188 engineer brandon bostian moments before last year s tragic crash in port richmond. train experts we spoke to said radio interference has always been a problem. certainly it could have contributed to this accident. but nevertheless, it could have been preventable. reporter: but washington, d.c., rail safety expert larry mann says two things could have saved eight lives and kept hundreds of others unharmed. a second person helping in the locomotive to monitor the dispatch radio and positive train control. had there been positive train control along that route, this accident would have never occurred. reporter: mann says positive train control would stop the train if it was exceeding the speed limit. amtrak 188 was going 106 miles per hour when it hit the curb at frankford junction more than twice the limit. former ntsb chairman james hall says no matter the cause, he hopes amtrak takes steps to become safer. unfortunately just provides interference and a distracti
now, this person had punched two people, one of the victims so hard that that victim was knocked unconscious. the suspect took off from police in the area of 3rd and south. that s where the assault occurred. the female officer who was injured heard that call for help, police say, she had lights and sirens on when she was driving to the scene. she was traveling eastbound on south when she crossed 11th. that s when her patrol car was hit by a bread truck. police are calling this collision an accident. they say the 29-year-old delivery driver stayed onรง the scene, was cooperating fully with the investigation and was not injured. that 45-year-old police officer was transported to jefferson hospital with complaints of pain to her left side. she was talking and walking on her own when she left the scene. as for the victims of that assault, police tell me they did arrest that suspect. they say there was a positive i.d. made by those witnesses, by those victims that were injured. c
people to down and build foot traffic on the boardwalk they need to think outside the box. i m for it. reporter: jonathan has drinks inside resorts during his stay in atlantic city but that baz couldn t come with him when he walked to a different casino. we had no drink during our 15-minute walk there. it would have been great, enjoying a drink going down there. reporter: leaders on the seaside city, on the brink of bankruptcy, are poised to potentially change that. good, like vegas. reporter: city council set to hold a preliminary vote on the plan in a summer trial run, it would allow people 21 or older consume an alcoholic drink in an open plastic container on the boardwalk. when you try new and different things, it goes to our mission of attracting millennials. the drinks only sold by businesses with liquor licenses adjacent to the boardwalk. 30 new state-funded seasonal police officers would help keep the peace. we are sure that our professional police f
mark lee his lawyer a former federal prosecutor says fattah is not guilty and the two former aides are out to save their own necks and their lack of credibility he says will be revealed here. brian, at this hour an fbi agent remains on the witness stand presenting various documents related to the case. the key government witnesses will not take the stand for quite some time down the road. this trial is expected to last about two months. live at the federal courthouse in center city, i m vernon odom, channel6 action news. all right, vernon thank you. we have breaking news right now out of gloucester county. this is the scene in franklin township in the 400 block of harding highway where firefighters are responding to an active fire right now. this is apparently a chicken coop burning also on route 40 again in franklin township. apparently 911 calls were coming in, reports of a brush fire in the area. when crews arrived they discovered it was a chicken coop. no word at this
the money. one phase of the case centers around wealthy friend herb vederman. in court prosecutors called him a human atm machine for the 11 term congressman and his family hoping the powerful washington insider could land him an ambassadorship from the obama white house. prosecutors say he paid off the college tuition and gambling bills of fattah s son chaka jr. and disguised $18,000 he gave over for a dummy car purchase used by fattah and his wife to close on a vacation home in the poconos. late today congressman fattah spoke briefly with reporters. i think this has been a good first day and we ll begin again in the morning. reporter: fattah s lawyer told the jury of one african-american and 11 white that is vederman was a rich good friend of fattah s and did nothing that rises to the level of bribery. fattah s lawyer dismissed two of fattah s political consultants who already pleaded guilty hoping for light sentences in exchange for testifying against chaka fattah. mar