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There, this is quite the undertaking. Reporter yeah and it is still busy right now. Were perched up on top of a roof to give you a good idea whats happening right now. There are workers gathered at the end of the street. The tracks are just beyond that. If we pan over, see a crane up on top of the Railroad Tracks and its been moving around trying to pick up those rail cars and while a lot of those rail cars and debris are gone the workers and broken up tracks remain. Amtrak hopes full Passenger Service will resume tuesday between philadelphia and new york, but there is a lot of work to do. We know that we have a team here that worked together to help us. Reporter today investigators used 3d laser scanners on the wreckage to help paint a better picture of what happened here. It takes several hours per rail car to complete. Our investigators have a lot of experience dealing with this. Each accident is unique. Reporter 11 million riders pass through the northeast corridor of track each year. Its the busiest in the country. That means maintenance is always important. The infrastructure in the country is old, its aging, it needs work. Reporter amtrak workers now will pay extra attention as they rebuild the track along this lowspeedlimit curve at frankford junction. By the end of the year it will also have advanced technology to prevent a disaster like this from happening again. Had to change a lot of things on the corridor to make it work. Reporter heavy equipment that was brought in yesterday is still here. Skyforce skyforce10 overhead looking at some people laying down tracks right now. And a lot of the materials that are still being brought in include Railroad Ties cement anything thats needed to rebuild these tracks and get passengers back on those trains flowing through this area. Live in Port Richmond drew smith, nbc 10 news. And today we learned the death toll from the derailment now stands at eight. Search dog found the body of that victim in the mangled first train car this morning. Heres a look now at the seven victims. Nbc 10s doug shimell is live in center city with more about them and their families. Doug . Reporter for these eight families, there is nothing easy about trying to sum up a loved ones life in a statement. He was an extraordinary man. And we will love him and miss him. Reporter the man who was destined to be an educator mourned by his colleagues at Medgar Evers College in brooklyn new york. His dedication his love his passion, his support, his humor, his deference, and his capacity for staying true to the cause of this college. Reporter the 42yearold dean of Student Affairs had been on amtrak train 188. He was a constant reminder to all of us and certainly to the students with whom he worked that you know life wasnt about starting it but it was about finishing it. Reporter the family of missing passenger Bob Gildersleeve was called to the Philadelphia Medical Examiners Office to confirm his identity. The body is 64 blond hair beautiful blue eyes. Reporter after searching for him, his relatives say they were told his found by cadaver dogs at the crash scene. A new name added to the list of victim the family of 47yearold corporate realtor Laura Finamore confirming she was on amtrak train 1888. The italian Ambassador Says one of their citizens also perished in the crash and there was sadness with the loss of abid gilani wells fargo Senior Vice President in their hospitality finance division. The family of 20yearold Navy Midshipman Justin Zemser released several more pictures of a son who played football mentored Young Students and was proud hed made it to the u. S. Naval academy. And the family of 48yearold Associated Press video coordinator jim gaines said he was in the quiet car on amtrak 188. The philadelphia internet ceo rachel jaycobs mourned by her husband and family saying she was a wonderful mother daughter, sister and wife who was devoted to family and social justice. We just received a statement from appernet. Com where Rachel Jacobs had been the ceo two months. They still us in part we lost not just a ceo, but a friend. We are heartbroken. Believe in center city doug shimell, nbc 10 news. And were learning more about the man at the controls of train 188 tuesday night. His name is Brandon Bostian. He was the trains engineer. His lawyer says bostian suffered a concussion and has 15 staples in his head. He says bostian does not remember using the emergency brake or the impact. Remembers driving the train. He remembers going to that area generally. Has absolutely no recollection of the incident or anything unusual. Federal investigators want to talk to bostian but are giving him a few days to recover from his injuries. Count on nbc 10 for continuing coverage of the deadly derailment. We have reporters at the scene working multiple angles of this story. Remember to visit nbc10. Com and tap the nbc 10 app for detailed information on the amtrak crash plus its ongoing impact on amtrak and septa service. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. Well, the sun was out today. We also enjoyed a pretty refreshing cool breeze. Yeah, we made it up to about 70 degrees today. Tonight we are in for a cool down. Nbc 10 first alert meteorologist Sheena Parveen with the details for us. Sheena . Yeah jacqueline and keith, a cool day today but honestly a perfect spring day outside. Temperatures closer to where they should be for this time of the year. 71 allentown. 