Amtrak 501, emergency, we are on the ground. Thats a first tonight. Lets get started. We are all over the three parts of this big breaking story tonight. Heres whats ahead. Transportation reporter pete muntean talks about the trains speed. Weve got a reporter on scene, too. But first lets set the scene for you. It is a jumbled mess. There were 14 cars on this train. Most of them jumped the tracks. There were about 80 passengers on board and a crew of five when the train rounded a curb over interstate 5 and derailed. Listen to the conversation between the trains conductor and dispatchers. Amtrak 501, emergency. We are on the ground. Hey, guys, what happened . We were coming around the corner to take the bridge over i5 there right north of nisqually and we went on the ground. Is everybody okay . Im st weve got cars everywhere and down onto the highway. The drivers whose cars were hit by the falling train were injured. None of them, though, are among the dead tonight. That crash scene you
Media. Good evening. Thank you for joining us im dan ashley. Ama daetz is off. Another Horrific School shooting backup 17 dead at Stoneman Douglas high school with school of 3,000 students not far from miami, florida. By the end of the rampage 19yearold nikolas cruz killed 12199the school and others outside. Two others died at the hospital. Maggie reule is in parkland, florida. Students here say they just trained what to do in an active shooter situation last month never thinking back then they would have to put the training to use. Eye. The sound of gunshots. Oh, my god. Ringing out at a south florida high school. Just after two. Students preparing to leave for the day when a shooter now identified as nikolas cruz using a single ar5 with countless magazines wear a gas mask armed with smoke grenades opened fire. We were running i didnt know what was happening. S. W. A. T. Teams moved in searching for the shooter and clearing out the school of more than 3,000. And the s. W. A. T. Team t
Reporter gunshots forced students to flee. Its insane, its unnecessary, its out of the theres no words to describe how i feel right now. I was shaking, i was panicking, it was all out panic in that school. Reporter students running out with their hands up as emergency crews tended to the injuries on the ground. There are numerous fataliti s fatalities, its a horrific situation. Its just a horrible day for us. Reporter the shots started shortly before the end of the school day, students say a fire alarm was pulled minutes before they heard the shots. We had a fire drill earlier, but when we heard the fire alarm again, we thought it was just another fire drill. A lot of kids were on their phones, just trying to snapchat everything because they thought it was a joke and it wasnt. Reporter the president tweeting, my prayers and condolences to the victims of the terrible Florida School shooting. No child or anyone should feel unsafe in an american school. As students trapped on campus docum
Hes accused of using Campaign Money to pay his sons student loan debt. Nbc10 news anchor renee chenaultfattah is married to the congressman. The feds allege renees car is part of a scheme to help the fattahs finance a vacation home. Renee is not indicted. The public does not expect their elected officials to misuse Campaign Funds. Misappropriate government funds, accept bribes or commit bank fraud. These type of criminal acts betray the publics trust. Hes done nothing wrong, congressman fattah was at work in washington today. A court date will be set. Harry hairston joins us now. You spoke with the congressman when these allegations began to surface. You spoke with him today, he spoke today when the charges were announced . Yes, he did come out and speak today, thats right. For the past eight years, a cloud of suspicion has followed him. Today on capitol hill congressman fattah stated neither he nor any of the others named in the indictment did anything wrong. I understand but the rico
Captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org and a look right now on a beautiful fall evening in washington, d. C. , a sad day as the president said there. You see the flag at half staff that the president ordered. Waiting in just a moment from now, the house coming back here. Here they are. Live coverage on cspan. Er the. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title. The clerk report to accompany House Resolution 548, providing for cofferings the bill to amend title 18 United States code to protect paincapable unborn children and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, proceedings will resume on motions to suspend the rules previously postponed. Votes listen taken in the following order. H. R. 1547 by the yeas and nays. And h. R. 965 by the yeas and nays. The first electronic vote will be conducte