Wusa 9. Hopefully its much ado about nothing. Ellen, thank you. Like a driver who misses his exit on the beltway, the engineer on that deadly amtrak derailment that happened a year ago, near philadelphia, lost track of where he was. Thought he was farther down the rail line, where the speed limit was 110 miles an hour. Thats the conclusion today, at the National Transportation safety board, which also warned more people are likely to die, until all railroads implement automatic Safety Systems. Wusa 9s bruce leshan is live with details on this. Good evening, bruce. Hey, adam. Here is something i didnt know. There are no posted speed limit signs on the rails. Amtrak engineers pride themselves on knowing exactly where they are and exactly how fast they are allowed to go. But in this case, the ntsb says Brandon Bostian was distracted by reports of someone throwing trcks at trains and simply lost ack of where he was. Reporter bostian hit the throttle just before the crash. Accelerating the
Line of duty. Prince William County officer Ashley Guindon died responding to a domestic call. It was her first day on the job. And the time is 4 31 which means its time to check in on four things we need to know. It will be a soggy start. Hey, chuck bell, whats going on . What was the question . Oh, i thought it was a question. Sorry about that. Outside this morning, here are the four things you need to know about the weather on a monday morning. Kind of a soggy and sloppy start to the day today. Clouds are going nowhere today and another chance for rain rolls in tonight. Best day of the week looks like it will be wednesday, our one day warm spell and those cherry br blossoms are getting ready to spring forth. Most of the steadier rain has moved to the eastern shore, but there are more rain showers down to our south and west. Here is tonights rain chance. East of em hours or so away from getting into here. But most of the rain tomorrow will be early in the day. I think well get a litt
Call at the kingman jewish medical center. He ran to the scene and saw the worker bleeding and unconscious 15 feet down. So the Construction Team helped him use the ladder. We all worked together to stabilize his neck. All along they brought a basket in, put him in the basket, hoisted him up and theyre ready to intubate him and get him to the hospital. Reporter even with a hospital just inches away. He was bleeding so bad it took the pressure off. Reporter the worker was saved, critical but stable. A short time later, inspectors from osha arrived as well as city investigators. Residents wondered how routine sewer pipe replacement on east 49th street would lead to such a dramatic scene. Im sure they know what theyre doing. Theyre city workers, so im sure they know what theyre doing. Light pole, its now in pieces. Osha as well as nypd is investigating exactly what went wrong. Andrew siff, new york. We have an update of that breaking news affecting the evening rush. An accident in jersey
This morning his brothers bh and sisters in blue are blue grieving the tragic loss as aloa motive in the unprovokednproke attack remains unclear. Ule were live with the veryh theer latest. But before we get to that at live look outside on this ts monday, it is march 14th, 1 2016. Gary mcgrady and erin como theyre going to have a check c of weather and traffic in just i a few minutes. W thank you for waking up withpit us, thank you for joining us. U im wisdom martin alongside aloi holly morris and maureen umeh. U we begin with a story a sto thats gained National National attention. Were talking about theki ambushstyle attack in princeac georges county that leftthateft officer jacai colson dead. Ea fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live at Police Headquarters inen palmer park with the veryark wi latest on this senseless actsess to say the least. L mel. Reporter thats right, guys, yes, so you can see heree that barlowe road is still is s shut down here in palmer park. Ar so were several blocks awa
7 00 a. M. Low to mid70s for highs today. Back to the upper 60s by 7 00. And mostly back into the 40s for tomorrow morning. Well see you guys in a few more minutes with a check of the commuter forecast. Chuck, thank you. A developing story this morning, it has now been seven days since family members have heard from Fairfax County firefighter nicole mittendorf. Firefighters will continue the search. Her car was found near the Whiteoak Canyon trail saturday evening. A prayer vigil will be held tonight at her fire station. If you would like to attend, watch details on the the nbc washington app and use the search terms vigil for nicole. Today friends and family and colleagues will attend the funeral for a firefighter kill in the line of duty. John ulmschneider was trying to get into a temple hills home to check on a having a medical emergency on friday. That homeowner said that he thought someone was trying to break into his house so he opened fire. The Fire Departments as far away as Ba