Disasters but daily facing up to the chronic systemic difficulties in which so many in our community, families and individuals, young and old alike can find themselves trapped. Catholic charities of separate cisco believes in strengthening families, reducing poverty, helping the young to develop, helping the old to age with dignity, assisting the hungry, the homeless, and the ill. Welcoming refugees and immigrants and nicking this a better, safer, stronger community. To date we are talking with the chief executive officer. From her we will find out what are todays challenges, where is our community hurting and how can we be of service to it to learn about Catholic Charities to find out how we can help in its effort to please rejoin us after this brief break. Hello, i want to introduce our guest today. She is the chief executive officer of Catholic Charities of San Francisco. That would have the name right . Yes you do. It is connected with the it serves the three counties that we cover
A busy stretch of road. The pedestrian who was hit, its unclear the strep of the injuries unclear the extent of the injuries. Police want to know what happened. Police on the lookout for a late 90s maroon or gray pickup truck. It had a ladder on a rack. The driver is roughly 30 years old, 61 or 62 with a thin build. The driver sped off down the road toward ben salem. The truck should have a missing passenger headlight and passenger side mirror. If you were here last night and saw something, police want to hear from you. Matt delucia, nbc10 news. Thanks. A woman living illegally inside a home in camden is in the hospital listed in critical condition. Police say the woman suffered severe burns when a house she was sleeping in caught fire last night along berkeley street. She was rushed to cooper hospital in critical condition. Firefighters spent about an hour putting the flames out. Right now theres no cause for how it started. And firefighters in Delaware County spent better part of thr
Victims out of the road before then driving away. Pamela osborne is live. Pam, what are we learning about the driver . Reporter well, i actually just got off the phone with the police chief. He tells me they are in the process right now of reviewing Surveillance Video in hopes of getting another lead to track down that vehicle and that driver. The driver was behind the wheel of a pretty unique truck. It is very similar to twotoned maroon and ford pickup with a ladder rack. They believe it is a 1997 model. It may have a broken taillight, a broken passenger side mirror and taillight. They believe 2 man hit two teenagers around 8 15 last night. The victims were crossing between two intersections when they were hit. According to a witness the driver stopped briefly to move one of the people he hit off of the road before taking off. That female victim is in critical condition. No word on how that male victim is doing at this hour. Lets get back to the driver. Police describe him as being 61
He tells us he has a good guess as to what caused todays derailment raiment. Here at 30th street station many students are heading home for the o holidays and they were concerned given amtraks derailment south of seattle. Its a little scary. I think its crazy and i really feel for those people andheir families. Generally i feel safe but aveling in inclement weather its in the back of my mind. Robert mongeluzzi represented 34 passengers on amtrak train 188. The train derailed in Port Richmond with 238 passengers on board. Eight were killed and over 200 injured. The train was traveling over 100 miles an hour in a 50 Miles Per Hour zone when it hit a curve and went off the tracks. He sees striking similarities to todays derailment. The first thing that you think about when a train derails on a curve is it was going too fast. And when you see the locomotive, which is heavier and goes on a Straight Path while everything behind it falls over, it is eerily reminiscent of amtrak 188. Reporter
422. Look good so far, eight minutes eastbound from route 29 to the schuylkill with speeds into the 60s. Back to you. 4 31. This morning were learning new details about that deadly amtrak Train Derailment overnight. Investigators revealed the train was speeding before plunging off the tracks near seattle. Nbcs kirk hawkins joins us live from dupont, washington, where the cleanup effort is underway this hour. Kirk . Reporter ntsb investigators held a News Conference here a short time ago, and they told us the train was traveling at 80 Miles Per Hour, more than twice the legal speed limit of just 20 Miles Per Hour. Is everybody okay . Im still figuring that out. Weve got cars everywhere. And down on to the highway. Reporter an amtrak train on the inaugural run of highspeed Train Service to portland derailed, then veered off an overpass 40 miles south of seattle. Several cars crashed into the busy interstate 5 freeway in the middle of monday morning rush hour and smashed into a semitruck