Taking your car for a free ride these days. Report just ordinary car thieves. They used to just want to break in, get your computer, steal your credit cards. Now hackers are setting their sights an whats sitting in your driveway. Our abc station in chicago with this story. Reporter thousands of pounds of steel and plastic. The modern cars that fill our highways are really Just Computers on wheels. Now theres new concern that those computers are easy marks. Theres inherent failures, inherent security risks if you will, that are available on all modern vehicles. Reporter the abc 7 iteam got behund the wheel with a security researcher who works with the Auto Industry to help automakers secure their computer systems. He showed us how all cars have a port that hooks right into their computer systems. Its designed for diagnostics at an atto repair shop. By accessing this system, hackers can actually take control of almost any car. So can i start it . I dont know. Can you . Oh, sorry. Go ahea
Storm moving in right now. Just look at the mess the same system already dumped in florida. Cars up that their windshields in water. Live radar showing some parts of our area already started to get hit. Good evening and thanks for joining us. Im iain page. Lime sues noland. Lets get right to chief meteorologist Scott Williams. Where is the rain right now, scott. Good evening. Right now the rain is moving into south jersey as well as delaware as we watch this coastal storm moving in overnight to impact your thursday morning commute. As we focus in on ultimate doppler, you can see that rainfall albeit light right now moving into wildwood, cape may, rehoboth beach, dover, all the way into new castle county. So its approaching the i95 corridor as we speak, and it will continue to move northward during the overnight. So now through midnight were logging at it in south jersey sections of delaware, but moving north and west after midnight and overtaking the entire area with rain. In addition
Disappeared. Where the owner thinks she might be hiding. Only on fox, september tra riders jump into action to catch a suspected thief. Theyre chasing after this guy. Thats philadelphia. The smart way they stopped the accused crook. We begin tonight with a nasty storm moving in right now. Just look at the mess the same system already dumped in florida. Cars up that their windshields in water. Live radar showing some parts of our area already started to get hit. Good evening and thanks for joining us. Im iain page. Lime sues noland. Lets get right to chief meteorologist Scott Williams. Where is the rain right now, scott. Good evening. Right now the rain is moving into south jersey as well as delaware as we watch this coastal storm moving in overnight to impact your thursday morning commute. As we focus in on ultimate doppler, you can see that rainfall albeit light right now moving into wildwood, cape may, rehoboth beach, dover, all the way into new castle county. So its approaching the
Sprint car race in upstate new york. The District Attorney revealed that ward had marijuana in his system, enough to impair his judgment. Wards family said the focus should not be on stewart should be on stewart and not on kevin ward. Apple is apologizing for some glitches with its newest iphone. Then yanking its latest software update. Customers with the new iphone 6 and 6 plus complained the new system, the ios 8 update intended to fix bugs with the new system blocked their calls yesterday. Apple is promising to release a new update in the next few days. A new ad circulating online about the ios 8 prompted the lapd to issue a warning in the name of public safety. The Police Department wants to spread the word that you cannot charge your new iphone in the microwave. The ad claims 60 seconds would do the job. Police tweeted the socalled wave feature is totally bogus. No word if anyone actually fell for it. You know somebody did. You know somebody did. Its not whats causing the bending
Good wednesday morning to you. Were learning more about that critical takedown by u. S. Special forces. The man believed to be the mastermind of the deadly attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi now aboard a u. S. Ship in the mediterranean. But that attack remains at the center of a partisan battle on capitol hill. Abcs Tahman Bradley joins us live from washington with more. Good morning, tahman. Reporter good morning, devin. Good morning, reena. U. S. Officials tell abc news the suspect had been under surveillance in libya for months. He was surrounded by special forces and taken into custody. The Obama Administration thinks its nabbed one of the masterminds of the deadly attack on the american consulate in benghazi, libya. Ahmed Abu Khatallah, leader of an islamist group, had been sought by the u. S. For 21 months before u. S. Special forces finally captured hip. No matter how long it takes we will find those responsible. Reporter Abu Khatallah is being atear gated aboard a u. S.