And will stay close and due to damage on the bridge and the roadway as well as the need for investigators and responders to work in that area. Just before noon, the National Transportation safety board held a News Conference saying the chief investigator will bring an entire team. Is accompanied by staff with expertise in operations, mechanical, track, signals, Human Performance and survival factors. The train was traveling on a newly laid section of tracks as part of an 800 million rail improvement project. The old route traveled along puget sound was too curvy for speeds as evidenced by this derailment and all tracks last july. He was carrying 267 passengers injuring several of them. According to the railroad administration, laster there were 8800 train accidents in the us causing 700 fatalities and 6500 injuries. He says the primary defendants for wrongful deaths and many injuries will be amtrak the spanish train manufacturer, and the company that owns the tracks often a major freight rail company. Often times it can be maintenance of equipment, the tracks, and it could be human error. It will be up to the ntsb to determine the probable cause in an industry that doesnt get a lot of independent regulation. Those rules and regulations are created by the industry themselves. In policing themselves and making sure that the regulations are are adhered to in the industry our self policing itself. The entire team will be on site by the this evening to look at all the issues and interview the witnesses. They will take their time up to a year to make a final determination of the most probable cause. President trump reacted to todays derailment by calling on congress to approve a new infrastructure plan. Our deepest sympathies and heartfelt prayers for the victims of the Train Derailment in washington state. We are closely monitoring the situation and coordinating with local authorities. It is more the reason why we must start to fix the infrastructure of the United States. Theres no word on a definitive cause of the derailment. Crumbling infrastructure can probably be ruled out and the derailment happened on new tracks. Part of our 180 million project that includes a construction of the new amtrak station in tacoma. Another deadly derailment in philadelphia, eight people died there and dozens were injured when train heading for new york came off the track two and half years ago. They determined the derailment was caused when the train was going to fast around the curb. A Safety System called positive train control with causes it to slow down may have prevented that derailment. Its rolling out the system nationwide next year and just last month another amtrak train derailed in chester, pennsylvania killing 2 workers. They concluded the accident was the result of what they called a quote poor Safety Culture at amtrak. A Police Sergeant was accused of firing shots inside a high and has San Francisco hotel. There are reports he was acting strangely at the hotel . Reporter witnesses said he spoke of spirits and wandered around and fired shots and his defense attorney tells me his behaviors a jesse was having a Mental Health episode. Ktvu learned that Sergeant Philip sanchez and nine year richmond veteran is accused of firing numerous shots at the hotel in San Francisco. It began before 5 am sunday when Hotel Security contacted police. Sanchez was wandering through the hotel and his wife was concerned about him. Security he does not want to go inside. The suspect is a Richmond Police officer. Police surrounded the hotel on market street. Sanchez around her surrendered at about 630. They recovered a handgun and shell casing. He was taken to the hospital for medical evaluation and could Face Criminal Charges in San Francisco and disciplinary action by police. Our office ofs professional accountability will investigate and however way the investigation falls is what we determine whats going to happen. A former coworker and attorney tells ktvu said the incident is out of character for him. It was a dangerous situation. John burse said he poses a danger to the public. I have concerns about is his Mental Health. Whether this is a person who should be carrying a gun at all. If you are in fact firing a gun off duty, randomly. The officer is doing okay considering what occurred. Were just happy or glad that or relieved that nobody was hurt from this incident. Hotel official says at Four Seasons HotelSan Francisco, the safety and security of our dozen employees is our top priority, we can confirm the situation occurred the morning is december 17 involving a guest of the hotel. The sergeant has posted 290,000 bail on force felony including assault of a firearm and discharging a gun and the defense attorney tells me he was able to meet with the sergeant briefly yesterday and that he was crying and seem to be the older. To be bewildered. The medical Examiners Office confirmed that San Francisco mayor ed lee died of a heart attack, he collapsed at a Safeway Grocery store near his home last week and later died in the hospital. He was the first asianamerican mayor of the city he was remembered for his humility, integrity and infectious smile. His wife into daughters joined staff and at that memorial. A petition gathered more than 