D. C. Says that nobody from the agency was available for an on camera interview. Septa confirmed this section of the track has technology, known as automatic train control, and which under ideal conditions should have made a collision next to impossible. And only adding to the mystery sources say the fact operator george mink was able to activate that emergency status , suggested that he didnt have a medical emergency, or lose conscious ness prior to the collision. Regular el riders tell cbs3 that no way to pass judgment on safety. Everything is a fail safe, you though, nothing is 100 percent, just like anything else. Is has to work. It takes time, nothing is perfect. Reporter sources tell thaws george mink is hospitalized at lankanol hospital. They say he is in a hellly induced comb a we did check with lankanol hospital, they would not the release his current conditions, although as of yesterday he was reported to be in critical condition. Coming up on Eyewitness News at 6 00 more on the technology that exists on these tracks, and how that plays a role, for possibly laid a role otherwise , in what happened here, ill see new an hour. Reporting live from upper Darby Township joe holden for cbs3 Eyewitness News. See you then. Septa riders encountered more train trouble during morning rush, person was struck at the station at the broad street line around 7 00 oclock this morning. That forced Transit Agency to suspend services between the walnut locust and at t stations for about three hours while police investigated. Service has been since resume. Computer issues caused long lines and delays for hearn Airlines Passengers flying out of Philadelphia International airport this morning. Hundreds of the passengers were left waiting in line at terminal c for hours, Airline Spokesperson says that problem , stems there an overnight upgrade that did not bring computers back on line at 4 00 a. M. As land. The the outage grounded lanes and left some flyers, concerned about the vulnerability of the on line system. It is scary, we just have technology but it is a great thing but when it goes down were in trouble. More we rely on it, worse it will get. Something to think about in the future. Reporter report agents manually check in passengers until issue was resolved a few hours later. It is still dead of winter but certainly does not feel like it, and it will only get warmer. Lets get outside with the forecast with kate, shes on the sky deck, kate, tell us more. Reporter another day above average coming to than a end now here in philadelphia. Coming up ill show you calendar which will she you how far a have above average we have been all month long, and if you can believe it, it is actually getting warmer from here. Tomorrow, we will be 10 to as much as 15 degrees warmer in some spots across the area it is a pretty nice even to the evening. We had sun returning, you can see storm scan not much here , we have a batch of showers skating by to our south, mainly impacting portions of virginia and couple showers along the pennsylvania, new york state border but most of us will be dry through the overnight hours. The it felt a little bit on the cool side now that the sunnies about to set. We are dropping back down to the 50s so right than that line when need jacket or not. By 6 00 i will break the jacket out here. We can see how warm to the south, 60s and 70s and that is heading back in our direction. Over the next couple of days. So with the the advance of the warmer air we will watch out for some fog developing through the overnight hours, be on the look out for that out and about and also, thursday morning, we will see some sun for your thursday, very, very warm, coming up ill tell you how warm it will get and how close to the record we will be and ill tell but a descrepancy in the record for tomorrow as well. That is coming up when i join you inside, back over to you. Kate, thank you. There is fears of layoffs growing in the wake of the philadelphias sugary drink tax. In the first month, philadelphia officials are projecting 2. 3 milliondollar in revenue. The that is only 30 percent of what is the taxis expect to generate. So some supermarkets and distributors are reportedly considering layoffs due to the decline in sales. Hear what the city says about the the tax and why the numbers are lower then expect, that is tonight on Eyewitness News at 6 00. A Church Youth Group leader facing Sexual Assault charges appeared in a bucks county courtroom. Michael, is accused of attacking a 13 yearold girl and 15 yearold girl on separate occasions last year. The alleged instant tenth took place at Oxford Valley chap until middletown township. He is out, on bail and due back in court on march 24th. Police released Surveillance Video of two mask ed gunman wanted in connection with a Home Invasion in juniata park this video was taken inside victim s garage on neilson street friday night. One of the suspects is wearing a camouflage jacket, victim was working on the garage door opener