this app caters to parents looking for carpools.ur area by students in our area. >> reporter: being a parent can sometimes mean feeling like a chauffeur. schools, sports, clubs, all things that often require rides. thanks to a new app, students can now hitch a ride with their classmates' parents with the push of a bus obutton. >> stay up later and arrange their schedule around my practices which was very inconvenient. >> it's the convenience of potentially being late to work. >> reporter: the new app much like uber. parents driving to for from school put in their route. students who live along the way can request to hop in. >> we're hoping that eventually it's so standard the bus isn't really necessary. >> it's fair compared to the price of an uber. i'm able to rate the riders. >> reporter: in alexandria. zbl >> students are working with the county to make sure only registered fairfax county students and their parents can use this app. >>> news4 at 5:00 starts now. >> wanted after breaking into a gun shop and stealing dozens of guns

checking the app more than 18 times day. spending about 30 minutes a day snapping. >> on facebook, you want to be in touch with as many people as you can. on snapchat it's about your intimate relationships. the people who you would show how silly you are. >> reporter: speeg he will, snap's ceo, is often compared to facebook founder zuckerberg. zuckerberg wanted to buy the $3 billion company in cash three years ago. spiegel turned him down. >> reporter: light speed was the first partner in snap and now they are cashing in. >> he's always had this ability to understand what users want. >> reporter: spiegel made $5.4 billion today. the company now worth about 35 billion. impressive numbers for a business that has yet to turn a profit. nbc news, new york. >>> in nashville this evening an urgent man hunt for a killer. the family of a nurse who was fatally stabbed by an intruder in her own home is pleading for help to find her murderer. tonight police hope security video may help them crack the case. nbc's gabe gutierrez has the l

khalid masood used what's app before his deadly crime. four people including an american were killed during last week's attack outside the british parliament. >>> you want to go straight to molette green. she has a developing situation out of russia. >> a top critic of russia's president, among the hundreds arrested following protests in nearly 100 cities. president putin's most prominent critics, anti-corruption campaigner alexi navalni. the kremlin accusing protestors of provoking violence. back to you. >>> 6:16 right now. the wife of the man accused of kidnapping a former student is pleading with her husband. on sunday jill cummings pleaded with her husband ted for a second time to release elizabeth thomas and turn himself in. the 15-year-old has been missing for nearly two weeks now. despite hundreds of tips there is no sign of her. stay tuned for the "today" show. >>> a man who was left dangling on the side of a resort in key biscayne last week is thanking his rescuers. he was doing exterior work between the sixth and eighth floors.

app's app is a popular chat . they had a similar feature earlier this year.oing itis considering too, so this is a constant drumbeat of copying snap. yes, it harms the potential. we never know how much faster they could have grown if it weren't for that. the company does not attribute their loss of growth to instagram, but it is interesting. one positive side come i want to point out that advertisers say it is counter intuitive, advertisers say they can justify buying snap ads because the format is now the same as ads they can buy on instagram. alex barinka and sarah frier. is still ahead, the story of the week, and catch up with one of the first investors in snap. lightspeed venture partners. the new york stock exchange president discusses snaps trading debut. take a listen. the take great comfort stock opened at 24 and is trading smoothly around that number. that is what you want on a first day. ♪ caroline: now back to the tech story of the week. silicon valley venture capital firms will make a small fortune from their investment, like lightspeed venture pa

this is a in app within the reach out app.his catching on for .e chat, >> it seems to be a potential threat to apple. the app store and the android stores. they did not give a town of details on the metrics. they said the purpose is not to monetize but to make it easier for users. mobike, you scan a card and the many app helps up in we chat. this has created more downloads within the app store as well as within the many app. it is a high barrier of entry to get people to download something. someone can access something without leaving we chat and if they like it they will download it to. caroline: when key headline that caught my attention was a potential ipo, spinning off of it. why would it divest? many businesses even online. kindle part of amazon, they sell electronic books and this is an enormous business in china. the number of paying subscribers more than doubled over the past year to 2.5 million paying subscribers. they see this as a significant business that could grow more as a separate part of the company and can br

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students open the app and hit activate and that's where they are. they can also send their location to a campus dispatcher and get help. >> it's nice to see that it's finally done. >> any work environment, you can't do your absolute best if you don't feel like you're safe. let's say you're not familiar with washington, d.c. and you don't know exactly where you are. this alleviates that problem. >> reporter: first responders may not know where you are either. >> it's very difficult to actually get the pinpoint position from a cell phone so having the app that can do it would definitely make things a lot better for the campus. >> reporter: catholic university, georgetown, howard and the university of maryland, they've all got a different app called guardian. >> you open up the app and send the location to a friend. you also set a timer based on how long you think you'll be walking. if the timer goes off and they haven't heard from you, that's when they know something is up. these apps can provide peace of mind. >>> number three in a row for maryland!

fellows who want to use the app are out of luck. program will not track how many times women may interrupt men. the comedy behind the app say their ultimate goal is to generate awareness and more debate around -- i don't want to say this word. "manteruppting." >> first of all, you have to take a picture of yourself and analyzes how attractive you are but we will not interrupt you if you are pretty. i guarantee that will not happe happen. and, what does it do? roll its eyes at you like the real thing when you're interrup interrupt? and we aren't interrupting as men -- furthermore, we are probably getting back to the story were telling you interrupted us. because that happens all the time. and then when we interrupt you, it's probably important. you know, are these taken into consideration? >> i don't know. >> i doubt it. >> tom: joel, what do you think of that? he makes very good points. >> even though i'm a woman who has been interrupted many times, on the web site they have this video where it's a lot time it is a male anchor inter