7000 signatures renaming Embarcadero Plaza after mayor ed lee. They voted 111 to remove the name of herman from the plaza. That no formal petition to renaming it has been submitted to them. More fallout from Sexual Misconduct allegation against a man a position of power. A federal judge and the ninth circuit says he is stepping down. Also today fox news rick levin told tells us the owner of the panthers is facing accusations is going to sell his team. Carolina found panthers founder and principal owner announces the plan to sell the team at the end of the season amid reports he gave payouts to for former employees to settle claims of misconduct and racial slurs. Circuits of creating a hostile work environment, Us Ninth Circuit Court of appeals judge judge Alex Kozinski immediately removing himself from the ranch. Richardson and judge Alex Kozinski are 2 high profile names to step down. Senator al franken said he will resign earlier this month. Questioning whether to the push to clean house might be premature in some cases. Joe mansion said that the accused also deserved to process. They are just i am not going to be jury and judge but the person has to have a process. Rose my galan who said she was raped by Harvey Weinstein in 97 is lashing out at the Golden Globes. Firing an angry treat at our increases planning to wear all black at the what shall. In response to the tidal wave of allegations in the entertainment industry. My galan trading actresses that meryl streep who happily work for the pig monster are wearing black at Golden Globes in a silent protest. Your silence is the problem. You will accept the fake award breathlessly and no real change i despise your hypocrisy. With a rash of accusations, and he to handle as been tapped to lead a commission to fight Sexual Misconduct in the industry. The warriors steph curry said he wants in if hiphop mogul sean combs by the Carolina PanthersFootball Team. Heres curry street former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick also tweeted i want in on the ownership group, lets make it happen. You heard a oneyearold Jerry Richardson said the team will not be taking any office until the last game of the season is played. An arsonist at work in san jose . The details on the 20 fire set on one area on a key republican set to vote yes the bill and details to get the support. Wheres the rain question mark we have some dry conditions continuing out there and there are some sprinkles or showers in the we will talk about that after the break. Fox news doug mcelwee tells us the president says one of the main goals is to defend the us homeland including building is warmest border wall with mexico. America is coming back and america is coming back strong. President trump laying out his vision to put the National Security first. This strategy recognizes that whether or we like it or not we are engaged in a new era of competition. Making the case that Economic Security is key to National Security. That alliances with the United States must be fair and reciprocal. Any nation that trades away its prosperity for security will end up losing both. Greatest threats to the United States today, the president stress not just rogue regimes like north korea but also here at home. This strategy recognizes that we cannot secure the nation if we do not secure our borders. As a result, the strategy to be presented to congress includes calling for building a wall along the southern border. If we rediscover our resolve and commit ourselves to compete and win again, then together we will leave our children and grandchildren a nation that stronger, better, freer and prouder and yes, an america that is greater then ever before. The president speech emphasized improving the nations infrastructure and reference todays highspeed Train Derailment as an example wife he plans to be his plans must be approved. Mr. Trump offered his condolences to the victims it appears the republican tax bill is much closer to passage with the support of a key moderate, senators Susan Collins of maine said today she will vote for the bill. She said with a several provision she fought for including deductions for state and local income and property taxes are included in this revised bill. Republicans having slim 5248 majority, 51 point boats is an up for passage. Senator john mccain is expected to miss the the vote. Hes spending time at home as he battles brain cancer. Is looking forward to having heading back home to arizona for the holidays and thanks to everyone who has been sending pots and prayers. He remains with the top remains as the toughest man man on the earth as you know. The bill will cut taxes on average and all income groups and the wealthy will see much bigger reductions. People owning the will see an average tax cut of 60. Over one 49,000, reduction of 706 those making 730 will get a cut of more than 51,000. Power has been fully restored at the Busiest Airport in atlanta. Georgia power investigating what may have caused the outage of hartsfield international. They think it was caused by a burnt out cable in an underground facility. The outage canceled hundreds and hundreds of flights and left thousands and thousands of passengers stranded all across the country. When you think about the