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Had gotten into the astros system was essentially by checking passwords that were left behind by folks who used to work for the cardinals and had gone to work for the astros. that would be the equivalent of you know you going to work at nbc and forgetting oh i need a different password when i get to nbc. so that would be highly unlikely given the intelligence of the folks involved but certainly possible. thats one of the theories. >> what was the kind of information that was retrieved? do we kno...

Computer system that is worse than, i think, the isis social media program in terms of starting all sorts of terrorism. >> lets talk about train wreck. the new comedy. heres a clip. >> i was wondering if i could see you again. >> you know what im going to call the police. >> hold on. ill talk to you about it at the interview. okay. >> she said yes. >> ill talk to you then. >> lebron james on the big screen now. youve seen it already. whats your verdict? >> absolutely hilarious. >> really. >> i t...

This year mayor de blasio and others implemented new things among them new limits on use of force, pilot program to test body cameras for corrections officers, computer system to track use of force by officers thousands more security cameras and federal monitor to oversee reforms. they also have the right to keep teenage prisoners out of rikers altogether. is it a success? is this a win? >> definitely a step in the right direction. however, someone who spent the year on rikers 20 years ago and e...

Department of labor is fighting fraud with money to modernize and update computer system. and creating a web-based processing system that allows for verification of a claimants eligibility. the statement ends there is no place for fraud and abuse in the ui program. >> the system seems so easy to manipulate. the police detective, while she was workicingngworking, someone was stealing her unemployment benefits? >> its a system designed to push money out first and ask questions later. it took them ...

Accessed by penny miller a social worker who i dont know. and, again, had no authorization in being in my medical records for what reason she went in there, i still dont know to this day. and im not certain if i will. >> you know we spoke with a gentleman a couple weeks ago who had the same issue. brandon colemans records were illegally accessed by penny miller as well? >> correct. >> you had not been treated by penny miller correct? >> no, not at the entire time ive been at the v.a. as a patien...

Desk tops these days. they sit in our mobile devices. they control the power grids. yes, theyre in airplanes as well. and any computer system if not properly protected, can be hacked. now, what roberts said he did is he connected his laptop into the seat electronic box, which is located in some aircraft directly under the seat and from there just using a simple username and password the default ones was able to break into the in-flight entertainment system and from there jump electronically into...

Test. were learning disturbing new details about airliners potential vulnerability to hackers. an fbi warrant says one hacker plugged his computer into a jets computer system and tampered with one of the engines while the plane was in the air. our justice correspondent pamela brown is working the story for us. what are you learning? >> i can tell you the fbi is taking roberts alarming allegations, what hes claiming he did seriously, saying they thought he had the ability to possibly access sev...

A senior law enforcement official says theres no credible information that the flight control system can be accessed or manipulate friday the flight entertainment system. united says its confident the claims are unfounded but wont be specific about the claims. we did reach out to roberts. in a tweet roberts said he has been advised against speaking given his current situation. >> pamela thanks very much. more information from peter goelz, our aviation analyst. do you buy this notion that this ch...

This was intentional. everything is on the table as far as investigators go. there-of-they are also looking at his experience. we know that he had only been on this route a matter of weeks. also today, wolf a law enforcement source is essentially throwing water on this theory that something, a projectile was thrown at amtrak 188, and that may have caused the crash. this source is saying that police they listened to all of the dispatch recorders, and have heard nothing about 188 being shot. they ...

Can combine it all with things on the ground and put that into one simple graphic that feeds to the engineer showing him or her how fast he must get on the brakes to stop before reaching some sort of obstacle up ahead and if the engineer does not do that then all of that information through a computer system will take over his train and automatically slow it down or even stop it to avoid a problem out there. that is the positive part of positive train control, anderson. >> do officials have a se...