Eight hours. April track says there is still no exact estimate of when full service will be restored. Inside this station here in wilmington, there are a few people. Some are trying to find an al r alternati alternative. Others have no other choice but to wait. A pole went down. Here we are sitting. Reporter eric and his son are trying to get to washington. This is where they have been sitting for hours. They were hoping for the fast track but wound up stuck. We came here and i said, its crowded in here. We sat and then word started getting around i saw the board. Everything canceled. Reporter some travellers walked in with bags having no idea their ride wasnt coming. It could be morning or afternoon. I can make calls and perhaps work from home today. Reporter bad inconvenience . Yes, yes. Reporter amtrak began posting alerts at 3 30 this morning blaming a Freight Train for knocking down power lines. It caused a ripple affect throughout the northeast corridor. We found long lines at 30
Western suburbs beginning to dry out although the roads might be a little bit wet behind the green. Philadelphia still in the midst of mainly light rain. South jersey now starting to pick up some of that looks like cape play county before too much longer is going to get some and a lot of areas of camden, gloucester, cumberland counties, northern Burlington County close to the river also wet. Looks like allentown is beginning to improve. Temperatures right now are cool again, not quite as bad as yesterday. 61 in philadelphia, 55 in allentown, 56 in reading, 62 in wilmington and 68 in Sea Isle City. As we head out the door to catch that school bus, well, some of you are going to be looking at a spotty shower as you just saw so perhaps rain gear is appropriate depending on which neighborhood youre in. Temp in the low 60s for the next couple hours. As we roll through the day the rain ends later this morning and then we get reemergence of increasing sunshine. By 3 oclock you see a high of 7
Welcome back, everybody. Lets get a check on the day ahead before the day ahead. Secretary of defense and chairman of joint chiefs will appear before the Armed Services committee to discuss the plan to defeat isis. Trump plaza hotel and casino in Atlantic City officially closes its doors today. Another casino shuttering there. That will do it for way too early. Morning joe starts right now. You know, mika, we dont know a lot about the Shooting Range instructor in arizona who was tragically struck down last month, by a 9yearold girl. That horrifying incident obviously brought to light the insane practice of some shooting
ranges that actually let very young kids shoot very powerful weapons. But this morning were getting very glimpse of the very least what kind of a father he was. His own children fought through the grief of losing their dad to reach out to the little girl. We wrote this letter. We dont know your name but were connected by this tragedy. In the news we were just called the
Organization that this is discipli disciplining a child, and whether its an abusive situation or not or whether he went too far disciplining, we feel very strongly that that is the courts decision to make, but we also understand the serio seriousness of abusing children as well. So, peterson himself also released a statement, and it reads in part, i am not a perfect son, i am not a perfect husband, i am not a perfect parent, but i am without a doubt not a child abuser. I am someone that disciplined his child and did not intend to cause him any injury. No one can understand the hurt that i feel for my son and for the harm i caused him. Petersons lawyer says a report involving another investigation into the football star is from two years ago and was never substantiated. But amid the new accusations, the Radisson Hotel chain is suspending a limited sponsorship deal with the vikings. And you may have noticed on that stepandrepeat that was behind, on the banner there, the radissons name ap