and users. >> in the u.s., we have 30,000 taskers, we're live in 30 cities now.en tremendous growth. with the evolution of the new product, it will much more efficiently match supply and demand. >> we have talked about how big this business can become. is it more of a niche thing? >> what we are seeing is the majority of tasks are really happening in and around the home. with the new taskrabbit, we focused in on home services. we have always been a trusted leader in the home services category. on the new taskrabbit, there is handyman, housecleaning, help shopping, and deliveries. it is those four categories that are making up the most. we have made it simpler. >> i'm sure it's mostly mundane tasks, like buying something or cleaning house. what is the most expensive or crazy task that has ever been on taskrabbit? >> as a new mom, i know how hard it is to pull everything together sometimes. we had somebody post "help me plan my 4-year-old's zebra-themed birthday party." i thought that was fabulous. with my upcoming birthday party, that will be the new thing. >> you

we take a look at a day in the life of one of taskrabbit's taskers. helmet on, feed said, it is just another day at the office. >> in an average day i might do six to four deliveries. living -- hes earns his living doing chores for people using website called taskrabbit. everything from furniture assemblage you have steeping to -- to housekeeping to sushi delivery. technology has ushered in a new era of sharing. airbnb lets you rent out a room in your house. if you need to rent a bicycle, you can do that on spinlister. only 10% of taskrabbits do enough tasks to make a living on the site. the rest are part-timers. justin is peddling hard. in a typical day he earns about $200. his tasks today involve buying a diver bag for an expectant mother. >> as long as i stay professional,i' i'm free. >> what does the new and improved taskrabbit, launching today, involve? joining me is the founder. thanks for joining me. so what does it involve? >> we have been working on it for a while. we launched this new model in london the last 6 months. over the last 12 month

, he is not even a single tasker. that's why they keep being erased. >> my goodness, that sums it up. dana? >> this is not unprecedented, president bush sent national guard troops not just to texas but all border states, called upon other governors to pitch in. in 2010, president obama sent national guard troops. i am not sure why president obama did it then, doesn't want to do it now, but rick perry has the ability to do that as governor. the national guard, however, in my opinion is for emergencies, and should be temporary, and unless there's a policy change, i don't see how this situation continues to be temporary or an emergency. it could be this is a stop gap measure governor perry is using to help the public safety entities that are already there, but again, just make sure people understand, this is not unprecedented. national guard troops have been used to good effect before by both obama and bush. >> and governor perry saying there can be no national security without border security. it seems to make sense. we

two people are in the hospital after they were shot shortly after 3:00 at 18th and tasker. the shooter is still on the loose but police say they believe the shooter is a woman. at this point we do not know what led to the shooting but we are working on finding out. when we get new information we will bring it to you. >>> happening right now more than a hundred homes in montgomery county evacuated after residents reported a suspicious odor this in skippack. situation unfolded last night in the 4200 block of north gor ski lane. officials a several homes were found to have high readings of volatile or gap i can compounds in the basement. they are still working to identify exactly what that compound is. in the meantime though the red cross is assisting families that are displaced. all residents must contact skippack township between 8:00 this morning and 8:00 tonight before returning to their homes. >>> list of the casinos closing in atlantic city just continues growing. trump plaza is expected to send out notices to its employees today announcing it will shut its doors come se

"eyewitness news" rover at 18th and tasker, police say, one victim shot in the shoulder, a person shot in the hand showed up at an area hospital for treatment. police do know who they are looking for. and right now there is no word on a motive. >> 1600 employees at trump plaza lan particular city could find out if they're out after job as early as today. lawyers for the casino briefed city and state officials over the weekend. if trump plaza does shutdown, will become the fourth casino to close or threaten to close an atlantic city since january. unless a buyer is fawn, the hotel and casino is slate today close in september. >> we want to get our traffic and weather together. >> we are sort of front loading this week's forecast here with a very slow moving sluggish, potent trough, has to dig through here, before we can clear out the skies and end up with more comfortable conditions. so, we've been building up the heat, building up the moisture, with recent couple of days, today and tomorrow, as a result, may end up featuring some very heavy and locally severe thunderstorms. so, let's t