71 still philadelphia. 70 in millville. This is really as warm as weve gotten today. 69 for pottstown and reading. 64 in the poconos. 65 atlantic city. Really across the board with the sunshine, it made for really nice afternoon. After a cooler morning this morning. Outside right now, live look out at Citizens Bank park where they won against the pirates this afternoon. Not a cloud in the sky. In fact the entire nbc 10 First Alert Weather Team was out there for weather education day. We had about 8,000 students come out learning about weather, so a big thank you for the phillies for having us. If any of the students are watches right now, thank few your you for coming. You were awe . And very into the weather. Thats for sure. As we go into the weekend aside from the beautiful weather today, picture perfect really. Well have showers approaching. Tomorrow i think well stay mainly dry. All the rain to our west will move in for the weekend so well be tracking showers in your weekend forecast. As for the rest of the evening by 6 00 still sunny. Still dry. Humidity very low. So again, perfect spring day. 8 00 p. M. Tonight, temperatures in the mid 60s. We are going to get cool again through the overnight hours. And tomorrow morning. So by 10 00 tonight, temperatures in the low 60s. By tomorrow morning, if you needed a light jacket this morning, you might need it again tomorrow morning. But we are going to see a warmup into the weekend forecast too. Along with those showers i mentioned. Ill show you how warm well get plus the timing of the rain. Thats straight ahead. Sheena, thank you very much. The deadly derailment prompted questions, concerns and debate about railroad safety. Many think financial cuts are putting the rails and its passengers in immediate peril. Congress just voted to slice amtraks budget. The debate now is making one key politician very angry. More than 100 drug convictions tossed out because of these accused officers but today a jury found them not guilty of corruption. So what happens next . And now batting for the phillies okay not exactly, but boy can chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz command a crowd. Sheena just touched on it a little bit. Watch the First Alert Weather Team in action at the ballpark today. This is nbc 10 news. Back to our coverage of tuesdays deadly derailment in philadelphia. The number of victims has risen to eight. After another body was found this morning. Also today, crews began removing the derailed cars from the crash scene. At least two of them are now with investigators in delaware. Amtrak officials tell us they hope to have Train Service restored by monday. New at 5 00 a heated answer today from the speaker of the house when he was questioned about federal funding for amtrak. Democrats say a lack of funding is making the railroad unsafe. Are you really going to ask such a stupid question . Listen. You know they started this yesterday. Its all about funding. Its all about funding. Well, obviously its not about funding. Some of the train was going twice the speed limit. Yesterday House Committee voted to cut amtraks budget to 1. 1 billion. Thats 251 million less than the last budget. John boehner says the railroad is getting enough money. The budget is not final yet. New developments tonight involving six philadelphia narcotics officers accused of shaking down drug dealers and stealing money from them. Today a jury found all six officers not guilty. Nbc 10s Jim Rosenfield is live in the digital operations field with reaction from both sides. Jim what happens next with the officers . Keith, jacqueline thats the next question. Will the officers try to get their job back . At least one has already said yes. The six men were accused of planting evidence roughing people up and lying to win convictions, but the defendants maintained they never did anything wrong. After todays not guilty verdict, lot of celebrating outside the courtroom. The former officers thanked their lawyers and hugged their families and friends. I just want to thank the jury for their verdict and they believed in us. And i just want to get on with my life and i refer all my questions to my attorney. I appreciate it. We knew from the beginning of this case it was going to be a very difficult case to bring, a case that had to be brought. And we dont regret that decision in the least. Still a lot of fallout as a result of this case. About 160 convictions were overturned as a result of it. Live in the digital operation center, Jim Rosenfield nbc 10 news. Back to you. Right now jury deliberations are under way in the penalty phase of the Boston Marathon bombing trial. The 12person jury is deciding whether convicted boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will receive the Death Penalty or life in prison. We told you last month he waswxh found guilty of the 2013 attack that killed three people and injured more than 200 others. An update tonight on two secret Service Agents who drove past the security barrier at the white house after attending a party. A report out today says the two men were more likely than not intoxicated. On march 4th the men were headed to the white house after attending a retirement party. They werent aware that the entrance they tried to use was blocked off after a reported bomb threat. One of the two men is on administrative leave. The other retired. Also in washington