Train control. In fact no nj transit trains have it. The transit agencies has until december of 218 to install it on all of its trains. Now before ntsb investigators can even get up close to most of that train, crews need to secure the station. The impact of the train sent parts of the buildings roof crashing down and asbestos among other things is a big concern. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live in hoboken, chris, a long night ahead for crews there. Reporter thats right, lucy. Federal investigators with the ntsb are on scene here in hoboken. They will begin the long task of figuring out what caused this deadly crash. Men while, this train station you see behind me still very an active scene. People who use this station every day very busy station right across the hudson river from manhattan are still stunn stunned. Call it fate but if Brendan Mcclellan didnt leave for work a half hour early this morning he would have been inside the hoboken train station when the new Jersey Transit train
The train did not have positive train control. In fact no nj transit trains have it. The transit agencies has until december of 218 to install it on all of its trains. Now before ntsb investigators can even get up close to most of that train, crews need to secure the station. The impact of the train sent parts of the buildings roof crashing down and asbestos among other things is a big concern. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live in hoboken, chris, a long night ahead for crews there. Reporter thats right, lucy. Federal investigators with the ntsb are on scene here in hoboken. They will begin the long task of figuring out what caused this deadly crash. Men while, this train station you see behind me still very an active scene. People who use this station every day very busy station right across the hudson river from manhattan are still stunn stunned. Call it fate but if Brendan Mcclellan didnt leave for work a half hour early this morning he would have been inside the hoboken train station w
It was a boom after boom after boom. One after the other. Had to have been like six to eight booms. Reporter it was just after 11 00 this morning when a tanker truck lost control onramp from route 90 to route 130 near the betsy ross bridge dumping nearly 8,000 gallons of gasoline. The fire ball was massive spewing thick black smoke even scene coming out of nearby storm drains. Driver was able to escape. No word at this point on what caused the crash but the ramp is just feet from homes and neighbors say accidents happen here all the time. Watching tv and nervous you hear bang you look out the thing and theres car stopped right before this two days ago one did it. Theres always accidents back there but never a ball of fire like that. Reporter neighbor Marissa Clemons through on her bathtub grabbed her dog and ran for her life. I her bank, bang, bang, bang four explosions big. Like i said i look out and the sky was so black i thought i didnt know what was happening. Firefighters eventual
Flight, an air canada flight, arrived in that very terminal on a flight from alaska earlier today, that he waited for his luggage along with the other passengers on that flight, that he retrieved his bags where he had checked firearms. These are firearms that you can legally check with the airline. And he legally was able to do that. He went to a bathroom, retrieved the firearm and came back out and started shooting. According to the initial investigations, it doesnt appear that he was targeting anyone in particular. He appeared to be shooting ram donnelly. There was no rym or reason to the shooting. But it appears that a lot of the people who he would have shot and some of the people that were killed might have been some of the passengers that were on this flight. Again, he came on a flight, an air canada flight were told, that came from alaska and landed earlier at ft. Lauderdale international airport. Again, this is a twist on something weve never seen before. Again, weve seen shoot
Strength from the impeachment battle. A slight jump in the president s job approval. He is at 45 for november. That is up 3 points from the previous month. As disapproval of his Job Performance goes down from 57 to 53. Maybe even more important for the president , these new poll numbers also show almost no change in Public Opinion on impeachment since the inquiry began. Currently about 50 of voters say the president should be impeached and removed from office, basically no change in public sentiment despite all hearings, subpoenas and depositions. 4 favor impeachment without removal from office. 41 remain totally opposed to the ongoing proceedings which may explain were there are reports now that one democrat who opposed inquiry, Jeff Van Drew of new jersey is switching parties, officially becoming a republican this week. All this happening at the end of a week where we saw major victories for the president on his agenda, including phase one of the china trade deal. Well get breaking d