Essentially what this is is an automatic override that will enable the train to stop if necessary. Amtrak officials calling it an added layer of safety along the northeast corridor. Over the weekend, the railroad activated its positive train control system on its route between new york city and philadelphia. The system is an automatic speed control system that will automatically apply brakes when a train goes over the speed limit. Last may eight people were killed and 200 injured when an amtrak train bound for penn station derailed in philadelphia traveling 106 Miles Per Hour, more than double the speed limit. After the derailment Congress Mandated that all have the system in place by the end of this year. Congress ended up extending the commuter railroads complained that logistical challenges would make it difficult to implement the technology quickly. To know where every single train is on every inch of our network, this is as fast as we can go. Metro north and new Jersey Transit exp
From there, it was on to the issues. It continues to heat up on the republican side. Donald trump is a jerk. Procrastinators delight. Millions of shoppers packing the stores with five days until christmas. This morning, why those of you who like to wait until the last minute might be in luck. Double trouble. Hillary from 2008. Hillary, hi. Hello, hillary. Hello. Oh, geez, looks like i went through time and space again. Tina fey and amy poehler teaming up on saturday night live with some musical help from the boss. Santa claus is coming to town santa claus is coming to town all the highlights from a special Holiday Edition of snl, today, sunday, december 20th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. We welcome you to today on this sunday morning with one of our favorite songs. Im erica hill. Im harry smith, along with jones. Good morning. How you doing . How is everybody . Like this . Totally planned it. Didnt you do it last weekend, too .
People down. A las vegas hit and run leaves dozens injured. At least one person was killed. The car drove on and off the sidewalk. We have somebody detained. We are treating this as an intentional act. Frontrunner donald trump and Hillary Clinton are setting their sights on each other with clinton saying trump is dangerous for the country. I say she is not Strong Enough to be president. We need a president that can go 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Aban from the sport another eight years. 91 people missing after a landslide. More than 900 people were evacuated. Colombia things got pretty awkward at the end of the Miss Universe pageant. Host steve harvey mistakenly announces the winner. I have to apologize. It was my mistake. Miss philippines is the Miss Universe. Fake bomb on board air France Flight forced an emergency landing. Kenyan people say six people have been detained. All that. Tacoma, washington, a truckdriver down a hill jooied and side and quickly gets out and flees. They ne
Forecast, happy new year. A gorgeous day to start. Temperatures above normal. I hope everybody appreciated that. Right now it is dry a couple clouds moving on through however we are seeing scattered snow showers, the situation a lot different a little windy. 41 degrees with cloudy skies west northwesterly up to 13 mile per hour. Were talking about sustained wind speeds here, a little breezy. A Wider Perspective, showers through parts of erie and jefferson counties. Seeing a little bit of a break in the clouds as a High Pressure system does influence most of the east coast sitting over the Tennessee Valley. Hour by hour forecast, starting at 9 00 a. M. Feel like 35, the actually temperatures. 45 by 3 p. M. , upper 30s. Once again, cloudy skies keep in mind conditions for today well above normal for this time of the year, well see you in just a bit with my full forecast. Thank you very much. It is a officially 2016. New york city ushered in the new year with the biggest celebration in th
Officer Jesse Hartnett back here in new york the nypd is alert. This afternoon all commands received a memo from the nypd chief of counterterrorism reminding them there is a of service face from individuals seeking to start Law Enforcement personnel for a variety of reasons including terrorist motivations. It was about a year ago that officers wenjian liu and rafael ramos were shot and killed inside their patrol car in brooklyn by ishmael brinsley. He took the bus from baltimore on december 20th, 2014, vowing to kill officers as revenge for eric garners death and in paris thursday a man armed with a knife lunged at police there before he was shot and killed. After police in philadelphia caught gunman edward archer, he swore his allegiance to isis. He stated that he pledges his allegiance to islamic state. He follows allah. And that is the reason he was called upon to do this. Reporter police say archer firing then reached inside in an attempt to assassinate officer hartnett. He knew wh