coming up in 10 minutes you'll meet the real life prodigy who inspired the new cbs show scorpion. >>>ight we've learned thieves have hit at least three bay area car dealerships driving off with lots of expensive cars. so how did they do it? check out the video joe vazquez got ahold of tonight. a clearly captured the faces of the s men who stole 5 of his carst 3:30 am friday. mi thieves went stra >> i hope they catch them and put these guys away. >> reporter: the owner of formula one motors in san jose says his surveillance camera clearly captured the faces of the season men who stole five new cars off his lot at 3:30 a.m. friday. the thieves went straight for the key cabinet, stole the keys, then stole the cars. >> they use the fob to see which car is flashing and as soon as they found out which cars they want, they took those specific cars. >> reporter: that's the same thing that happened at mercedes- benz of stevens creek about a mile away. eight cars were stolen there and the suspects who hit the mercedes dealership in bellemont 1 a.m. sunday morning drove nine cars off the lot. >>

i started at a company called prodigy way back in the day. we were able to take it public and sell it. i have seen the beginning of targeted advertising and search-based advertising. now it is all about video advertising. >> video advertising across all different platforms. it is a television broadcast as well as an online experience. >> predominantly online at the moment. i'm we're talking mobile devices, which can include tablet. you can see into the future how what reduced us to touch television. video on demand over the top. >> advertising on traditional television seems to be stagnant at best. you are seeing this big growth online. is it a mistake to ignore tv advertising? >> what many people know is television is very large. there is a lot going on there. what i see you think is going on -- i think what you see is going on is consumption shifting. even if the tv is on in the living room i think of television today as the music of the living room. it's on, are you paying attention? if you can advertise online we found that is how you get

. >> i started, i was a child prodigy. it's always been music and music studies since age 5. kind of focused later on after high school on piano and my first professional job was with mel baa moor. and from there ashley simpson took me under their wing and introduced me to the new york recording session scene and i started really recording a lot of records during that time. >> i put him -- >> yes you did. >> that's right. >> and i went bam with a ruler when he wasn't hitting the right note. >> that's right. >> and look where he is now. >> that's right. ♪ >> it was showtime at the apollo where his fame took off. >> a lot of people picked up my story when i was at the apollo. i had a lot of great years there and it meant a lot and on to my next page. >> after turning the pages from the apollo, this musical director landed at aamerican idol, the 2013 emmys, and now he joins abc's reality competition dancing with the stars. >> you have to come in and make a statement. you can't halfway step into something. you have to mean it. and to show that kind of viewership, you have to be b

. >> it was like michael jackson prodigy. i just remember telling him that day i was going to make him a number one smash. and six months later, truth was told. >> "run it" brown's first ever single was released in 2005. it was a monster hit, climbing all the way to number one. >> no one had done that since 1997. >> it was fast. his "run it" video was on tv. we were just like this is amazing. >> how old are you? >> 17. >> amazing. and in just a year's time. the small town boy became a multipat numb selling artist and the undisputed new prince of pop with a squeaky clean image. >> he had a smile, charm coming out of every pore. he was clean cut. >> and he was everywhere. >> are you asking me out? >> on tv's popular theme show, "the oc." >> and on the big screen in "stomp the yard." there seemed to be no stopping music's "it" boy. looks and charm that had young female fans swooning. including one particular high-profile fan who would become his girlfriend. her name was rhianna. >> rhianna and chris brown were sort of the prince

they couldn't possibly be talking about the young prodigy we found showing off his latest innovations this weekend. >> how do you like that? >> yes. >> joey is showing off his latest gageets to kids young and old. as intl's youngest intern, the 17-year-old from suburban phoenix now travels the globe. >> right now i'm working on a full-body scanner. >> reporter: "business insider" magazine named him one of the world's 10 smartest kids. today he'st maker fair in new york city, among the most popular conventions for technology ibo vairts. >> what grade are you in? >> eighth. >> reporter: he grabbed the spotlight in 2012 when he caught the attention of the president during the white house science fair with a one-of-a-kind, high-tech-- >> whoa! >> axelrod: marshmallow gun. >> it goes without saying how proud you are when you show off something you built to the president. >> reporter: jay is his boss. >> he's a great ambassador for young people who aren't necessarily thinking about becoming engineers, but now can see that the tools are easy enough for them and they can create really cool th

