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WTTG Fox 5 News 5 December 18, 2017

Happened a little before kw8 this morning about 40 miles south of seattle. About 80 people were on board that amtrak train at the time and the train itself was moving at about 80 Miles Per Hour Officials Say and heading to portland. Dozens were taken to the hospital, including people who were hit while driving on the highway. You could see right there just how many emergency crew vehicles were out there today helping out victims, not to mentions a you just saw several of those passenger cars just dangling there over the overpass. When we got to the scene, it was obvious that there were some fatalities and a lot of injuries and some people were able to get off the train. Multiple cars and struck were struck by train cars that evident there the train tracks and went down on to the road. The people that were in all the vehicles, even though when you see the pictures its pretty horrific. At this point nobody in any of the vehicles is a fatal. Now were told the trains new route is part of 180 million project assigned to speed up service and bypass traffic. Amtrak says those new tracks were tested out weeks prior to this first run. Right now officials, including the National Transportation safety board are out there investigat ing what caused the train to go off the tracks. Theyre actually in route as we speak. Of course well let you know what comes out of that investigation. Again, as we mentioned six people were killed on board that train and Officials Say they expect that number to go up even higher. Keep in mind now, this is a developing story so keep it right here on fox5 for the very latest on this investigation. Kristin leone, fox5 local news. There is new information tonight in the january murder of a 66 year old man. He told dy police drug dealers had taken over his apartment. Allock you i ol i was found dead after a fire tore through home a after he filed a complaint with the police. Now, nearly 11 months later there has been an arrest. Paul wagner joins us live with that story. Reporter sarah and jim we were aible to see a ninepage Court Affidavit which lays owlt a very troubling case. Mr. I lally met with police the night before he was killed and told them that he had been under siege for two months and that these drug dealers basically had been threatening and being the him. The man that was arrest odd friday has been a suspect all along. His name is Garret Taylor. We were able to catch up with him last summer outside the courthouse just down the street from here and we asked him about mr. I alley. Heres the exchange. I dont know nothing about that. I dont know nothing about that. Accord ing to this Court Affidavit mr. I alley told police that taylor known as g had taken over his apartment with several other forced him to allow them to stash illegal narcotics and firearms in his h home. Mr. I alley told police the men moved into his apartment in november where they assaulted and threatened him saying he would pay the price if he contacted the police. The Court Affidavit says the night before the fire an after his meght with the police Garret Taylor attacked mr. I alley breaking several ribs and causing trauma to the back of his head. But when a friend called 911 he refused to go to the hospital but told police who assaulted him. After mr. Allys body was found police questioned taylor and said his clothes smelled like smoke and saw a written message on the wall you going down i ally. Mr. I ally was offered protection the night he made the complaint but decided that he didnt want it. Heres commander haifort. I can really only speak to the homicide aspect of this, but from my knowledge of the c that i understand that he was offered services and he just declined. We do in homicide cases and other case he we dwo offer relocation services. Garret taylor was in court on saturday. He has a preliminary hearing coming up later next month. Live at d. C. Police headquarters, paul wagner, fox5 local news. New tonight, police are now searching for a person of interest after a toddler was south in southeast d. C. On savment it happened in the 2500 block of pomeroy road. Police tell us children were playing with a gun before the whole thing happened. The toddler is expected to be okay. The police are now looking for 27 year old edward lee read. He is currently wanted for escaping and should be considered armed and dangerous. Were waiting for word on the three People Killed in a Small Plane Crash in indiana. The plane took off in kansas city, missouri and was on it to frederick, maryland. The single engine cessna crashed about 70 miles east of minute annapolis. In addition to the three People Killed a dog also died, a second dog on boashed survived the crash. The airport being shutdown. Thats just unthinkable. I literally spent a whole seven hours on an airplane without food or water and then i walk into a dark room where everyone is sleeping on the floor. Its sad that people are helpless. They cant get down the stairs. It was just a nightmare. We were literally carrying old people down the escalators and up escalators and carrying wheelchairs and my heart was like raising because im scared for these peoples lives. All the hotels are booked. We went up were righting to see if someone can help us. We did not have a lot of correspondence from any of the airport personnel. What a mess. The power is back on, but the misery still remains for many travelers at at lapt as Jackson International airport. Stranded travelers were forced to wait in these snaking long lines following sundays electrical fire. It caused an 11hour power outage at the nations busiest airport. It led to the cancellation of more than 1500 flights all of this happening just days before the start of the christmas