they found the victim robert oliver on the 3100 block of tasker street at about 4:30 this morning.r later died at the hospital there. have been no arrests in this case. >> and now it has been more than three days since the do you know of malaysian airlines flight 17 and outrage grows how rebels controlling the area are removing bodies. as cbs correspondent craig boswell reports, there's also concern over how militants are denying full access to investigators. >> reporter: it's a confusing and frustrating time for victims families of malaysia airlines flight 17 who want their loved ones returned. >> i don't know where they are. >> we can't go there. >> pro russian separatists are using refrigerated train cars to move the bodies almost 200 of them so far toward a rebel hell held city. observers were allowed a brief inspection. >> i don't think the facilities are there in place for extensive identification work to happen. so presumably it would be better to move it somewhere to safer area where that can happen. report roar video shows what could well be the rocket launcher that shot d

northbound side locked up from this point tasker to girard avenue and earlier crash there that gave usig early afternoon delays. the delays spilled back here on to the eastbound side of the vine street expressway remaining bumper to bumper across town to the skull till to 95 and those delays are spilling on to 76, schuylkill itself. speeds in the teens either way as you head to the vine. also watch for a crash whitemarsh this afternoon ridge pike spring mill road and collegeville by cvs park avenue carmen drive. let's grab the ipad and do commuter report this thursday. you know what that means almost friday afternoon one of our friend out and about 295 southbound side riding through ramble wood says watch for an object on the parkway. >> a local family contacted the "action news" troubleshooters after a piece of furniture turned out to be a dangerous household item. "action news" anchor monica malpass is in the newsroom with their story hi there, mop ka. >> they feared the worst when they heard a terrifying sound coming from the bedroom of their 4-year-old son. he happened to be all al

we have 30,000 taskers across the u.s. we are in 19 cities. we acquired 1.25 new million users.lution of the new product we will match client demand. >> we have talked about this over the years. how big can this business become? is this a big future thing? where are you on that? >> the majority of our tasks are happening in and around the home. we focus on home services. we have been the trusted leader in the home services category. on the new site, you can do moving help shop in delivering. those categories make up the majority of the service. we have made it simpler than ever to get those things done. >> i am sure is tasks like going to help buy some dinner clean your house. what is the most expensive or crazy task that has ever been on taskrabbit. >> as a new mom, i know how hard it is to pull everything together sometimes. we had somebody land a birthday party. i thought that was so fabulous. with my upcoming birthday party, that is going to be the new thing to post. >> you founded this one night when you couldn't get dog food for your dog. >> it was a cold boston snowy even

as you come south past tasker, through this point at the walt whitman bridge. we are bunched up. you may want to think about using the vine westbound or the schuylkill expressway seeb to -- eastbound to the platt bridge. norristown, left lane is out of the commission in both directions on the turnpike. downingtown and modern began town they are blocking the right lane. the big guy, president obama will be in town to talk about the 495 closure and his transportation plan. we'll see closures because of his visit. this morning everything is open and looking good on i-95 as you detour around. upper pits grove is route 40, overnight crash there is gone. tam. >> thank you, matt. we're starting with breaking news, investigators are trying to figure out how a couple died in their philadelphia home. we found out they are relate to do a top city official. katherine scott is live on the 2500 block of north spangler street gathering new details now. >> reporter: good morning, tam, family members say they spoke to the couple yesterday, they say there was no sign anything was wrong. their daug

i 95 south philly tasker disabled off to the shoulder in the straight away between columbus boulevardman bridge and watch for a crash in south jersey this for shadeers, route 3 southbound at route 130 where pensauken martin used to play member that. >> yes. >> always had to take a ride on surprised to get pretzels at pen talk on mark. 4:1 ner knew town bypass or the freeway light volume to far as erika meneded prior to the beach of atlantic city it lights us with volume headed to the shore later on especially during evening rush hour. mass transit at the moment running with no delays. >> breaking news in today's headlines, a 23-year-old mother new to area in camden was shot in the neck 2:00 this morning. she's in cooper hospital. neighbors say they heard arguing before the gunfire. >> meanwhile, philadelphia police officers are under arrest, six, shake down drug suspects for drugs and money they're accused of. that case could impact hundreds of arrests and court cases. >> new developments in gas a. it's calling up -- >> in your health watch this morning peace corps says it's pulling v

and 9 is heavy past tasker, through girard. mid-day construction there ran late and gave us heavy delays and upper merion, a delay because of a downed pole and crash. and use bal ming oh road. if you have the ways app you can see the speeds in old city, two miles an hour on the expressway. it's not looking good monica, we'll check it again in the next half hour. >> penndot has plans to raise the speed limit to 70 miles per hour or more on the state's highways, the changes will take affect on august 11th on i-80 in clear field and clinton county. the announcement comes on the same day that the speed limit was increased to 70 on the pennsylvania turnpike, between the blue mountain interchange and morgantown, penndot is considering increases on other roads that they say can stavely handle them. >> people across the country are teaming up for a special wish of a 14-year-old boy, rick williams is in the newsroom with this story. >> his name is danny nickerson of foxboro, massachusetts, he suffers from a rare form of brain cancer but