the house voted today to get a vote of their own in any nuclear deal with iran. At camp david today, president obama tried to convince the gulf arab states that a nuclear deal with their archenemy, iran would be good for them. The king of saudi arabia backed out of the summit. Three more arab heads of state followed suit. That left president obama to reassure lower level digits. A negotiated deal with iran on its Nuclear Future is in their interest as well as our interest. The Senate Already voted to get a say in any nuclear deal before sanctions are lifted. Take a righthand turn. Check this out. He doesnt play for the phillies, but all eyes were on one very recognizable guy in red pinstripes before this afternoons phillies game. Thats nbc 10 first alert meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz doing an onfield experiment with liquid nitrogen. Glenn and the entire team of nbc 10 meteorologists were at Citizens Bank park with the phillies today for weather education day. It was a day of learning and lots of fun for thousands of local students. Nbc 10s Monique Braxton takes us there. Reporter its weather education day at Citizens Bank park. 7,000 principals teachers and students are waving the rally towels. Theyve come here to meet the nbc 10 earth watch weather team. Do you mind if i take a selfie with you all . Reporter on this picture perfect day, some say their morning begins with a weather report. I know how its going to be so i know if i need a jacket or if i dont. Reporter other students share what astonishes them about predicting the weather. Tornadoes and hurricanes stuff like that. Weve been learning a lot about weather in school. Its cool how they find out what weather is going to be. Reporter three of the phillies stopped by to say thanks for this beautiful day. I asked one of those players why the Weather Forecast is important to him, especially on game day. You want to prepare yourself. If you dont, you can pull a muscle. You nef know you can get sick. Reporter seeing ben revere at weather education day was exhilarating for molly talbert. I really like his baseball and hes like my favorite. Reporter the crowd also got a quick lesson from skyforce10s pilot and a look behind the scenes inside stormforce10. At Citizens Bank park Monique Braxton, nbc 10 news. Those kids are so cute. How adorable are they . In the words of those kids it is really cool how youre going to find out what the weather is going to be sheena. Yes, thank you. You know what those kids were awesome. I have to tell you, we had about 8,000 students out there. Their teachers some of their parents. It was really awesome how interested the kids were especially when we had skyforce10 hovering above the field. They were just in awe. That was awesome. Thanks again to the phillies. Thanks for all the students for coming out. It was a really fantastic day. Great weather day for that event, too. A lot of great kids out there. By the way, a lot of those students i didnt know this, they take selfies and they already have iphones. They take better selfies than me and probably anybody else here. I just have to mention that. I didnt know that until today. Now i know. Anyway another cool night in store for us tonight. Clear skies will lead to cooler temperatures overnight and the dry air is still around. As we go into the weekend, though its going to get warmer but we have some showers in the forecast, too. So just keep that in mind. Theres another live look at Citizens Bank park. Beautiful weather right now. Humidity is low. Down at 22 . So if youve gone outside at all today, you know how dry it is. 71 degrees right now in philadelphia. So a cooler day than yesterday. But really this is around average for this time of the year. 71 allentown. Upper 60s westchester. 72 wilmington. 70 in millville right now. 68 degrees in dover. Closer to the shore, though, 59 in stone harbor. And tonight like i mentioned, it will be cooler. The dry air stays around. Satellite and radar just showing plenty of sunshine. Plenty of dry air sticking around. The clouds not too far back off to our west. And then the rain just moving into the chicago area. So that will be here as we go into saturday and sunday. So those rain chances are going to linger across the weekend. Heres future weather. So for tonight, we do stay dry. Tomorrow when you wake up 9 00 friday youll notice more clouds around but the rain wont be here until either overnight friday into saturday or it might just hold off until saturday afternoon. 10 00 p. M. Friday, clouds are here, but you start to notice some rain moving into the picture. Early saturday i think we could see a couple showers around. Heres saturday 8 00 in the morning. Through the afternoon. Temperatures start to warm up into the 80s again. 6 00 p. M. Saturday we could see some showers around the area by then. And this whole weather pattern stays for sunday. So sunday morning, clouds around. Maybe a few showers. Sunday afternoon we could see even more in the way of rain and, in fact this rainy pattern is going to continue as we start off next week too. So enjoy today and tomorrow. Clear for tonight. Cool again through the overnight hours. 53 for low e in philadelphia. 43 degrees areas north and west. Tomorrow, well see increasing clouds but a mild day. Little bit milder than today. 