Apartments had to be evacuated including 17 people. Now at last check ten residents were back inside. As we were coming to air a few more people were walking in. These numbers are changing this morning. Pgw crews working quickly to get this in place. Im seeing a lot of people are literally walking back to their apartmentsment fortunately no injuries here this morning. Two medic units on scene all morning to assess anyone who wanted to get checked out after he vac yailted just around 2 30 this morning. Now this were told is 4 gas main leak and south philly high school had been open that is Warming Center for these folks as they stayed out in the cold weather. It looks like people are going back in now. It was a very, very tense scene earlier on this morning when someone called the gas leak n take a listen how high the levels are. My Fire Department readers 60 natural gas in the air with that we want to take stands of evacuating home as a precaution. And again pgw crews remain here on sc
Real key to retaking the city. This is Aljazeera America live from new york city, im John Henry Smith. For the first time in a week trains are rolling between new york and philadelphia. Amtrak service was resteered a short time ago while investigators try to figure out what led to the derailment that left eight dead. We have more. I understand service is back up earlier than expected. Thats right john, and crews worked for the last six days to get the site cleaned up and rails put back together. Around two hours ago amtrak trains pulled out in philadelphia resuming Service Following last weeks deadly crash. Only track trains between new york and philadelphia are running this morning following a derailment that left eight people dead and more than 200 injured last tuesday. Ntsb investigators spent days combing the site of texas in philadelphia. Its unclear why the train was traveling at 106 Miles Per Hour as it approached a curve. The engineer onboard told officials he cant remember wha
Back into head start. What you get are our National Parks and monuments open again. What you get is the economy not stalling but continuing to grow. What you get are workers continuing to be hired. Thats what you get. Thats what you should be asking for. Take a vote and end this shutdown right now. The president s remarks came after a closed door meeting last night with congressional leaders yielding no results. That meeting lasted for over an hour and was described by republicans as, quote, polite but unproductive. Today both sides sticking to their positions with republicans refusing to fund the government unless obama care takes a hit. The white house insisting that the house pass a clean bill that funds the government. We start our Coverage Today with nbcs kelly odonnell, whos on capitol hill. Kelly, i know there was at least a little bit of a bipartisan lunch with senator rand paul. Then you have two members of congress, one democrat, one a republican, coming out with some kind of
The two big stories at this hour, the crisis in ukraine and the search for flight 370. Russia sign papers annexing crimea, at the same time sign ukraine signing an Association Agreement with the european union, the trade deal that started this crisis. U. N. Secretary ban kimoon is trying to broker a solution. World powers and western Financial Institutions throwing with the in sanction against russia, russia saying it will hit back. Form two weeks since Malaysia Airlines flight 370 vanished. The search will resume tomorrow. The threat of storms could hamper the hunt for debris. We have the latest on the findings rewarding flight 370. We begin in kiev. The Ukrainian Government making moves. Tell us what happened today in kiev. A lot happened on the diplomatic front around the continent. But here, we have the u. S. Secretary Malaysia Airlines flight 370 Malaysia Airlines flight 370 traveling to moscow carrying a message expressing concern held by Vladimir Putin about extremists in the ne
Thank you so much, to john king. I am Brianna Keilar and welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world as we watch this special live coverage right now of the nations tribute to congressman and civil rights icon john lewis. This is the third day, the third of six days of Memorial Services for the man known as the conscience of the country and he was of the country, the congressmans cass ketd ket is arrive at Capitol Plaza. You see right now this processional heading toward the capitol, away from the white house. He will be lying in state at the u. S. Capitol following a ceremony which is set to begin shortly. This motorcade has been carrying lewis and his family through the streets of washington, d. C. Where he served our country and congress for more than three decades. The motorcade is pausing at key spots including a short time ago at the memorial to reverend Martin Luther king jr. , who was kronk lewis beloved mentor and friend. It stopped the black lives matte