from enraged customers perhaps not moving to the next generation of i phone but of course there's a huge pride in being part of the apple community and there's still so much that offsets the i phone image wise marketing wise from other products i don't think it will help will hurt. in the long run because there's so much momentum behind it additional headlines this week aren't helping apple's image tim cook the c.e.o. making over one hundred million dollars for two thousand and seventeen and apple forcing him to travel only by private jet including privately that's sure to enrage apple customers even more only bounce that thank you very much for this is us. around one thousand years ago carbons boards brought a spices and porcelain goods other goods from china to the middle east and europe also on board the camels was precious so with gave the route its name the silk silk road this story version of it covered thousands of kilometers right across asia the chinese government now wants to revive it on land and on sea in recent years beijing has been investing billions of dollars in ports and roads bridges and airports betw

it's something people with older apple smart phones have long suspected, their devices slow down withts older iphone models. but why do they do it? here's our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones. they're expensive devices which have made apple the world's most valuable company. but after a couple of years, many iphone users say there's one thing they begin to notice. what have you noticed as your iphone gets older? it slows down and the battery goes. the battery life goes and it's slightly slower. the phone doesn't last that long and you have to update it. now apple has admitted that it does act to slow down some older models like the iphone 6s released two years ago, but it says that's not, as some suspect, to persuade people to rush out and buy new phones. apple says this move is all about making older versions of the iphone work more reliably. as the battery ages there's a risk, particularly in colder weather, that the phone suddenly shuts down without warning. the software update is designed to stop that happening by making everything runjust a little more slowly. but the

apple now says it will reduce the price of battery replacements to regain customers trust. some users had long suspected the company was using their regular software updates to slow down all right phones encouraging consumers to buy newer models apple admitted the procedure but says it was done to prolong the life of aging batteries the company has had eight separate lawsuits in the u.s. filed against it over the matter and has additional legal trouble in israel and france. now today marks the last trading day of the year and what a year it was donald trump took office to move markets with his isolationist agenda tax plans b. w.'s diesel gate scandal continued to make headlines for the third year running big cones roller coaster ride mesmerized investors all the while global growth and low interest rates boosted corporate profits and commodity prices adding almost nine trillion u.s. dollars to the global stock markets so let's take a look back it's twenty seven with. the fine for a stock instance you can already see and there is only. what were the highlights of this year for you. where you just mentioned donald trump of course it can be controversial to call that a highlight many peo

phones. so i think apple could have been a lot more transparent.t this and said your battery is old, we are going to have to do things to ensure that you get good battery life out of your phone. i think if apple had been upfront and transparent from the get go this wouldn't be quite the uproar that it is today. the solution is to replace the battery, rather than the whole phone, but now that they are built in that's nothing like as simple or as cheap as it used to be. rory cellan—jones, bbc news. the government has granted special protection for the place in leicester where the remains of king richard the third were discovered. the amazing find put leicester in the global spotlight and finally solved the mystery of where the king had been buried. now the medieval site will be protected for future generations. amy harris reports. king richard iii's remains were found ina king richard iii's remains were found in a leicester council car park, which centuries before was a mediaeval monastery. remarkably, the greyfriars site has survived as the city dev

apple says this whole things a misunderstanding. live outthe store. >> how are people taking all this? >> reporter: well, they say they feel vindicated. they say they knew something was slowing their phones down and now they're glad that apple is apologizing and saying they want to make it up to they will. apple is saying they're sorry. some of you feel apple has let you down. they say they have never done anything that would intentionally degrade the phones. apple says as batteries get older, they can just guy no warning. they say slowing down your phone was to pre event spontaneous shutdown. >> what does it look >> it just goes black. >> my friends have gone down like 37%. >> have you ever had an iphone -- >> that's why i get a new one. i never knew that's what was happening. >> i think they should have told people. >> i think it is shady that they didn didn't tell us. >> i think if it would help speed things up, i would buy a new one. >> they're offering a new battery for $29 instead of $79. and they'll show you if your phone is slow because of the battery. they say it should go without saying that weit wesit wesit wit once you get the new battery, it should return to its speedy self.

