Be a rebuilding year. Howard had talk much more about that coming up in sports. But lets talk about this beautiful weather for this years home opener compared to last years home open and opener when it was postponed a day because of clouds and rain. Not so much this year. Sol out crowd. Current conditions right now are in the upper 60s low 70s for philadelphia. Area wide as we look at those temperatures still pretty comfortable. Above average temperatures for a change. Upper 60s and low 70s it is a little breezy those winds have been out of the south anywhere from 15 to about 20 miles an hour and if youre stepping outdoors later on this evening its going stay pretty mild and comfortable cloud cover however, will start to roll in and, yes rainfall will be back in that forecast ill have all of that coming up. Right now ill toss to my colleague bruce gordon. Bruce, i know youre a big baseball fan. You have more on the sites and sounds of today. Reporter yes scott what do you expert when y
Theyve completely derailed from the tracks. Theyve been destroyed complete completely. Aluminum she will has been destroyed and over turned meetly i dont want to speculate the cause but it is a devastating scene down there. Again that was the fire official talking about the devastation mayor Michael Nutter said hed never seen anything like this in his life tom recap for you fire official mention to do us there were six critical injured that was confirmed. 53 transported. Walking wounded. All taken to area hospitals including aria torresdale, hahnemann and temple and also of course preliminary at least five people have been killed so far. Thats what mayor Michael Nutter told us a different view now as were looking life. Now we got these overhead lights. You can see the just complete devastation here of these cars. One of cars just shredded. You can see downed wires as well iain. Which are dangerous. We heard weve been talking about it all night. You heard bruce talk with those two eyewi
Fox 29 news in hd brought to you by x finity the future of awesome. Right now brand new details amtrak train crash that has rocked the city and the entire northeast. This is a live look from skyfox tonight over the devastation in Port Richmond. Crews you see them theyre still on the scene 24 hours after that train hit a curve and jumped the tracks sending hundreds of passengers flying. Brand new video into our newsroom tonight on the ground the site is completely lit. As crews work to fix the train tracks and the massive overhead power lines lines that cross over them. Earlier today federal investigators getting a first chance to get up close to the wreckage and start the grueling task of finding out what sparked this deadly crash. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. What we do know amtrak regional 188 was going twice as fast as it should have been when it hit that curve in Port Richmond last night. All seven cars and the engine derailed killing seven people hurting 200 more. R
What we do know amtrak regional 188 was going twice as fast as it should have been when it hit that curve in Port Richmond last night. All seven cars and the engine derailed killing seven people hurting 200 more. Right now the engineer at the controls refuses to say a thing as police and ntsb investigators try to piece this tragic puzzle together. Weve got Live Team Coverage for you tonight of the derailment. Our Dave Schratwieser has new information about the engineer and a possible criminal investigation. Shawnette wilson has been speak speaking with families desperate separate to find loved ones bruce gore didnt breaking down the dramatic moments rescues crews first got on the scene. Chris oconnell got a first hand look at the crash site from above. Chris . Reporter good evening guys. Federal investigators say amtrak train 188 was traveling more than twice the posted speed limit on these rails before it derailed and crashed about 300 yards behind me here in Port Richmond. In the mea
Middlesex county, only lasting about two minutes. Roper arrived to court and was met by a flood of media. The 35 year old truck driver from jonesboro, georgia, pleaded not guilty. His attorney speaking for him in court. The judge kept his bail at 50,000 which hes already pos posted. He is the sole driver charged in causing the deadly six vehicle pileup along the new jersey turnpike this weekend. The crash killed comedian 62 year old james mcnair and just two blocks away from here tracy morgan and two others are still recovering in the hospital. Morgan remains in critical but stable condition. Roper and his attorney declined to speak to reporters. They said you didnt sleep for 24 hours. Is that true . Roper did not make statement leaving court, but his twitter account believed to belong to him says i thought our country said we still had right of being innocent until proven guilty. Wait, that doesnt sell newspapers or get website hits and another tweet from yesterday said i was never ch