Good thursday morning. Im Marci Gonzalez reena ninan is on assignment. Hello to you all. Im t. J. Holmes. We begin with the speed factor. This Surveillance Video shows the train zooming down the tracks. Investigatoreors say it was going more than 100 miles an hour double the speed limit. Fiveseven people have been confirmed dead. And five have been identified. This is the engineer. He has no memory of the crash. Lana zak starts our coverage. Reporter we now know that the cause of this accident was due to excessive speed. We know that there are technologies that amtrak has that could have prevented this speed. But at this section of the track, they were not installed. The pain staking process of clearing the tracks in philadelphia is under way. Training lifting and carrying the cars. This morning just two remain. The most heavily damaged. As crews work were learning more about what happened and the people involved including the engineer identified as 32yearold Brandon Bostian of queens,
Two jailed for killing elderly man
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Derek Achong
Two men from Carenage have been sentenced to a total of 51 years in prison for their roles in murdering an elderly man, who attempted to intervene while they were carjacking a taxi driver.
Travis “Footprint” Williams and Leston “Bummie” Solomon pleaded guilty to felony murder in November, last year, but only received their sentences from High Court Judge Althea Alexis-Windsor on Tuesday.
Under the felony murder rule the mandatory death penalty for murder is waived in circumstances where death results during the commission of a lesser criminal offence, which in most cases is robbery.