phones. so i think apple could have been a lot more transparent.e uproar that it is today. the solution is to replace the battery rather than the whole phone, but now that they are built in that‘s nothing like as simple or as cheap as it used to be. rory cellan—jones, bbc news. homelessness blights the lives of tens of thousands of people in britain, and only yesterday mps called it a national crisis. some of those affected, so called sofa—surfers who move from friend to friend to keep off the streets, don‘t even register in the official statistics. so bbc news has commissioned a survey to give some indication of the scale of the problem, particularly among young people. it found that almost one in ten of 16 to 25—year—olds questioned, found themselves sofa surfing for over a month, and that more than a quarter had done it for over a week. 0ur social affairs correspondent michael buchanan has this special report on britain‘s young hidden homeless. time passes slowly if you‘re homeless. for some, most days are spent waiting and hoping, waiting for t

it's just with the battery of the phone. >> reporter: now apple is apologizing for not being clear it people understand what goes on with these very expensive products as they get older. >> reporter: several class-action lawsuits filed in recent days by iphone users claim apple should have disclosed the slowdown sooner. >> i think that it's a well thought out plan by apple to make sure the consumers come back and buy the latest and greatest phone. >> reporter: apple denies this saying we have never and would never do anything to intentionally shorten the life of any apple product or degrade the user experience to drive customer upgrades. starting in late january, the company will offer replacement batteries for $29 on iphone 6 or later. that's a $50 discount and much cheaper than buying a new phone for up to a thousand bucks. joe fryer, nbc news, los angeles. >>> up next we'll talk big money. the huge lottery jackpots up for grabs this weekend. >>> are you feeling lucky tonight? then you might already know about two huge lottery drawings. the first one is tonight. the mega millions to

it comes after it was revealed a software update slowed the performance of phones with older batteries. >> applenderstanding. live outthe store. >> how are people taking all this? >> reporter: well, they say they feel vindicated. they say they knew something was slowing their phones down and now they're glad that apple is apologizing and saying they want to make it up to they will. apple is saying they're sorry. some of you feel apple has let you down. they say they have never done anything that would intentionally degrade the phones. apple says as batteries get older, they can just guy no warning. they say slowing down your phone was to pre event spontaneous

it was one of the first apps ever for the i-phone. applet say if sha sam would be available after the purchase. it's the biggest purchase for the tech giant for years. >> remember name that tune? >> i can name ta song in six notes. >> i'm not singing. we are dating ourselves. >> a long way back. let's get the forecast from cecily tynan. >> it's cold in 24 hours. you will feel it. the action cam in rittenhouse square where it's not that brutal out there. it's cloudy. the winds are not that strong. live on sky 6, looking over the ben franklin bridge. temperatures are at the low for the night. philadelphia 36-degrees. trenton 34. atlantic city airport 31. lancaster, 34-degrees. not that harsh. what's happening overnight, we have warmer air moving in. we are in the 30s right now. as we head toward daybreak, temperatures rise to the low 40s. we have a surge of warmer air ahead of the cold front bringing the coolout. satellite and radar showing the front with moisture associated with it in the form of snow showers north of the reason. really, the

but look if you if you have an old phone with an old battery you can expect erratic behavior that is the nature of the battery technology they degrade over time so apple is right that older phones with older batteries are likely to run for as long and potentially crash unexpectedly so that's not the problem that's just the nature of the technology the probably the way they handled it don't know what people would say i know i would have said yes slowed my phone down in exchange for not crashing and i would have rushed out and bought a new phone or a new battery and i think the way apple would to ultimately have a look by making the batteries relatively cheap twenty nine dollars does pretty much solve the problem for most people but they irritated a lot of people in the process does apple ever suffer from irritating their customers all the time look apple with hilde of a pedophile but when it falls off the pedal still it falls very hard i remember a few years ago they called it an candidate with a minor problem with an end canon on the phone and it was not working properly and it became a huge issue and apple had to apologize for that they don't apologi

the company says that is partly true, but they claim it is not to make you buy a new phone. apple says it is to help you save your battery and prevent older iphones from suddenly turning off. >> when your batter is no longer able to provide the processor power, it scales it back. kimberly: to find out your battery lifespan, search for battery checkers in the app store. to replace the battery costs about $80 to get it professionally done. you can try it yourself, but first you need the tool to pry open the case, a hairdryer to remove the glue that attaches it to the case, and beware that all of that void your warranty. crunch time is here and some stores are staying open 24 for the last-minute shoppers. tom roussey caught up with a few people tonight in gaithersburg. stores including this one in gaithersburg will be open 24 hours a day until 6 p.m. christmas eve. there are folks here tonight. they say they do this every year , and yes, they get shoppers in the middle of the night because a lot of people do wait until the last minute to finish holiday shopping. , this yearo the firm

