Before the amtrak crash. The ntsb meantime is trying to figure out if amtrak train 188 was also hit by a projectile shortly before it crashed. There was a hole in the trains windshield. Eyewitness News Reporter matt rivers spoke exclusive a passenger on the septa train that was hit. Monica williams was few rose behind the engineer when the train came ton abrupt stop a few minutes later amtrak 188 sped by her stopped train and moments later as seen in this exclusive video obtained by Eyewitness News the derailed. Immediately i wonder if its connected how often does it happen that the glass on your train is shattered and then the train we just saw there was a tragedy. Even if the amtrak train was hit by a projectile there is no telling if that is what actually caused the train to rapidly act is he rate seconds before the crash. Now for a check on the weather, its been a stormy day for parts of our area and more wet weather could be on the way for us. Meteorologist Justin Drabick is in th
Cloudy skies. But theres still more showers to our west over the ohio valley once again tomorrow with all the heat and humidity there could be a scattered shower or storm but the chances should be less than what we had tonight. Still storm damage roared in Montgomery County. Earlier this evening. Gilbertsville picking up 1 Inch Diameter sized hail and also 55mile per hour wind bust at one of those thunderstorms. Unless Montgomery County douglas township and new Hanover Township reported trees down. Still warm outside. 60 toss about 70 degrees. 71 officially at the airport in philadelphia and the Atlantic City airport 67 willow grove. 64 in quakertown. Very humid outside. You can feel it. One of those nights you want to shut the windows if you can and crank up the ac a little bit. Lets break down sunday. Another warm and humid day waking up dry. Temperatures low 70s by noontime. Afternoon highs low 80s watch out for lay day scattered showers and storms. Let you know how long the heat la
There is hardly anything that you can do. Children learn how to become human bombs in remote Training Camps like this one. They were here primarily to learn how to wear and detonate suicide vests. You have two sons of your own. Would you want them to be suicide bombers . Yes. Ive made a promise to allah. When a speeding amtrak commuter train went off the rails just outside of philadelphia this past week there were multiple fatalities hu immediate suspicions about the condition of the track and the lack of Safety Technology that could have prevented it. But when we talked to the head of amtrak last fall, he said thats just one of the many problems on the northeast corridor. This is the achilles heel that we have on the northeast corridor. How much traffic goes over it every day . Its almost 500 trains a day. Its the busiest bridge in the western hemisphere for train traffic, period. Im steve kroft. Im leslie stahl. Im morley safer. Im lara logan. Im bill whitaker. Im scott pelley. Those
Drew and live live doppler 7hd. Some love rain and others are soaked this afternoon. Over the past hour we show you the showers we did have. Certainly falling apart. The sun has set. Thats instigating factor for any showers we had early this afternoon. Live doppler 7 hd with small downpour affecting portions of dublin right now. This is dublin boulevard canyon road and this lone shower is slowly pushing off to the north but once the exit dublin thats about it for the wet weather this evening. Downpour certainly hit parts of the viewing area. Look at the pen grove inch of rain clayton shy of 3 quurters inch of rain and sunny vail the jackpot winner coming in just over an inch of pe. Now head towards friday cool end to the work week. Talk about that and weekend fork with full accuweather forecast in a few minutes. Thanks very much. You have been sending in some great photo of the storm through the bay area this wet day in redd with city is from river r. Heres a look at the dark sky showe
Were not closed. It took Alameda County fire and calfair crews an hour to put it out. Fire officials expect his fire season to be 2009 busiest in recent years. The first four months of 2015, we have seen a 77 increase in wildfires compared to the fiveyear average. The conditions out there were dry despite a cool and cloudy day. Of course we havent seen much rainfall this year anywhere in the bay area. Abc7 news meteorologist drew tuma has more. As we enter our dry season across the bay area, that threat of wildfires will certainly increase and its no surprise when you take a look at the season to date that were well below our normal rainfall. San francisco 69 of normal rainfallful this doesnt account for years of drought, but moffet field we have seen showers at 99 of their normal to date. Live doppler 7hd right now is tracking one lone thundershower moving into clear lake and lower lake at this hour along highway 175, and it has lightning strikes strikes and potential for small hail.