human smugglers putting people back in trailer rigs has happened in the past. 2003, 19 illegal immigrants suffocated to death near victoria, texas. 2014, 40 people were rescued from inside a tractor-trailer rig and also, most recently, in july, about 12 people rescued from from one of those tractor-trailer rigs. this is something we have seen before. this is a known smuggling route, especially since that is the segment of interstate runs from the u.s./mexico border and would spread out through a network throughout the country. this is something that we have seen before. however, in this case, now eight people confirmed dead with dozens of others currently being treated in local hospitals in san antonio. back to you. thank you, pablo. with us on the phone is henry valdes who was at the scene. thank you for speaking with you,
a slight uptick in number of highway rail accidents. look at this graphic here. the, the statistic actually dipped slightly in 2012 but then it went up to 2280 in 2014. between the years of 2011 and 2014 there were a total of 8,422 highway rail accidents. 473 of them involved amtrak passenger trains. then, when you look at at these highway rail accidents, most of them involve automobiles, standard cars tractor-trailer rigs, come in as a distant second martha? martha: wonder if distraction has anything to do with this. jonathan, thank you very much. bill: we are hearing from democratic sources that hillary clinton will address the issue of her private emails and server today. this is as we get new questions about what the white house new amid growing controversy. back on that story, top of the
killed when a tree fell on top of his home. straight-line winds peaking at 80 miles an hour also blew a train off the tracks in the northeastern part of arkansas. about 30 cargo boxes fell from the train. the winds blew a half dozen tractor-trailer rigs, as well. check this out. time-lapse video of the severe weather caught by a tower cam in jonesboro, arkansas. look at this. wow! those winds were powerful enough to pick up an all-terrain vehicle there and slammed it so hard in to the side of the building it got stuck hanging two stories up. here s a look at today s weather. a system of severe storms will blanket nearly the entire midwest with a large band stretching through the south. a few showers possible over northern new england. otherwise, the rest of the nation should be clear and dry. summer-like over the rockies and scorching in the southwest. phoenix will be up to 108 degrees again today with temperatures in the 80s and 90s across most of the south and cooler in the n
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prevent this tragedy? we re asking allen whitman, joining me live in about 30 minutes. and it s a deep freeze for the deep south this morning, the region locked in the cold embrace of a snow, sleet and ice storm, traveling either by air or highway, prove to go be challenging and treacherous. hundreds of flights in the region canceled. these pictures came to us from ireporter david raid right here in atlanta. schools and businesses closed across the south. just last hour, we heard from the arkansas state patrol. a dozen tractor-trailer rigs blocking one interstate near little rock. rob marciano just across the street from our headquarters in centennial park. rob, how is it looking now? still cold, still below freezing. we re still getting some moisture. so that is the bad news. the good news is that part of this, the back edge of it is within sight. but the damage done here in atlanta and other cities across