The big story on action news this noon is breaking news, police are investigating a report of five children left alone inside a vehicle. Chopper 6 hx d was over the scene of the the 8700 block of aramingo avenue in the Port Richmond section. The children have just arrived at the local hospital to get checked out. David henry joins us with the details. Reporter it was 11 00 this morning and other shoppers were walking through the parking lot and came across this vehicle, a lincoln suv, inside they noticed five children unattended by any adults. We have video of the police arriving here. Lots of Police Officers arrived at the scene along with philadelphia medics, they found out indeed the kids were locked in there and pried open the drivers side of the vehicle and got the children out. The children arrived at the hospital, all five are apparently okay. It turns out that the car was running and the air conditioning was on and the children were not suffering from hyperthermia or anything l
Seem like a likely match. Verizon is hoping that aol the disrupt can make it a more powerful player in an industry undergoing tremendous change. Aol shares shot and verizon shares fell slightly. Morgan brennan has more on the de why now. The one time king of mobile is all about mobile. Verizon touches about 70 of internet traffic and by acquiring aol they will have Better Technology for selling ads and mobile. A fast growing market. Aol said they decided itself to sell in a better market place that will be increasingly be dominated by large players. Look forward in five years there will be massive global scaworks and there is no better partner than verizon. So it is not about selling the s about setting up for about the next five or ten years. And since they own tech crunch and tech gadget. And some say huff post could be spun off. The fact that the company aproviding Internet Connections with now producing the media people are going online for. And not just content creation but new Co
Via dialup. With the latest is fox businesss own jo ling kent. Nice one melissa. Aol has come a long way since you got mail. Verizon is buying the company for 4. 4 billion, about 50 a share which is a 23 premium on the stock t will turn the largest u. S. Wireless carrier to leading provider of mobile video content. Ceo Tim Armstrong will continue to lead company at least for now. Verizon announced it would launch a Video Service over the summer for mobile devices with hopes to increase revenue. According to reuters verizons chief financial sister said it will be paid content aimed at younger viewers. Aol will play into. To tap into the growing digital ad market as well possibly driving more competition with facebook and google. The move will also allow verdicts to rival at ts pending acquisition of at t which bets on mobile video. Analysts do not love the move for aols stock. Analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald and ever core both downgraded shares of aol despite this aol shares are jumping.
With china. International aide groups are already in the country helping people recover from the last disaster. Jonathan big lot tee. Cbs news. New this morning, a Million People are being hit with mandatory water rationing in the south bay. Station decisions kiet do kpix 5s kiet do is in san jose where people are facing rationing for the first time in decades. Kiet . Reporter good morning, san jose water announced its big plans late last night making san jose the first big city in california to make these cutbacks mandatory. In just a couple of weeks nearly everybody in the south bay will face mandatory cutbacks in water usage or face stiff fines. This is the first time its happened in a generation since the drought of the late 80s and early 90s. Now here are the rules likely to take effect soon. Businesses and homeowners will be given a month by month allocation. That allocation is based on the average of all users in 2013. You will have to cut usage by 30 of that 2013 average. Or el
It happened in San Franciscos uncleside neighborhood and the boy was running across the street at san jose and lake view avenues when he was hit. Kpix 5s lisa chan is there. Lisa . Reporter well, investigators could be here for a while this noon. But police tell us that the 7 yearold boy was from this englewide neighborhood and he was side neighborhood and he was running down this hill trying to catch the train. San Francisco Police responded to the intersection of san jose and lake view avenues. They say two cars were traveling southbound on san jose avenue when an 11yearold boy ran down lake view in front of the cars. Once stopped, the other slammed on its brakes. The boy did a pivot move off of that vehicle landing in thed in lanes of san jose northbound lanes of san jose avenue. That train did strike the 7 yearold boy. That boy was pinned underneath the train and dragged about 40 feet. Reporter now this is being treated as a crime scene and investigators are trying to figure out wh