxes less then had middle class. most pay about 29% in income tax. romney is worth about $250 million, but he says most of his income comes from investments made in the past which get taxed at the lower capital gains rate of 15%. >>> former alaska governor sarah palin told fox news she would vote for gingrich in the south carolina primary

the former president of paypal has been tapped to lead yahoo. his challenge? turning around yahoo's core online advertising business. yahoo shares have fallen 13% from their may high, and the shares were down 3% on today's c.e.o. announcement. motley fool senior analyst joe mayger thinks wall street's reaction to scott thompson is short-sighted. >> yahoo's not going to find someone who's an ace on media, turnarounds and technology. i think in the guy they got, they got someone who is a proven guy who's a proven commodity an innovator and right now yahoo does need that different spark. you know, it sounds like they've already made some decisions around the asian assets it sounds like they're going to divest those, and when you take that out of the equation, then it starts to make a lot more sense. >> susie: mayger says investors still holding yahoo stock are counting on the sale of those asian internet businesses. tom, they could bring in $17 billon. >> tom: that's a big number, certainly considering the current market vasio valuation 9 billion dollars. we had

shares fell 3% after it named paypal scott thompson as its new chief. photo pioneer eastman kodak is reportedly getting ready to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. and elsewhere, more than 1,200 boeing employees will be out of work when it shchulterhu shuttes in wichita, kansas, by the end of next year. at&t has agreed to pay tivo $215 million plus monthly licensing fees to settle a patent infringement suit. and thanks to adele, u.s. album sales were up 3% for the first rise in the music industry since 2004. >>> and finally did news for you tax deadliners. the irs has pushed back its filing deadline to april 17th this year. april 15th falls on a sunday. and then the 16th is a holiday in washington, d.c. lucky for you. >>> a big-name trade in baseball, a big upset in college hoops and the rarest of goals in soccer. plus west virginia grinds clemson into pulp at the orange bowl. your "first look" at sports is straight ahead. progresso. it fits! fantastic! [ man ] pro-gresso they fit! okay-y... okay??? i've been eating progresso and now my favorite

earnings came in three cents better than estimates, driven by its paypal and auction units, which saw double-digit jumps in revenue. however, the first quarter outlook was a tad shy of estimates. you can see the small loss during the regular session today, but after hours, shares gained almost 2%, putting it close to $31 per share. some analysts point out ebay has a history of giving cautious guidance. driving technology today was semiconductor stocks. chip maker linear technology jumped 12% after a strong earnings report and a strong forecast. while some analysts think linear's strength is specific to it, we saw buying fellow chip companies altera and texas instruments-- up 10% and 9% respectively. one more from the world of high tech. tomorrow, apple is expected to announce a new strategy targeting the school textbook business. tonight, shares are at an all- time high. today's 1% gain was enough to put it over $429 per share. r.b.c. raised its target price to $525. from occupy wall street demonstrations to regulatory scrutiny, there has been plenty of debate over student loans. ther

yahoo jerry yang is leaving the company this just two weeks after the struggling company hired former paypal exec scott thompson as its ceo. >>> better bundle up. the bay area is in for another big chill tonight. roberta is here with more on the freeze warning. hey, roberta. >> one more night of cold temperatures but not as cold as last night due to the increasing cloud cover. good evening, everybody. go ahead and take a look at this red highlighted area because that's where we have another freeze warning in effect. it encompasses the santa clara valley as well as the san joaquin valley. but we are going to concentrate on san jose, santa clara, also the almaden valley, alviso, alum rock, that's where temperatures will tumble into the low 30s subfreezing in san jose at 31 degrees. it will be 30 overnight in redwood city. we have temperatures in the 20s and 30s again but 40s the closer to the bay of water so while we have one more night of extremely cold conditions, say so long to the sunshine because once it least us tomorrow, it won't be back until next thursday. we have that pinpoint foreca

hired former paypal executive scott thompson as the ceo. yang took heat from many investors after he reect jed a $47 billion takeover attempt from microsoft in 2008. and one analyst believes other buyers might be interested. >> that's a tough nut to crack. so far the name that comes up most often is alibaba. they say they are not interested in yahoo! now. but that may be different with yang gone and yaw huh in play. he said, quote, my time at yahoo! from the founding to the present has encompassed some of the most commiting and rewarding experiences -- most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life. now it is time for other experiences outside of yahoo!. >> mitt romney admits he pays only about 15% of taxes less then had middle class. most pay about 29% in income tax. romney is worth about $250 million, but he says most of his income comes from investments made in the past which get taxed at the lower capital gains rate of 15%. >>> former alaska governor sarah palin told fox news she would vote for gingrich in the south carolina primary