admitting that changes they made to software hurt the performance of batteries for older phones. appleder phones to work to make the consumer experience positive but this is a shaming moment for apple, apologizing for the slowdown in battery usage in older phones. nejra: how old of a phone are we talking about? my phone will not be saved. >> the upgrades will be for the iphone 6 and some issues of the phone, not going terribly far back in the iphone universe. it refers to the way the software was written, and the way it utilizes the battery. it is a massive challenge apple is undertaking, creating new operating systems for the new phones will take use of all of the great semi conductors and other capabilities of the new phones. backwards up great in the old phones that do not have the hardware underneath to run it. it is a challenge and apple is suffering. suffering,ing about i want to talk about amazon. president trump tearing into it again, urging much more in postal fees. investors are feeling a little bit jittery from that. >> i do not know if investors will make changes. of amazon

with a company if you have an old phone with an old battery you can expect erratic behavior that is the nature of the battery technology they degrade over time so apple is right that older phones with older batteries are likely to hear through all that run for as long and potentially crash unexpectedly so that's not the problem that's just the nature of the technology to probably the way they handled it in check i don't know what people would say i know i would have said yes slowed my phone down in exchange for not crashing and i would have washed out and bought a new phone or a new battery and i think the way apple with the ultimately have to look by making the batteries relatively cheap twenty nine dollars does pretty much solve the problem for most people but they irritated a lot of people in the process. scientists are sending robots under the ice in antarctica on a mission to discover more about the impact of rising sea levels the drones designed by the university of washington will gather new information about articles vulnerable western ice shelf of the three c. gliders will spend the winter gathering information under the ice before finding t

at least two customers sued apple over the deterioration in their phone's performance. acknowledged this week that it issued an update that slowed down iphones with the dying batteries designed to help people get more out of their aging batteries and reduce occurrences of shutdowns, according to the company. customers don't seem to be buying it. joining us from minneapolis, longtime analyst covering apple, gene munster. guest host for the hour, david kirkpatrick. i'm interested what you think about this story, the iphones, older iphones shutting down has been happening to me. this has long been a conspiracy among users, and apple released its statement in response to a report about this happening. what is your take? gene: i think you need to step back and just play the conspiracy series through. if apple is slowing down the phones for the purpose of lying newer version phones, that sounds like a risky business approach. the reason is to make your product worse in the hope that you will buy a more current risk of they run the people saying i don't want an iphone. --'s go

some of us have experienced this when it gets cold, when your phone sort of all of a sudden shuts down and applesaying they've rolled out this to stop that from happening by slowing down your phone when it's working particularly hard under those conditions or when its battery gets old but the problem here, i think, is we're in this culture where big companies are making decisions for us and not just how the technology works, but how our lives, therefore, work to me it's connected to this whole facebook allowing companies to target ads, employment ads, based on age well, what level of disclosure do we need if you're going to slow down my phone for my own good >> and those who had the phone and were driven absolutely insane last year by it shutting down with 40% of power and no acknowledgment at all from the company that this was happening, despite the fact lots of people were noticing it, talking about it, now we find out it was, in fact, happening and, okay, apple tried to address it. maybe they did, but then had the other problem, which is there's this idea they are disabling and making your ph

after facing a barrage of criticism for deliberately slowing down older i phones apple now says it will reduce the price of battery replacement to regain customers trust some users have long suspected the company was using their regular software updates to slow down older i phones encouraging consumers to buy new or models apple admitted the procedure but says it was done to prolonging the life of aging batteries the company has has had eight separate lawsuits in the u.s. filed against it over the matter and has additional legal trouble in israel from its. now today marks the last trading day of the year and what a year it was donald trump took office to move markets with his isolationist agenda tax plans b. w.'s diesel gate scandal continued to make headlines for the year running big cons roller coaster ride mesmerized investors all the while global growth and low interest rates boosted corporate profits and commodity prices adding almost nine trillion u.s. dollars to the global stock markets so let's take a look back at twenty seven with. the fine for a stock instance you can already

