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. >> and with that jobs showed videos of other phes including the blackberry and samsung showing theyproblems with antennas, too, dependin on where you puyour hand. he says apple was picked out because e spot is easily spotted because a gap in the casing. the staiess steel case sitting antenna on the pne. he says .355% of phone owners have complained. he says it's minimum reconcile and he has solution. >> let's give everybody a ca. we have a bumper case here. we want to give everybody a free case. every iphone user is going to get a free case. one for ever iphone 4. if you boug one, we'll give you a full refund per bumper. >> the goal is to make everybody happy. free bumper case for everyone. they can't make enough bumpers but go on line on monday and pick one off the apple website and if you have a phone you have it for free. you if after tha you are still not happy with the phone, return it. you have people from around the country, a quick check on apple stock says it's down .4% -- is that right? .35%, okay a minuscule amount. he is expected to hit and on until apologizing to invest

. >> and with that jobs showed videos of other phones including the blackberry and samsung showing theyproblems with antennas, too, depending on where you put your hand. he says apple was picked out because the spot is easily spotted because a gap in the casing. the stainless steel case sitting antenna on the phone. he says .355% of phone owners have complained. he says it's minimum reconcile and he has solution. >> let's give everybody a case. we have a bumper case here. we want to give everybody a free case. every iphone user is going to get a free case. one for every iphone 4. if you bought one, we'll give you a full refund per bumper. >> the goal is to make everybody happy. free bumper case for everyone. they can't make enough bumpers but go on line on monday and pick one off the apple website and if you have a phone you have it for free. you if after that you are still not happy with the phone, return it. you have people from around the country, a quick check on apple stock says it's down .4% -- is that right? .35%, okay a minuscule amount. he is expected to hit and on until apolog

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. >> reporter: and samsung captivate is also releasing their new phone. >> we want to provide choiceo consumers, we think we have the best portfolios of the hand sets in the industry. >> it's a will the of information, i'm not sure that everyby needs it. i use it very little for personal, mostly for work. >> reporter: tomorrow apple will hold a new conference to deal with proported problems with their antennas, antennas, a technology far faolder than cell phones themselves. >> i have any life on this phone. i love all the application on it. it's e-mail, it's entertainment, i love it. >> reporter: and we'll have more on all of this from the apple news conference tomorrow, should be very interesting. i'm consumer editor tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> toyota said today it has a long way to go until it finishes looking at complaints. toyota didn't say when it's investigation is expected to be finished. federal investigators expect to be finished by this fall. >>> well after years of wrangling efforts to put a suicide barrier on the golden gate bridge have taken another step forward.

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right after this. ,, ,,,, it's not back-to-school, it's forward to what's next with an hp netbook, samsungr lg cosmos for under $20 after rebate. >>> good morning. no bic accidents but we have congestion especially westbound 237 towards silicon valley. look at that traffic really not moving at all as traffic heads off of 880 towards zanker road. then speeds improve a little bit closer to mountain view. 880 through oakland in those northbound lanes kind of stop and go past the coliseum up into downtown oakland. but you know what, the bay bridge commute has been easy all morning long. the metering lights remain on but not much delay. a car fire is reported in westbound 580 near the castro valley boulevard exit. that's your traffic. here's lawrence with the forecast. >> checking out low clouds around the bay area again, no surprise there. plenty of clouds at ocean beach. no true fog, just low clouds extending onshore into the interior valleys. going to break up in most spots except at the coast. so that will keep it cool at the beaches. 50s and 60s there. temperatures below average but comfor

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it's not back-to-school, it's forward to what's next with an hp netbook, samsung reality or lg cosmos for under $20 after rebate. >>> good morning welcome back. sentencing is expected this afternoon for the man viced of tampering with san francisco's city computer system. 45-year-old terry childs of pittsburgh was found guilty in april of holding and withholding the pass words to the city's main computer system. this have back in 2008. the city wants more than $1 million in restitution for the money it spent on testing that work -- that network security. >>> police in santa rosa are stepping up their battle against the world's old oldest profession. undercover cops posing as prostitutes arrested a dozen men last night. you are looking at a picture of one of the decoys. tyke place during a sting operation on santa rosa avenue. the street is the main place of business for prostitutes in santa rosa. >>> national parks service rangers say they have arrested a man responsible for attacking two people in muir woods. it happened 6:00 on wednesday night along the ben johnson trail. one victim

>> if this was boost mobile or samsung omniia, we wouldn't be having this conversation. "consumer reports" came out it was really the catalyst behind apple coming out and giving out these free $29.99 bumpers. "consumer reports" said they could not recommend the iphone 4. this was huge. "consumer reports" is a trusted source. amle stepped it up and it was great they said humbly "we're not perfect, phones aren't perfect but we're going to make you happy." this is as much a tech issue and a customer service and pr issue. >> you have customers that have the phones, one-half of 1% issued complaints. >> yes. >> with "consumer reports" not giving this the old hands on go for it and buy this thing, that was what really did it, was it not? >> understand here, 1.7 million people in three days alone purchased the iphone 4, so when all these things started coming out there was reception issues, people wanted an answer and initially steve jobs said you're holding the phone wrong. you can't tell a consumer that. you have to protect the image of the brand and understand the customers w

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