Flick. Straight up 7 00 oclock, good day, tuesday august 22nd, 2017. So we are starting with our top story, this breaking news that happened overnight at 69th street station in upper darby. High speed line train slams into another train parked on the track, more than 40 people are hurt, and authorities are trying to figure out exactly how this happened. Lauren johnson at the scene , jenny joyce at penn Presbyterian Hospital on an update for injured and bob kelly here in the studio, bob. This happened just after midnight just outside philadelphia at 69th street upper darby terminal here. That is the main hub for norristown high speed line, market frankford line and, about two dozen bus routes right there in upper darby. Trains are running every 20 minutes between norristown and 69th street terminal, in express services, so all trains are sps. It is far from a normal morning rush hour along norristown high speed line. Aerial view of the Transportation Center, heres that big metal girder bridge that is most famous with 69th street, we have the bus hubs right here and here are the lines, tracks, used for the norristown high speed line. If you notice there is a couple of switches, right before the terminal. Train came in, plowed right in the parked unoccupied train at this part of the station. This is famous loop of the market frankford line. You may remember a few months ago we had a similar situation on the market frankford line right here, and Lauren Johnson is right here along victory avenue giving us view of the platform. Norristown high speed line or not, give yourself extra time going down to the station. There is still a lot of police , e ms and investigation will be going on throughout the morning rush hour, mike and alex, back to you. Lets see what it looks like right now. Laurens over there at 69th street, hey there, lauren. Reporter equipment error or operator error that is what we will figure out. Septas working to figure out that. Septa employees are over on the tracks where that train is still remains trying to conduct their investigation, ntsb is also involved. We have spoke to the mayor not too long ago about the crash he was on the scene last night and commends Emergency Responders who raced to this scene to rescue passengers. It was describe as a mass casualty incident with 42 people injured after an incoming train to 69th street, slammed into another train around 12 15 this morning. One man was thinking something was just not right. I was waiting at gulph mills. Train came by blew pennsylvania us three or four train lengths, stopped, backed up, picked us up, and same thing happened at bryn mawr. Drove past. Backed up, picked us up. I was talking to a guy at gulph mills and he said that is not right it never passes like. That i said something is wrong i almost waited until the next train but we got to the terminal. I stood up to get off and get ready to get to my bus on time and then smacked, hit the other trolley parked. Reporter lots of injuries as a result of. That you might remember back in february a similar crash happened here on the curve behind me, different tracks from but still an accident and mayor says that has him deeply concerned, he has been on the phone this morning, making calls to see if that stopped are stop technology we heard about from the amtrak will be installed here to prevent another accident with 10,000 people coming in and out of this station every day. Mayor says he is concerned deeply and think this is a priority. This could have been much worse, he says one accident is one too many, and so he is hoping that lawmakers and federal officials will take it seriously so they can get change is here on the tracks, mike and alex. So yeah, that subject will come up again, positive train control. Yep. Like amtrak uses. After that amtrak derailment, that was the big discussion. Umhmm, on the curve. Lets get to the hospital now to see how everybody is doing. Jenny joyce, jenny . Reporter good morning, mike and alex. Right now we have a lot of numbers but we dont really have updated conditions, so initially three people were brought here to penn Presbyterian Hospital in critical condition, a fourth is in critical and was taken to lankanol hospital and septa did tell us that one of the injuries brought here to presbyterian was the trains operate operator who has been since tweet thed and released. All 42 passengers on board that train were transported to area hospital but mostly had minor injuries they were taken to Delaware County memorial hospital, taylor hospital, springfield, mercy fitzgerald of philadelphia, bryn mawr and hup. Earlier this morning we were getting a bulk of our information from the mayor of upper darby and the fire chief , they were speaking to reporters at this scene. I have since talked to a septa expects person who was giving thaws update on the trains operator who again has been treated and released from penn Presbyterian Hospital as the morning goes on and we do expect an update on all of those injured in the crash this morning, mike and alex. Let us know. 7 06. Bill cosby will be back in court today with a new high Profile Defense team. Tom mesereau won an acquittal in the Michael Jacksons child molestation trial. You see him on the left there he also represented mike tyson and suge knight this mornings Pretrial Hearing is for cosby s retrial on Sexual Assault charges. The hearing is scheduled to begin around 9 00 oclock. That is a live