officers were called to the 3100 block of tasker street 4:00 this morning where 41-year-old man was found stabbed in the mouth he was rushed to the hospital of e l a driv thandpened efore 9:30 st night high and north 27 theooper university medical center withsg rt of the pennsylvania turnpike this week. starting wednesday, signs for the new 70 mile an hour speed limit will go up on 100 mile stretch of turn frik morgantown blue moun taint changes and most of that is flat and straight however some curve as long the way well have lower speedlimits. turnpike officials say more speed limit changes will be announced this week. >>> today hundreds of philadelphia area athletes are taking part in what can only be described as walking contradiction even though they're running. they participated in the third annual ice cream jog and haag. they broke from the starting line in yardley bucks county 8:30 this morning and ran mile and a half and took an ice cream break eating anywhere from a pint to quart of their favorite nrovr and then ran back to the starting line. organizeers say it's perfect way to

on the 1800 block of tasker. forty-three year old woman, 25 year old man, are being treated at the hospital. they have expected to be okay. police blame an earlier argument for the gunfire. >>> also, following a bunch of developing stories right now, more than a thousand employees of atlantic city trump plaza could get notice today the casino is closing, casino owners say they expect that closing by mid september. >>> also work underway on the italian coast to move the massive shipwreck costa concordia. that ship renee grounds in 2012, 32 people were killed. that ship is being scrapped. >>> and, sergeant bowe bergdahl is expected to arrive and return to active duty in the army today. bergdahl was released by the taliban six weeks ago after five years in captivity. >>> coming up on 6:03, our traffic and weather together. stormy day, katy? >> certainly looks that way, while we are going to see not the entire day be washed out, a day that easily features strong and possibly some severe weather as we go through the d

it happened at about 3:00 this morning, at 18th and tasker. a 25 year-old man, and a four three-year old woman was victims in this shooting. police say that they were arguing with another woman when she began to shoot, that woman was arrested by police. >>> a mysterious odor in montgomery county has forced the the evacuation of more than a hundred homes in skippack. steve keeley is live on the scene with the very latest, steve? >> reporter: well, what would likely be more homes but you can see we are in a very rural area way out by graterford prison. right across the street that stone sign is for the the pennsylvania army national gar field maintenance unit. that is route 113 where we see he busy traffic. you cab see some of the hundred homes with those sheets on it which is notice from skippack township officially telling them they have volatile organic compound from the basement coming from the sump pumps. in laymen's terms a potentially dangerous sticky substance. they don't know where it is coming from or where it is and it is on both side

it happened along the 1800 block of tasker street. police say 50 year old debbie nichols shot a man an woman around 3:00 this morning both are in stable condition. nichols faces attempted murder charges and as of yet no word on a motive. >> a sussex new jersey man under arrest after police received two reports of someone entering a wal*mart store and stealing several tv sets. franklin police say thomas brady was caught attempting to leave wal*mart with another tv. he's now facing three separate counts of theft. >>> local veterans are about to start a brand new chapter in their lives. today they graduated from the project home veterans training and employment program. it offers job skilled trainings and paid internships to help formerly homeless veterans re-establish themselves in the community. >> i received a lot of guidance from project home as i prepared for an internship. my internship pi company in their energy services department. perfect match. (applause). >> six graduate dad. four were there for the big day. what were on the o

police were called to tasker street at 4:00 a.m. found stabbed several times. he was rushed to the hospital of university of pennsylvania where he later died. him. >> a man faces dui charges after crashing into a camden county business overnight. this is the scene in belmawr. authorities say the crash caused major damage to the first floor that housed a gym called sleek and slender. the residents who live on the second floor escaped without injury. police have taken the driver into custody and officials need to in inspect the buildings. >>> in center city, a biker lost control of his motor cycle and hit a car overnight it happened at broad and walnut at 2:00 a.m. the impact of the crash sent the motor cycle careening on to the sidewalk and throwing the driver on the road. >> a 4-year-old boy is hospitalized in critical condition after he fell from a second floor window. he happened on malcom street in southwest philadelphia. he was rushed to chop in critical condition with a number of head injuries. investigators were on the scene f