taxpayer dollars on an illegitimate impeachment inquiry because donald trump, the puppet master, has directed extreme maga republicans to launch a political hit job against president joe biden. that s house minority leader hakeem jeffries calling out republicans in the lower chamber before the vote to authorize an impeachment inquiry into president joe biden. that came after hunter biden defied a subpoena from house republicans challenging them to hold public hearings for his testimony. we ll have much, much more from a bitter and partisan day on capitol hill. plus, the supreme court will hear the first case tied to abortion rights since it overturned roe v. wade. we ll get expert legal analysis on that just ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, december 14th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we have a busy morning ahead, and we ll start here. the republican controlled house has voted to formally authorize its impea
wreck like thises? if you re in the back of the train, do you have better odds? well actually you do jake. it comes to physics and inertia, a matter where you are in the train and what inertia will continue after it derails. you can see in pictures from this tragedy, the continuing cars behind continue to go forward and all of that inertia, all of that energy trapped in that number two, or that number one cabin car which just continued to crush and get hit and hit and hit again, and crush that car. so just by looking at this it s good evidence of the fact that the safer towards the rear. the rear train has fatalities associated with it in the event of an accident or collision, and we ve had fatalities in the rear car. so statistically speaking probably the second car from the end would be the most would be the safest place to be. when you get on a train is there anything you do in case of a worst-case scenario? do you sit a certain way? do you sit in a certain car?
update us on the situation in philadelphia. ten patients at temple university hospital and then other hospitals confirming that they are getting patients as well. matthew l. wald you were talking about the train and we ve been talking about the capacity of the tracks. there have been issues with these tracks. yes. i should say, also if this happened in the city limits of philadelphia most likely the train was going at a moderate speed. yeah right. that train, when it gets to the flat straight-out areas of maryland can go over 100 miles an hour. but in philadelphia the track is older, there are more curves generally it s going slower. and the faster it goes the bigger problem it will have if it derails. the track they ve had every kind of problem there is with the tracks. it s an extremely heavily used stretch of track. it s got lots and lots of commuter traffic, even got a
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