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their lungs are still developing. the surgeon general is calling this a youth e-cigarette epidemic. david? adrienne bankert reporting in tonight. thank you. we are also following emergency evacuations under way tonight after a major train derailment near st. louis. here are the pictures. at least 18 cars off the tracks carrying flammable liquid, catching fire. thick black smoke rising into the sky. nearby neighborhoods and schools have been evacuated, and a special hazmat team has rushed to the scene. here s abc s alex perez. reporter: the sky-high flames and billowing black smoke could be seen for miles. all members respond for a train derailment with fire. reporter: a union pacific freight train in southern illinois, just outside of st. louis, derailing at about 12:45 this afternoon. 18 cars jumping the tracks. crews racing to the scene, battling the flames, coping with 90-degree temperatures and strong fumes. i m trying to get somebody on that scene, just to try to make
southeastern wyoming. a union pacific freight train crashed into the back of another freight train. no hazardous materials were on either train. the national transport safety board is investigating. up next an unemployment number we have not seen since we put a man on the moon. beyond our borders. india made a deal with russia to buy 5 defense systems. it was signed today by russia putin and the india prime minister. a south korea court sentenced a former president to 15 years in jail. he has one week to appeal. his successor is serving 33 years in a separate corruption scandal.
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is still recovering. they are waiting to speak with them as well as look at this track to see what else they can learn. andrea? and to you. what about positive train control. we knew it was not available in philadelphia on that curve and was then put in. isn t it supposed to be required? wasn t it congressionally mandated? that s right. in 2008 after the crash involving a metrolink train and a union pacific freight train that killed 25, congressmandated the pbc be implemented and they gave them seven years. when it came to the window they weren t going to get it done, they extended the deadline, essentially kicking the can down the road and leaving those train lines vulnerable. positive train control can prevent overspeed and train-to-train collisions. this is a newly upgraded track for this new rail run. so why wouldn t it have been put