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open up the nbc washington app to see the places they have better blossoms this year.rry blossoms. >> there's still some trees down there. we have to get down there. >> still there. >> especially once we get the fog out of here. >> i'm happy to see lots of cherry blossoms to enjoy. . we're seeing big improvements with the fog outside. we had a lot of dense fog this morning. a lot of that has lifted and temperatures are really going to start to warm up through the afternoon. now the cloudy, damp weather around right now, that's going to last until wednesday. so yes, again tomorrow, another round of fog in the morning. better storms in the afternoon. keep the umbrellaç handy. as we go into the weekend, look at the weekend. the weekend lo 52 degrees in the district. you can see areas with clear skies or some breaks in the clouds already really warming up. coming in at 70 degrees. quantico at 51. we'll see the numbers going up. this is future visibility. this is 6:00 a.m. now tomorrow morning. visibility dropping once again. we expect another round of some patchy fog tomo

we have more on the app search cursive. i have two signatures on a check, i don't want anybody to also do -- >> forge it. >> that's a mess but my regular signatureif i'm an autograph or something, it's more ledgible. >> sheena and i were saying when we write checks i feel i have to write cursive on the check. >> that's the only time i write >> yes, and this is perfect cursive, not my sloppy half regular, half cursive. >> i have to remember how to write the z and r. >> i wonder if a lot of kids can write the z. it was a tricky one and never made sense and still doesn't make sense. we'reé(tn talking about a cold morning this morning but a warm-up this afternoon, that's going to be in the forecast. you probably noticed it maybe. it's getting a little bit warmer out there. we're already in the mid-40s and rain chances increase tomorrow. today late this evening we could see a couple of showers try to sneak it but the overall rain chances going to be tomorrow, very early wednesday and we're watching the weekend closely. the feels

the app is valued at 24 billion. the parent company of nbc universal is in business relationship with snapchat. >>> well, chicago set a snow record last month by not seeing any for the first time in the 146 years the weather service has been keeping records. chicago has not logged any snow on the ground in january or february. some snow flurries have fallen, but not enough to record. warm air and ground temperatures led in part to the lack of snow accumulation. >>> i'm first alert meteorologist erika martin. weather headlines for today include a blustery blast to say the least with really strong northwesterly winds and strong northwesterly gusts. on friday it looks like we'll see an a.m. wintry mix and a chance of light snow. i'll time that out for you hour by hour. this weekend it will be dry, but colder. below average temperatures. we normally see mid 40s, upper 40s this time of year. philadelphia, the average high temperature 48 degrees. neighborhoods right now in philadelphia seeing lots of 40s. mid 40s for west

today people open the app 18 , times a day.e that, it has become a daily habit for people. when you have a habit like that, you can build an interesting and powerful company. >> many are feeling the growth has fallen below 50% in the quarter last year. is that something you think will be accelerate -- will re-accelerate? jeremy: the use of a started with mostly young women when we invested, mostly teenage girls. today you see that has been , spreading to people in their 20's, 30's, and beyond. and as you see that broadening, you gain a lot of confidence. >> what about geographically speaking? they have committed to the developed world only. they say you need high-speed, powerful funds. we are allother -- reaching saturation point in the u.s.. is the more room to grow in the united states? where else geographically? jeremy: if you look at the places with high speed internet connections today, it is the u.s., north america, which has about 70 million of the daily active users. europe is also very big. the rest the world encompass

the app's being used in maryland suburbs too.nce george's county police tapping into it for the last year and a half. montgomery county just signed up a month ago. >>> cpr, maybe you took a course in high school or at your local pool. you may have been certified. it's important to know this because it could mean a big difference between life death. it was down to death or life altering injury for a local woman's 3-year-old son. doreen gentzler has more on his story. >> cpr is a skill that most of us have not taken the time to learn, but we know that the life you could save with cpr is most likely the life of someone very close to you. cpr saved young clay's life. now his mother has made it her mission to help more people learn those life-saving skills. the people in this room are having a party. but it may not be what you think about when you think of party. >> if we had an infant or a small person under the age of 1, initially we're going to start by supporting the head and putting them in a dependent position. >> today we had a

(darya) a warning if you use a popular messaging app...s of users of "whats app" could have been hacked. the company says the security flaw has now been fixed... but the hackers were able to gain access to personal data. that includes private messages, contacts, and shared files. whats-app says the hack was disguised as a meme or picture... and the hackers could get into your phone if you clicked on the meme to look at it. the company says they have updated their security features in an effort to block viruses and hackers. whats-app is one of the most popular messaging services in the world with more than a billion users. (darya) an x-box controller battery charger is being recalled this morning because it could burn you. it's the energizer 2-x smart charger by the company "p-d-p". the company says it can overheat the controllers when they are plugged in and charging. this could damage the controller... and burn customers when they pick them up. p-d-p says they have received 24 reports of the chargers overheating and causing damage. more t

news and weather in the app store both apps are free. >> time 4:1 looking at the this morning's big stories one day before trump's revised travel ban is supposed to take effect several federal courtrooms across the country will today hear argument from people or organizations that want to stop that ban. in maryland the judge will hear arguments from the american civil liberties union. half a dozen states are trying to derail the executive order. we're getting a first look at one of the president trump's old tax returns and white house says president trump made more than $150 million in income in 2005 and paid $8 million in taxes that year and that came as rachel madou said she retaped the tax forms got friend david clay johnson a journalist that runs the site d.c. reports.org. >> he leaks material when they thinks it's in his interest. >> when you steal and leak federal employee it's a felony. and you have journalists asking regular people to commit felonies in order to aadvance a story. >> it is is "totally illegal to steal and publish tax kurnz " and said in a statement you know you're de