Cars before today break as we have learned shocking information about the speed, of the train. Investigators say it was going three times the speed limit when it derailed. Good afternoon, aim jim donovan. Im rahel solomon. Am track train 501 was making a run a loss a faster route when it left tracks south of seattle. Chris martinez live with what investigators are saying today crews lifted train cars stabilizing the scene of the derailment. National Transportation Safety board, says that the train, event data recorder, indicated that the amtrak train was traveling, 50 miles over the speed limit, when it jumped the track. The. Yes question is why was the train traveling 80 miles an hour in a 30mile an hour zone the answer to that question is it is too early to tell. Reporter train was making its first run on the faster new route from sat toll port land. But when the train entered a curve over the interstate, one of the engines and 12 cars, derailed. Slamming into cars, and trucks , belo
Trump ed a min strashz signals the end of the daca program. And one of the strongest hurricanes on record is barming into the area right now. Good evening thank you for joining us. Im dan ashley. Hurricane irma is about to batter the island and on its way to florida. Hes already signed disaster declarations for florida, puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands. Lets take a look at hurrane irma. It is a powerful storm. I do want to show you it is Holding Strong as a cat 5 hurricane very close to the islands. Right now maximum sustained winds are at 185 miles per hour. It is moving north northwest at 185 miles per hour. Holding strong as a cat fiver as it move its way across the turks and cakose thursday evening. Look at the wind pretty strong there. Saturday evening getting close to the southen florida coastline. It is sgeting ready to make another land fall as a category 4. Biggest threat is going to be the storm surge, pouring rain one to two feet, possibly more with large waves and w
So before the moon sets. Lisa joins us with our first with your first alert forecast. It did it to my kids last night. They were out howling and it was weird. A beautiful start to our day. It was gorgeous to see the sunset in the moon. Hi cloud cover covering parts of Northern Colorado but dry, warm, mild and low to fit state and today through wednesday were talking high mid to upper 70s. Blake wood 72 and ii with in stminster 72. I want to start with the first of two separate accidents. It looks to me like theres three vehicles. By 25 right before 84th in the left lane is blocked so the right lanes are open and i would show you the other crash but it. Farther closer between 120th 104th. It looks like has been out and people are stopped in the right center lane and so we have double trouble after 120 and approaching 84. Weve had an accident in the southw couple lanes open at jefferson so you can get through there. the other trouble spots have been in east denver with accidents in 23rd
The high country is in for more snow. Thats good. A much better pattern for us. A live look from dublin loveland. For the most part, its pretty dry. You will still find icy spots. Jared has an update on that coming up. Good to finally see some snow covered trees. The mountains picking up 4 to 8 inches. Across the plains, around 2 with a few more out west. I will give you more totals in just a 20s, wind chills in the single digits, and right now we are at 30 degrees in city park, 24 degrees in evergreen. I promised you yesterday this would be a fastmoving storm ended is already lifting well to the north and east of us. For the rest of the afternoon, we have sunshine, clear skies, temperatures about seven degrees to 10 degrees above where they are right now. Rhode one degrees by 3 00, which means even more melting. Tonight. Jason, we could see some of those sidestreets that are wet freeze back over into early saturday morning. I think thats also going to happen here. You can see on the s
Know about them. The man cave. I like it. Live look at your drive. I70 looking very clear. For those of you who went to the high country for the weekend the times coming back will hit around 5 00. First we begin with the nation remembering what happened 15 years ago. Many of us know exactly where we were on this day in 2001 when terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center pentagon. Today the nation pauses to remember the nearly 3000 lives taken. President obama will speak at the pentagon and we will share tributes going around in colorado in a few minutes. First it could be one of our last 90 degree days that we actually see in colorado so we have to enjoy it while we have it. Good morning jessica and the dan and thanks for joining us. By september standards because normal high this time of year is 81 degrees. Temperatures this afternoon in the upper 80s and low 90s and closer to the foothills temperatures 70s and 60s. We could come close to a record high today. Record high setb