when the suspects walked in. Police say they assaulted victim and tied him up. He was found two days later. Call police if you recognize the suspect. President trump is preparing to roll roll out his First Federal budget as command inner chief. Today at the white house the president described the current budget as out of control, and pledged to clean it up. Meanwhile the administration will revoke federal guidelines telling Public Schools to let transgendered use bathrooms matching their chosen gender identity. It would be a reversal of a president obama directive. Administration is putting final touches on its revised travel ban, executive order on immigration is expect to be released this week. Day after announcing guidelines on how the you had will deal with immigrants who are in the country illegally, President Trump is senting secretary of state Rex Tillerson to mexico to deliver his new immigration strategy firsthand. This comes as some current and former Department Officials, are raising concerns. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has largely been silent during his three weeks on the job. He hasnt held a News Conference and many meetings, and calls are not publicly disclosed. They are also has this is been any daily briefings which for decade had been main channel for department to get its message out. That means foreign governments are often publicly describing hearn policy, rather than the u. S. Itself. Wraps more serious for u. S. Diplomates state Department Officials were completely shut out of President Trumps key meeting with israeli rhyme minister netanyahu last week, while mr. Trumps son in law Jared Kushner who has no screens in Foreign Affairs sat in. But state Department Officials insist tillerson is in close contact with the the president , and they will meet today and often speak by phone while the process of selecting his top policy makers is slow, Officials Say that tillerson is careful and deliberate, he is trying to translate President Trumps rhetoric into policy while flying under radar of a high row File Administration that is facing no shortage of diplomatic crisis. Home land security secretary john kelly is traveling, with the tillerson to meet with the mexican president. Mexico is threatening to take fight over illegal immigration to the u. N. There is new renewt interest in herbert mcmasters book dereliction of duty now that he is now that the security advisor. First published back in 1997, the philadelphia native book was number one on amazon. Com, and as of wednesday morning. The publisher has ordered a new interesting of 25,000 copies. Tickets went on sale today for brand New Philadelphia museum that doesnt opened for another two whose. Museum of the American Revolution in olde city, opens to the public on april 19th but tickets for the new attraction were on sale today. Those who purchased their tickets in person got a sneak peak of the first floor of the building, the museum, puts the spotlight on the word independence and philadelphia s role in the revolution. Well, bow bow has hade it to china we will she you up next. Amazing video, everyone is okay but see what happened when an even tire car goes off the highway and on to a sidewalk. Wow. Frantic moments, in hawaii as waves toppled a young boy nearly sweeping him out to sea but this story has a happy ending. Have you ever heard of a hot dog salad . That was on the menu during a cook off at Reading Terminal market. Did toris team win . Find out when Eyewitness News continues. Beau. Heavy rain in san jose, california toys blame for a serious flooding there. At least 14,000 people have been evacuated and officials were forced to shut down part of the route 101, and last night authorities went door to door ordering thousands toss seek higher ground, and at least 225,000 225 residents were taken to dryer land. In major injuries have been reported. A protest even camp near the Dakota Access pipeline construction is officially closed but protesters say they are not leaving. Army core of engineer ordered to it close by 3 00 this afternoon. Is there concern a nearby river could flood the area, anyone who does not leave could face arrests or fines. For the fourth day vandals targeted washington d. C. Monuments, this time, someone scrolled graffiti on the d. C. War memorial with permanent marker. The lincoln memorial, World War Two and Washington Monument were also hit. That the park service says it the is likely the same person, responsible for each case, of vandalism. Baobao the giant panda, born in washington d. C. Is landing safely at her new home in china this is video of baobao arriving by plane. She was born in washington d. C. s national sue in 201 and as part of the program with china pandas born the at national zoo must look for a new chinese home by age four. Baobao will be quarantined for 30 days. A man is lucky to be alive after a freak accident in brazil. After seeing the disturbing video you will find it hard to believe that he will be