many say when new phones come out, their old phones feel sluggish. apple admits it is slowing down old phones, 6s and 7, but it's because of the old batteries. apple is throttling the speed of processors to prevent random shutdowns. tech experts say now that we know that, speed your phone back up by replacing the battery, cheaper than buying a new i-phone. >> peco lights up the holidays with lights across philadelphia in honor of christmas. it finished a blue and white menorah scheme for hanukkah and will be lit in red, green and black the day after christmas. >> what are the chances of a white christmas? >> 10% right now. >> 10% in philadelphia. we have a system heading in. is it rain? does it end with snow? a lot up in the air to use the pun. tonight, the action cam in camden new jersey, great looking house on the 300 block of boyd street. we are getting ready for the holidays. francis posted this on my facebook page. this is a moon set. it's right before the moon set before 7:00, it's the waxing crescent phase. in the western sky after sun zit, you casu

wants to nobody wants to hear that they have to buy a new phone obviously right to get a casket is this feature an actual moneymaker for apple is there any way to tell no it's not a money maker i mean the money makers already there they they make new phones and people buy them so that's not the something concern here what this does is it basically slows it down to a degree that encourages that ensures that the battery in the phone doesn't shut off. i think it lets people use their phone a little bit longer than they would even expect to be expected to what about consumer protection laws do you think there's a case against savile now it's not i mean if. if if b.m.w. said that you're not supposed to drive on the tires for for five years and you should change your tires or rotate them out. and you kept your tires for seven years and your tire popped what's the what's the claim there is a change or ties in that you can if you don't change your car to you. in some cases you can really you can swap out a battery for as low as twenty dollars in some places people don't seem to know that. they didn't figure it out this is a this is

phone seem slower? in two minutes...what apple is saying about batteries in old i-phones... icki) apple is confirming rumors of slowing down older i-phones. but the company says they have a good reason to. reports say that apple purposely slows down i-phones because of battery issues. older batteries can cause i-phones to shut down without warning. in order to prevent that issue....the company reportedly says they've created software to manage batteries as they age. the software only slows down the phones to keep them functional. apple says the i-phone s-e, i-phone 6, i-phone 6-s and i-phone 7 are all affected. (vicki) as you cross names off your holiday shopping lists -- one thing can get a little uncomfortable...(grant) should you tip or gift people who provide you with a service -- like a personal trainer or a mail carrier? reporter mary moloney has a list of who to tip and who to skip this holiday season. people generally feel generous during the holiday season. according to a care-dot-com survey -- 87 percent of people questioned have shown gratitude with the gift of a h

but in multiple lawsuits, customers argue it was a scheme to get them to buy new phones. applenow offering those with an iphone 6 or newer a $29 replacement battery. and public filings show apple's c.e.o. tim cook got a 47% raise this year to $12.8 million. that's on top of the stock he owns, worth hundreds of millions of dollars. apple's board has also told cook to use only private planes, for security and efficiency. and there is much more ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news." >> you can board without presenting your boarding pass, passport or other travel documents. >> reporter: biometrics are being used increasingly by the airlines, but there are questions about privacy. >> they're just going to walk up thd they take a picture and that's it? wow. nd golodryga: these folks won the lottery-- or did they? >> i felt like i spent my real money to win monopoly money. >> reporter: someone thought each of these business ventures would be a success. they weren't. we'll take you inside the museum of failure in los angeles. ( laughter ) and tools healthcare has thee to help guide you

from $60 to $20, you can afford to pay $40 a month for your phone or whatever so it is a different model in some people are suggesting in a applehould actually be leasing phones a lot of us have signed up for the new phone a year plan which for all intents and purposes we're leasing except that there is a legal ownership in the contract butit is a different model in the early days, you would think twice about spending $500 to buy a telephone that you can carry around with you, why would you want to do that. but now people understand the model -- the value and it didn't seem to be as much of a problem as i thought it would have been. >> yeah, and it does seem as if investors are trying to get used to that idea that maybe you'll have a smoothed out update cycle. bruce, thank you very much for your time this morning >> sure. >>> and still to come, the price of ripple is surging right alongside rival crypto current city bitcoin we'll speak to the ceo of ripple is what is behind the recent run up [lance] monica, it is absolute chaos out here! gale force winds, accumulations up to 8 inches... ...don't know if you can hear me, but [mo

