Christmas. Early today starts right now. Good morning, im phillip mena. Im frances rivera. It was a first day gone wrong for a new highspeed amtrak line in Washington State. Three people were killed and about two dozen injured when an inaugural train derailed off the bridge and crashing into the highway below. It happened in tacoma in the city of dupont during the morning rush. Passengers on board later described the harrowing scene. Things just started to tip over and as it was going around and then all of a sudden just ended up on side and everything went dark and stuff started flying around and that was it. Then it stopped. The cause of the crash is under investigation, but Authorities Say speed may have been a factor. Nbcs scott cohn is in dupont with more for us. Scott, good morning. Reporter good morning, phillip. We do know that more now about the speed thanks to the National Transportation safety board which is now onsite. They have been able to download the information from th
Early today starts right now. Good morning, im phillip mena. Im frances rivera. It was a first day gone wrong for a new highspeed amtrak line in Washington State. Three people were killed and about two dozen injured when an inaugural train derailed off the bridge and crashing into the highway below. It happened in tacoma in the city of dupont during the morning rush. Passengers on board later described the harrowing scene. Things just started to tip over and as it was going around and then all of a sudden just ended up on side and everything went dark and stuff started flying around and that was it. Then it stopped. The cause of the crash is under investigation, but Authorities Say speed may have been a factor. Nbcs scott cohn is in dupont with more for us. Scott, good morning. Reporter good morning, phillip. We do know that more now about the speed thanks to the National Transportation safety board which is now onsite. They have been able to download the information from the black box
This morning. Starting with the bay bridge. will live look now at the richmond bridge. will time to check the san mateo bridge. Heres a live look at highway 24 in lafayette darya our top story this morning. A somber week for chp officers. Who are mourning the death of one of their own. 33yearold Andrew Camilleri lost his life while trying to protect others on Christmas Eve. His body was returned back to his hometown of tracy yesterday. Officer camilleri leaves behind a wife and three young kids. He was killed by a suspected drunk driver while on patrol on interstate 880 in hayward. The 22yearold suspect remains hospitalized and has not yet been publicly identified. Kron 4s Spencer Blake was in tracy talked to people who knew the fallen officer. reporter tuesday afternoon that procession of chp and other Law Enforcement vehicles had sirens blaring as they accompanied the body of fallen chp officer Andrew Camilleri. nats of sirens despite the loud wailing, this somber line of cars had a
will will live look now at the richmond bridge. will time to check the san mateo bridge. In our top story this morning. Its been a somber week for chp officers. Who are mourning the death of one of their own. 33yearold Andrew Camilleri lost his life while trying to protect others on Christmas Eve. Yesterday his body was returned back to his hometown of tracy. Officer camilleri leaves behind a wife and three young kids. He was killed by a suspected drunk driver while on patrol on interstate 880 in hayward. The 22yearold suspect remains hospitalized and has not yet been publicly identified. Today kron4s Spencer Blake was in tracy talked to people who knew the fallen officer. reporter tuesday afternoon that procession of chp and other Law Enforcement vehicles had sirens blaring as they accompanied the body of fallen chp officer Andrew Camilleri. nats of sirens despite the loud wailing, this somber line of cars had a reverence about it. People in tracy came to join officers, firefighters,
Online at cspan. Org. We will take eli back to u. S. Senate with a couple of judicial nomination both coming up and live coverage here on cspan2. P stepped down, creating two vacancies. These has resulted in increased caseloads for the two judges. Things are almost as bad in tennessees Western District. Fortunately help is on the way. In july of last year chip campbell was elected to serve and tommy parker to serve. Im pleased to see that the president nominated such qualified individuals. I thank tom mccain for working with us. Senator corker recommend both positions. Ee lie richardson and mark norris is also nominated. Todays votes are a good start. Chip campbell and tommy parker will be assets to the federal bench. Tennessee is fortunate to have such wellqualified nominees. They are men of good character, good temperament, and today i encourage my colleagues to support their nominations. I thank the president. The presiding officer under the previous order, all postcloture time is c