take a look here. you see that take place. that s dash cam video. this is recording a fiery crash between a train and a truck in new york city. this appears to be the crossing gate. it was not working properly here. the video was taken from another truck near the railroad crossing. gate stays up. its lights do not come on. you see that there? truckers say that s been an ongoing problem there. a lot of close calls. only minor injuries in this accident. maybe they ll get it worked out now. and in san francisco, fire crews rescued two teens stranded in a crumbling hillside. appropriately named dead man s cliff. the brother and sister pair had dropped a cell phone while hiking and when they tried to retrieve it, they got stuck. they had a second phone and used it to call 911 and their parents. rescuers pulled them to safety. and a health alert from the fda about over-the-counter painkillers taken by millions of people. they ll have warning labels about heart attacks and strokes.
this is the third train crash after incidents in new york and california. the arms of the crossing gate were not down at the beginning of the incident. 40 minutes after the hour. it is tube top weather. the early thaw coming across the country. let s get the latest from meteorologist pedram javaheri. john and christine, the wet weather going to be hampering a lot of travel across the south mainly in the gulf coast and by the early afternoon hours, some of the wet storms will make way to washington and philly and new york after 2:00. about a .50 inch at the moment. there is the bull s-eye right there over eastern tennessee. 4 to 6 inches possible. in the carolina coast upwards of 1 inch of rainfall. historic snow across the country. historic snow for a daily record came down in italy.
them personally. i met their wives. it was truly an honor to be in their presence these guys are true american heroes. reporter: one is still critical this morning a spokesperson with union pacific railroad says the crossing gate and the lights were functional at this crossing. but some eyewitnesses, martha, say the gate was not operational. martha: was the gate down, casey, at the time? reporter: that s what is really unclear right now. you know how sometimes the gates go down, we ve all been at intersections and they get stuck and there is a way you can maneuver around it. we do not know if that is what happened in this case. what we know there was another float, another parade float ahead of this one that safely cleared the crossing. then as the second one tried to do so, the collision, once the horn sounded. there were reports of some people jumping off of the float as if they had some kind of a heads up.
more and more, it is a hassle to fly because 33 percent of the time you will be late. how does american convince people to still fly with them? guest: what it has to do is, like the nfl, realize that the time has come to settle with the pilots first. public relations fixes the action first. you fix the performance. they have to sit down, knock out a new contract with the piles. then they can start talking about working their way back to reliability with a better reputation. trace: thank goodness these are not replace president pilots. fraser, great to see you, sir. investigators are still waiting to interview the big-rig driver who knocked an amtrak train off the track. this was the scene south of fresno, california, yesterday. the crossing gate and flashing lights were working. the truck slammed into the train s side. around 40 people were hurt.
the aircraft frame in this case, they had a bunch of seats that popped out. the inspections on those 757s should be completed by sometime tomorrow, bill. bill: scary moment for the folks on board. thank you, trace. two trains collided with semi trucks at two different locations in california. the latest i want happened yesterday afternoon near fresno. a truck driver in the hospital, but investigators say he will survive. and the three people on the freight train are said to be unhurt. that came a few hours after an amtrak train collided with a truck just about ten miles away. we reported on that last night during the fox report. amtrak spokeswoman says 39 people were injured there and among them, a newborn baby thrown from his mother s arms. the seat in front of us was literally ripped out and fell on top of him. so i had to lift the seat up and dig under the debris and i found him in his car seat. bill: investigators say the crossing gate was down and warning signals were func