73 to 76 for the High Temperature tomorrow. Still a little bit above normal for this time of the year but still comfortable. Saturday were in the mid 80s. Sunday, were going to be in the upper 80s. Could see some thunderstorms sunday afternoon. More humidity. And starting off next week the shower chance continues, but look at wednesday next week. We go from the 80s to the 70s to the upper 60s. All right, sheena. Swimming season is almost here. Public Health Officials are reminding everyone to be careful about getting sick. The centers for Disease Control says norovirus isnt only found on cruise ships. The illness can also be found in swimming pools and lakes. One outbreak last summer was linked to a lake near portland oregon, and made 70 people sick. Children are especially vulnerable because theyre more likely to get water in their mouths. Experts advise people not to swim if they are showing any symptoms of being sick. All right. How about this . New at 5 00 berks county, fsts firefighters responding to a house fire last night ended uncovering what police are calling a secret marijuana grow operation. Police arrested doan of douglasville. He owns the house on layman street. A neighbor spotted smoke coming from the house and called 911. After firefighters put out the fire in the basement, this is what they found. Hundreds of Marijuana Plants being fed by highpowered lighting system. Investigators also found plastic baggies packed with the drug along with 5,000 in cash. You heard the ntsb say it live right here on nbc 10. New technology could have stopped train 188 before the deadly derailment. Its called positive train control and can slow or stop a train that goes too fast. This year it becomes the mandatory law for railroads. Hear what septa and new Jersey Transit are doing to their rail lines. This is nbc 10 news. Heres the latest on the deadly amtrak Train Derailment in philadelphia. The number of victims went up to eight this morning after dogs found another body in the wreckage. Today investigators are still waiting to interview the trains engineer but the lawyer for Brandon Bostian says he has a concussion and doesnt remember the crash. Were expecting the ntsb to give us an update any moment. Well bring that to you live. In the meantime one focus of that investigation is how this crash could have been prevented. Federal investigators say the answer lies in a sophisticated system of sensors on the rails and inside the engine car. Its called positive train control. Or ptc. It could take control of a train if its moving too fast or runs through a signal. Sections of amtraks northeast corridor have this system but the stretch of track where amtrak train 188 took a curve too fast does not. New at 5 00 septa says installing ptc on its Commuter Rail network is its highest priority. Right now, it is spending 300 million to get the job done. The requirement to install this system on all rails was passed in 2008. The deadline the end of this year. Septas Regional Rail lines cover 280 miles one way across pennsylvania new jersey and delaware. The ntsb says the lack of a similar safety feature contributed to this accident in 2006 in abington montgomery county. Back then automatic train control, or atc, had not been installed. The system works in conjunction with ptc to further enhance safety. Atc is now a part of septas entire Regional Rail system. And we reached out to new Jersey Transit to find out its status on either safety system. So far our phone calls and emails have not been answered. Our coverage of the deadly Train Derailment continues here on nbc 10 news at 5. Find it any time online at nbc10. Com and on the nbc 10 app plus see a Photo Gallery of dramatic images from that scene. Were just minutes away from another update from the ntsb on the deadly Train Derailment. Plus nbc 10 Delaware Bureau reporter ted furlong is tracking the movement of the wrecked rail cars. Tim . Reporter some of the wrecked rail cars were brought here to this amtrak facility in bear delaware. Ill tell you exactly why they are here when we come back. Tonight on nbc 10 news at 6, we talk to an 84yearold man who was there 70 years ago when a train crashed in the same spot. Hear his account of that disaster tonight on nbc 10 news at 6. This is nbc 10 breaking news. We continue to follow breaking developments on the deadly Train Derailment in philadelphia. Today the body of another victim was found in the wreckage. Officials believe all 243 people on board the amtrak train are now accounted for. Also today, crews began removing the derailed cars from the tracks but amtraks northeast corridor remains shut down. Officials say they hope to have Service Restored by monday or tuesday. The wrecked rail cars are now being moved from the crash scene to a facility where investigators will take a close look at the damage. Yeah they want to find clues about what might have caused the derailment. Nbc 10 Delaware Bureau reporter tim furlong is live in bear. Tim, youre tracking these train cars. Reporter yeah, keith, and a lot a couple of the cars at least are here the a this facility in New Castle County called the bear car shop. Its an amtrak facility where they do mechanical work on cars. Take a look at video from skyforceso. See a couple cars are here from the derailment. One of the cars is wrapped. One is on its side. One appears to be upsidedown. Now this morning at about 1 00 im told the Delaware State Police got a request. They were asked to escort plat flatbed trucks carrying the wrecked cars. The police met them at the Philadelphia