shot from the courthouse. As soon as bill cosby arrives at that courthouse in norristown, we will bring it to you live. And Camden Police are looking for a woman, caught on surveillance video, stealing. But it is who she was stealing w it was a child, that she used to grab the cash umhmm. This happened on august 6th at new hong kong restaurant on chase street. Surveillance shows the woman waiting, after ordering food and shes tapping her fingers. Well, owners noticed that money was missing. After checking their cameras they found out that the woman was behind the theft. It was just that she had help. She sat the baby like on a counter and then the baby climbed through, the son crawled through, hopped down, got the mini and check what is in the back and after she checked the money, the family just left. Cramming her kid through the little hole there. Owner says they have never been rob before and they fear next time could be more dangerous. Police have not said how would the man and child are related. All right. 7 07. A massive verdict against johnson and johnson. A california jury awarded, listen to this, a woman, 417 million. You remember she sued the company claiming talc in the companys iconic baby powder causes Ovarian Cancer when applied regularly for feminine hygiene. Three other trials had similar outcomes. Johnson and johnson says it will appeal. Wow. Angry residents and activists make their voices heard at the Charlottesville City Council meeting. They took over the chambers last night shouting down the mayor, city council members. Here it is. Blood on your hand is residents and activist gave more than four hours of testimony about the cities botched response to the white supremacist rally with think month that turned deadly. Charlottesville Officials Say they will have a Third Party Review of the cities planning and reaction to the rail. Council voted unominously to take first steps to remove the statute of confederate extend wall jackson in the city. White supremacist organize rally with think month over decision this year to remove statue of general robert e lee that was last saturday. Yes. Council had to approve the fact that they were able to march there and set up the plan, for to police and zoning angry. President trump is ramping up u. S. Involvement in afghanistan, in that speech last night. So prime time address to the nation. He promised to fight to win, a war that has now stretched almost 16 years. Even though he made promises, doug he didnt give specifics and he said for good reason. Reporter good morning. The thing is he didnt talk about among them the actual number of u. S. Troops that he is talking about send to go afghanistan now. Pentagon has a plan to send about 4,000 additional there. That is a significant increase there is in time line though, for withdraw of those forces. For the president , the setting was serious, u. S. Military base just outside washington speaking to an audience of u. S. Service members. I will not say when we are going to attack. But attack we will vicepresident. Reporter president promised to go expand u. S. Fight in afghanistan and callingnoss play a shore helpful role, particularly pakistan and making it clear that the new approach will have its limits. Our commitment is not unlimited and our support is not a blank check. Defense secretary james mattace arriving in baghdad today. He has been driving home importance of keeping up pressure on the islamic state. U. S. Force levels in afghanistan have surged and fallen over the course of nearly 16 years reaching a peak of some 100,000 in 2011 and then falling to some 8400 today. Im proud, im relieved. Reporter some frequent critics of the president on the right were pleased with the new plan. Some democrats though like nancy pelosi saying the administration is too light on specifics, republican senator rand paul not stopping at word mission in afghanistan has who its purpose and i think it is a terrible idea to send any more troops into that war. President himselfat his thinkins changed. But one way or another these problems will be solved. I am a problem solver. In the end we will win. Reporter we are likely to hear the president talk more later today. He will go to arizona for a big rally in phoenix tonight. Mike and alex. Yeah, quite a departure from his former views because his solution back when he was just a citizen he agreed with president obama when he wanted to bring troops home from afghanistan and iraq but now he has changed his mind. Reporter was even more aggressive about pulling all u. S. Forces out of afghanistan and now it is not just putting more in there but changing some rules oven gauge. To give a freer hand to the u. S. Forces that are there. We will see you tomorrow. We have breaking news now about that collision between u. S. Navy destroyer and oil tanker near singapore. The commander of the u. S. Pacific fleet says some remains of navy sailors were found in the compartment of the u. S. S. John mccain. Crews have been searching for 10 missing sailors since the collision earlier this week. Earlier this morning they had reporting they had divers going through trying to see some of the submerged parts to see what they could find. They y mains. Thinks second collision involving a u. S. Navy warship in the pennsylvania few months seven sailors died in june when the u. S. S. Fitzgerald, hit a container ship collide nothing waitedders off of japan. Yeah, those ships, go well