apple slows down older phones. the reason, the lithium-ion batteries in aging devices can't keep up with peak demand for power. apple says the batteries may need to eventually be reserviced or recycled. anna werner is here with the slowdown that's frustrated users. >> good morning, anthony. just like my iphone, your phone is storing lots of photos and apps. now apple is being accused of slowing the devices down on purpose. a computer scientist said it's happening because the iphone's power problem is widespread. >> we have sold over a billion of them. this makes iphone the best selling product of its kind in the history of the world. >> your web browser will be slower, instant messaging will be slower, your camera will be slower. basically it affects all of the functionality of your phone except phone calls. >> reporter: when john poole set out to see why his wife's iphone was poor, he made a surprising discovery. in order to sustain its life, apple is deliberately limiting the power that the battery sends to its ph

phone. applepologizes for your feelings being hurt. anchor: how are they trying to make everyone feel better about it? i noticed it myself. a lot of things just lagged on my phone. are they putting any tangible fix is in place? >> if your battery suffered as a result and want to keep your old phone, they will still charge you but charge you significantly less. again, they do not cop to having tried to make old phones worse. making newcused on phones as good as possible. if that degrades the old phones, it is still tough luck. makes me want to not upgrade my iphone anymore. the failedt of forecast at all? analysts that lowered wereates this week minimal. apple never gives a forecast. analysts come up with it. they play with the numbers in their own way and change over time. i think this is really analysts playing with analysts and not apple having issues. how many phones they sell? how much do they charge for the phone? the iphone x is so much more have ave that they will fantastic order even if ma

they say it is to protect your phone. apple recently released a feature that slows down the iphone's processor when it is running on an aging battery. apple says this is to prevent your iphone from a malfunctioning and shutting down.>>> dow lost -- nasdaq and s&p were down two points. they have soared as expectations grew that the gop tax bill would pass. some observers say traders might wait to take profits until january when taxes will be lower.>>> a big day for a little boy. how firefighters help him forget about his battle against leukemia even if it was just for a day.>>> a christmas weekend. he will show us what kind of weather we can expect to>>> > ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ it's just my eczema again,t. but it's fine. yeah, it's fine. you ok? eczema. it's fine. hey! hi! aren't you hot? eczema again? it's fine. i saw something the other day. eczema exposed. your eczema could be something called atopic dermatitis, which can be caused by inflammation under your skin. maybe you should ask your doctor? go to eczemaexposed.com to learn more. my

phones. these are not apple phones. but on android devices you can get over the air radio not going over the air data caps. when you have over the air radio you're losing a lot less battery life. there is spectrum use efficiency and i think public safety i hope apple will one day consider. must tell you the story of my friend gary shapiro runs the consumer electronics association. i guess it is the consumer technology association now. gary was never for this until he got caught in the sonoma, california, fires, he wrote a marvelous piece about his experience when they lost electricity and power, etching went down. the lightses were off, tvs were off. cell phones didn't work. they crashed and he was saying i just wish that got power can't get any signal. i wish it had an fm chip where i can find out to go to be safe, be rescued and how to get out of here. he ended up going to his car, his car radio and turning it on to find out what was happening in this calamity that beset the california valley. so he became a convert t

its customers tonight, after it admitted slowing down older iphones in order to protect their phones. appleife of any apple product, and it said it would offer replacement batteries at a discounted price. the british medical team is flying to bangladesh to help rohingya refugees from myanmar. they will spend eight weeks challenging diphtheria in the camps. leaving manchester airport, british medics heading for bangladesh and a refugee camp where those that have survived and escaped persecution now face another threat — diphtheria. the makeshift home to more than 600,000 rohingya muslims, this is the cox's bazar refugee camp. those living here left neighbouring myanmar and a situation described by the un as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. it's claimed more than 6,000 people have been killed, a figure denied by the government in myanmar. among the a0 plus doctors, nurses and firefighters being sent by britain's emergency medical team, becky platt, a children's nurse at watford general. i know from my experience as a paediatric nurse and as a mum, that families will be feeling desperat

