The National Transportation safety board has taken control of this investigation. They have a team on their way from washington here to upper darby as we speak. This accident happened here along the loop in the backside of the 69th street train station. This is where trains turn around at the end of the line and head the other direction. For some reason one train slammed into the back of the other, the Ripple Effect causing commuter headaches. It was a slowspeed collision, less than 10 miles per hour. It looks like a pretty bad wreck, if you ask me. Reporter but still it caused quite a mess. How it tipped over . Reporter in total seven cars tumbled off the tracks, three trains were involved. A Chain Reaction leaving some without a ride to work. I heard a big bang, then all of a sudden i heard the fire engines and all. I knew Something Big happened. Reporter septa says this all began when the number 57 train came around the loop and rearended the 67 train that was stopped. After that co
Hand again. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. One of the most powerful hurricanes in nearly a decade is on its way to the southeast. Watches and warnings are up from the southern tip of florida up the Atlantic Coast to south carolina. 500,000 people are being urged to move inland. Airlines are canceling hundreds of flights, and amtrak is shutting down southeast. Hurricane matthew, a category three storm with winds as high as 120mph, is blamed for as many as 25 deaths in haiti and the dominican republic. We have a team of correspondents on this story, and first we will go to Omar Villafranca in the bahamas. Reporter the outer bands of Hurricane Matthew are starting to pound the island of exuma here in the bahamas, but across haiti and cuba are starting to clean up after taking a beating from the powerful storm. In les cayes, haiti, 145mph winds left a path of destruction. The hurricane destroyed hundreds of homes and flooded the streets.
Voting. The sheriffs records over 50 years in Law Enforcement hes been a dedicated public servant. Im not here with any kinds of political agenda. Reporter now i also want to point out federal prosecutors also told the judge today they are looking at filing potential obstruction of Justice Charges against the sheriff. In addition to all that arpaio will start paying these legal fees out of his own pocket. Un would out about 50 million in taxpayer money for arpaio to defend himself in court. In phoenix dennis welch cbs 5 news. Sheriff arpaio issued a statement saying in part its clear that the corrupt Obama Justice department is trying to influence my reelection as sheriff of Maricopa County. I will fight this case to the nail because i know these charges are rubbish. In the end i am confident i there are a lot of questions. One big question is whether this will even make it to trial. S. Reporter legal experts tell us they doubt the sheriff would take a plea deal. But what a trial would
There are new numbers on west nile. So far this year, there have been 16 confirmed cases in arizona. 13 of them were found here in maricopa county. Overwhelm Health Officials have investigated 62 west nile cases this year. Phoenix firefighters are trying to figure out what caused a deadly fire early this morning. A woman died after she was pulled from a burning apartmentnary 19th and dunlap. Several residents were on the doors of their neighbors to make sure they got out. I was screaming get out of the the house. Firefighters were able to keep the flames to just one unit. Firefighters were able to keep a fire at a fertilizer warehouse from getting a lot worse. Crews say it had the potential for explosions. Firefighters were able to break right now theyre still trying to figure out how it started. Less than two weeks after the roof of a queen creek church under construction collapsed, the Company Responsible for building it just lost its license the arizona registrar of contractors says
Those horses, wed tell someone. Reporter so far about half of the salt river horses have been accounted for. It can take up to two weeks to find and count them all. Lauren, thank you. A phoenix mother who is already on lifetime probation for child abuse is now under arrest again. Investigators say this time she beat her daughters. Donna rossi is live. Some of the did he thainls case are just disturbing. Reporter very much. So this is being held here at the estrella jail. The other suspect is this man. He is being held in the towers jail not far from here. This is a very disturbing story, one that if not reported, could have ended in the death of a child. A call to the child abuse hotline landed child safety workers at this apartment near 43rd avenue and thomas to check on a nineyearold that was reportedly being abused by her parents. Police got involved arrested Melissa Lloyd and michael duggar. Both denied ever using physical discipline. The couple is now charged with 17 counts each o