nick evans is the co-founder of tile.e leaping into the world he worked as a programmer for green hills software. take a look at his power pitch. sn> >>. >> i'm nick evans co-founder and ceo of tile. tile is the world's largest lost and found. attach tile to anything and using our app you can locate it. tile works great on things like keys, wallets, purses, basically anything you can attach a tile to. when within 100 feet you can make a tile ring so that you can use sound to guide you there. but tile's most interesting feature is that every other tile user is extending your range. that means basically thousands of people are helping you find your keys rather than just you. this all happens silently in the background. every other tile user is tracking everybody else's tiles and will send the owner of the tile its location so you can open the app, look on a map and see where your stuff is. this is already proving to be a strong business, selling $150,000 in units every day. but what's going on in the background here at tile

. >> reporter: tile ceo nick evans says the company is aware of those concerns and has built in safeguards but declined to give specifics. >> it's really intended for objects that are left behind somewhere. the system inherently works better for that. plus we're actually building stuff into the app to prevent things like that but really you need to keep in mind that what we're actually able to do with tiles, what benefit that we're providing to everyone far outweighs anything that some people have concerns around. >> reporter: now, these concerns might be all for nothing if this device doesn't do well in the marketplace. but if it does, as many people expect it will, then it becomes more powerful. the more users, the more power it has. reporting live in silicon valley, len ramirez, kpix 5. >> really interesting device and applications. tile is expected to hit the market next year. it will cost about 20 bucks. >>> fire gutted an apartment complex this morning in redwood city after a while the roof giving in to the flames and caved. the rescue was so hectic, some tenants made daring escapes

the principal nick evans says he wrote a mean poem about another student and our athletic director head coach. so he did that. >> he said i never named anybody. i was doing my assignment. since when can't i be honest? if you are honest and do your assignment and if you did everything to the letter, your homework, you cannot suspend that kid. >> this was making him upset. the assignment is to write about what's making you upset. he makes the honest decision to write about what's making him angry and upset. now they're using it against him in some people's opinion. we want to know what you think. what if your kid or you were asked to write a letter about being angry. send those opinions into facebook. if you're asked to opine about your emotions and you do, you don't do it? now you're being suspended for your work? >> he's getting a lawyer now. >> they are saying his rights are being violated. here's the thing. i think the assignment has been given for years. you get a lot of teen angst. my parents annoy me. this kid was being honest about something that bugs him. it seems a little severe

look at the party switch we are evan jenkins running against nick jo ray haul. he went from republican to democrat and he's going to beatnik. do you think the president of the united states will get a call from nick to come into west virginia? >> you don't think he's going to campaign in west virginia? >> do you think he'll come in for mike mcintyre? they have to run against barack obama and the obama administration they consistently vote against. so i think they've got a lot of explaining to do. >> let me ask you about that special election down in florida, tampa bay, classic swing district, political junkies like myself. probably overread the results because that's what we do. but how important is it? >> it's important. >> if you lose it, then suddenly, you know what, you have to be more nervous about the national climate. >> i think people reach too much in to special elections. both parties have won and lost elections that a lot of prognosticators have said there goes the party this way or that way. and in the end there are special elections, they're called