And will stay close and due to damage on the bridge and the roadway as well as the need for investigators and responders to work in that area. Just before noon, the National Transportation safety board held a News Conference saying the chief investigator will bring an entire team. Is accompanied by staff with expertise in operations, mechanical, track, signals, Human Performance and survival factors. The train was traveling on a newly laid section of tracks as part of an 800 million rail improvement project. The old route traveled along puget sound was too curvy for speeds as evidenced by this derailment and all tracks last july. He was carrying 267 passengers injuring several of them. According to the railroad administration, laster there were 8800 train accidents in the us causing 700 fatalities and 6500 injuries. He says the primary defendants for wrongful deaths and many injuries will be amtrak the spanish train manufacturer, and the company that owns the tracks often a major freig
Joining us i am heather homes. Hello, i am ken wayne. Six people were killed as the train was passing over a bridge in dupont county. Reporter it was the first day of the new route and the speed was at question. Some say the speed was in the 70s and some say it was as high as 81 miles per hour. The train which looks like this amtrak cascade was traveling southbound at 70 miles per hour. It was carrying 78 passengers and five crew members when one witness said that the train started to wobble and started to go off of the track onto interstate 5. Multiple cars in trucks were struck by the train cars that went down to the road. When you see the pictures, it is pretty horrific, at this point, nobody in any of the vehicles are dead. Reporter it did damage to the bridge of the broadway and investigators are working in that area. They held their first News Conference saying that the chief investigator will bring his entire team. He is supported by staff. Reporter the team will be on site by t
The officer was the subject of an investigation that spanned several cities. We have more on this breaking news now. We are at the mall where the person killed himself. We did hear from San Francisco police just in the last hour. They confirmed that he had been with the department for nine years. Sources are telling us tonight that the officers officers name was antonio. If you take a look behind me, you can see where this scene happened. They did an attempt to stop him. It all happened over there. You can see where the entrances are blocked off the the Police Substation here at the hilltop mall. Police had called him this afternoon saying that they had a warrant for someone involved in an active investigation. A single Richmond Police officer were told that they stopped the suspect in the sudan at 1 30 pm this afternoon. They shortly heard a gunshot inside. He quickly retreated back to his police car and waited for help. As it is help arrived, they werent able to see the interior of t
Condoned within the legal profession, i think it is especially problematic because it sends a message to women that they do not have access to justice. Reporter the allegations against the 67yearold kaszynski span decades. Alex kaszynski. Reporter some pointing to the 1968 appearance on the show the dating game as an example of his behavior towards women. Judge kaszynski issued a Statement Today saying, in part, it grieves me to learn that i caused any of my clerks to feel uncomfortable. Thises what never my intent. While Sexual Harassment allegations now seem to be coming every day, larry represented what was then a watershed case in 1994 that captured international attention. And ended with millions in punitive damages for San Francisco secretary named rena weeks who sued her boss and won. I hope that the message to all women is that, go ahead and stand up because i think its reaching a Critical Mass now where reporter the 9th circuit is the largest of the nations Appellate Courts an
Three. It went off the track on its inaugural trip on new service from seattle to portland, oregon. Southbound interstate 5 below will be closed at least through tomorrow morning. That rail car left dangling in the darkness just part of the aftermath of this amtrak crash that killed at least three people and injured more than 100 others. Amtrak 501. Emergency. We are on the ground. Reporter all but one of the rail cars careening off the tracks in washington, several crashing on the busy highway below during the morning rush. Things just started to tip over as it was going around, and then all of a sudden ended up on its side and everything went dark. The train started to wobble for a moment, and then we were catapulted at the seats in front of us. Onboard of this the intogeral run of a newer faster amtrak route, tweeting just moments earlier, wow, this train is fast. Were passing up traffic on i5. Then just after 7 30 a. M. A locomotive with 76 crew and emergencies onboard plunged over