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WPVI ABC World News Now September 30, 2014

Gopro. The cameras. Were taking them to new heights. And heights really rarely seen for a view of new york city. Also new technology taking the place of the repo man. How Drivers Behind in their car payments are stopping in their tracks. An outspoken Breast Cancer treatment who fought for a new drug and won. How her heroics are making a difference. Youre watching world news now. Announcer world news now weather brought to you by vista print. More than two years ago, a mother with terminal Breast Cancer was fighting for the chance to start using an experimental drug. Darlene gant only expected to live for months but miraculously, she is still alive today. Nothat drug is aproved by the fda thanks to this outspoken woman who fought hard and won. Linda hurtada reports. Reporter darlene and brian gant make veggie shakes for lunch. She credits a drug making headlines again after it saved her life almost two years ago. I ended up coming off hospice which was just the i did not do any chemo because i wasnt Strong Enough to do chemo. And i, for me, that was just, for anybody, that would have been a true miracle. Reporter in 2014, i helped darlene get Compassionate Care usage of prajeta. Now doctors like dr. Solomon of Moffet Cancer Center use it as part of their standard care for Breast Cancer patients. An update of a study just released sunday shows the drug is adding an average 16 months to survival time. Just to put it in perspective, generally were happy even if we see like a two to threemethod increase in overall survival. Thats why the magnitude of this difference is being hailed as something which is unusual. Reporter darlene got 20 months of stabilization without too many bad side effects. Until her cancer started to advance again. But it allowed her to grow Strong Enough to try yet another targeted therapy and that one is working right now, too. So the news of the success among other women today seeing that just made me think, could there be this longterm option for women . You look at the sorry vival curves. This kind of change represents a real tangible, you know, achievement that you could convert met static Breast Cancer into a chronic manageable disease like diabetes, like hypertension. Thats the hope. And linda hurtada reporting from tampa. Coming up, a hightech repo man. How your car can be remotely turned off if youre late an your payments. Its a pretty good incentive to pay on time. But is it fair and safe . All that next on world news now. Announcer world i saw your shoulders moving there. Dr. Dre. Thats music. Thats what i need in the morning. Now we figured it out. The ultimate symbol of freedom, the car. Nothing like hopping in and going for a ride. Theres a new system to stop people from driving off with your car. Lenders are using the device shutting off the engine if you are late on your car payments. Gio benitez with more. Reporter forget the repo man driving off with cars on the big screen. Now new technology is taking his place. Small devices like these are being installed in more than a million cars across the country. Allowing lenders and dealerships to remotely disable your car when youre late an a payment. Dealership owner bubba hill in panama city, florida, uses passtime usa, one of the many devices flooding the market. He says its good for the seller and buyer. Some call it mom because its forced them to do what they needed to do in the first place and mack their payment. Reporter hill shows us how it works. Lenders and dealerships conmonitor customer payments. When they are late, a warning is sent. They have 24 hours left of driving this car before it will not run. Reporter after a certain period of time, the car will be shut off. This is a truck weve earlier disabled. And so now the consumer can come in the car and theyll try to start the truck and it wont start. Reporter Candice Smith says her lender allegedly shut down her car while she was driving don the highway. I didnt want to die. Everything just became slow motion. Reporter cag acceptance says they dispute the allegations and passtime usa, the maker of the device, claims its not even possible to shut down a moving car. Its a starter interrupt system and only disables the vehicle when the car is in the off position and not moving. Cag acceptance did not admit wrongdoing and reached a confidential settlement with candice but her attorneys have filed a Class Action Lawsuit on behalf of another client alleging an even bigger problem that lenders and dealers can disable cars too quickly within just two days of it being passed due. Even though nevada state laws say it takes 30 days to go into default. These device s need to compl with state law. We feel they are dangerous devices. They dont take into consideration where you are when they turn off your vehicle. Reporter passtimes ceo says if customers arent happy with his product, theres ab easy way to steer clear. They gan to another dealership and buy a vehicle without our device. Gio benitez, abc news, new york. Cag says its reviewing that Class Action Lawsuit. Abc news was told that even if the cars are disabled, the device has an emergency feeatur when you enter a specific code that will let you drive for another 24 hours before it shuts off again. Coming up, the view from the top. The billionaire founder of gopro and get a pretty good view with one of his world famous cameras. With her debit card. And so does bill, an identity thief who stole marys identity, took over her bank accounts, and stole her hard earned money. Unfortunately, millions of americans just like you learn all it may take is a little misplaced information to wreak havoc on your life. This is Identity Theft, and no one helps stop it better than lifelock. 