would i like to call silent hazards down the shore specifically two different ones. the coastal flood advisories, obvious one here, everything in the delaware beach and n synx will new jersey shore point in our area, bringing with it the potential for minor, tidal flooding but these will last until next high tides which will come in the afternoon. we have to watch out for that if you live close to the shore or typically flooding out from tidal flood ago this might a effect you here today. sixty-eight is current temperature at philly international. we have held steady all morning long. mid 60 s are still the general rule around the rest of the board and up in the mount pocono area currently 57. quick check as a whole there will be lingering included but sun as well. so, such a difference. calm to partly sun which and with more sunlight here in philadelphia we should end up at 80 later on today. vittoria, into you. reporter: good morning, everyone. we have a few bright spots
brought in a few minutes ago. also happening very soon investigators want start talking to the train s crew as well as passenger. take a look at a video taken by ntsb on the scene at the crash site. this is a very, very developing investigation right now. what we know at this point is just how fast this train was traveling before the accident. it was actually speeding down these tracks at more than twice the limit. ntsb says train was traveling at 106 miles an hour coming in a sharp curve in the track. the the train s engineer did apply thee mergecy brake but just moments before, not enough time to slow down this train. limit there is just 70 miles an hour. train s black box and front mounted camera have been recovered and they but the big questions remain, what was this engineer doing and why was he going so fast. we plan to interest right the train crew and other personnel. we would like to interview the passengers of the train. we will be conducting a site distance test.
double scan showing that we are seeing the rain across cape may cumberland, kent and southern new castle county in delaware but mainly this has been a snow event and some of the snow is heavy. storm tracker 6 live double scan showing where you see this purple color this pinkish color this is where you have the greatest lift, you have the heaviest precipitation and this snow is falling at the rate of about 1 to 2 inches per hour primarily in burlington county. this is the heaviest snow and this band will continue to push to the east and we ll gradually see that snow tapering off from the west to the east as we head through the evening hours. the visibility definitely affected by the snow. visibility down to a half mile in philadelphia, allentown and trenton also a half mile, 3 miles in wilmington and 1.3-mile visibility in reading. temperatures most of our viewing area right around freezing. the exception wildwood, 37 and dover 35 degrees. that s where we re getting the rain.
and then, you can see the flash of the train screening off the tracks at over 100 miles an hour and here s similar video taken from other side of the tracks. the train now going right to left and a different angle but the fate of the train and all 243 people on board is the same. the big question now why according to ntsb, was train accelerating as it approached the curve. why did the speed soar from 70 to 106 miles an hour. it s thursday nights and the big story. on action news tonight is the world from ntsb lead investigator that amtrak train 188 sped up for the final minute before t its catastrophic derailment. at the site tonight the train cars are gone. amtrak is faced with repairing tracks so it can reopen the route between philadelphia and new york. action news reporter dann cuellar is live at the scene. dann, it seems the questions that must now be answered have all to do with engineer brandon bostian. reporter: that s right jim brandon is now agreeing to talk t
the faa stepped up and levied the fine that they did. reporter: southwest airlines issued this statement saying having fully resolved the repair issue some time ago none of the items raised in the faa letter affect aircraft currently being operate bd by southwest airline. it takes only a tiny crack around a rivet hole to turn into, during a flight, to turn into a large crack, which will result in a failure. reporter: a failure that could mean a hole in the plane while it s in the air, something that has happened to southwest airlines on several occasions over the past decade. in 2011, the fuselage skin of a southwest boeing 737 ripped off at 34,000 feet near yuma, arizona, injuring some of the people on board. and in 2009, a southwest 737 landed in west virginia with a football-sized hole in the fuselage. bay area passengers we talked to today were surprised to learn of the allegations. i fly just about every other week. so i don t have much choice, but sure, you thin