Reporter somehow, no one on the interstate was killed. The train was traveling a new route for the very first time today. It was a new highspeed route that local leaders warned could be dangerous. Recovery crews are expected to be out there until late this evening. Right now theres no word on what caused the crash but investigators will look at the cause. The ntsb is now investigating and it could be a year before we finally have an official cause of the derailment. Jim . Harry hairston in our breaking news center. Todays derailment comes more than two years after a similar crash in our area. Eight people were killed in may of 2015 when an amtrak train from washington, d. C. , to new york derailed in philadelphias Port Richmond section. The train was traveling more than 100 Miles Per Hour in a 50mileperhour speed zone. Our coverage continues on nbc nightly news with lester holt. They will have the latest on the rescues as well as the investigation at 6 30. Here at home, Sexual Miscondu
Mesa. Evacuations there. This all started three hours ago. Just within the past 30 minutes, this was interesting to see. Police escorting dozens of drivers back into the fire scene. They had fled the scene. Now theyre escorted back. Theyre attempting to match up people and cars. For those vehicles still drivable. This is a change process is. Something we cant recall ever seeing. Were still waiting to hear the amount and extent of any injuries. You can keep watching our live footage from Southern California on our nbc bay area app and also stay updated on twitter and facebook pages. Now to local news. Demand for change or political ploy . That is the question as employees take aim at their boss. The sheriff taking more heat about the murder of kate steinle. The union just filed an official grievance against the sheriff over the citys sanctuary policy. Reporter janelle, the sheriff has been in the hot seat for handling of the pier 14 shooting suspect. The timing of grievance from Sheriff
Caused major delays for thousands of people. News 4 ras Darcy Spencer is li at reagan talking to people. The good news is the Technical Glitch has been fixed. The bad news is, there is still major delays. Take a look here behind me. We are at Reagan National airport outside the u. S. Airways ticket counter. You can see crowds of people. This is not what you normally see on a saturday evening. People are frustrated. Theyre confused trying to figure out if theyre going to be able to get on a plane today. Now lets go to some video. The problem started at an air Traffic Control center in leesburg earlier this morning that caused some ground stops, again delays, cancellations, the problem was resolved right around 4 00 this afternoon, but there is this huge backlog now. Thats what were seeing at the airport. Some flights were even diverted around washington. Some are being told that they are going to have to wait as late as monday to get their flight. We wanted to go to tampa and our flight
Welcome to bbc news. The Public Sector pay cap a measure thats been at the heart of austerity policies for seven years is to be scrapped. The cap currently limits pay increases to just 1 . But this year, prison officers will get a rise of 1. 7 and Police Officers will get an increase of 1 plus a further 1 bonus. Millions of other workers will have to wait till next year to see if they too get a bigger rise. Trade unions have already called the pay rises for police and prison officers derisory. Would you fancy theirjob . Today, routine duty at the tuc, but trouble is always around the corner and now its come closer. Police get a rise to attract new recruits. So do prison officers and others workers will as well, above the pay cap but onlyjust. Today, the government took the latest pay recommendations and shared the news. The pay cap was finally ending, so more pay for Public Sector workers where rises were judged necessary. We need to strike a balance between being fair to Public Sector
We will be hearing from home secretary amber rudd shortly. She will update is on the situation, there was a corporate emergency meeting earlier today across the lunchtime period. We will hopefully getan lunchtime period. We will hopefully get an update on that a cobra meeting. An 18 year old man has been arrested in the port town of dover. He was arrested at 750 this morning. The latest development, as we mentioned, police have evacuated an area around and address as you can see on the screen, around an address in sunbury on thames. Lets just listen to what the home secretary, amber rudd, has been saying. Hon secretary, can i ask you first, you have chaired a cobra meeting this afternoon. What can you tell us about that. I have just chaired a meeting of officials at cobra. I was given an update and ive spoken to the Prime Minister who i was able to give an update to. Please have made Good Progress, today they arrested an 18 year old man in dover, hes been kept in custody and later toda