not to force people to buy new phones. applecan get a 30-dollar battery replacement beginning late january through december. you're not convinced, are you? >> well, i -- hmm. not so much. d not disturb signs are becoming a thing of the past in some disney resorts it turns out they say it's for your safety. those signs are now gone from four disney hotels along the monorail line. the signs now say room occupied. other they will and major turret areas are visiting do not disturb policies to check on rooms more frequently these moves have become widespread since that mass shooting in las vegas. >> ultimately you have to know, um, who is coming in and out of your hotel. when you have rooms that overlook areas where there are dense populations of people, those rooms have to be monitor monitored. >> disney is not saying whether the vegas shoot sag factor in the change. the company says staff will a announce themselves before walking into any rooms. >>> cameras are everywhere. and man was there some good video in 2017. you remember tha

shuts down. >> hanging out with friends and phones shut down at 37%. >> reporter: in a statement apple said should go without saying we think sudden unexpected shutdowns are unacceptable. slowing down the phones lesser of two evils. but amongst criticism we know that some of you think apple lets down. apologize. >> it's shady they didn't tell the public but glad it's found out and remedying it. >> offering a new battery for $29 instead of the $79 or free if under warranty. and a software update will show you if the phone is slowed down because of the battery. would you pay for the new battery? >> if it speeds it up. not going to buy new phone. >> reporter: apple denies it was ever the intent. have never and would never intentionally shorten the life of new apple product or degrade the user experience to drive upgrades. they promise once you have the new battery, it will return to old speedy self. abc7 news. >> problem solved we hope. >>> all around the bay area, people are rushing to pay property taxes before the new republican tax plan launches january 1st. tax office, lines snaked th

shuts down. >> hanging out with friends and phones shut down at 37%. >> reporter: in a statement apple said should go without saying we think sudden unexpected shutdowns are unacceptable. slowing down the phones lesser of two evils. but amongst criticism we know that some of you think apple lets down. apologize. >> it's shady they didn't tell the public but glad it's found out and remedying it. >> offering a new battery for $29 instead of the $79 or free if under warranty. and a software update will show you if the phone is slowed down because of the battery. would you pay for the new battery? >> if it speeds it up. not going to buy new phone. >> reporter: apple denies it was ever the intent. have never and would never intentionally shorten the life of new apple product or degrade the user experience to drive upgrades. they promise once you have the new battery, it will return to old speedy self. abc7 news. >> problem solved we hope. >>> all around the bay area, people are rushing to pay property taxes before the new republican tax plan launches january 1st. tax office, lines snaked th

apple phone owners can get batteries out of warranty replaced for $29 instead of $79 it usually costsapple will release an ios update to give users a better understanding of their apple health. apple denies conspiracy claims that slowing down was used to entice users to upgrade. quote we would never and have never done anything to intentionally shorten the life of any apple product or degrade the user experience to drive customer upgrades. our goal is to create products that our customers love and making i-phones last as long as possible is an important part of that. end quote. >> eagle fans hoping to see the playoffs will have a chance. fans can purchase tickets from ticket master january 4th starting at 10:00 a.m., 105 to $185, substantial doubting room only tickets are $80. eagles play saturday january 14th or 13th. you can find more information on "6abc".com. lower marianne police are investigating a scam. julie bennett bought tickets for $500 on craigs list. she met the seller face to face at the bren mar train station last saturday and a surveillance camera at a nearby bank caug

but in multiple lawsuits, customers argue it was a scheme to get them to buy new phones. apple is now offering those with an iphone 6 or newer a $29 replacement battery. >>> and public filings show apple's ceo tim cook got a 47% raise this year to $12.8 million. that's on top of the stock he owns worth hundreds of millions of dollars. apple's board has also told cook to use only private planes for security and efficiency. >>> and there is much more ahead. >> you can board without presenting your boarding pass passport or other travel documents. >> biometrics are being used increasingly by the airlines, but there are questions about privacy. >> you're just going to walk up and they're going the take a picture and that's it? wow. >>> these folks won the lottery. or did they? >> i feel like i spent my real money to win monopoly money. >>> someone thought each of these business ventures would be a success. but they weren't. we'll take you inside the museum of failure in los angeles. oh, sorry i'm late, sir. when you said you were at the doctor, but your shirt says you were at a ste