Airport and drove them to the facility in bear. We understand the cars were laser scanned at the scene in Port Richmond and down here they can have wheels and brakes examined. Well hopefully find out from the ntsb if the other cars will be brought here as well. A source told me there is concern about moving some of the cars this far. Theyre big and cumbersome. They might keep some of them at yards in philadelphia. As we come back live i did check in with the Governors Office in delaware. They dont believe any other state agencies have been involved in this or asked for specific assistance. Again, at this point were waiting for more information from the ntsb to see what more is going to happen at this facility in delaware and others across the region. Of course, that ntsb News Conference about to start any minute. Back to you guys. All right, tim. An eighth person has died following tuesday nights derailment. Scott lauman lives in the neighborhood. He was shopping at his nearby walmart when tragedy struck. He took me for a walk. He showed me exactly what he saw. I came up the hill and was like oh my god. Reporter the deafening sound of hundreds of emergency personnel, scott got a firsthand look at tuesdays deadly Train Derailment. What he found hell never forget. If there was 250 people on that train, from what i saw, the first three cars were done. Reporter he heard the noise and rushed to help. He walked me through his route, through a nearby fence, and he found chaos at the scene ahead. You kicked right through this. Correct. This was a little bit closer. Like this. I just kind of like this. And right up through there. Reporter wow. It takes you right up to the top of the hill. Get up on top of there, brother, you see everything. Youre looking right at the accident. I literally ride trains every day. Every day. Septa bus, you know septa train, train to new york. Ive taken that northeast corridor a million times. This is heartbreaking, than. To think, you know i doebtsnt know. It just it make you kind of wish, like, you were on there, didnt get hurt but you could help people. You know what i mean . Thats the kind of person i am. You know . Just heartbreaking, man. Just heartbreaking. Reporter count on nbc 10 for continuing coverage of the deadly derailment. We have reporters at the scene working multiple angles of the story. Remember to visit nbc10. Com and tap the nbc 10 news app for detailed information on the amtrak crash. Plus its ongoing impact on amtrak and septa service. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. Bright sun, low humidity across the area today. It was nice outside. We only got into the 70s. Tonight more cool weather moves in. Not too bad. Nbc 10 first alert meteorologist sheen maa parveen has more on what we can expect. Yeah, jacqueline and keith. Its going to be a cooler night tonight. Not as cool as this morning. Still if you needed a light jacket this morning, you might need it tomorrow morning, too. Were dry locally. Beautiful day today. Barely a cloud in the sky. The rain back off to our west thats what were watching. Mostly as we go into the weekend. Not so much for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will see the clouds ahead of the rain but into the weekend, well be tracking some showers. Some areas only made it to the upper 60s today. Cooler when you compare it to what we saw at the beginning of the week. That felt more like summer. You were feeling quite a bit more like spring. Very low humidity too. 72 degrees northeast philly. 71 philadelphia. 69 in reading and pottstown now. 70 millville. 65 degrees in atlantic city. For the rest of the evening, skies will stay clear. It will stay dry out by 6 00 p. M. , 70 degrees. Beautiful end to the day. 8 00 p. M. Tonight, 66 degrees. So we get cooler and by 10 00, well be around 60 degrees. Cooler as we go into tomorrow morning, too. Then well see a warmup into the weekend along with rain. Ill show you the timing of that coming up. New at 5 00 16 men are charged in a violent robbery ring in philadelphia and montgomery county. Get this police are still looking for two more guys. An indictment today charged the group with robberies and home invasions. Theyre accused of pretending to be Police Officers in one robbery of a jewelry store. One victim was shot. Others were tortured. The defendants forced two residents to strip naked. They then threatened to kill them. They threatened to sodomize them with brooms. They struck one in the head with a shotgun. And they poured boiling water on him. Prosecutors say if convicted the men will face lengthy jail sentences. Starting next week, youll be able to drive a little faster on one far of interstate 95 in delaware. Department of transportation will be raising the speed limit from 55 Miles Per Hour to 65 from the maryland state line to the interstate 495 split just south of wilmington. Signs will be changed starting monday and that work will continue through thursday. Weather permitting. Authorities in new jersey say the power must stay on at the former revel casino in atlantic city. Acr Energy Partners is currently in a dispute with a casinos new owner surrounding the cost of future utility services. The state Community Affairs department is issuing a notice to acr for not to cut off service again. Officials say fire detection and suppression systems must be continuously running in new jerseys second tallest building. The deadly derailment stretched First Responders and doctors to their limits. Next we take you inside the e. R. Hear from the trauma team about how they handled the wounded. And supporting the victims. Well show you which two members of the Philadelphia Eagles rushed to the hospital to lend a helping hand. Crews in pittsburgh are also dealing with a Train Derailment. 