year, people here are saying this is the first time they ve been able to process the grief. tonight, we have another vigil in the community for the first time which is able to rally around together in person. yasmin? thank you. we have a lot more coming up. you are watching msnbc. our second hour starts right now. i asked me to see again. if you re just joining us, welcome. if you re sticking with us, we are thankful for that. we are alive on the ground in israel as the next phase of the war on hamas includes a stepped up bombing effort in gaza. a large part of the area had already been leveled. remaining residents are pleading for help. aid workers and civilians need to be able to communicate. journalists need to be able to document what is happening in gaza to report it to the wider world. that s something we worked on. we are glad to see that restoration. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in damage control mode, backtracking after criticism of his own troops.
amtrak 501, emergency, we are on the ground. that s a first tonight. let s get started. we are all over the three parts of this big breaking story tonight. here s what s ahead. transportation reporter pete muntean talks about the train s speed. we ve got a reporter on scene, too. but first let s set the scene for you. it is a jumbled mess. there were 14 cars on this train. most of them jumped the tracks. there were about 80 passengers on board and a crew of five when the train rounded a curb over interstate 5 and derailed. listen to the conversation between the train s conductor and dispatchers. amtrak 501, emergency. we are on the ground. hey, guys, what happened? we were coming around the corner to take the bridge over i-5 there right north of nisqually and we went on the ground. is everybody okay? i m st we ve got cars everywhere and down onto the highway. the drivers whose cars were hit by the falling train were injured. none of them, though, are amo
he would not mind helping anyone. family says malkai and his dad were two of a kind. spitting image of him. taking every opportunity to spend time together. he would come avenue day and have lunch and he cared, he cared about me. at 11 years old malkai said good-bye to his dad for the last time on saturday. it s important it tell you parent every day you love them because you don t know what can happen. no one could have known it s coming. larry worked in loss prev recollection at burlington po po mack mill. he so spotted a man hospital living and couldn tedeled hip and jamal kingsbury stabbed larry if front of the store. he s 4 years old. now his life is gone. he s not going to be with his children. larry s mother says she s still in shock. his wife too def stated to speak on camera. be strong. one thing my dad would have wanted me he to do. but he s been backbone of his mom. so he s took those traits from his dad. as this family struggles after suc
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midnight mass. francis urged the world s 1.2 billion roman catholics not to be intoxicated by possessions, sounded a cry to right injustice. and today american troops overseas are taking time to mark christmas and remembering family celebrating without them at home. here is kelly cobiella. reporter: it was a somber christmas day in afghanistan where they honored six fallen soldiers killed in a bomb attack earlier this week. this is especially important here where we got the opportunity to rob those we lost. reporter: more than 20,000 are far from home in 100 countries on every continent from the korean peninsula to the middle east. 3,000 are in turkey, 5,000 just arrived in the arabian sea and djibouti. where they celebrated with a festive feliz navidad. around the world they will be served up a holiday feast with all the trimmings. we ve got about 500 pounds of turkey. it s got to be cooked. we ve got 500 to 600 pounds of ham. reporter: a lucky few get the best pre