. >> what do you think when people call you a prodigy? >> (inaudible). >> why?> doing whatever -- i feel natural doing. >> reporter: at age 2 he could already read and solve complex math problems and in preschool he said he could read the scientific (inaudible) of all of the clouds. >> it's a challenge all of the time. >> reporter: he says at age 7 he read like an 8th grader. >> 5th grade i stopped trying. it was boring. >> reporter: he skipped high school and went straight to college. >> i was actually learning new things. >> reporter: he was only 10. >> it was hard for the next few years. >> reporter: but at home he is still a teenager. >> what do you still do? >> (inaudible). >> reporter: his mother who works from home and his sister will join him. >> it's a blessing. >> reporter: back in memphis, he quit his management job to sit in college classes with him. it was mandatory. >> go to the campus, they won't let him be by himself. >> not like here. >> reporter: his father can now look for a job and he can learn to his heart's content. >> reporter: pretty amaz

. >> it was like, when michael jackson's prodigy.t remember telling him that day i was going to make him a number one smash. six months later -- the truth was told. >> "run it" brown's first-ever single released in 2005. ♪ you can run it >> it was a monster hit. climbing all the way to number one. ♪ girl >> no one had done that since 1997. >> it was so fast. the next thing we know, his "run it" video is on tv. this is amazing. >> how old are you? >> 17. >> amazing. and in just a year's time. the small town boy became a multiplatinum selling artist." "billboard's" best new artist of the year and undisputed prince of pop with a squeaky clean image. >> he had the megawatt smile. he had charm coming out of every pour. he was very clean-cut. >> and he was everywhere. >> you asking me out. >> on tv's popular teen show, the oc. >> not just about you. >> and on the big screen in stomp the yard. there seemed to be no stopping music's new it boy. looks and charm that had female fans swooning. including one particular high-profile fan, who woul

talk of me being a prodigy, talk of me having these abilities. >> now she's making history with every. as only the third woman of color to be a featured soloist with renowned american ballet theater. >> i was just working so hard because it was so new to me at that age when i became professional. i didn't have the chance to step back and notice and realize that i was by myself. i was the only black woman in the company. >> for the young soloist that created challenges that she had not anticipated. >> i went through a period where i felt really alone and like i had no one i could relate to. >> and she had to come to grips with the idea that some barriers have not yet been broken. >> i would have a completely different path if i weren't an african-american ballerina. if i were of another race, i'd have a completely different path. maybe i would be a principal dancer right now. maybe it would have been easier for me. maybe i wouldn't have worked so hard because it was easier. i think that it's just made me such a strong woman. >> it's also made her determined to help those who might some

what do you think when people call you a prodigy or a whiz kid? >> don't feel like one. >> why? >> i'm just doing whatever i feel natural doing. >> reporter: at age 2, arun could already read independently and solve complex math problems and in preschool he told his teacher he could read the scientific names of all the clouds. >> it was a big challenge for me to keep him engaged all the time. >> reporter: arun's father vijay, says at age 7 he read like an 8th grader. >> around 5th grade i decided to stop trying since there was nothing i could do, it was boring. >> reporter: he skipped high school and went straight to college. >> i was actually learning new things. >> reporter: he was only 10. >> like kind of an issue for the first couple of years or so and then [ indiscernible ] that helped. >> reporter: at home he could still be a teenager. >> like what, what is a 15-year- old interested in that you can still do? >> reporter: videogames. >> reporter: to support him, his father moved to palo alto. arun's mother who works from home and his younger sister will soon join them. >> i

i found out the amazing things he's a part of and awards he's won and how he was a prodigy at a veryge playing for all our presidents. i thought it was amazing. wow, this was an incredible opportunity. and, i was living in l.a. at the time by the time that they reached out to me. >> right. >> so this is when i was like 19 or 20 years old when they reached out to me. and we just met up. they knew i was in l.a. yo-yo happened to have a concert at the walt disney concert hall. i met up with yo-yo there. the first thing he said to me is, are you lil buck when he saw me. i said, yes. he gave me this big hug. the only thing he said after that was, i want to try something. he opened up his case, brought out the cello and just started playing. right there in the moment. and i just started dancing immediately. i reacted and you had to be there to see the magic happen for the first time. and after that, we gave each other a hug again and just knew we had that chemistry together and the next day actually is when we did the performance that spike jones caught on camera. >> the very next day. >>

