And track replacement. Although no one was injured it was a major aggravation for many of the 400,000 daily riders. As you can see from sky 7 hd the smoke and possible explosion came from the 3 car train northbound from free mont to richmond. Three passengers broke out two windows to escape the car. Bart says this is contrary to instructions given over the loud speakers. The train was on an elevated track way putting them at peril of falling as well as coming in contact with the 1,000 volt third rail. They were coaxed to climb back in. Bart has identified a possible reason for the incident. The current jumped and created an arc. When you have an electric arc it can create a bright flash and a lot of smoke and a lot of noise thus reports of an explosion. Reporter the three passengers sustained cuts and back injuries. Bart says they replaced the sections of track where the car lost contact with the third rail. A bart committee was meeting today to go over plans to seek voter approval for
Allison parker and adam wards coworkers are wearing ribbons tonight in memory other fallen colleagues. They lined up outside the studios about two hours ago as the station general manager addressed questions about the man who killed them. Vester flanigan shot them while they were on the air live in virginia. He was eventually caught along interstate 66 near markham and later died at a hospital. Brad bell is live with the latest of what we learned about flanigan today. It seems that every hourly goes by your nine we are learning a new wrinkle about this guy. Reporter and none of it is pretty. The station general manager confirming that Vester Flanigans time here was so troubling he was ordered to seek counseling. His behavior did not improve and he was fired. On the way out the door the general manager said flanagan essentially made a red against the station made a threat against the station but never thought he returned to the sort of violence we saw yesterday. The memorial continues t
Im wilfred frost. Lets get straight to the market picture. Some record closes, but slight gains yesterday. We are seeing slight pullback in terms of that tone this morning. Down about 38 points for the dow. Nasdaq down 8. S p down about 4 points. Week to date we are showing slight gains for these three main indices that hides another story that people are pointing to, the small cap decline. Lets look at that very quickly. Week to date, bouncing back a bit, but that decoupling from the big cap stocks has garnered attention. People suggesting does that show weakness in the economy to come . I think its different from that its fears of tax reform slipping, and we know those small caps are geared to that. To paint that picture further, lets look at banks. Banks are also geared towards the tax reform they have slipped over the course of the week banks performance coming up now. Bank of america has slipped during the course of the week. Similar decline as we saw in the small caps extrapolati
It was hidden behind all of my free weights. If youre not an expert, peco can help. We have lots of ways to help you save energy and money. Peco. The future is on. Right now Severe Weather thunderstorms high wind even a Tornado Warning to the north. And tell me why did you this want possessed you to do it. Another cemetery trashed. Families demandin demanding ans. Now, fox 29 news at 10 00. Your fox 29 Weather Authority taking a look at Live Ultimate Doppler Radar on the left and a live look outside in reading on the right. You can see streets look pretty wet. Storms are lighting up parts of our area tonight. Thanks for joining us. Im iain page. Im lucy noland. Lets begin right now with our Weather Authority and meteorologist kathy orr. Wow, we talk earlier this evening about the possibility of rotation in some of these thunderstorms, and we just had Tornado Warning expire in parts of berks, northern chester and northern montgomery counties but it is severe thunderstorm. Heres the line