14-Year-Old From PA Solves Car Blind Spots.
MARQUEZ: Guilty pleas from two men who admit acting as illegal agents of the Iranian government. According to the Justice Department and the FBI, 60-year-old Majid Ghorbani, and a 39-year-old Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar conducted surveillance on a Jewish center in Chicago. They also admit monitoring members of an exiled Iranian opposition group. Ghorbani is charged with violating U.S. sanctions. Mohammadi-Doostdar pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of acting as an undeclared agent of the Iranian government.</s>ROMANS: An Ohio woman who was found dead in her home last week was likely killed by her own dogs. Police say 49-year-old Mary Matthews suffered multiple cuts and puncture wounds to the lower half of her body. She was discovered unresponsive by her husband. Investigators found two large Great Danes at the home along with bloodstained clothing throughout the house. The family says they rescued the dogs two years ago, and even though one was vicious, his wife refused to part with them because she loved animals.</s>MARQUEZ: Now, a school resource officer in Broward County, Florida has been suspended without pay after being charged with child abuse. Deputy Willard Miller turned himself in Tuesday. The incident occurred back in September and was captured on surveillance video. A 15-year-old female student can be seen lightly kicking the officer. A little more than a minute later the teen is thrown to the ground and handcuffed. Police say Miller's actions by any measure were unacceptable.</s>SHERIFF GREGORY TONY, BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA: And whatever type of verbal dialogue was going on, it makes no sense and it wasn't necessary. I would hope that every cop in America would disagree with that type of response.</s>MARQUEZ: Now, Deputy Miller is being held on a $5,000 bond.</s>ROMANS: All right, cold air now pushing into the U.S. from Canada, bringing heavy snow into parts of New England. Pedram Javaheri is in the CNN Weather Center.</s>PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Miguel and Christine, good morning, guys. Yes, the cold air beginning to filter in across portions of the Great Lakes and eventually, that is the story across the northeast. And wait until you see what the 7-day forecast has in store. But not too bad to get you started here on your Wednesday. Middle-50s out of Boston and New York. Same story out of Chicago. But you'll notice where all of the cold air is bottled up into the Northern Plains, struggling to make it to the freezing mark across Minneapolis. And then the story really shifts into a major cold air outbreak, potentially over the next week or so. So here we go. As we go into early to mid-next week, potentially dropping 30 degrees below average into portions of the northeastern United States. But it's trying to get in a few snow showers across the Great Lakes and get into the areas of the highest elevations of the New England region there. You could see some additional heavy snow showers -- as much as eight inches possible from tonight into early tomorrow morning. Again, you've got to get into the Adirondacks and the Catskills to see that. But the trend looks as such here with New York climbing up to 61. You notice the dive -- the trend there. Forty-two degrees come Friday afternoon. And if you think that's cold you look at the forecast into early next week. Potentially, a shot at wintry weather. Highs by Tuesday next week into the lower 40s -- guys.</s>ROMANS: All right. Pedram, thank you so much for that. A stunning vulnerability found in popular voice-controlled smart devices like Google Home, Amazon's Alexa or Apple's Siri. Researchers say hackers can use a simple laser pointer to take over devices, even from outside your home. They discovered it's possible to make anything that acts on sound commands to act on silent light commands. Since many systems don't require authentication, hackers would not need a password or a pin. They just need to be in the object's line of sight.</s>MARQUEZ: I'm a junkie for that kind of stuff and I cannot bring myself to get those things because it's just --I just don't know where it's going to go. Now, she's not yet old enough to drive, but 14-year-old Alaina Gassler engineered a solution to eliminate car blind spots. The eighth-grader from Pennsylvania won $25,000 for her invention in a nationwide science competition. She first noticed the problem when her mom didn't like driving their family's Jeep Grand Cherokee because the A-pillars in it caused blind spots. Gassler tells CNN since you can't take it off the cars, she decided to get rid of it without getting rid of it.