13 freight cars went off the tracks this morning in the citys hazelwood section. Officials say the cars were all emtty and no one was hurt. The cause of the derailment is still under investigation. The train is owned by Allegheny Valley Railroad but the company had no comment on the incident. Back here at home new at 5 00, inside the trauma room. Einstein Medical Center in philadelphia offered us a unique look inside the e. R. To explain how they handled the derailment. Some people it looks like chaos, but its very orchestrated. Its very organized. Dr. Mark kaplan is the head of einsteins trauma unit. They had 25 patients come into the e. R. After the disaster. Senior Emergency Management doctor met patients at the door assessed them and sent them to specific parts of the e. R. Depending on the severity of injuries, everything from treatment to cuts and bruises, to surgery can be performed in this one unit. Each one of these bays all are equipped for the ability to handle chest injuries orthopedic injuries abdominal injuries, neck immobilization. And then obviously monitors are in here. They get assessed in here for the more acute patients. Once we stabilize them then we can determine what the next step is going to be. Dr. Kaplan says its a testament to the dedication of the hospital staff that everything ran so well tuesday night. He says doctors and other medical personnel came in without being called as soon as they heard about the derailment. Nbc10. Com and nbc 10 news app are devoted to coverage of the deadly derailment. There are detailed profiles of the victims and interviews with survivors. A cartoon in todays New York Daily News speaks to the emotions of train riders. Today there may be concern about getting on a train after the derailment. First responders doctors, complete strangers, theyve all been credited with jumping in as victims emerged from the derailment. Two others now are getting a lot of praise. Why members of the Philadelphia Eagles made a trip to the hospital a top priority. And a nice springlike day today. As we go into the weekend, though were tracking some rain in the forecast along with warmer temperatures. Ill show you the timeline of that rain and what you can expect coming up. This is nbc 10 news. The National Transportation safety board is expected to update their investigation of the deadly Train Derailment at any moment. The number of victims has risen to eight. After another body was found this morning. Also today, crews began removing those derailed cars from the crash scene. At least two of them are now with investigators in delaware. Youre going to like hearing this, a north Jersey Police officer is banged up after the Train Derailment but a lot of passengers have michael keen to thank for getting them to safety. The lyndhurst cop used his training to lead others out of the wreckage of amtrak train 188. Speaking with him when he was there, as it was unfolding he was telling me he had to hang up because he was helping those that needed help. Keen is also a volunteer firefighter. He just took part in a training rescue drill. Good for him. Now a closer look at an nbc 10 exclusive. Polling philadelphia. Nbc 10 teamed up with the inquirer, daily news philly. Com to bring you the only independent poll of voters. Nbc 10s Harry Hairston joins us with a closer look. As we looked into the election frontrunner for philadelphia mayor, we also found interesting information about what 600 philly democrats think about the current state of their city. Here are the numbers. 43 say the city is moving in the wrong direction. 40 say the city is headed in the right direction. We turned to our experts to find out why. We have a new govern. Its Governor Wolf who obviously did very well here in philadelphia in terms of his numbers on election night, and i think that people feel more confident that change will happen in harrisburg especially for the schools. Reporter but its mostly men who feel positive about the city. 47 to 35 women. This political analyst believes because more men have decent paying jobs. We break it down men much higher in the right direction, women wrong direction theyre saying. Why . I think one of the top issues besides education has been crime. Has traditionally been an issue or an issue that women tend to feel maybe not as safe walking at night in the streets. Reporter jeff are you surprised by this statistic here . 53 white women saying the city is going in the wrong direction. Is that a high number to you . Its a little high to any. Whats driving them to that . Schools . I think it i think its that combination of crime and schools together for women. Reporter we posed the same question to political analyst Solomon Jones about the close divide on if the city is headed into the right or wrong direction. Have the highest poverty rate of any of the ten largest cities in america, and that matters, and when you ask people who are suffering under that poverty rate who have the high unemployment that other people arent suffering from i think that those people are going to give their truthful answer. And you want to know who thinks philly is moving in the wrong direction the most . People. 