>> reporter: in scorpion, a computer prodigy recruits other good-looking geniuses and misfits to solve global problems and save lives. sounds farfetched? think again. meet the real-life walter o'brien. the new series is based upon his life as an eccentric hacker. >> feels like i have multiple brains going on at the same time. >> reporter: o'brien, born and raised in ireland, was bullied as a kid. at 9 he took an iq test and scored 197, higher than einstein. as for social skills? not so great. >> if someone was lying to me, i couldn't tell. if someone was upset, i couldn't tell. i would say the wrong thing. >> reporter: at 13 he hacked into nasa's computers. at the same time, i started a company, scorpion computer services. today, it's packed with brainiacs who specialize in international security. >> the company now is the largest think tank of high iq individuals that exists. >> reporter: his team identified the boston bombers, prevented a biological attack on u.s. naval bases in afghanistan, figured out if north korea could hit north america with a missile, and analyzed whether the m

for the metric system at the time but those that had the less good argument it seemed like those to prodigy is to the movement were guys like us. so really chose the metric movement was stuff like this. it was not a good time in the country i will not take it anymore and take this job and shove it was number one on the charts when carter was elected we would say we had to eat our spinach and be strong to go down the tubes and change it. in then to look to itself we do a lot of things right. whether that is right or wrong symmetric totally disappeared. so in popular culture was miami vice talking about cocaine and i will someone at the end it on that. why not? this is of poor guy that was the head of the metric smarter movement and he refused to sell his bananas by the kilogram and was arrested on the fourth of july 2000. and he became this smarter figure. -- a martyred figure. and one of the things i found it if you don't look that measure is actually in the supermarket because that is the place you see that's america is not. with the cars that read driver of metric whenever we do is all me

cities and also fashion prodigy, a 4-year-old designer named mayhem turned heads with her clothes madeut of paper and the high tech oops that is going viral. the first guy to buy a iphone 6 in australia proceeds to drop it. can you fine that and more at 6abc.com/distraction. >> insurance on that thing. >> definitely cooler than normal as we look at the forecast this afternoon in the northwest suburbs, temperatures in easton to downingtown 68 to 70 degrees along the 95 corridor temperatures of 69 to 71 degrees. and a breeze at the shore temperatures of upper 60s. >>> and a woman in california is making history on the football field, she is not playing but coaching high school football. her name is kengy martin, the first female coach for football, perhaps the first in the u.s. she has plenty of football experience, she was the junior varsity coach, she played for the san diego surge in the san diego football alliance. she says this coaching job is a dream come true. don't forget to join us for "action news" at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. for melissa magee, david murphy, sara bloomquist and the

find out why a 5-year-old girl is autism is being called an art prodigy. >> see them now at 6abc.com/en rogers back now with a look at accuweather. >> some sunshine in our northwest suburbs, 78 for your high in reading and lancaster and along the 95 corridor we are seeing sunshine. most areas stay dry. 75 in glassboro for your high and down the shore it will be a little cooler, inland in pomona 75 and 72 in dover with partly sunny skies. look for the chance of a passing shower. >> thank you karen. >> that will do it for "action news" at noon, don't forget to join us this afternoon for "action news" at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. and for rick williams and the >> announcer: today on "the chew," say good-bye to summer with a meal plan that's guaranteed to have you falling for fall. what's the warm soup topped with fried polenta that we're diving into with tv's newest it couple? and can michael make a mystery meal when it's dealer's choice? then -- ♪ clinton's craft corner let's craft! ♪ >> announcer: -- clinton and mini-clinton are putting the finishing touches on his nephew's birthday cake. >>

