Welcome to news4 this week. Some of the most popular apps with teens. As weve learn in the past week, they also hold hidden dangers. We take a look at a none must apps and what parents need to know about them. Plus, it is one valuable stolen purse. This woman hit the jackpot when she swiped the bag. The crime is hurting a working family who is trying to put their daughter through college. From hilton to the high school gym. Local students have decided to scale way back on their prom. All in the name of charity. Hi, everyone. Im veronica johnson. We begin with the Major Concerns being raise thered week about anonymous apps. It has been linked to the murder of a 13yearold in virginia and was used by an Elementary School volunteer in maryland to share nude pictures of young students. Here are some things you need to know. Kick started as a way for people to communicate without using up their cell phones data limit. You dont even need a phone number or an email address. Users communicate i
A Montgomery County Police Cruiser is one of the cars involved in a crash. It happened just after 9 00 on Gateway Center drive on string road. You can see the cruiser had damage to the front end. It appears a landscaping truck and trailer may have also been involved. No word on any injuries. Right now at the live desk. What metro is doing to prevent another derailment. As we get new details from inside the transit agencies first Public Meeting about it from transportation reporter, adam tuss, who is live tweeting. Metro says it appears the employee who deleted critical track Safety Information may have done so before he even read it. We have also learned the Transit Agency has hired a contractor to doublecheck its conclusions after the derailment near the smithsonian station last month. Metro says it is determined to find out whats causing accelerated wear and tear in curbed sections of track. We are staying on top of this developing story throughout the day. We will hear from adam in
We have confirmed it is now a deadly sdwenaccident. No i. D. Just yet, but that person is now dead. Melissa mollet can tell you more about the extensive road blocks in the area as a result. H street is closed from the terrible accident between 12th and 15th. Best alter nate is florida avenue. Of course we also have other situations in the city as far as road closures because of the summit. Parking restrictions and motorcades. One constitution avenue between 17th and 23rd. Otherwise looking quite good. Prince georges county side of things be looking good. 66 and 95, no problems there. Tom, how are we looking weatherwise . Well, fog may be causing some commuting problems this morning. North and west of the metro area. Visibility just a quarter mile in presentfrederick, half a mil hagarstown. But elsewhere, dont really have any fog around. Fog around north and west of the metro area. Headlines for this wednesday, steamy humidity in place. And afternoon storms are looking likely. Have an u
Doing. They got looking into it. It was a Security Firm based in milwaukee, a security expert who was looking at all this data. Suddenly realized how much of it there was and also saw his own name and user name and password in the data. Do we know how they did it . Yes. Partly the Old Fashioned way. They stole some of it. Part, some of it they bought from the black market. But they attacked websites worldwide using a very Old Fashioned kind of hacking. So this is not a target style attack that was cleverly designed just for one specific thing. This was a tenyearold technique. And they got lots of information as a result of it. Data from websites. So it is not about weak passwords. This is about going around the passwords and getting into the database of a website and taking all the data about passwords. Well if it is a tenyearold technique how come we cant stop it . That is a good question. And there are a lot of Security Experts who say what this points out is how weak Internet Securi
Trouble at 9th and water street southwest. At 3 22 heavy smoke was reported at the upper level. At 3 32 the first call for an ambulance. And nearly an hour later, 4 25 the first person taken to the ho. That time line from d. C. Leaders seems to closely match a time line assembled by one of the passengers jonathan rogers. He says he took this photo a few minutes after smoke started pouring in. His iphone time stamped the photo at 3 20 p. M. Rogers said this photo is when evacuations began, time stamped 4 01. At 4 20 an hour after the first photo, rogers took a picture of what he says is the first firefighter he saw. Finally, about two minutes later, rogers is in the tunnel and walking to safe. Now just days after the incident and with the investigation still ongoing, the first lawsuits have been filed against metro. One of the passengers trapped inside the smoky train spoke about the tragedy, and his lawyers explaining why the lawsuit is being filed so quickly. News4s adam tuss has more