event its, we understand inconvenience from our standpoint we apologize of what occurred and we are working tirelessly to make sure we are get back up in operation and looking at how we prevent it going forward. Some plan some planes set on the tarmac for more than six hours. It was no evidence the fire was deliberately cause. Operations at San Francisco were completely back to normal after the ripple of fact. The solitude departures canceled and three arrivals were also canceled. Oakland saw no impact and two flights were impacted in san jose. We only look at the weather, and we see how we could have the Ripple Effect and here it is, a major outage that left so many stranded. Its like a dallas goes bad , chicago goes bad. Its a Ripple Effect, feedback group. Atlanta is up and going and you can count on flight delays based on what happened today. Checking all the airports and this is when everybody is traveling. Not a bad little sign. We have zero minutes delay in the various airports. Atlanta, wichita, denver, San Francisco, boston not too far too bad. Thats today, things will be different on wednesday and inclement weather in the southeast. Not bad travel plan for many folks. This is the week. I guess its all varies. Temperatures warmed up a bit on the east coast, this is the forecast high for tomorrow this area, not doing well. We have snow in dallas last week. Now the real cold is up here in the northern plains. So there you go, if you are heading back to sioux falls you will look at high temperatures in the upper 30s through the week. Clouds streaming in and we have a chance of perhaps a few sprinkles and does not appear to be anything that will get us ahead in thrainfa brackets but it will be wet. Were going to choose the night wednesday morning, look up in Pacific Northwest and you see some showers, its been alluding is, december has been a record dry december. For many parts for everybody basically. Temperatures are little cooler, air quality not so great, a bit hazy, you can see that this time of night we see the sunset and it gets a school glow. Reflective panels and you get the cool golden shimmer. There it is, prettiest city in the world with air quality issues. Not anticipating bad air quality necessarily but its a stable atmosphere and the winds back off since the weekend and temperatures will go down tonight in the mid30s maybe fog, frosted and new sure usual spots. Fairfield could be as low as 30. Santa rosa 34. Thats for tuesday. Tuesday night and wednesday chance for sprinkles. When i come back, tomorrow will be just like today. Temperatures low 60s and next we will look at the rain for sprinkles that will show up. As we head into tuesday night Late Wednesday morning. Still to come firefighters in san jose had their hands full this past week, 20 suspicious fires possibly the work of an arson. Coming up, even though the fires had been small, theres a lot of concern about what the dry and windy conditions could do. Coming up, a major break in the flare gun attacks on several homes in the east bay caught on home Surveillance Footage still had the arrest made by san ramon police. We might be getting who might be interested in running for mayor of San Francisco. [ splash ] [ horn sounds ] dang ok, i gotta run. Hey, wait, theres something i need to tell you dang. Dang dang dang. Dang. See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. Firefighters on the line in Southern California hope they can take advantage of two days of calm her winds before potentially dangerous gusts return. The two week old fire has burned 270,000 acres from about santa barbara. They updated evacuation maps. The thomas fires the third most destructive in terms of structures destroyed with more than 1000 buildings earned with more than 700 homes. Buildings burned and more than 700 homes. Another home in the montecito area that was burned was a home where eagles recorded hotel california. The famous the studio was not damaged. More than 8400 firefighters continue to battle the blaze and containment in a today at 45 . Theres been 20 suspicious fires in san jose. Authorities are trying to find the person responsible until they do, they are trying to catch the fires before they spread. Authorities believe theres an arsonist at work in san jose setting 20 small fires over the span of a week and nearly all had been on highway 680 corridor and a dozen between montague and hofstetter. This one sunday ignited a shopping cart near the capital offramp. While many of the fire happened near homeless encampment, they say its unlikely for cooking or warmth. Definitely doesnt seem like someone setting an innocent fire to stay warm for the night. They had their hands full. The concern that was dry and windy condition fires might grow. We have homes that back right up to the freeway so we worry about it spreading to the homes and when there are high winds like this weekend. I have been home for college two weeks ago and it seems like three or four, one down there and another near cinco de mayo. Its crazy. They saw someone on a bike carrying a torch and one point they did detain a person who was later released. Residents hope the arsonist will be caught before the fire spreads. 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