Urgency here because the busiest route of the country the the northeast corridor cannot get back on line until they finish this work in the Port Richmond section of philadelphia. Wednesday night, the the big story on action news tonight is the latest on americas deadliest train action in almost seven years. And tonight, one of the Big Questions surrounds this man he is Brandon Bostian, of queens, new york. Identified by his lawyer as the engineer, who was at the the controls of the train last night. The ntsb says his train was moving at 106 miles an hour, with a limit was 50. And the words of the mayor Michael Nutter today clearly the engineer was reckless . What was going on in the cab. There is no excuse that could be offered. The death toll now stand at seven, 200 people were treated at a total of ten hospitals. And at least ten people are still in critical condition. Standing by with the latest on all of this our action News Reporter Sharrie Williams Monica Malpass Kenneth Moton an
The curve here at the frankford junction. The speed limit around that curve is 50 miles per hour. The engineer of the train weve learned is 32yearold brandon bostian, as of late last night, philadelphia detectives have told us that theyve interviewed him, took a blood sample as well as his cell phone and started the investigation. However, the ntsb has said it has not yet done an interview with bostian. And a retired worker said the evidence does not look good for the engineer. The car came by fast and he applied the brakes that proves it. Because he went full on it and tried to slow that train down there was no way he was going to slow it down going into that curve. Reporter at this moment Philadelphia Police tell us there are no criminal suspects as far as the investigation is concerned. Of course, this investigation is still early on. The engineers attorney told a National News outlet that his client has no recollection of what happened or anything unusual. Coming up at 5 30 what el
37 degrees. Oh thats a chilly one. Fortyfour in allentown, 43 pottstown, here in the city at 51 but as chris said, bit of breeze making it feel little cooler we wont pull out the windchill map little too late for, that thats wintertime, a 1 degrees in dover delaware these are your wind out of the northwest 13 miles an hour in the city and wilmington, 5 miles an hour in allentown 10mile an hour breeze in atlantic city, 12 in wildwood. So nothing to show this morning, on ultimate doppler radar. We really wont have anything to talk about until tomorrow night. So what to expect . Breezy quite cool this morning, you heard us talking earlier in the week about sweater weather, it is here, then for the rest of the day very nice, seasonable temperatures, showers ahead for the weekend wide willed scattered, will it be a wash out, probably not, but well go through it all with you in our future cast, seven day forecast coming up too. Right now we check go with bob kelly, a lot of Important Informa
Cooler talking sweater weather for today. Nothing on saturday light and radar, to the High Temperature, seasonable 73 degrees, and the breezes will be calming down throughout the afternoon. Then tonight with mostly clear skies we get you to the last weaken before memorial day coming up in a few minutes, bob kelly . 6 01, this thursday morning, and here is the game plan. For mass transit this morning, Amtrak Service still suspended. Same deal as yesterday. Express service on the main line. For anyone who would typically use septas trenton line, coming into philadelphia here are the options that are available this morning. From the trenton station, new Jersey Transit, supplying shuttle buses to the west trenton station all day and all evening. Septa adding extra service on the west trenton Regional Rail line to gave you a opportunity to come into downtown. Thats option one. The other option would be driving to the corn wells height park and ride. Which is right there at 95, and woodhaven
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