. >> what do you think when people call you a prodigy or wiz kid? >> i don't feel like one. >> why?cause i'm just doing whatever i feel natural doing. >> at age two, he could already read independently and solve complex math problems, nan preschool he told his teacher co-read the scientific names of all of the clouds. >> big challenge for me to keep him engaged all the time. >> his father, vj, says at age seven he red like a eighth grader. >> around fifth grade, basically there was nothing i could do, just boggle skipped high school, went straight to college. >> i was actually learning new things. >> he was cents only ten. >> first couple of years or so, growing this beard, that really helps. >> but at home co-still be a teenager. >> like what? what does a 15 year old that you can still do? to to support them, they moved from their home, to palto alto. his mother works from home, and his younger sister will soon join them. >> a blessing. >> back in femoris, vj quit his and andment job as a plastics engineer so he could sit in college classes with him, it was mandator. >> i because i

but that doesn't stop this pint sized prodigy from hitting a golf ball nearly 100 yards. >> yes!ery little instruction. he just naturally did it. tommy has no idea that he is different. >> good hit, wasn't it? >> yeah. >> reporter: his right arm never developed below the elbow. but that's made no difference to his golf game. >> tommy would watch golf with the two of us on the couch, and literally he got up from the couch and started emulating what he saw on tv. >> reporter: he was only 18 months old and unlike most toddlers who clung to stuffed animals when they sleep, tommy's parents would find him clutching his golf clubs and sometimes an ipad. >> he was watching instructional video by tiger woods. i walked in, asked him what he's doing, he said, daddy, i'm taking a golf lesson. >> reporter: they decided to sign him up for real lessons. >> when they called me about giving him instruction, i was very skeptical. i stood back when he hit first shot, just lost it a little bit, thinking, wow, because it was not at all what i expected. >> reporter: and while he clearly has talent, to

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this is a complicated subject because al qaeda's prodigy, they don't just talk about violence, they do it, they conduct it and do it in horrible ways. the islamic state is a little more complicated because their publications and the speeches of al baghdadi and leading people are focused principally on establishing a caliphate. >> they want to rule. >> they need an empire and they want to empire to grow and they want to take after next probably saudi arabia because they want the holy cities. they talk about something different usually than the terror that they sometimes practice. so it's a complicated subject to analyze. >> i want to get your reaction on these sound bites. the first is from a former commander of u.s. central command yesterday. and the second is from the national security adviser, dr. susan rice, today. >> the best military advice would never take some of our capability off the table and if there's better military advice to be had, i would be eager to see it. but i think right now up against this enemy, we're going to have to take our own side in this and in that regard,

he drank prodigiously. on some days, there were more bootleggers than writers.he fought censorship in new york, and his lawyer was the representative on the state floor who pushed hard against censorship with jimmy walker. he won the day with one simple line -- no woman has ever been ruined by a book. [laughter] plays.a producer of dracula, things like that. he did the american tragedy, things like that. he is drawn to broadway, like a lot of people. broadway itself, the less district we are dealing with. broadway itself is transformed. it the times building which begins at all. it is built in 1904, online acre square -- on lawmaker square. is, lit up at night. this is actually 1907, when the first ball was dropped from time square. there is supposed to be .2 5 million people here, but it doesn't look like that in the picture. been the great white light, but that was broadway south a 42nd street. in the 20's, the light show is technicolor. they had multicolor advertising lights, they moved and spun, and bottles of beer appeared in the firmament, rivers of peanut

. >> but you said you were praised for being a prodigy of being a well rounded artist or will i foreverty that doesn't quite compare. that's one of the reasons why you wrote firebi"firebird" becau want little brown girls to know. >> i think it's important to hear you can, you will, to give them hope, to dream. i had so many things working against me. >> and then you're dancing with prince. >> and then i'm dancing with prince. >> before you leave, can you put your leg on the table so we can look at the calves? i'm kidding. i'm kidding. i'm thinking if we do a gazillion toe up and downs, will be-- >> relevant. it's call rele v.a. te. >>> coming up, the hidden roars. the secrets inside this lio >>> a lion's statue is bringing life. experts tlinch's a time capsule from 1901 inside the lion's head. the statue was brought down from atop the old state house for cleaning. a small camera found a box leading to pictures, newspaper clippings and letters. i like that. clippings and letters. i like that. what'[ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, we've always been on the forefront of innovation. w