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You have so much to protect and nothing to lose when you call lifelock right now and get 60 days of Identity Theft protection risk free. Thats right. 60 days risk free use promo code notme. Order now, and get this document shredder to help keep sensitive documents out of the wrong hands. A 29 value, free dont wait until you become the next victim call the number on your screen for 60 days of lifelock Identity Theft protection risk free and get a document shredder free. Use promo code notme. Call the number on your screen now. Millions of americans are now use goingpro cameras giving those of us amazing pictures. For gopro founder its money in the bank. His net worth is now nearly 4 billion. Heres david muir who met with him to take it all in. Reporter the corner of fifth avenue and west 33rd street in new york. Hi, guys. Reporter while they are waiting for us with their own cameras. The inventer of the gopro. Right there with a camera for me and a camera for him. We begin our walk through the empire state building. We meet cesar, part of the security team. You can see the small gopro hes carrying an what they call an extender. A manmade arm. This is the first time hes tested out his cameras at the empire state building. Nick woodman came up with the idea. Just 26. Hes a surfer. His invention has themileanhour family amer family in mind. Were off the elevator and to the Observation Deck walking to that door. You have to be kidding me. If you look closely, right through those metal barriers you can see it. The Freedom Tower standing high above the rest. He sticks his go pro out with that extender. Look at us and look at the view below. But our next stop was even higher. Right up there in the shadow of the spire. I have to hang out with you more often. Reporter right up to the 102nd floor. We go up one last set of stairs. This is exclusive access. All right. We climbed the stairs more than 1250 feet up. The 103rd floor. The door locked but we get the key. Just look at the view. Gopros are used by filmmakers and by moms and dads. Realizing our vision and it feels incredible. Reporter david muir, abc news, new york. We got some this is the camera. I havent used one of these before, have you . Yes, i use them an shoots. You can get multiple angles. We shot our own gopro shots. Theres me getting my hair did. Right before we get an. Shes going to do my hair next. T. J. s is much easier. A lot. Thats donna, hair and makeup. Tene has dance moves look you wouldnt believe. You can get all these angles. A lot of skateboarders and all those adventurers like to go out and do their extreme sports and put those things an their helmets. Overnight newscasts. Well try that next. Thats it for this half hour. This morning on world news now security scare. The white house intruder who jumped the fence, made it much farther inside than first thought. The basics of the white house, locking the doors, having compartmental security appears to have failed. Big questions about the president s safety today as the secret service goes under the microscope. Demanding answers from the man accused of sabotaging one of the busiest air Traffic Control centers in america. His day in court and the faas investigation. And defensive coach. Tough questions after a michigan quarterback was kept in the game after a powerful hit an the field. I would never put a kid in that situation. Never have and never will. College football safety in the spotlight an this tuesday, september 30th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good tuesday morning. Automatic re im reena ninan. Im t. J. Holmes. A very simple thing we do at home is lock the door. Apparently not at the white house. Its wild. Lots of repercussions. One of the top the top director of the secret service is going to be grilled today. Going to be interesting today. Well kick it off with those revelations about the white house fence jumper armed with a knife and made his way through the front door. Were now finding out now details about just how far he got inside. Abcs Karen Travers has the latest from washington. Good morning, karen. Reporter good morning, reena and t. J. The details of this Security Breach are astonishing. Omar gonzalez was thought to have just gotten inside the front door where he was taken down by a secret service agent. Turns out he made his way into the east room and ran 80 feet before he was finally tackled. Shocking new details about this months Security Breach at the white house. It was far worse than previously known. Abc news confirmed that after Omar Gonzalez ran across the lan and through the inn locked front door, he made it deep inside the main floor of the scootive mansion. Gonzalez, a 42yearold homeless iraq veteran who was carrying a knife, pushed past the guard immediately inside the door. An alarm box was apparently on mute so the officer had no idea gonzalez was about to run in. He ran past the staircase that leads upstairs to the first familys living quarters through the actfoot long east room before he was taken don by a counterassault agent. They said gonzalez is a danger to the president. 