Veteran rail workers rolled their backhoe on to an active rail line on sunday. Cnn is quoting a source that called it a colossal mistake because the workers their lives and injured scores of people on an amtrak train south of philadelphia. Bruce leshan is live at Union Station recovering after a crash that jammed thousands. Reporter most of the tr ains are running on time. The ntsb is trying to figure out exactly how this could happen and how to keep it from happening again. Trains are moving through a stretch of track in chester, pennsylvania. Speeds can hit more than 100 Miles Per Hour. Amtraks palmetto train gathered speed on sunday when a railcrashed into cc1 based backhoe mistakenly on an active track. It killed one worker and a supervisor on the Construction Equipment and sent 3035 people on the train to the hospital. Im lucky to be alive. I called my Church Members and asked them to pray. s reporter the impact blew out windows on the train and passenger said they saw flames and
40 Miles Per Hour, gaithersburg just had a gust of 5, annapolis at 40. Reagan national gusts to 35 Miles Per Hour. Most locations gusts are under 40 miles an hour. I would wait to clear tree debris until the winds diminish because small branches may still be coming down midmorning. And as you mentioned, last nights storm did cause a lot of damage. And tom mentioned the trees. This is one he tree, that is actually lining near a house in bethesda. And its dangerously close to falling taking down a power pole with it, a telephone line looks like, as well. Lets get to derrick ward, hes live in bethesda where the homeowners are trapped by that tree. Reporter indeed they are. Take a look, as you said, it is leaning on power lines, on to communications wires. Its pole. There are pepco crews on the scene here. As plund, as well, trying to figure out how to take the tree down. But this all started about 2 00 a. M. This morning. We spoke to the homeowner and she said she heard what sounded like
Ward who is live for us in foggy bottom. Reporter good afternoon, jim. We first reported in the 11 00 a. M. Newscast. The gentleman at the center, well, he just got out of the hospital at gw but he told us about his account and weve also spoken to metro and they say theyve got some more investigating to do. Derrick powell feels lucky. Despite the scars on his head and the injury to his back. Im thinking did i really just have to jump off of a train . To save my life . Reporter it was just before 10 00 a. M. Powell says he was rushing to catch the blue line train at Lenfant Plaza station. As he reached the platform, the doors are closing. I stuck my arm in the door to get the door to stay open. So the doors shut on me. Reporter if you ride the train, you have seen train operators do a visual check to see things are clear. Metro said the train operator got an indication the doors were not all closed so the gee give me a quick boom boom, open the door and shut it. The whole time my arm is
That was nba three pointer sho shot. Thats the buzzer. They win, villanova wins at the buzzer. Finished with 14 points, 7774 was final. Marks the teams Second National title. They won in 1985 by beating georgetown. Jenkins adopted brother nate britt plays for unc and they attend gonzaga in unc. Coming up good day 10 a well tubing their dad to get reaction on the game last night. Now this say massive crowd of fans who hit the streets near philadelphia to celebrate the buzzerbeating win. Thousands flooded campus and flooded to nearby neighborhoods and came into the morning hoursz to celebrate this win. It was crazy game. What you dont see from there if you did not watch. I was up for the last minute of the game. You stayed up for the whole thing . Marcus page amazing three point shot is three pointer. I dont know about you i came off the couch. It was craze question. What time did the game end. I stayed up for one tiny moment. I dont do that anymore. My husband doesnt like it either. Oh,
Washington maryland. In fox5s Melanie Alnwick isck on that scene with the latest. Mel, what tull. Reporter what can you tell s county police tell us itsolic stabbing, certainly good news here in aai way, that thet injuries are considered to be nonlifethreatening. The three injured people were taken to the hospital and areosd being treated for theirir injuries. Es we know that it happened rightnt about 2 oclock in the morning. Ing. And Prince Georges Countyin policece responded here, had he, this whole area in front of in the restaurant and lounge and lu taped off. Ta it appears from what we are hearing that there was somethom sort of a large fight involving some a crowd of people. Le we dont fl know if it happened inside and spilled out or ifpili it was contained just to theustt outside of the restauranttaurant area. There is an event that happenst here every sunday night, aight club event with a number off bands and that usually runs and that would be right aboutut the time that patro