under the water deep under the water and they have sleeping compartments there. That is where they found some of the sailors, just horrible. Well, talking about the Solar Eclipse, Great AmericanSolar Eclipse, first family they joined in and watched the eclipse yesterday they viewed it from the true man balcony at the white house. President was joined by first lady melania and youngest son barron but apparently he didnt decide to listen to the warnings. He said let me take one last look. Melania did as well, so, lieutenant of people are calling him out for it. If you listened to the video someone says dont look when he looked up. It was one of his aids, wait a minute, it can be tempting. It is tempting, tempting for melania the first lady as well because then she looks up without her glasses on. Bad idea. You know, lot of people loved it. Me, i loved it. Yeah. It was kind of cool, i have to admit. I would like to be in totality. But then i ran into some people who werent into it at all, Charles Barkley said you would be a loser sat around and looked at it. Then on fox, news channel, shepherd smith he didnt want to be part of the coverage. You drug me in here to the studio to talk about a eclipse normally he is later in the afternoon mid afternoon, this is at 10 or 11 00 in the morning. He wasnt impressed, he didnt want to be there. Total eclipse of the sun watch 2017 on Fox News Channel. Excitement must be building uand building, like fire works. If i put this here and my phone here i have a total eclipse of the phone, fascinating, it is amazing, oh , my god. Okay, i dont know, it is interesting, the sun looks like the moon up there on the wall. You mention it, you have to sing it. Where the deer and antelope play, wow, would you look at that. It is a total eclipse of the sun. They know this is all it will be just a moon over a sun. It is a moon over a sun. It just keeps going. He went on like that for hours. It is like two minutes long and, yes, hilarious. Yes. I guess they wont be calling him in 2024. No. But he was, that is how you were yesterday. I wanted to be in totality and i could not get it done and i was very crack i bit. Heres bob. We got to see it, then he is like, you know what, can we go now . Austin didnt like it. He wasnt too thrilled. The platforms 7 15. Platform at norristown high speed line were blocked by market frankford lines trains going around the loop here at 69th street terminal. We will allow that train to go through and is there the jammo on the platform it will be far from the morning rush hour as trains are not running as scheduled but otherwise running every 20 minutes, during the morning rush hour. Lets go to the maps again updating that accident that happened shortly after midnight. Trains every 20 minutes, no express service. All trains making all stops this morning. Heres an area view of the Transportation Center, so our news van right here at that curve, that is the same loop where the accident on the market frankford line happened a couple months ago. You can see they typically have three track that is come into the norristown high speed line section of the 69th street terminal. One, of those three tracks are closed with the investigation, and therefore, only the other two are opened, again, expect delays this morning heading down and not even using the norristown high speed line, there will be a lot of activity at the station. Heres an accident east on 422 , it looks like taking out all but only that right lane at that curve in the Construction Zone as you come in toward king of prussia. An accident north on 295 and south jersey about a 35 minute trip, from is 73 all the way up to route 38, and then, schuylkill expressway running out of bounds because of an earlier accident at conshohocken. Double bub until south philadelphia today. We have a double header at the ballpark and concert later tonight. Scottie has the forecast for phillies fans, later on today, will we see sun. We will, but we have fog right now, it will be pretty, humid later this afternoon. Heat advisory kicks in from 1 00 to 8 00 so be mindful of that. Seventysix in philadelphia. 76 degrees in atlantic city. Seventyseven already in wildwood but where the fog, down to 0mile, visibility in lancaster, down to 3 miles in allentown, two and a half miles here in philadelphia across the region today lower 90s but feels like temperatures once again in the triple digits, along the i95 corridor those immediate suburbs, urbanized areas acting like a heat island when you factor in that humidity. We are dry, quiet but it is muggy off to the west and scattered showers and thunderstorms we will watch for that west toe, late tonight, with a cold front for latter part of the week, most of the day dry wind, south and west and then look at that line of downpours arriving after eight or 9 00 from the poconos trying to move toward philadelphia overnight tonight, and Morning Cloud tomorrow, 86 degrees on wednesday, thursday, friday, lower 80s, upper 70s. Heading out the door dont forget to join me on the radio 101. 1, more fm. We will do that. There are a few special guests at eagles practice, yesterday, billy cunningham, sixers legend, Charles Barkley , and between eagles and doll fins. Charles said he is not sure if the eagles can make a playoffs in the tough division this year but did he make a guarantee about another Philadelphia Team reaching the post season. 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