Department managed to clear the 58story Millennium Tower for construction only to have it wind up sinking some 16 inches into the mud and counting. I think everybody is afraid of accepting the risk. As a mayor i want to handle it reporter you are concerned about the entire area . Yes, im concerned about the area being able to withstand a major earthquake and thats what we need to build towards the standard for. Reporter one immediate result . The board of supervisors are withholding money on plans to build a Massive Underground tunnel between the transbay terminal in the south of market. We want to put the brakes on this thing, make sure were doing it right before we move forward. Reporter others, however, say its an overreaction. We had our big earthquake in 1989 and they held up fine so i dont think we should overreact and say that Millennium Towers has a problem we should as to be everything in its tracks. Reporter this including the building of that tunnel and i have to tell you so
If you like the cold wait another 24 hours. Still under the the gun with heavy rain looking better in the city right new with that heavier rain pushing to the north. You can see this on storm scan three. Pretty large storm system. We have some showers to come through later this afternoon but bulk of the rain or heavy rain is across Central New Jersey right now around trenton, even across central Burlington County and then up toward Lehigh Valley, still some pockets of heavier rain across, portions of berks, southernly high counties around hurtford township and center city, allentown dealing with brief heavy downpours. Things will improve though over the next couple of hours. Weather advisory stays in effect basically from northern bucks, montgomery up to the Lehigh Valley and parts of the new jersey. We saw heavy rain amounts up to 1 inch in some locations. Throughout the morning steady rain begins to taper off. Still cannot rule out showers this afternoon, overall amounts from half in
The deadly crash of an amtrak train in philadelphia, a body was pulled from the wreckage today. We have a team of reporters following the latest developments. Lisa stark is in washington for us. We begin with johnter rat who is in philadelphia. Where do things stand at this hour . Well, tony, good afternoon from philadelphia where there are News Conferences scheduled for 2 15 and 5 00. Well be reporting those as they happen. Giving you the latest information. For now were basing everything on a News Conference that happened a couple of three hours now. In that News Conference, one of the Board Members revealed that they have already found and removed and already downloading data from what he called an event reporterrecorder. And they also have a forwardlooking dash cam in the cab of the engine thats derailed and separated from the other cars. Were told all of that is downloaded. I think the implication is that we may have early indication, early indication of what may have gone wrong 1
But the kings of two key allies arent there. And dozens killed in pakistan after gunmen opened fire on a bus. You are watching al jazeera america. And live from new york city. Im morgan radford. Investigators are at the scene of a deadly Train Derailment in philadelphia. At least six people are dead and dozens were hurt in the crash. Pennsylvanias governor has ordered all flags to be flown at half staff. We have a team of reporters following the latest developments. We have lisa stark live for us in washington but we begin with john terrett who is live in philadelphia. Where do things stand at this hour . Reporter good afternoon to you, morgan. We have had a News Conference from various dignitaries who have given the latest information. The most information we got was from the board member of the ntsb, the group is now on the ground here. He confirmed that they arrived between 4 00 and 5 00 this morning. And most interestingly, robert tells us that they are already looking into data fr
Know it referred to as the black box has been recovered. It the now in the Amtrak Operations Center in delaware for analysis. We have no information from that particular device at all because it is currently being analyzed by the experts. This deadly derailment happened around 9 30 last night off of frankford avenue. Amtrak number 188 just left 30th street station bound for new york when it derailed near a curve in the track. Many passengers were stranded here overnight. Some of the victims returned to try to figure out,000 get to their planned destination in new york. Lets begin this morning where rose mary connor live near the scene. What do you have. Reporter were gathering where officials will gather throughout the day. Its still a busy scene out there. Police on the ground. The ntsb has seven investigators here right now. More are on the way. They are look at the mechanicics, tracks and signals. No cause has been determined. There was a conductor who was injured. He has received m