5564. For the investigators, Harry Hairston nbc 10 news. See who our poll says will next next tuesday. Read the exclusive poll results on nbc10. Com. We also have the interviews with each of the candidates. Learn about where they stand on the key issues of the campaign so youre ready to cast your ballot next tuesday. Now your nbc 10 first alert with meteorologist Sheena Parveen. Well an absolutely gorgeous day today. A pretty perfect spring day. Barely a cloud in the sky. Low humidity. Temperatures around 70 degrees. And another cool night in store for us tonight. You might need a light jacket by early tomorrow morning. But going into the weekend, were actually going toar warming up. Back into the 80s. However, we do have some rain in the forecast. Now, the average high is 73 degrees. Today we got to 72. Tomorrow, we expect to be in the mid 70s. 75. So a few degrees warmer. Then look what happens saturday. Were in the mid 80s. Sunday we could be in the upper 80s with a chance for some norm thunderstorms mainly in the afternoon. The pollen is still going to stay high though. Tomorrow it goes up. Over the weekend it goes up even more and it stays high as we go into monday. So no allergy relief really any time soon. If thats been bothering you. 69 right now in reading. Also pottstown. 71 currently philadelphia and allentown. Low 70s to upper 60s through south jersey and delaware. But we are nice and dry on the radar. So even though weve had a cooler day today, the sunshine and low wind speeds really make it feel fantastic outside. Were going to stay dry as we go through tonight. Just off to our west entering western p. A. Cloud cover. Youll notice more clouds tomorrow. Really the moisture that we see back off around chicago will be here in the week. Lets go back to the desk with jacqueline and keith. Lets head right to the News Conference right now. The ntsb revealing new details of their investigation of the deadly Train Derailment. Lets listen in. Good afternoon. Im robert sumwalt, board member with the ntsb. It has been reported that the engineer of the train would not talk to the ntsb but i have been trying to beat those rumors down for the last day or so. Im very pleased to report that we have contacted the engineer and he has agreed to be interviewed by the ntsb and we look forward to that opportunity. We will be meeting with him in the next few days. While were talking on the topic of interviews we have started interviewing passengers who were injured, passengers that are currently in the hospital. We want to find out their perspective of things. We want to find out where they were seated and their injury patterns so that we can start correlating their seating with the injuries for accident survival crash survivability issues. Crash worthiness issues. Ive said before that theres a forwardfacing video technically called track image recorder and weve got some information from our review of that. Weve got good quality video up to the point of derailment. We can see the see the track being illuminated by the trains headlight. And it also shows the speed of the train and so that has been what weve been able to do from that is create somewhat of a timeline. 65 seconds before the end of the recording, the train speed went above 70 Miles Per Hour. 43 seconds before the end of the recording, the train speed exceeded 80 Miles Per Hour. 31 seconds before the end of the recording, the train speed was going through 90 Miles Per Hour. 16 seconds before the end of the recording, the train speed was going through 100 Miles Per Hour. Just before entering the curve is when the engineer applied the engineerinduced braking to put it into emergency braking. And ill describe it as seconds, mere seconds into the turn we could see the train tilting approximately ten degrees to the right and then the recording went blank. Some other things that weve been able to do today, weve developed test and inspection plans for the rail cars and the locomotives. Weve examined the predeparture inspections for train 188 as it left before it left Union Station two nights ago which includes the predeparture brake test, and there are no anomalies noted in any of those inspection records. We will continue to examine all of the inspection records for the train. Today we interviewed the manager, the amtrak manager in charge of training and qualification of railroad engineers. Weve also interviewed the train dispatchers who were involved in dispatching this particular train. Were reviewing the track inspection records. One of the records that we have is the track geometry records. You may recall that the day before the accident a track geometry inspection vehicle drove over the rail rail 2, track 2, that this train was traveling on. And there were no anomalies noted with the track inspection track geometry inspection. Weve completed the on site 3d laser scanning of the first two cars. The first two cars were those that were damaged the most. That would be the Business Class and the quiet car. One of the things i said we would be doing would be to test the signals. The train control signals that are alongside the railroad track. Weve tested most of those. The only ones that we have not tested are those ones that are in the vicinity of the derailment site just because we havent been able to have good access to those, but we are going to test those