apple says in some of the phones the chip is there, it's not activated. and other phones, it's not there. there are other manufacturers activated it. and nab says on a voluntary that, it's folks do good for the consumers, can you give us a sense for if you feel that apple might do that? >> we hope so. a tough apple is business to get into. they are smart people, they have and i deeplytform, respect and enjoy their products. do think it's a great verizon, t to atnt and and sprint and team mobile and others that voluntarily their fm chips in their home. these are not apple phones, but the android devices you can et over the air radio which does not go against your data cap. you are using less battery life. lot of consumer protection in this. use efficiency. and i think public safety is hope apple will one day consider, and i must of my friend tory gary shapiro, who runs a onsumer electronics association. consumer technology association now. was never for this until he was caught in the californian fires, and wrote a piece about his experience when they lost

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. >>> apple is confirming older phones are slowing down, apple says this is not a conspiracy to get you to buy a new phone but the lithium ion battery weakens over time. less processing power which causes older phones to suddenly shut off. apple implemented a feature starting with the iphone 6 that p prevents a phone with an old battery to shut off but may notice it sacrifices speed. >>> hurry up, people, cutoff for u.p.s. and fedex overnight shipping is today. missed the priority mail cutoff for christmas delivery. that was yesterday. tomorrow is the cutoff for priority express. get it shipped now. >>> if can you love the royals, stick around. >>> a live look from our east bay hills camera. it's beautiful. we do see some blue skies out there. there's a freeze warning going into effect later today. meteorologist mike nicco is coming up with the >>> now your accuweather forecast with mike nicco. >> a little bit of a precursor to what to expect tomorrow morning. this is from san jose. you can see the frost on top of the car and the sun about tole cme up and turn that into come steam. we'l

so you're compelled to upgrade your phone. >> reporter: apple as add admitting it's slowing ss, seven and se with new updates. >> that's crazy. >> it's implemented power management features in older phones to improve performance and prevent sudden battery shut down. tom's guide editor-in-chief. >> i believe they are trying to help us out in the sense that they're trying to make the phones that we have last longer, but the trade off is you're getting slower performance. >> it's a ploy. >> reporter: attorney cole lip jones isn't buying apple's explanation and neither are the two clients he's now representing in a class action lawsuit against the tech giant. claiming they never consented to have their phones slowed down by apple. >> if they had known that their iphone that they had spent a thousand dollars on was going to slow down after three months or six months, they certainly would have had second thoughts and reservations about purchasing it. >> reporter: so far apple hasn't responded. now there is one fix if you feel like your older iphone isn't working that well but you

. >>> apple confirmed, yes, it does slow down older iphones but says it's happening to keep phones with older batteries running longer. the admission from apple from reports that the company purposely slows down phones. apple says it's just trying to prevent shutdowns and interruptions on it's older iphones. >>> 6:18 now, you take a look at boathouse row in blue and white for hanukkah and now red and green for christmas. bill. >> we've got a cold morning, that's for sure. 6:18, 31 degrees. that wind that was so strong yesterday, that's the wind that brought in the cold air that we're feeling. clear view across delaware. and there are a few scattered clouds overhead that are not going to last throughout the day. the temperatures still coming down at this hour will climb into the 40s just not a huge warmup. 31 degrees in philadelphia. look at chestnut hill and andorra in the 20s. and in buffington and northeast philadelphia airport. and there are a few neighborhoods that are holding just above freezing but barely. and the temperatures climb bright sunshine today. not a lot of wind. feels

phone after the update? how about you after the update? so today good news, right? apple says if you buy a replacement battery for your old phone, whamo, it will run like new and they're lowering the price from 79 to $29. thanks, apple. thanks for nothing! you know a lot of my job revolves around my phone, calls, e-mails, social media and my old phone was running like, yup. i had to get a new one, went from the iphone 6 to the shouldn't have had to do it. where's my discount and where's the discount for all the others who had to do the same thing. apple is facing at least eight lawsuits over this according to the washington post, one wanting almost $1 trillion in damages. >>> moving on, if you're one of those people who doesn't go anywhere without a bottle of water, you won't want to miss tonight's verify. we're getting to the bottom of some very nasty questions about germs. >> metro has a new message, why they want you to just stay positive. >> you probably saw it all over your social media all day long, yeah, it's cold, darn cold. we'll hang onto that hashtag. you'll ne

