The safe houses run by Family Crisis Center ink with funds from Prince Georges County and state and private donation. The food are molded. Theres mold in the bathroom and we have been complaining about different things. These pictures show some of their concerns. Piles of moldy bread, a window casement that caused one woman to have a concussion when it fell on her head. Moldy bathroom tiles where mushrooms are sprung up. What are we showing our kids . Its not an option and sometimes i dont give my daughter the food because the stuff is left out for days. As temperatures plummet, they say many rooms dont have heat including one with a 5monthold infant. Its not just their comfort they worry about, they say the house itself doesnt have enough security. We does reach out to Prince Georges County city council as well as the Family Crisis Center sophie ford. No one was available for comment today. Its unbearable. It makes you want to leave and makes you want to do something it makes you want
Oh, my gosh, the train went off the tracks. Reporter one car falling from the interstate below, another dangling from the overpass. I was in front of it. Nerve racking, kind of sick to your stomach after seeing this right now. Reporter multiple vehicles were hit by the falling train car as others came crashing into the piles. The people that were in all the vehicle s, even though when you see the pictures its pretty h horrific, at this point nobody in the vehicles was fatal. Reporter 77 passenger ands five crew members were on board the train which was headed south from seattle to portland. Witnesses scrambled to rescue trapped su viervivors and helpet them to the hospital. Some had broken back and injuries, and broken ankles, and head trauma. Reporter they are en route to investigate the traumatic derailment. A morning within seconds. Sarah doll off, nbc news. Our coverage of this big story just getting started. Remember even when were on on the air, you can read updates. Open up the
In the other part. By that time the ambulance was coming. He does not believe the train was speeding at the time it derailed. Speed is often a factor the ntsb looks into as it determines a cause. In the coming days, we will continue to keep you posted with updates from Washington State throughout this evening. Incredible, so many people walked away from that. Now to a story youll see first on 4 00 here. A tragedy involving a local doctor and his family days before christmas. We learned that doctor and his daughter were killed in a plane crash over the weekend in indiana. Pat collins is live for us in bethesda with that story. Pat . Reporter jim, for more than two decades, he was a top doctor at this prestigious medical school. He researched drugs to determine which ones might harm us and which ones might make us better. To be better doctors. And now with his sudden death, a great sense of sorrow here. Dr. Louis cana lina, he had both an m. D. And ph. D. And pilots license. He was a top
Outlets point to a severe undercount of storm deaths. Puerto ricos government said there were 64 deaths from the hurricane in the aftermath. But the New York Times and the center for investigator reporting, reported that the number was likely more than a thousand. Puerto ricos governor says there is no intent to hide the number of deaths. Accountability broke down after the hurricane. An update to a story from over the weekend. Prince georges county is investigating conditions at a Domestic Violence safe house after some of the women living there told us the conditions were not safe. The women told us some of the rooms have not heat. Some areas have mold. The county department of Family Services said it visited that safe house and said any substandard conditions are unacceptable. The shelters executive director said today that the Family Crisis Center is conducting an investigation. The board said results from the initial inve that at no time did our facility go without heat. The photo
Nbcs sarah dalof starts our coverage tonight. Reporter on the first day of a newly established route monday morning, tragedy aboard amtrak 501. Things started to tip over and as it was going around and then all of a sudden just ended up on side, and everything went dark and stuff started flying around and that was it. Then it stopped. Reporter a stunned motorist watched the train derail. One car falling to the interstate below, another dangling from the overpass. I was right in front of it really. Nerve racking, kind of sick to your stomach after seeing this right now. Reporter multiple vehicles were hit by the falling train car as others came crashing into the pile. 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 vehicles was fatal. Reporter 77 passengers and five crew members were on board the train which was headed south from seattle to portland. Witnesses scrambled trapped survivors and help emerge