tomorrow. With the track signals that we have already inspected, or downloaded the recorders from there are no anomalies noted with those recorders, with those signal recorders. With the signals, themselves. No anomalyies noted. The ntsb has released the site back to amtrak. One of the things well be doing in the coming week weve got to wait for the track to be repaired and the catanary to be repaired. One of the things we will do is a distance test basically well take an exemplar train under similar lighting and environmental conditions lighting and weather conditions well take a train and see how far out that curve would come into vision. People have asked if this people have asked if this train was operating on time and train 188 departed philadelphia the 30th street station, it departed philadelphia on time. The 30th street station. So it was running on time at that point. Somebody asked earlier today in one of my oneonone interviews what type of locomotive it was, and ive checked on that. It was an electrically powered locomotive, so of course it receives its electricity from the overhead catnary. Its called an acs64. That stands for amtrak city sprinter. This is one of the newer models that amtrak is placing into service, and this particular locomotive was placed into service just over a year ago. I want to thank the all of the as i said yesterday, all of the First Responders. We have received excellent cooperation from the parties to the investigation which would include amtrak the federal Railroad Administration and also would include the city of philadelphia for everything theyve been doing. We want to thank the Mayors Office and in particular mayor nutter. We appreciate all of their support and assistance. Just a moment ill call for questions and be glad to take your questions. If you would, raise your hands. Ill call on you, and state your name and affiliation. Lets just start right here. [ inaudible question ] matt wants to know if the speed increases, if we can tell were done manually. At this point, we dont know that. We think that we will be able to when we interview the engineer we would like to find out those types of things but just from the track image recorder, it just shows the speed, alone. It doesnt tell how the speed got there. The question right here . Mark the wall street journal. Theres been a lot of talk about the ptc. Does the installation of the [ inaudible ] would that have prevented the incident . If so, do you think that should be installed between now and the time we have this up and running . Yeah so to make sure that i get the last part of your question, let me start so the question basically i think centers around positive train control which amtrak refers to as aces stands for automatic civil Speed Enforcement system. Thats amtraks version of positive train control. And the question is, would positive train control have prevented this accident . Let me answer that by saying that positive train control is designed, one of the four things that it is designed to do is to prevent overspeed derailments. Derailments caused by overspeed. So here we are looking at an overspeed situation that did derail so from that i can confidently say that an operational positive train control system would have prevented this crash. This, i can say confidently positive train control would have prevented this accident. Was there a second part of that that i did not quite get . Right. The signal system where, on the opposite side of the train kicked in on the south end that wasnt on the northern side. Should installation of that system be nbc 10 news starts now. Right now at 6 00 cadaver dogs found an eighth body in the wreckage. Everyone is now accounted for in this deadly Train Derailment in Port Richmond. Amtrak reveals its plans to get the track back open for service. I was 12 years old and it was labor day. Ill never forget it. And the crash brings back memories of what happened 70 years ago at the same spot. Good evening, im renee chenaultfattah. And im Jim Rosenfield. Here is what we know. Sky skyforce10 live right now. Just a few minutes ago we were listening to the ntsb theyre just wrapping up. Their only update of the day. We learned the ntsb has good quality video of the derailment that shows the speed of the train. They also plan to talk to the engineer in the next couple of days. That video helped them create a timeline. And we just heard the first lawsuit has been filed in this incident. An amtrak employee injured in the crash hired a local firm to file the suit. The employee is still in the hospital. And today we know an eighth person was found dead near the wreckage of the first car. Amtrak says it hopes to resume Service Coming up on monday and Philadelphia Police say there is still an active criminal investigation under way. Tonight, were learning more about that eighth person killed in the derailment. Bob gildersleeves son handed out fliers just yesterday when he couldnt find his father and tonight we have confirmed the names of all eight victims. Laura finamore Justin Zemser jim gaines abid gilani Rachel Jacobs mr. Griffith and Giuseppe Piras not pictured. Reporter with each of these details being revealed from the ntsb investigation, and word of a lawsuit, none of this eases the agony for any of these eight families. Her family says Laura Finamore had a smile that lit up in a room. In a statement

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