apology apology to its customers following weeks of anger over intentionally slowing down older i phones apple initially said the slowdown was to preserve the life of degrading batteries scientists is sending robots under the ice in antarctica on a mission to discover more about the impact of rising sea levels as are the headlines on al-jazeera this continues next thank you for watching. but let's not stuff but the fact that those out letters are up. you know none and i never thought. i'd live that day we had fighting inside food as we can say aside because if and we had to get back. we had no all no choice. the end. will feel the moment the spirit of the people how they they got true and just imagine when you are leaving him and when you you are all life have this nightmare on your heads and when they move you. along the. way then. run. i was surprised when first time to get the internet and some of the same me go to the denmark. shot of bees yeah. and when when we get to a place forty four after george michael. and the. this release of surprised me i was happy because of from me and you know

apple has been slowing down phones for a forced >> apple admitted it is slowing down the 6, 6s, se andy a new phone, it's implemented power management features in older phone improve performance and prevent sudden battery shuttdow >> they're trying to make the phones we have last longer but the trade-off is you're getting slower performance >> attorney collin jones isn't buying apple neither are the two clients he's representing in a class action lawsuit against the tech giant. claim they go never consented to have their phone slowed down by apple. >> if they had had known their iphone that they had spent $1,000 on was going to slow down after three months or six month, they certainly would have had second thoughts and reservations about purchasing them. >> reporter: so far apple hasn't responded. there is one fix full of like your older iphone isn't working that well but you don't want to shell out for a newer model to replace the phone's battery, it will cost you $80 to do it here at the apple store. >> i need to get on that. >> i knew there was something going on. i knew it. i was a

, they say it's to protect your phone. apple recently real to shut released a feature that slow down the process or when it's running on an aging battery, they said it's prevent -- to prevent your iphone from malfunctioning and shutting down. >>> several companies sued after they used age limits when looking for possible employees on facebook, the communications workers of america filed the age discrimination suit yesterday in federal court accusing companies, including t- mobile, amazon and cox communications of using facebook to post job recruitment ads but they said -- they set age restrictions, admitting it to some -- showing it to only those under 38.'s older jobseekers may suffer. >> google proposing a new office development, in an area called moffitt park, near moffett field. it would be named caribbean, the street address is caribbean drive, the plan calls for more than 1 million square feet of office space into buildings, google says it would be big enough for 4500 workers, the buildings would be 5 stories tall and feat

. >> coming up at 6:00, sorry for slowing down your phone. apple's new move to try to make it right after the company admitted it might have purposely made your iphone slower. we just moved in about four months ago, but the living room's pretty blank. we did a lot of research online. we just need to have a designer put it all together. mmm hmm. so, it's really nice when clients come in and have... done some of their own research. what do you think about these chairs and that table? working with a bassett designer was really easy. us being young professionals, we're so busy... there's no way we could've designed it ourselves. no. we love it! >>> proof of how dangerous this bitter winter blast can be. a home on cliff avenue caught fire when the homeowner used a heater to thaw frozen water pipes. no one was hurt. >>> here's a visual of how cold it is. a single leaf blowing along the surface of the river. nbc 10 along boat house row where we found the water has frozen over. thank you for staying with us. i'm jacqueline london. >> and i'm keith jones. let

even florida senator rubio tweeting the problem isn't just the phone, it's the arrogance of apple. nd admitting it only after getting caught. so having a u.s. senator tweeting about this shows just how much it got under people's skin and why apple realized they had to correct their misjudgment. >> all right, samuel burke, thank you. >>> over 70 million americans are getting hit with an arctic blast. the national weather service issuing windchill advisories in parts of the country, warning people to keep as much skin covered as possible to protect from frostbite. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar joins us now. please don't tell me it's going to get colder. i know you are, but please don't. >> i really wish, boris, i could be bearing you some better news but that's not simply the case. the worst of the cold weather is currently positioned over the midwest. but that air is going to push into areas of the northeast and even the southeast in the coming days. we take a look at what we're dealing with. these are some of the record lows we had from yesterday. minus 19 in glens falls, new y