</s>ALAINA GASSLER, PRIZE WINNER, 2019 SAMUELI FOUNDATION: I did that by having a camera behind the A-pillar of a car. And the camera sent video to a projector that projected the image onto the pillar, essentially making it invisible.</s>MARQUEZ: She gives us hope all across the board. Gassler says she was motivated to work on the design after learning how dangerous blind spots can be, and especially because her older brother just started driving. Very, very sensible.</s>ROMANS: Elon Musk or Mary Barra or someone, give her an internship, because she's good stuff. All right. Let's get a check on CNN business this morning, taking a look around the world at markets. A mixed performance really here on Wall Street. Looking at futures leaning down slightly. I would call that directionless. Look, this is just a step back after another record high day for stocks, as hopes for a pause in the trade with China boosted investor sentiment. The Dow finished up about 30 points. The S&P 500 closed down. The Nasdaq inched up just a little bit. New overnight, "The Wall Street Journal" reports Xerox is considering a takeover of printer and computer maker HP, a market value of about $27 million. Both companies are in cost-cutting mode and a deal could afford new opportunities to shed expenses. AT&T will paycheck a $60 million settlement over claims it misled customers about unlimited data plans. The settlement resolves a 2014 lawsuit with the Federal Trade Commission. AT&T, which is CNN's parent company, allegedly charged 3.5 million customers for unlimited plans while reducing their speeds when their usage exceeded a certain amount in the year 2011. An AT&T spokesperson says: Even though it has been years since we applied this network management tool in the way described by the FTC, we believe this is in the best interest of customers. The money will be used for partial rep funds to select customers who signed up for unlimited plans before 2011. All right. You heard about the Turducken, right? Pringles is releasing its Friendsgiving feast Turducken kit complete with turkey, duck, and chicken-flavored kits and you can stuff them and eat. It also comes with pumpkin pie and stuffing.</s>MARQUEZ: I want them right now! Why don't we have those now?</s>ROMANS: There are no shortage of holiday flavors for shoppers. Coca- Cola cinnamon and Sprite winter spiced cranberry are already on the shelves. And IHOP has partnered with elf in the shelf for a holiday inspired menu. The Turducken Pringles kit will be available online starting tomorrow. Yummy.</s>MARQUEZ: Thank God. You really -- you know, that just really makes my day. Coming into the weekend, I know exactly what I'll be eating while watching --</s>ROMANS: And serving for Thanksgiving.</s>MARQUEZ: Exactly. Now, thanks to our international viewers for joining us with Turducken in mind. Have a great rest of your day. For our U.S. viewers, EARLY START continues right now.</s>ROMANS: Big blue wins in ruby red states, where power is shifting and what it means for 2020.</s>MARQUEZ: The big revision from a top witness in the impeachment probe, what Gordon Sondland suddenly recalls and how it wrecks the White House defense.</s>ROMANS: An arrest after nine Americans were massacred in Mexico. The families said they were targeted because of past conflicts with cartels.</s>MARQUEZ: And we've all been thrown off by a blind spot while driving. Now a teenager has a solution and a $25,000 prize for her work. Good morning. Welcome to EARLY START. I'm Miguel Marquez.</s>ROMANS: Nice to see you this morning.</s>MARQUEZ: Good to be here.</s>ROMANS: Dave is off. I'm Christine Romans. It's Wednesday, November 6th. It is 5:00 a.m. in the east. Breaking overnight, an ominous election night warning for President Trump as reliably Republican seats go to Democrats. In ruby red Kentucky, Democrat Andy Beshear claiming victory in the governor's race. No CNN projection yet, but Beshear leads Republican Matt Bevin by several thousand votes with 99 percent of the votes count. Bevin refuses to admit to defeat.</s>BESHEAR: It's a message that says our elections don't have to be about right versus left. They are still about right versus wrong. I haven't had an opportunity yet to speak to Governor Bevin, but my expectation is that he will honor -- he will honor the election that was held tonight.</s>BEVIN: Would it be a Bevin race if it wasn't a squeaker? I mean, come one. I mean, really and truly, this is a close, close race. We are not conceding this race by any stretch. Not a chance.