It appears that a twitter employee who had access to the twitter Management Panel was compromised and that was the way they got access to all of these otherwise very well locked down accounts. The compromised twitter accounts include bill gates, kanye west and former president obama. Good evening everyone, im frank somerville. And im julie haener. The twitter hack is raising alarms about Tech Security and the potential from anything from election misinformation to stock market manipulation. Live coverage now from ktvus Jana Katsuyama and what we learned about the security breach. Reporter twitter acted quickly to remove the messages that had been placed on the hijacked accounts, but not before the hacker or hackers pulled in 100,000. Experts say its also possible they couldve had access to users direct messages and other data. The scam was a simple message, send money to an anonymous account and get double the funds back. Hacking attack hijacked dozens of highprofile twitter accounts.
And blues tch. Hes shocked tonight and called them a nice kid. People there were shocked to when rollens pulled out a gun and starts shooting kyle rollens was just 21yearold and had been playing the blues for seven years. Sacramento Police Arrested him on five counts of attempted mur. Witness murder, witnesses say he was acting strange and was asked to leave. They say he returned a short time later and pulled out a handgun with a man. I told everybody to get down and one of my friends was bold enough to jump on him. People who know him says they cannot believe it. Hes such a nice kid. Every time i see him, hes friends with so many people and i never see that side of him at all. In his Sacramento County jail photo, he had numerous cuts and bruises that he got during the scuffle for his gun. Reporter well, the gunman is so on the lose, thats what investigators announced saying after a highway shooting in concord. The shooting happened about 5 00 this evening on a state route of 242. The
Plus a very big day for those radar for the saints. Yes, well show you how the raider nation is getting hyped up for the game. What will weather be like for todays game . Lets bring in bill martin who is in for rosemary. Reporter good morning claudine and frank. Temperatures are going to be as warm or hot as they have been in a while in a couple of weeks. Well see temperatures get back into the triple digits. Look at the air, how to spare the air day that it was the pollutants from yesterday. People driving around, the atmosphere is thinning down. And it will be a hot one out there today. Look for temperatures to really get beyond where they have been if you remember back to monday that we were dealing with temperatures in the 50s or the 60s and the lower 70s. Today well be up in possible triple digits. Here are the highs from yesterday. The highs tomorrow are going to be warmer still. One more live camera as you can see the atmosphere out there. That it will be something that youre th
Home run on hometown night on dancing with the stars. Bindi rocking to the top spot. Tamar hot on her heels and chaka khan the first booted and shes happy to be going home. Shut up and dance with me we do say good morning, america. And chaka, in your words, i feel for you. Man, she gave it her all with keo but she is the first to leave the dance floor and another couple will go home tonight. Yeah, they are wasting no time in getting right to it on dancing with the stars. Also this morning, big exclusive right here, kim davis, that kentucky county clerk, you see her there with paula faris, her first interview since all that controversy since her jailing. Well have that coming up. Right now hours away from pope francis arriving here on his historic visit to america. He lands in washington this afternoon arriving from cuba. And abcs terry moran is there with the pope right now as he wraps up an emotional visit. Good morning, terry. Reporter good morning, george. These are pope francis las
As fighting in gaza escalates tonight there was a wharf words in San Francisco between protesters on both sides of the on going battle in the middle east. Good evening. Im ama dates. Tonight the crisis in the middle east is escalating. This is a live look we are going to show you now in gaza. You can see the pillar of black smoke rising into the air from some type of explosion. More than 430 palestinians and 20 israelis have died in the past two weeks. Two americans have been killed. Both were soldiers for the Israel Defense force. One was from texas, and the other, 24yearold Max Steinburg was from the san fernando valley. Hamas claims it captured an israeli soldier. Today a bloody ground battle was fought in a neighborhood where israel says militants were launching rockets. The u. N Security Council held an emergency session and expressed serious concern about the rising civilian death toll. The violence in the middle east has sparked protests here in San Francisco. Abc7 News Reporter