minutes from now. news bytes now. folks in some states will soon be saying see you to the white pages. regulators in new york, florida, pennsylvania, giving phone companies permission to stop printing residential listing. company officials say consumers now get the numbers from the internet mostly and mobile phone apps and not printing better for the environment. the new york times announcing it will start publishing best seller list for ebooks or electronic books beginning next year. we are told the rankings include fiction and nonfiction titles and that the times will use the information for publishers, book sellers and online retailers. a transit worker caught on a security camera hitting a passenger. our top story as we go across america. massachusetts. check out this video from a massachusetts bay transit authority station in boston. you can seat uniformed worker hit and possibly kick the guy. he says that employee sent a friend and him to the wrong train. after they got back.
including 80 ak-47 s. some of them made in iraq. they were almost impossible to trace. on top of that some explosives, hand grenades and some night vision goggles. police believe they were bringing those weapons into the united states so they could sell and ship them to mexico. shep. shepard: trace gallagher live in los angeles. thank you. news bytes now and google announcing a 10% raise for its entire staff. according to the reporting of the wall street journal, which sowned by the parent company of this network, the search engine giant is giving each of its nearly 25,000 employees a 10% pay increase. the move reportedly designed to keep workers from joining competitors like facebook should do the trick. could be a slow sales start in north america for microsoft new smart phone platform window s phone 7. the financial web site the street.com is reporting that the company sold some 40,000 units in the united states and canada on its first day on the market. that said to be far belo
program is for peaceful purposes only and the u.s. and its allies accused tehran of trying to secretly build atomic weapons. oil prices hit a two-year high today. there is word they will continue going up if governments around the world don t act to cut down on consumption. today s high just more than $87 a barrel. the international energy agency is reporting oil about will be up to $200 a barrel by the year 2035. the paris-based energy watchdog also reports that oil supplies will peek around that same time. how they know that, we don t know. news bytes and google maps may be responsible for one central american country invading another country. google maps. nicaragua milita raided an area disputed. commander google s map showed it belonged to nicaragua. google checked with the u.s. state department and redrawn that border. sex, drugs and texting all
cooperate with the feds. it s interesting because she is not on the prosecution witness list, though she does appear to be on the defense witness list. jury selection will continue again tomorrow, shep. shepard: trace gallagher live in l.a. thanks. news bytes now and the internet phenomenon twitter on track to reach 200 million users by the end of this year. the new york times reports in today s edition of the social networking site is adding about 370,000 new users every single day. how is that possible? twitter still trails facebook which now lists more than half a billion users. and iphone glitch reportedly had a lot of folks running late today in europe. apparently the alarm end of summertime causing it to go off an hour late. the u.s. switches this sunday we re told apple is working on a fix. the house minority leader john boehner looking for a possie promotion after election day. coming up, we will go live to the congressman s home state of ohio where he spoke just minutes
program is on track to help 3 to 4 million struggling homeowners, shep, eventually. shepard: peter barnes live in washington. thank you. a bit of good housing news now, new home sales are on the rise. analysts say it s not enough to lift the struggling economy. sales of new homes rose nearly 7% from august to september. but it comes after a rough summer for the housing market, be aously. the past five months have been the worst for new home sales on records that date back four decades. news bytes now. and an overhaul for myspace. the one time social networking site owned by the parent company of this network unveiling some changes including a bigger focus on music, videos and celebrity gossip to make it more of what we are told is a social entertainment destination. apple debuting the debut of white iphone four again from the end of the year to next spring. it s the same as the model that s now out only instead of a black exterior it has a white exterior is which is apparently