okay. Take a look, man and his wife just walking down the street when suddenly a runaway tire, yeah, from a nearby highway slammed into him knocking him on the concrete. He has head and chest injuries but again miraculous will be okay. That is amazing. Hotter is thanking strangers who rescued her young boy. A grandmother recorded video of her grandson playing in the water on sunday when the eight yearold was pulled out by a wave, that his mother waited nearby. Life guard had already left, but then a group of bystanders came to the rescue. I started screaming, were not heroes, we saw what needed to be done and we went and we got him out. That is all that matters. Afterward boys mother took a picture of her sons rescuers so she would always, always remember them. How about that. Kate bilo joining us now with a look at a very interesting forecast, for the middle of february. Yes, wait until you see the seven day forecast. It is surreal that im showing you these numbers in february. The just a couple weeks ago i was thinking wouldnt it be nice if we get one day of 60 degree temperatures. The right now were talking 70 s in february. How about it. Maybe i made it happen. Wish full thinking, right. You got it. E it happen. Lets look at is what going on outside. Pretty nice evening. Milky sunshine to finish out the day. Mid afternoon cloud are rolling back in tonight. We will to have watch for fog as that warmer air comes back in but pretty nice evening outside. Heres a live look down the shore where we see blue skies, but day comes to a close, it it was a little cool down the shore past couple days thanks to the wind off the water. I should say cool by this february standard not by regular february standard but to take wind has switched and that has brought warmer air back in the region not a bad evening, to take a stroll on the boardwalk there in ocean city. Storm scan three shows us quiet conditions. Is there a chance that a couple showers you see off to the west could impact portions of southern delaware through the overnight hours, mostly rain free tonight, and you can see cloud are starting to roll back in. There is a bank of cloud there off to the north and west and we will watch for another chance of showers, as this little boundary comes through tomorrow afternoon but mainly tomorrow evening, much of tomorrow is a dry take, and that is when we will see temperatures start to ramp up. A live look right now at white Field Elementary School camera in reading, 61 degrees there right now. The kid are outlaying soccer, baseball on the fields there enjoying the day to be out without a heavy coat, in february. Usually we will get one or two days like that if were lucky. We have had five or six days just in the past week or so. Temperatures right now, again, notice where wind bars are coming from a southeasterly flow, a lot different from the east flow bringing in cooler air off 42degree ocean. We are seeing temperatures in the upper 50s. Sixtys right now this reading and allentown. Temperatures will continue to rise with the southeasterly flow for next couple of days. Mild all across the northeast. State college 63. Pittsburgh at 65 right now. 59 degrees in the the nations capitol. Recap of february so far take a look, we only have five days this month that we are cooler then average. Look at these departures 24 degrees above normal saturday and sunday and for next three days we may be seeing double digit departures again. Today about 12 degrees above normal with the high of 58 degrees thus far. Future weather does show cloud redeveloping overnight, watch for patchy fog tomorrow morning. Much like today cloud thin in the afternoon. We will get more sun, unlike today though tomorrow does have a better chance with just a few spotty showers, maybe a thunder shower, mainly around eight or 9 00 tomorrow evening the that is something to watch out for. The as far as overnight hours are concerned, it is quiet, watch out for some fog, 46 degrees is our overnight low. For your thursday, morning fog , sun breaks out, very warm day, 71 degrees, and then in the eyewitness weather three day forecast is this what i wanted to show you guys, 70s for the next three days, that is surreal, and full descrepancy about the record for tomorrow at the airport it is 69 but for philadelphia area it dates back to 1874 before record were kept, and 75. Go by higher number it does not look like a record breaker but still close to a record. Seventys. Might to have break out my platform shoes to celebrate. Thanks, kate. I like it. Heres a fun video for you a dad helping his son dance like the king of pop. Adam ballard and young miles there titled their video, the moon walk. Yes. Adam says miles was fussing and dancing calmed him down. He seemed to be enjoying it. You are probably seen this on facebook over last few days. It has hills of views. Indeed, beat tonight the background. That kid will grow up, you did what . Put me on the internet. 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