The scene may 12th, 2015. First two victims he found were dead, body parts strewn about the wreckage. First car in longer recognizable train, riding in that car was blair ber man, woman on your left, she blacked out and was eject. She eventually regain consciousness and had a crushed heel bone and broken arm. Shes wearing, seen in the for eground in this photo introduced in to evidence. Two people away from her Brandon Bostian the train engineer on his phone, Municipal Court judge mid afternoon dismissed negligence charges against bostian, prosecutors had asserted he was responsible for death of eight people. Today there was justice. Brandon bostian is a good man. His heart breaks for the loss of life in this case and the tragedy that occurred. Reporter story of how charges were filed is a complex narrative, philadelphia d. A. s office turned down the case citing a lack of evidence. Eventually the attorney general filed charges, picking up the case hours before the statute of limitatio
Its open phones. We want to hear from you on any ublic policy issue you want to discuss. Line for democrats. 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. You can start call nothing now. In, want to check in with frances rooney, republican 19th district of ida, the foert my area. Ers, naples congress is a way for the district work week. Todayssman, where are you and what are your plans for this week . Im m in washington today, going back to the district later in the week. Host where are you go week . Giving what will you see . Ill probably go back down to go through the district a little bit. Last week i was there all week of the to every part district, out on boats it see the damage at marco island, in air to see hehiesh the area of lehigh acres and help colleagues the storm. Y host what are immediate needs you are hearing about you saw last week, what will continue week, do you think . The game changer is power, about power. Everything works with power and nothing wo
Listening to your call. Congresswoman, i want to hear about your district but if you heard that she was asking forr legislation on some of these issues that impacted her and what would you say to terry. Caller i am appalled at her story and i think the concern there must be, at this time, after the fact that local authorities should ask immediately particularly for people with abilities but mys point is that shes absolutely right. We must do more in the events of planning for People Living with. Disabilities, Senior Citizens and others who would facebe obstacles. Secu we hear her voice and certainly i want to show her that we will not be cutting medicaid, social security, medicare if any of us can help it and if i can certainly help it. Im opposed to that and i would also say to her that members of congress from texas and florida have committed to working together to assure funding to make her whole and whatever issues with home for it to bent restored either through fema or housing bl
What is expected to be one of the hottest days on record. Is also the hundreds day 100th day of the Trump Presidency and people are concerned. People are here talking about Climate Justice. Last night at a forum at Howard University was a discussion about Climate Justice and climate racism. Climate disruption is the topic everywhere. We are standing in front of the ous kent along where a News Conference is happening, of the leaders who will be marching today. There are thousands. I wanted to start by going to 350. Org. Of good morning. You standing between the capital and the washington monument. Your thoughts on this day and why so many are gathered. It is an important day. It is the 100th day of the Trump Administration. We have seen nothing but bad news for people in the planet. That is why so many will come. Amy who came up with this . That is what is wonderful. It is truly a coming together of labor, health groups, environmentalists, community groups, over 900 organizations are ma
We are leaving this program to take you live to a briefing with greg abbott. We had an extended briefing. During the briefing, i received a telephone call from the fema administrator as well as the secretary of Homeland Security. Talked, in the phone call, about more ways in which the state of texas will be collaborating with fema and with the federal government. That will be part of the material i cover today. We had a long briefing that i will like to break out in a lot of detail because, as you know, there is a lot going on. I will be discussing what is going on in houston, but also covering the ongoing challenges we are dealing with in other parts of the state. Let me start with the weather. You all probably know at have seen a letter briefings about the weather. One thing we are dealing with is basically a triangle of ongoing rain. This stretches 12 but which would be the corporate mysterious up to Travis County over to Chambers County and then back to Corpus Christi. Parts of tho