And he categorically denies he would do anything like that. It has been said it appeared he rigged a cord around the throttle and forgot to set emergency brakes before leaving a train to manually flip a switch to bypass signal problems. It could be mr. Vasquez deployed the brakes and they failed. Vasquez did not attend his disciplinary hearing today. His lawyer says he was following Doctors Orders to limit stress. He is having a very, very difficult time with the cushons as well as the incident itself. His lawyers say their probe should focus not only on the operator but also on aging equipment. Talking about a system and tracks that have problems and outages and tracks that would require in order for the train to continue at the point it was at to actually disable safety systems. The investigation does continue tonight. No word on what may have been hearing earlier today. John atwater, newscenter 5. Right now the woman hit by a Commuter Rail train is under investigation. The 50yearold
This storm is almost upon us. It is coming but how much were not sure. The National Weather service has put 14 counties under a blizzard watch as much as 18 inches could be expected but that is just one projection. Forecasters have models all over the place. Accuweather please make some sense for us. It is good to be back. Yesterday i said across most of Central New Jersey and new york city and long island between six and 12 inches. I have not change my forecast. Five the heavy is notable is getting 18 inches in central and northern new jersey or long island that is to the south and west. Even philadelphia, but the i kid use the hard snow will. [laughter] the hard part is now. [laughter] because it will come down this new will come down very hard in places. It will be 2 feet west of baltimore. Has anything changed . There are a couple different models any chance it misses or you are that confident . Remember the models dont make the forecast those are the tools. At this point they thin
Has put 14 counties under a blizzard watch as much as 18 inches could be expected but that is just one projection. Forecasters have models all over the place. Accuweather please make some sense for us. It is good to be back. Yesterday i said across most of Central New Jersey and new york city and long island between six and 12 inches. I have not change my forecast. Five the heavy is notable is getting 18 inches in central and northern new jersey or long island that is to the south and west. Even philadelphia, but the big gore about hard snow if i kid use the hard snow will. [laughter] the hard part is now. [laughter] because it will come down this new will come down very hard in places. It will be 2 feet west of baltimore. Has anything changed . There are a couple different models any chance it misses or you are that confident . Remember the models dont make the forecast those are the tools. At this point they think the big snow will be toward baltimore and washington new york city as
Heres a look at the map. You can see where that accident is, ill zoom in near route 9 as we shift north, 128 northbound through waltham, lexington, average of 28 Miles Per Hour. Look at what we are seeing. 204 minutes, thats over three thats almost three and a half hours right now on 128 northbound from westwood up to route 1. Ill be watching these all evening for you. Back to you. Elizabeth we have some breaking news in natick, where three pedestrians were hit by a car in a parking lot. Fox 25s jim morelli just got to the scene just within the past halfhour or so and hes learning what happened in the crash according to, withs. With witnesses. Jim . The reporter this is every shoppers nightmare. You walk out of a store, all of a sudden, a car jumps the curb and at high speed, were told, rams into the three people. Im going to step out of the way and just show you where this happened. We are at a plaza called the clover leaf shops and natick mall and that Burlington Coat factory right t
Another tree now leaning on wires. Thats caution more Power Outages in the area. Be sure to stay informed as this rain and wind passes through by downloading this fox 45 weather app. It is free for your apple or an droid device. A High School Principal is on leave night. These winds are intention tonight as we get details from the fire chief here on scene. Fox news. Not the sound you want to hear. The sound of power lines buzzing an popping. Huge flashes of e electricity there. We have this video just in the the last 30 minutes on where that power line hit the sidewalk. They quickly disconnected the power. Be sure to download our weather app. We can get up to the minute details in the forecast where sit free for your smart phone. A High School Principal is on leave night. This stems with what may have happened during detention. Reporter thats right. We are trying to figure all that out. Tonight we spoke to some parents and students and shocked by whatever the allegations are. We have a