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 ahead. You can start it now. You did that . Yeah. In an empty unused parking lot, the attack begins. Going 20 miles an hour. Now the engine shut off. You were able to do that with one mouse click. Yes. During our demo, he takes control of the wundshield wipers, flashes and turns off the speedometer and Instrument Panel and repeatedly invades the engine. Try to start it now. It wont start. And now it will. Would it be possible to actually take over the car and steer somebody into an ongoing vehicle . This particular car, no. But there are cars with park assist. An those vehicles you can make it think that its parking and as far as the system knows, its just trying to park the vehicle. And, thus, it will turn the wheels for you. Reporter if Software Design vulnerabilities are not addressed by manufacturers up front, once attackers infiltrate a cars computer system, fixing a computer hardware flaw isnt as simple as a recall. It would tack a total overall of a cars overall design. It will cost billions of dollars to fix, and that could potentially end a company. Reporter chuck goudy, abc news, chicago. I had no idea. I did not know you could do that. Its scary. Technology is great. All these advances that make life easier but it makes us vulnerable. I would just get a station wagon. I dont think anybody wants that. I think the threat would be over if you got a station wagon. Coming up setting our sights an a new rising star. Doesnt exactly look like a rock star but hes packing stadiums worldwide. One on one with ed cherren next an world news now. Announcer okay. I do like that. You do . I wasnt familiar with this young man. Hes an his way to becoming a runaway sensation. His name is ed sheeran. And the quintessential boy next door who once opened shows for his high octane friends is now becoming a star in his own right. Were up all nightline with juju chang. Welcome ed sheeran. Reporter its been a breakthrough year for ed sheeran. Thats him as taylor swifts opening act. Prounsing around as shes forming we are never ever getting back together during the red tour. The 23yearold brit and swiss are kindred spirit. Its something they showcased in everything has changed. But now sheeran is stepping out from taylors shadow, headlining his own soldout solo shows. With three grammy nominations, 6 million albums sold and the best male video of the vmas. Sheeran is a bona fide rock star. A sex symbol, even if he says he doesnt look like one. Do you see yourself as a sex symbol . No, ive never seen myself as a sex symbol. I think if i didnt play music, no one else would either. Reporter theres something about the artistic side of it that draws people. Maybe its justior smokin hot looks. My mother thinks im handsome so ill take that. Reporter even if you dont know his name you heard his lyrics. He wrote this little thing for one direction. Like swift, sheeran takes inn spiration from his reallife heartbreaks. His latest single dont is a raw breakup song. The story is ironically it was one of his buddies from one direction who allegedly turned around and stole his girl. Do you ever regret writing about such personal things . I think its nice to get something positive out of a bad situation. The song will live an forever and people will be able to find solice in it in some way, i guess. Reporter sheeran has moved an in style forming his breakout hit at the grammys with elton john. I understand that taylor has given you advice on how to have longevity in the career. The same thing taylor said to me was the assume thing pharrell said to me. Reporter im juju chang in mansfield, massachusetts. What i love about him, they say hes not good looking supposedly. I want to go download his entire album right now. Hes talented. That can get you somewhere these days. One bottle of wine at a time. Its called valor winery. Coming up. [ male announcer ] meet mary. 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Nothing like a good bottle of wine to not only take the edge off a bad day but bring a familiarly closer together. The making of that wine is bringing together very different kinds of family in the Livermore Valley part of california. Reporter when combat veteran josh lang returned from the iraq war, he had one mission. To launch a winery that could empower veterans by giving them a job. And that vision brought him to the vineyards of californias wine country in 2007. He used his entire life savings to launch the valor winery. I got out as a sergeant. So it was my duty to make something happen. Reporter he knows the issues veterans face as they transition into civilian life. During his two tours in iraq, he was shot, stabbed and suffered hearing loss after a roadside bomb exploded. Now hes turning that fascination with wine making into this great opportunity for veterans. Our goal was to put veterans, get them working in the vineyards, Small Agricultural farms as well because that was my only knowledge of where our therapy would come from. Reporter the vets and his foundation have hired 60 veterans since they launched in 2011. These veterans are learning right now in this type of environment are very valuable to the wine industry. They learn how to make wine. They learn the bottling aspect of it. They learn the growing aspect, the maintaining aspect. Reporter the winery is producing 5,000 cases of woon a year, and they are very proud of the work theyve done for veterans serving our country. They are looking for a place to be. A sense of being. Thats what a veteran is looking for. They arent looking for a handout. They are looking for an opportunity. We should be out there interacting and setting the example for others. So theres still a lot of hope for our community and country. Thats news for this half hour. 