On the ground. Is everybody okay . Im still figuring that out. We have cars everywhere. Down on to the highway. Lindsey this is a new train route for this train. Todays voyage was the inaugural run. Part of a 181 million project. The ntsb will no doubt take a close look at the project as well as interviewing and operating the amtrak train. You can see a live picture of what is going on there right now. A team is headed from here in d. C. To that crash site right now. At the live desk, lindsey mastis. Jonathan thank you very much. Look at the map. When you see the green line, that is the old route. The orange line is the new one that opened this morning. This was the inaugural run and meant to reduce sharp curves and enable the train to speed up. The train was going 81 m the Washington State project had the max speeds of 79 miles per hour. We dont know at this point if the speed was a factor in the derailment. This rail project cost more than 180 million. You know there were cars on bot
In the other part. By that time the ambulance was coming. He does not believe the train was speeding at the time it derailed. Speed is often a factor the ntsb looks into as it determines a cause. In the coming days, we will continue to keep you posted with updates from Washington State throughout this evening. Incredible, so many people walked away from that. Now to a story youll see first on 4 00 here. A tragedy involving a local doctor and his family days before christmas. We learned that doctor and his daughter were killed in a plane crash over the weekend in indiana. Pat collins is live for us in bethesda with that story. Pat . Reporter jim, for more than two decades, he was a top doctor at this prestigious medical school. He researched drugs to determine which ones might harm us and which ones might make us better. To be better doctors. And now with his sudden death, a great sense of sorrow here. Dr. Louis cana lina, he had both an m. D. And ph. D. And pilots license. He was a top
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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
This bill without having doing any Due Diligence, without having consulted any experts. It is about as irresponsible a ways to create policies and law as anyone could possibly think of. Woodruff plus, a bittersweet celebration after isis goes yazidis unite for a religious festival amid memories of genocide and missing family members. The religious practices of the Yazidi Community are some of the oldest in the world, and with so many members of the community leaving the country, traditions like this are in danger of dying out. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Carnegie corporation of new york. Supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement of International Peace and security. At carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these in