this is an incredible -- one of the people on the panel called him a legal prodigy, saying this guy isan amazing qualified candidate. and he is. on the federal court of appeals or further in the future. he is an amazing qualified brilliant man. >> one had 24 years experience as a judge, the other had 23 years experience as a judge. i think it is pretty clear he did not choose experience here. is consistent with what he wants to do with the selection process. he wants to take away the transparency, to have more powers, more politics into our judicial selection process. a process that has served this state very well and we need to keep that process. >> paul davis is a liberal. the u.s. supreme court just overturned a kansas decision 920 . i put a former prosecutor on the kansas supreme court. a 90 on the death penalty case. that is an important thing to have. >> next question will come from alex. it will be directed initially to representative davis. >> a lot of news here that the pa system in this nation is broke. yeah --eel this is true this is true? ofi have a little bit special persp

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a small indiana town, jimmy jones took comfort in religion and became something of an evangelical prodigyds in his backyard barn with long winded sermons and animal funerals. his indianapolis ministry aroused controversy with its integrated socially active congregation in a city with historic ties to the ku klux klan. >> i was staying at the ymca. i saw in a recorded paper, an advertisement about the peoples temple. he called me later and said why didn't you come back to the temple. i said, i thought -- no one, no pastor ever asked me to come to the temple before or why i wasn't in church. so i went back. he offered me to sit down in the seat where he was sitting at the table to eat. he said, you can have my seat. >> jones and his wife marcalin practiced what they preached. they had a biological son, stephan, and adopted an african-american baby they named jim junior. it was indianapolis' first adoption of a black child by a white family. >> he had this great family of all different colors. he had a wonderful wife. i loved his kids. i was just enchanted by everything he had going. >> i re

this is an incredible -- one of the people on the panel called him a legal prodigy, saying this guy isan amazing qualified candidate. and he is. he could end up on the federal court of appeals or further in the future. he is an amazing qualified brilliant man. >> the governor had a choice between three people. one had 24 years experience as a judge, the other had 23 years experience as a judge. a woman. and he had less than one year. i think it is pretty clear he did not choose experience here. that is consistent with what he wants to do with the selection process. he wants to take away the transparency. he wants the governor to have more power so we can inject more politics into our judicial selection process. we have a process that has served this state very well and e need to keep that process. [applause] >> paul davis is a liberal. he would appoint a liberal on the supreme court. and there is another thing. the u.s. supreme court just overturned a kansas decision 9- 0 on a death penalty. i put a former prosecutor on the kansas supreme court. he's not going to vote for an opinion th

this self-taught prodigy proved he could play almost anything. >> i'd listen to things like ♪ ♪ -- andthe assembly. but don't play something that will excite the kids too much. >> don't excite the kids? >> yeah. and sure, i'd listen to them. i'd play "heart break hotel" and" johnny b good." stuff that they liked. >> he started playing professionally when he was 17 and quickly made a name for himself in argentina by singing famous spanish ballads. >> it was kind of like i was doing in spanish what frank sinatra did in 1943. and all of a sudden, i became a teen idol. there were the screaming girls. i had to learn as a blind person how to run into a limousine, otherwise they'd take my clothes off and stuff like that. and that sounds like it would be fun, but it's not very interesting in a way. it's not good to be nude out there in the middle of people. it was incredible. i thought to myself, how could this happen to me? i could see it, frank sinatra, elvis presley. but jose feliciano? it was a mystery to me. >> with all this early success, he never let his blindness get in the way. do you

. >> his relationship with one of his latest prodigies, a blind piano player.st to see how their relationship and friendship developed and how they helped each other through some of the hardest times of their life. but with positivity running through. >> it's amazing, watching him lying there in bed, singing notes. and watching his pupil sit there. >> he taught me when i was 12 or 13 in '47 in seattle. in 1959, he joined my band. my greatest honor i've ever had in my life. a great honor. incredible human being. >> he also taught a few other greats too, didn't he? taught miles. probably a hard student to teach. >> he was skinny like me though. >> what an amazing history, right? >> it's unbelievable. it's a miracle really. i cry every time i see it. >> you said clark terry is the greatest trumpeter. you also said he was a great human being. >> that's where it starts. >> talk about what made him a great teacher. >> passion. just passion. he had -- he had passion for the young people. my own reaction to it, somebody like clark and ray charles, mentally, when you're