And gives a great reaction. Good tuesday morning. Im muhammad lila, in for john muller. Im diana perez. We begin with a developing story out of north carolina, where people in a small town are being urged to evacuate following a train derailment. Look at these images. Fireballs shooting into the sky, with thick, black smoke billowing from train cars. One car carrying oil, collided with another, setting off a series of explosions. Tahman bradley has the latest. Reporter overnight, a rush to evacuate a small north dakota town. Dangerous flames burned all night, after a train carrying grain collided with a massive train hauling crude oil. The crash set off a series of explosions. It was the third explosion that rattled the house and the doors and the windows were all shaking. Ive never seen anything like this ever happen before here. So, i mean, okay. Ive lived here 70 years. Reporter as many as 10 cars of the 100car oil train caught fire. The collision happened shortly after 2 00 on mond
President obama is in italy right now on the second leg of his six days trip. Todays highlight as officials pay visit. Full of pomp and circumstance you would expect, but as mike reports the president s audience with the pope wasnt all chipper. It was a day of ceremony, symbolism, and some substance as president obama traveled to the vatican to meet with the new pope francis for the first time. Im a great admirer, later they sat face to face in a simple wooden p desk. The popes working desk, 20 minutes overtime, the two men do share a focus, and is that was emphasize bedty white house, the growing gap between rich and poor, both spent much time in that topic, and when they parted company there was an exchange of gift. With two large medallions that are said to symbolize the need for peace between northern and southern hemispheres. That is served as a road map for the church and the new focus on the plight of the poor. The two also talked about the need for Immigration Reform in the Uni
Narrowed their focus. Here they are. Two possible paths the flight may have taken. Ending off australia. Why here . Those hourly satellite pings from the jet yielded more clues than expected and calculations have been handed over to the australians to help in the search. The area at the end of the analysis has been refined by work done by the National Transportation safety board on the fuel reserves of the aircraft. The australiaens have their aircraft concentrating around the pod lines and the u. S. Looking for wreckage in the vast area. The president spoke about the missing jet liner publicly. We have put every resource available at the disposal of the search process. Theres been close cooperation with the malaysian government. Reporter that now includes the fbi which has been asked to help in the investigation of the pilot. At least when it comes to the pilots home simulator. Waiting for a week to confiscate the similaruater they say there were deleted files on the computer so the f
The same length as one wing coming from a 777. That is getting ahead of where we are right now. Search planes headed to the debris field 1500 miles off the coast of perth to get a better look. But the Australian Maritime Safety Authority just minutes ago, they tweeted the crew has been unable to locate any debris thanks partly to limited visibility because of rain and clouds. That could hamper the search somewhat, of course. Still if you want a frame of reference for how far flight 370 may have gone if this is from the plane is 3,000 miles south of where i am. One official calls it the best lead that we have right now. Thats what that came straight from australian officials. We have seen as resources deployed around the world to bring you the latest this morning. Lets start with Andrew Stevens who is live in perth, australia, where it is a race against time to get visual confirmation of what those objects are in the water. Andrew, you were telling us that the planes are still out there
Intersections even more dangerous. Good evening on this monday night. Diane has the evening off. With millions of americans traveling for new years eve, its going to be snowy, rainy and frigid across much of the country. This was the view through the windshield for drivers in the midwest as this system began moving east, blinding conditions there. From minnesota tonight look at the temperature reading, 7 degrees below zero and getting colder. In the middle of the arctic blast emergency crews battling temperatures along with this explosion of flames when a Freight Train derailed in north dakota. Tonight the map shows the scope of this paralyzing deep freeze moving into the northeast. Its going to be a very cold new years eve. We have Team Coverage tonight. Meteorologist ginger zee is in times square but we begin with abcs alex perez in minneapolis tonight. Reporter david, good evening to you. Here in minneapolis the city skyline is swallowed by the steam rising as they try to keep those