80 rounds of ammunition, two hatchets and a machete in his car. The president and his family were not home at the white house when gonzalez made his way inside. The first family departed just moments before. But one Top Republican says gonzalez was a clear threat. Had the president , the Vice President or any other number of individuals been walking the hallways, they could have been attacked by mr. Gonzalez. Reporter the director of the secret service will be on capitol hill today and lawmakers will be demanding answers as to how this big of a Security Breach could have happened and what the agency is doing to make sure it never happens again. Reena, t. J. . You know what makes me sad is the person who is now the director of the cia is a woman. She was brought in at a time, you remember the secret Service Scandal in cartagena, colombia. This was a major black eye for the secret service. They were drunk and hanging out with prostitutes. She was brought in to clean up that mess. Shes been the chief of staff at the secret service from 2008 to 2013. This is a woman who really knows her stuff but theyll be asking questions. Thats 10 00 a. M. Today. Were talking about the safety of the president of the united states. The first family. Most basic of things to lock the front door. Theyve had incidents over the years. Well keep an eye an that. The u. S. Air force says its seen tange believe progress in its campaign against isis. A british activist group says Coalition Forces hit isis facilities in four provinces, including one that hit a gran silo and reportedly killed civilians. Still syrias foreign minister says damascus is satisfied with the bombing campaign. The white house is holding firm to its assertion that it had no idea what a threat isis was and what it was turning into. Nobody predicted the speed and pace with which isil would advance across the Syrian Border with iraq and make dramatic gains across the countryside in a way that allowed them to hold large chunks of territory. That is not true at all according to one white house insider. A National Security stafter tells britains daily mail that highly accurate predictions about isil have been showing up in the oval office since before 2012 elections. Prodemocracy demonstrators in hong kong have set a deadline of tomorrow for their demands to be met. They want hong kongs chief executive to step don and are calling for democratic reforms. Also new plans for more civil disobedience will be made available tomorrow. Demonstrators have spent their fifth night camping out blocking streets. The man charged with setting a fire at a chicago area Traffic Control center made his first appearance in federal court. This begin as they review. Reporter 36yearold brian howard in federal court in hospital scrubs with bandages over selfinflicted wounds, according to his lawyer, is sorry. On friday morning, brian tried to take his life. That he did so in a way that inconvenienced and more many, many people is unacceptable and he deeply regrets that. Reporter the contracted technician stands accused of cutting, brning and destroying critical computer equipment bringing down an entire air Traffic Control center leaving pilots confused. Got a peculiar problem in that nobody at Chicago Center is up. Reporter controllers forced to escape the fire meant the grounding of thousands of flights. What looked like endless lines through ohare an friday are now shorter and this radar from friday night with the air space closed. Monday night shows about twothirds of the flights back up and running. Even still, the head of the faa says his work has just begun. I shared the publics frustration with this. Im very concerned that one person would be able to have such a significant impact. Reporter he is now calling for a 30day review of security protocols that we are told the work is under way to rebuild the entire communication system, meaning the center will not be fully functional for at least two weeks. Elizabeth hurr, abc news, new york. Seven Elementary School students were rushed to a hospital after a big truck slammed into the back of their bus. One student was seriously injured and two people inside the tractor trailer were listed in serious conditions. Police say a female passenger was naked at the time of the crash. Officers at the scene handed her a towel to cover up. Reporter the official death toll is now at 23. The attorney appointed by gm to review death claims related to the faulty ignition has received more than 150 in the past two months. The deadline is the end of the year to get those in. There have also been at least 700 injury claims. Toyota facing another unintended acceleration probe. Federal safety regulators are looking into dozens of complaints about 2006 to 2010 corollas which can surge unexpectedly even as the driver presses the brake pedal. It could result in a recall of the compact cars. Toyota has faced investigations in the past. Toyota recalling hundreds of thousands of trucks because of a fire hazard. Tacoma 4x4 and prerunner trucks. They may have defective springs that can puncture the gas tank and cause a fire. Repairs will be made at no cost. Walmart is blaming tracy morgan and his entourage for the injuries they suffered when they were hit from behind by a walmart truck. The retailer said morgan and the other passengers in his limo were not wear seat belts. Morgan and several others are suing walmart. They claim the truck driver fell asleep at the wheel after being up for more than 24 hours. New information on Jovan Belcher two years after he shot and killed his girlfriend and then committed suicide. He had signs of a brain disease found in other nfl players. The degenerate disease known as cte has been associated with repeat head trauma. Belchers body was exhumed last year. The chiefs are facing two lawsuits. Allegedly the team failed to provide adequate medic

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