That service on the northeast corridor is currently suspended. Amtrak is confirming that the accident involved the pom met tow train palmetto train 89. Regional rail service is suspended on the newark wilmington line. We have more on air and 6abc. Com. Of course we are tracking the weather, meteorologist source source chris sowers is joining us to look at the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Its been a wild night. Look at this, winds have been gusting 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour. We have all kinds of damage coming in to the weather center. Transformers exploding and trees stuck in hats. Hold on to your hats, better yet dont wear a hat as the wins continue to roar. 49 in reading, wilmington, 44. Atlantic city at the airport, 48. You had gusts earlier this morning around 55. Cape may, 48. Dennisville in Cape May County reported 71mile an hour wind gusts with the storms that whipped through during the overnight hours. Temperatures have dropped off with the passage of the front. 19 in
Run since the paris massacre which killed 130 people. Tonight president obama called to congratulate belgiums Prime Minister who appeared with the french president announcing the news. Abdeslam, one of ten isis members identified by investigators as taking part in the paris attacks, all now either died carrying them out, were killed or captured. He had been on the run from police for four months. The morning after the attacks hes seen on Surveillance Video in northern france at a gas station. He caught aide with friends and then making it through a border checkpoin and into belgium. The manhunt accelerating when his suspected suicide vest was found abandoned in paris later that month. Twice since, once in december and again tuesday, prosecutors said his fingerprints had been found in raids in brussels, and the key breakthrough neighborhood of molembique. A suspect is shot dead after abdeslam was thought to have slipped away but tonight Police Closed in hon him. The top terror suspect w
Big hit, and millions of families who cant get enough. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. A success against terrorism. The words of belgiums Prime Minister after announcing a few hours ago that the only surviving attacker in novembers terror attacks in paris has been taken alive. 130 people died in that awful night last november when isis terrorists massacred concertgoers and patrons at a restaurant. All but one of the attackers were killed within days as the last slipped across the border into belgium, and it was there in a Dramatic Police raid today that elusive suspect was shot and wounded and taken into custody. Nbcs keir simmons has late details from brussels. Reporter gunfire forces aim at a suspect. They drag him to a police car. Hes falled and then bundled into the back and a crowded street close by people flee as more gunfire erupts, and live on Belgian Television an ex
Pipeline from canada. Two men and a historic handshake. The greeting between chinese president xi jinping and tie taiwans leader ma ying jo, a sign of how difficulty this relationshidifficult thisrelatih other mr. Sahil raman has the latest. Its taken over seven decades for the leaders of these two political groups to finally sit together under one roof. The handshake between president xi and president ial ma, a chapter in a very long walk that has seen fraught relationship between the mainland and this island nation. What that means to those in china and in taiwan will be interpreted in the coming days and weeks but certainly for the moment it couldnt have come at a better time for president ma of taiwan. He will soon be heading to National Polls not only for the presidency but in the legislative poll. It seems that the antichina coalition may win for all intents and purposes the next general election. The handshakes the meetings and the conversations they will soon be having behind c
A little boy who vanished 13 years ago in alabama discovered in ohio kidnapped by his father and living under a fake name. How the boy helped find himself. His moms reaction when she found out he was alive and well. And we do say good morning, america, on this friday morning. And what an incredible story. Can you imagine searching for your child for 13 years . No. Wow. Unbelievable. The family is overjoyed right now and i can only imagine as youre talking about what that first hello was like after all that. Well get to that. But right now, lets get right to the steppedup security at the worlds airports. Look at three of the busiest airports in this country this morning, hartsfieldjackson, atlanta, l. A. X. And washington dulles, a crackdown on security involving luggage handling expected there, and at the hundreds of overseas airports that fly directly to the u. S. , as investigators try to figure out what took down that plane in egypt. Abcs brian ross starts us off. Good morning, bria