rush. Investigators believe the power outage may have been caused by a cable fire in an underground electrical facility. They re lease these new photos on your screen today. The exact cause still a mystery right now. Delta which is headquartered in atlanta accounted for nearly a third of Flights Canceled today the airlines said they expect operations to be back up and run ning by tomorrow. Meanwhile President Trump laying out its national scurl political reporter ronica cleary live at the white house with a closer look at the white house and what it means here at home. Reporter the president laid out his National Security strategy for the future. But ill tell you before he got to that he took a significant amount of time to look back at his first year in office and what he feels are the accomplishments of that first year. And to do it all he start ed with election 2016. Take a listen. When the American People speak all of us should listen and just over one year ago you spoke loud and you spoke clear. On november 8, 2016 you voted to make America Great again. applause the president then went onto highlight his decision to leave the transposition partnership, leave the paris correspond, decertify the iran nuclear deal, impose tougher sanctions upon north korea, among other things and then only then did he get to looking at the future presenting this National Security strategy as laid out by the administration. Secure the bored he ers rgs the president s first point was to focus on security borders by building a wall, increasing support for ice agents. The president then spoke about the need for economic prosperity. Through cutting taxes, reducing regulations, supporting infrastructure. President trump highlighted the idea that we can only obtain piece through strength. In order to do so he says we must modernize our military and finally he spoke about advancing americas influence around the world championing americas values without apology. I spoke with michael oh hand lon a senior fellow at Brookings Institute to speak about the president s accomplishments before getting to what he wanted to take a look at for the future. The speech sounded like donald trump the candidate and of course he began with attacking all that was wrong with america in his eyes and he saw this as a necessary con last to set up the ideas in his National Security strategy. The substance of the report is to me pretty good. But again in the speech by the time he got to any of that we were already 15 minutes in to what was largely a Campaign Speech against his american domestic opponents. So given the world in which we now live where a campaign is never far away perhaps i shouldnt be surprised but i was still a little bit struck and a little bit disappointed. However you feel about the president s decision to outne in the way he did it was undoubtedly planned. He used the tell prompter today and clearly stuck to the script. Reporting live at the white house, ronica cleary, fox5 local news. Quomg up, a federal judge now facing Sexual Misconduct allegations. New calls for al franken to change his mind and reverse his resignation. New regulations to combat Sexual Harassment in the workplace. Tom fitzgerald working that one tonight. Reporter jim, sarah, a new effort to get the situation in private companies cleared up, the question, though, is congress doing what theyre telling other people to do. First lets go over to sue palka. Hey, tom nice to see you without the heavy overcoat. Were all getting a breakin the temperature accident as temperatures were 10degrees above average. Can we do it again tomorrow . Fox5 local news es at five will be right back. Back. What do you think . Hey, think ben will like it . Yeah, was i the only one hearing the angelic music . Im serious, i never know what to get him. Just tell me you got him fios too. Sigh. Mrs. Layne, fios is a 100 fiberoptic network. That, plus this sick console, hell be like whaaaaaattt. Your new tech is best on the 100 fiber optic network. So get fios. Now just 79. 99 per month with a 2year price guarantee with a 2year agreement. Touching the inappropriately and kissing them without their con sent. Georgia sin can i re lease a statement apologizing for making his clerks feel uncomfortable. The 67 year old served nine years on the Third Circuit of democrats have come forward urging franken to rescind his resignation. It was the most hypothesize critical thing hes ever seen. Patrick lahey had a private conversation with frank en which said he regrets pushing for him to resign. Earlier this month franken said hed step down amid allegations of misconduct. Travis smily is now calling out pbs for doing what he says was a rushed decision to suspend him. On an interview on abcs Good Morning America smily said he never coursed anyone into a relation ship but only had sexual relations within the workplace which is not against pbs policies. While smiley contends he is innocent. Pbs says they have uncovered multiple credible allegations. As Congress Continues to instrumenting struggle with the Sexual Harassment the new bill pull back the secrecy in private companies. There are questions whether congress is doing enough to solve its own problems. Weve learned a lot about these problems on capital hill. We sure have, jim and sarah. In the meantime democrats and republicans they both have been trying to out do each other coming up with all of these new laws which they say will stop Sexual Harassment. However, its also very true that a lot of people up here on the hill have been accused of the this same thing. Even new two more politicians having their careers come to an end. Well talk with texas republican congressman blake hazer hold. Fair hold say s he will not seek reelection in the face of mounting harassment claims. He did re lease a statement saying he