The event recorders. They are like black boxes the hope is they will tell investigators anything they can about amtrak train 188 as it round the sharp curve where itup ped the tracks. Turning a commute into jumped the tracks turning a simple commute into playcations. The speed limit is 50mileper hour from the federal Railroad Administration and tonight the ntsb is saying preliminarily, that the train was going faster than 100 miles an hour when it rounded the curve. And thats more than twice the speed limit. This thing happened and came out of nowhere and where i was sitting, it felt like the train one was lifted off. Reporter the bump on jeffs head is from where he bounded around as he sat in the second car. I heard a thud and thats all i remember. Reporter the ntsb says a video camera in the trains front end could shed light. We have suffered a tragedy here in our city. Reporter absolute lay tragedy at this point. The tragedy still unfolding as we speak. Certainly that search is goin
The redskins are in the National Spotlight tonight, taking on the 49ers on monday night football. If youre headed to that game, you will need to bundle up. Weve got your game time forecast. And, what is at stake as the city debates raising the minimum wage. An historic hearing. Why a nuclear deal could spell problem for one of the u. S. biggest allies. Good morning, washington starts right now. Good morning, washington, im jummy olabanji. Im autria godfrey. The big weather story is also across the country, jacqui. Late this week, thingses will calm down but we have big changes headed this way. The cold air felt over the weekend, still feeling with frigid conditions. It is 24 degrees in d. C. And our wind chill factor is 15. Youre in the teens in gaithersburg, 19 is your temperature with a wind chill of 10. S at dulles with the 21 at dulles with the wind chill of 11. It is a quiet day with sunshine to start and clouds increasing this afternoon. We will have two opportunities this week o
Its monday twenty first and so and to use on central and thank you so much for joining us. Its been more than five full days now since koreas worst ferry disaster in two decades with search and rescue operations continuing through the day and into the night. Unfortunately no survivors have been found since the first day and that death toll continues to rise i live now until apples onion skin and is standing by and look on the harbor which is just twenty km from the accident scene guys. So in the last couple of hours weve seen that televised dramatically. The bodies of dozens of bodies have been retrieved and the death toll currently stands at eighty seven but that number is fast changing the bodies had not think that if i get but most are suspected to be High School Students and also inked with foreigners. It has been and was crying and leaving the family members of the victims here. Each time the euro confirmed that their child has passed away in the sudbury. Some of the members of th
And the taliban says its reached a deal with the us to end 18 years of conflict in afghanistan. Lyse doucet will be here to tell us if this really could be the deal that does it. 2,000 news cases of the coronavirus in china this monday. And while the Authorities Say the infection rate is falling, the World Health Organisation says we cant know if its peaked. The data also appeared to show a decline in new cases. This trend must be interpreted very cautiously. Trends can change as new populations are affected. Its too early to tell if this purported decline will continue. Every scenario is still on the table. Reported decline. This is a live map from Johns Hopkins university, it shows cases around the world. There are now more than 70,000 cases in mainland china, and over 1,700 people have died. Most of those deaths are in hubei province. These pictures are from chinese tv. This is a new temporary hospital in wuhan which is the capital of hubei. The reality for many people there may wel
Former doj prosecutor and a former fbi supervising special agent. And of the Unemployment Rate hitting the 14. 7 in april, thats the highest since the Great Depression in the 1930s. That from the bureau of labor statistics today which reported more than 20 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits just last month. Lets get to that story first. We begin with dagen mcdowell, lets start with the numbers and then we will start with the people behind the numbers. Just how big is this . Im sure youve been reporting Business News for a long time and never seen anything like it . Ive never seen anything like this, never seen lives and families upended like this, absolutely devastated. To put in perspective, that 20 and a half million jobs were lost in one month, that wipes out a decade, ten years of job gains. In the number of people not working is actually significantly higher than that. The Labor Department said that many of those should have been counted as a temporary layoff but we