The department of justice is appealing the judges decision now to temporarily halt the travel ban. As we sort out all of the days developments our coverage begins with Alexandra Hoff live in the cbs3 sat center with more on the vicepresident s trip here to philadelphia. Alex. For protesters in the city the overriding focus was once again immigration. For vicepresident pence it was advocating for president Trumps Supreme Court pick neil gorsuch who he said today will join the highest court one way or anoth another. Protests in opposition of President Trump pops specifically as immigration efforts continue throughout center city. But around Independence Mall demonstrators gave equal attention to the second in command. Mike pence go away we will fight you every day protests did not prohibit earlier than anticipated arrival to old city by vicepresident mike peps who used the additional time to pay a visit to the liberty bell the trip he said he was unable to make when in town for the gop r
Today . Yesterday was actually one of the colds he is deas weve had since early january. I believe it. And the winds, pretty nasty , windchills down to the single digit. Today much betterment talk about typical temperatures for early february, mid 40s. That will feel good. Not a loft sunshine, a and i think today few peaks of sunshine, and if you like it mild wait few more days, we will bring the warmth with the next storm system. Comes at a little bit after price. We will talk about it, meantime all quiet this morning, do have cloud cover moving on through, still cold, dont get me wrong, here we are 29 degrees at this hour at the Philadelphia International airport. But not as cold as yesterday. We until the lower 20s yesterday, south breeze at seven, wind starting to shift out of the south. Bringing milder air back into the region, still windchill values down into the 20s. Does feel like 22 degrees on exposed skin. The actual numbers, ranging from low 20s into the mountains, mid 30s a
The department of justice is appealing the judges decision now to temporarily halt the travel ban. As we sort out all of the days developments our coverage begins with Alexandra Hoff live in the cbs3 sat center with more on the vicepresident s trip here to philadelphia. Alex. For protesters in the city the overriding focus was once again immigration. For vicepresident pence it was advocating for president Trumps Supreme Court pick neil gorsuch who he said today will join the highest court one way or anoth another. Protests in opposition of President Trump pops specifically as immigration efforts continue throughout center city. But around Independence Mall demonstrators gave equal attention to the second in command. Mike pence go away we will fight you every day protests did not prohibit earlier than anticipated arrival to old city by vicepresident mike peps who used the additional time to pay a visit to the liberty bell the trip he said he was unable to make when in town for the gop r
Way and we have just begun to gather that data and what the announcement was when it went out. Reporter the ntsb is now looking into audio recordings and video taken from inside the train. That image recording has been sent to a lab in washington, d. C. Well look at everything, training procedures, past training, well look at 72hour history of everybody involved. We wont leave any stone unturned. Reporter afscmes Union President said she sent a letter a month ago to the puc about concerns about the recertification process of managers. They said they have concerns and they havent changed their process of certifying. Our train controllers take over a year to certify. The train operators are 16 weeks. Reporter and the ntsb did not talk specifically about those two workers who were killed or what their specific Job Responsibilities were or are. And liz, i did ask the lead investigator if a strike ends, how soon before these trains can get running again with this investigation . He made it
5 a short time ago. This happened along jones road between the walnut creek and Pleasant Hill stations. Kpix 5s brian webb reports. Reporter ann officially this is a bart police investigation. And its kind of turned into an eerie scene out here. The crowds have cleared out, the workers who came down here to see things for themselves, they are gone, too. What is left is this empty four car bart train standing still on the tracks frozen in time and the bodies are still near the tracks about 500 feet to the south of us covered with tarps and there are a few bart officials running between the two scenes. This is what we know from bart management so far. Two employees were hit by an out of Service Train about 2 00 north of the walnut creek station. They were working on a reported dip in the track at the time. By procedure one of them was supposed to inspect the track, the other was supposed to be a lookout for incoming train traffic. Both are said to be experienced on the tracks and around