ran a per missyive office. There is also rubin queun, a democrat out women have come forward saying that keun sexually harassed them. He will not seek re election. Into all of this, democratic Carolyn Maloney has introduced two bills. One of them will prevent private companies from dedisuking out of court Sexual Harassment statements from their teaks. It will also require all private companies to file a yearly report now with the equal Opportunity Employment Commission on how many harassment claims they have had when employers dont have to disclose these internal settlements, when theres no Public Record about abuse it can cause great harm to victims, other employees who may not know theyre working in a harassing environment or who the harassers are or even the public at large if that description at all sounds familiar because it sounds a lot like capital hill right now. The system that congress set up in the 90s, the office of compliance has shelled out nearly 60 million in taxpayers settlements because of harassment here on the hill because of nondisclosure agreements that congressman dat ed many of those harassers have had their identities kept a secret. Were live at the capital tonight, tom fitzgerald, fox5 local news. Some of the biggest figures in entertainment have established a new commission aimed at fighting Sexual Misconduct in hollywood. The new group will be claird anita hill. The famous declared Clarence Thomas of Sexual Harassment. It is formed by media and entertainment executives including cos from disney, netflix and paramount pictures. You heard sue mention a couple of minutes ago, if you have not been outside its really nice compared to the last couple of ds. The gloves or the hats and you get the bope us shot of the sunset. That cloud deck coming across , its a jaw dropper. Good news, no snow pellets coming out of them today. So well have some clouds around tonight. Theyll blanket us for the evening and keep us from getting cold in the overnight hours and how about the temperatures, easy to get your running around done if youre in the run up to this big weekend. It was easy for you today and guess what, you get a do over for tomorrow. Its still 53 here in gaithersburg. D. C. 51 degrees. You get down to the south, 56, fredericksburg still coming in at 59 as is quantico and then cooler near the water, annapolis 46, baltimore at five p. A wider view and not finding were not finding a lot of cold air. New york city is a little chillier at 46, but thats a bargain this year. Boston not bad at 34 and chicago coming in at 44. I mentioned some clouds coming across. That those will be with us throughout the overnight hours. But yes, a spectacular sunset. We have some passing showers through pennsylvania, not light rain showers. Well keep the clouds around. By 9 00 , 48 and by 1 00 47. Not going to be terribly cold. Most places stay even above freezing a headline for tomorrow, more springlike temperatures on tap for tuesday as a matter of fact its looking like tomorrow could be the warmest day so far this month as temperatures are mild out ahead of an approaching frontal boundary that will cost cross us tomorrow night. There will be a little bit of moisture down south. Sixty, 616degrees, a nice afternoon. It could be quite doable and quite spring feeling as we get through our tuesday without not much in the way is the run up to christmas. We have a look at what you can expect if youre traveling later this week and the temperatures for the holiday itself coming up a little bit with caitlyns seven day forecast. Thank you, sue. On the way, taipted marijuana. Beginning next year, recreational pot will be legal in california but hear why the marijuana being sold there could be tainted. A warning tonight about one of the seasons holiday toys, the injure one mother says her daughter suffered from the match a mole. But first, a message from our soldiers. Soldiers. It is one of the hots toys this holiday season, match mals bath balms. One mother is sounding the alarm after she claimed the hatch mol left her deart daughter with chemical burns. She posted her warning a couple of weeks ago and it has been shared more than 10,030,000 times. She started complaining that her daughters skin was hurting within a minute s time. The toys maker says it is investigating. If you plan to ring in the new year in california with Recreational Marijuana it may contain some un welcome additives. It will be legal come january 1, but growers have a sixmonth grace period. One test 93 percent of samples from 15 Southern California dispensaries contain pesticides. Consumers could mold and other contaminants. If youre trying to limit your wine consumption you may want to start by grabbing a ditch glass wine glasses have grown since the 1700s. My guess is probably so. With a large increase in the 1990s. The average glass now holds more than 16 ounces. Thats a 60 percent increase from 2000 when glasses held just 10 ounces. Some of them are like the size of your head now. They are pretty ridiculous. Its in the a problem. Its in the a problem in jims book. If you go oversees their wine glasses are half the size of the ones that we have. And then they have the big boxed wine. Were continuing to follow developments out of seattle. The deadly Train Derailment. Witnesses at the scene tell the story. A local Police Officer is attempting to support isis. Another step rodent population in the dtsz. The new rat abatement tactic when the five returns after the break. This h is fox5 local news at five. He was sworn to up hold the law, but tonight a former Police Officer in our area is found guilty of helping to support isis. A federal jury in alexandria convicted of nicholas young, the 38 year old is the first Law Enforcement ever convicted of

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