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New technology helping keep young people safe. But its more than just whats on your phone. I always walk with a friend. I dont really go anywhere alone. What everyone should know about keeping themselves and their loved ones safe. Its thursday, september 25th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Hello there. Good morning. Thank you for being with us. Im t. J. Holmes. Im reena ninan. Welcome, t. J. I was in the neighborhood wondering home and you decided to put me to work. Open auditions. Yeah, youll take anyone apparently. The north portico doors are open and the world news doors. Did you pack a lunch . The cafeteria is closed. Ill get it right next week. I packed one for you. Ill share my lunch. I have theres actually a lunch box that says world news now. I bring my own lunch box. I brought you like a Peanut Butter sandwich. An apple because i like to eat healthy. Biscotti because youll need it for your coffee. Do you drink coffee . I do not drink coffee. And then theres aspirin. What do i need that for . For working with you . Thats part of this. No, its good to be here with you guys. Looking forward to it. Thank you. By the way, the tie, you dont really need that until the 4 00 show. The tie works. Im wearing someones leftover window drapes today. Anyway, were going to get sbrit serious news actually. Its the latest developments in the fight against islamic extremists. U. S. Officials are confident theyve disrupted a plot to attack america made by the Shadowy Group called this is an al qaeda offshoot. Targeted in the first night of bombings in syria. Now were finding out why. Abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross with the details. Reporter this is what the terrorists had in mind. An undetectable bomb smuggled an an american airplane like the one used in this government test of the al qaeda shoe bomb. The intelligence was they were an the verge of creating something. Reporter u. S. Officials said the Khorasan Group was using this building near aleppo and others as a bomb factory and training facility. If they were killed, thats definitely a nearterm blow but i think as weve seen with al qaeda in various other locations, theyll have a capability to rebound. Reporter precise details of the latest plot are not known but for years al qaeda has been fixatesed on aviation. Experimenting with everything from bombs hidden in teddy bears to toothpaste to clothing soaked in liquid explosives. They are determined to produce devices that are undetectable. The foiled khorasan plot explains the enhanced security proirs in europe and the u. S. As attorney general eric hold ir revealed to katie couric at our partners of yahoo news. The enhanced security measures we took in the aviation sector wias based on concerns o what the Khorasan Group was planning to do. Reporter the u. S. Has been tracking the group for almost two years and that while they may have been knocked back, they have not been knocked out. Brian ross, abc news, new york. On wednesday, a second round of aerial attacks in the region, this time targeting isis exclusively. A dozen isis controlled Oil Facilities were hit in syria, an important source. Generating 2 million a day. It also dismantilled command and control areas. They damaged a convoy that was being used to move isis equipment intou rack. At the United Nations yesterday, president obama sounded the call to arms. The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force. So the United States of america will work with a Broad Coalition to dismantle this network of death. This late latest act of barbarism. An isis affiliated group in algeria captured a french tourist there. They gave france 24 hours to halt air strikes in ooh rack. When that deadline passed, they beheaded him. Torrential rains are battering much of texas and florida triggering dangerous flooding. Nearly two inches of rain pounded the lubbock area turning roads into ponds and stranding people in their cars. And record rainfall submerged start parts of central florida. And it is not over yet for texas, florida, heading north. All that wet weather getting ready to swamp much of the atlantic coast. Accuweather meteorologist jim dickey is tracking those storms. Good morning. Tracking some heavy rainfall here through these morning hours. Along the coast, the midatlantic. Storm system crawling northward. You see that heavy rain nosing down to baltimore, philadelphia. Going to be a mess of a morning commute. This rain tracking into new york city. Going to stay in place through the morning commute through the afternoon and move into sorn new england into the evening and overnight hours keeping the heavy rain in place. Watch out for flooding in theseuaries. Well dry things out by friday. Reena and t. J. , back to you. Prosecutors wont seek the Death Penalty against the father whose son died after being left in a hot car. Ross harris faces one count of malice, murder and felony murder. Georgia prosecutors say harris left his 22monthold son in a hot suv for seven hours while he was at work. Harris claims he forgot to take his son to day care that morning. The Justice Department will review the Fatal Shooting death of a walmart shopper in ohio. Just hours before that announcement a grand jury voted not to indict two White Police Officers who shot the black man while he held a pellet gone in the store. Surveillance video shows John CrawfordWalking Around the store with a bb gun until police shot him. Another raushlly charged Police Shooting is Getting National attention this morning. A white South Carolina state trooper opening fire on an unarmed black man. The trooper is shawn grubert. He was fired last week, arrested yesterday as Police Released dash cam video of the shooting showing the moments right after he pulled over a driver for a seat belt violation. That driver survived the shooting. We want to show you this video. We warn you it is graphic and disturbing but important for you to see in telling the story. License please. Gun get an the grond. Get on the ground. I just got my license. I got my license right there. Thats my license right there. The driver lamar jones survived a bullet to the hup. They found the shooting was not justified. If convicted, the trooper could face up to 20 years in prison. That was incredibly hard to watch. It is hard to watch but thats the case and thats what unfortunately a lot of parents have to teach their young black sons. That man did nothing wrong but just his reaction for some reason set off that he just turned and did exactly what the officer asked him to do and that officer was so alarmed and fearful that he fired. At least one shot was fired when that man clearly had his hands in the air. You could hear him groaning in pain. This is something Everybody Needs to watch and learn lessons from. A grand jury has decided that nascar star tony stewart will not face cruminal charges in the death of kevin ward jr. But stewart is not quite out of the woods yet because wards family is vowing to seek justice in civil court. Abcs Ron Claiborne with the story. Reporter a grand jury refusing to file criminal charges a