Audience so you can all engage us, but we can talk a lot about this, as we do not often get to be in a room with one another to discuss this. I will get to the panelists in the order that they are here. First up will be jennifer, the predoctoral fellow in history at the university of illinois at chicago. She earned her ba from North Carolina university. She earned an ma in history from the university of North Carolina at greensboro. She is a former faculty member at city college and has taught history at several institutions. Her dissertation traces the history of gender and sexuality. Through the 1950s through the early 2000s. At the heart is the resistance and activism of young women and lgbt students. They are examined as forces that challenge administrative policies, academic offerings and cultural institutions at historically black colleges. Through organizing this with activism on several grounds beginning with the modern Civil Rights Movement and ending with campaigns around ant
Down. Just seemed like theres always something happening around this area. Reporter lauer roo reid never expected to see something horrible like this. Passenger train cars toppled from the tracks. Down on top of traffic that was flowing below. When we got to the scene, it was obvious that there were some fatalities and there were a lot of injuries and some people were able to get off the train. Reporter those people taken away in ambulances or standing wrapped in blankets along the road. About 40 miles from the seattle amtrak station where they boarded the very first run of a faster new route. Multiple cars and trucks were struck by train cars that left the train tracks and went down on to the road. Its terrible thing. Very upsetting even though when you seat pictures its pretty horrific at this point nobody in any of the vehicles is a fatal. Fatals are contained to the train. Reporter emergency crews saying there was no one angle to make out here. Just what commuters on the train and
. Oat action news, delaware valleys leading news program with jim gardner. Its monday night. The big story on action news is a big question. What caused a new seattle to portland train to jump the tracks today sending the cars to the highway below killing three and injuring a hundred more. Marcy gonzales is live near the crash. Good evening. Part of the highway is still shut down. You can see bumper to bumper traffic on i5 as investigators work into the night investigating. The car dangling is part of the aftermath of the crash that killed three people and injured more than a hundred others. Emergency, we are on the ground. All but one of the cars careening off of the track in washington, several crashing on to the highway below during the morning rush. Things started tipping over and everything went dark. The train started to wobble for a moment, and then we were catapulted at the seats in front of us. Chris onboard for the inaugural run of the newer faster run. After 7 30 a. M. , loc
This is has been a difficult rescue mission as crews struggle to try to get into those crash train cars still dangling over the highway. Amtrak train 501 is still dangling from an overpass tonight after it derailed in Washington State just outside of tacoma this morning. Five crew members and 78 passengers were on board. Three were killed. When i stepped out i didnt really realize i was standing on train car. Reporter Emma Schaeffer is one passenger who had no idea something was wrong until she woke up in different place than where she was originally seated. I was thrown from my seat. You were throw thrown, into the other seats. Okay. Because i was taking a nap at the time actually. Reporter horrific seen shows train cars crushing cars that were driving on the highway below. Multiple cars and trucks were struck by train cars that left the train tracks went down on to the road. Reporter investigators say self people on the ground were hurt but the deaths were all people on the train in
The highway below killing three and injuring a hundred more. Marcy gonzales is live near the crash. Good evening. Part of the highway is still shut down. You can see bumper to bumper traffic on i5 as investigators work into the night investigating. The car dangling is part of the aftermath of the crash that killed three people and injured more than a hundred others. Emergency, we are on the ground. All but one of the cars careening off of the track in washington, several crashing on tohe highway below during the morning rush. Thingstarted tipping over and everything went dark. The train started to wobble for a moment, and then we were catapulted at the seats in front of chris onboard for the inaugural run of the newer faster run. And 12 cars with 86 passengerate and crew lunge at the and plunge over both sides of t overpass. Is everybody okay . That is the story from duponte, for ourre it was eerily reminiscent of the deadly amtrak accident may 12, 2015, amtrak 188 went off the track g