10 app as well as for commuters, youll also want to check our app for the latest on delays and scheduled changes. Right now septa bus routes are being detoured and patco is on a snow schedule. We just got this in. The philadelphia public and parochial schools are canceled today. They are closed. As the rain changes to snow throughout our area this morning, the conditions on the roads could get tricky. As you saw storm force 10 was out checking on the streets. Giving you a firsthand look at what theyre like right now. Our team of reporters and photographers spread out across the area monitoring conditions in pennsylvania new jersey and delaware and in the studios tracking the storm and the travel impact. Lets begin with meteorologist Brittney Shipp and get an update on this storm. Thats right. We are tracking the changeover from rain to snow. And as we head into the next couple of hours, well continue to see that rain snow line transitioning closer to the shore and parts of south jersey
Blues icon b. B. King dies overnight. Well remember the man and his music today. Friday may 15th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning and for music fans all around the world, it is a sad friday morning. B. B. King what a legend. And he has passed and i think all of us are saying oh my gosh he contributed so much to the world of music. I looked at my phone and my library of music, ive got 63 b. B. King songs on there. Well talk about his life coming up. But we want to start with this breaking news. That u. S. Marine chopper missing for three days has been found in the mountains in nepal. Jik miklaszewski has the latest. What can you tell us . Reporter after a search in the air and on the ground this is the discovery the u. S. Marines worried about from the beginning. They found it on the side of the mountain where it had crashed three days ago and
Here tonight. Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a thursday night. And we begin with that headline breaking from philadelphia. Federal investigators just moments ago revealing that sudden acceleration just before the amtrak train derailed. These images of the crash site from above, where three cars there on their side another nearly flipped. One of those cars virtually incinerated. Tonight, the death toll rising to eight. They believe the rest of the missing now accounted for. And tonight here an abc news exclusive. The lawyer for the engineer on what his client remembers. And this evening, weve learned that engineer now agreeing to talk to federal investigators. Were going to begin with that new piece of information, authorities says the train was going more than 100 Miles Per Hour and that it sped up moments before the crash. Abcs david kerley takes us right up to those tracks. Reporter today, we walked onto the tracks. Eight lives lost here. Amtrak asking us not
Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a thursday night. And we begin with that headline breaking from philadelphia. Federal investigators just moments ago revealing that sudden acceleration just before the amtrak train derailed. These images of the crash site from above, where three cars there on their side another nearly flipped. One of those cars virtually incinerated. Tonight, the death toll rising to eight. They believe the rest of the missing now accounted for. And tonight here an abc news exclusive. The lawyer for the engineer on what his client remembers. And this evening, weve learned that engineer now agreeing to talk to federal investigators. Were going to begin with that new piece of information, authorities says the train was going more than 100 Miles Per Hour and that it sped up moments before the crash. Abcs david kerley takes us right up to those tracks. Reporter today, we walked onto the tracks. Eight lives lost here. Amtrak asking us not to focus on t
Quorum call from schumer mr. President , i ask unanimous consent the quorum be are we in a quorum call, mr. President . The presiding officer we are. Mr. Schumer i ask unanimous i s consent the quorum be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer mr. President , i rise today to talk about one of the most recent American Transportation Success Stories amtraks northeast corridor, and how congress can help it grow. First, however, id like to thank two great leaders on the Senate Appropriations committee. First our chair, barbara mikulski. Shes from the northeast corridor. I often stop by in baltimore as i take the train from new york to washington. And she has been a staunch defender of amtrak from the day she got here. And to chairman murray. Chairman murray is chairman of the transportation subcommittee. She is not from the northeast corridor, and, of course, cares very much about amtrak across the nation and has been a defender of those of us who care about am