It was flying. I said to be lady across from me, there is something wrong here. This train is moving. Pam the t operator tonight treated and released from the hospital. He is facing a lot of questions. About 50 people on board. No injuries at all. I m pam cross, Wcvb Newscenter 5. Ed the mbta facing tough questions from our janet wu tonight about how Something Like this could happen. Janet is live in boston does the in boston. Did they have any answers for you . Janet governor baker called it possible negligence earlier, but by tonight, they were using the less controversial term operator error. The transportation secretary would not directly answer the question, how easy would it be for someone with bad intentions to gain control of any train. Determine both whether our existing procedures, if followed correctly were sufficient to protect the safety of our passengers, and if not we will obviously make changes. It will also investigate the extent to which the required procedures may or
Revere right now as a dense fog advisory makes for a top morning commute. Fox25 stormtracker weather meteorologist Sarah Wroblewski is here with more on the fog and the mild weekend. Sarah they have a big warmup and temperature so mild have dropped back to the dew point. And dealing with low visibility. Down to quarter mile in a lot of spots reporting low visibility. Dense in some areas. We are anticipating to see the fog continue over the next couple of hours. The advisory goes until 9 a. M. Some areas may be dealing with low clouds and fog there after low clouds and fog there after. As you can see, even if it is not foggy, we still have mostly cloudy skies out there as temperatures in the 30s and 40s. 52 in places like plymouth and new bedford. So a very mild start to the day. Once the fog does burn off, anticipating to see a few breaks in the cloud cover, and that will boost those temperatures into the upper 50s to near 60 degrees. We are looking at a very warm day ahead. And the wa
What do you say, j. R. . Lifting. If this were july or august it minutes. This time of year that sun is not as strong. It take a little bit longer to get the fog to burn off. And so it will be a slow process. Yes, i do anticipate the dense fog lifting into more partly cloudy sky this morning. Temps temps relatively mild. Back through Southern New Hampshire number lower 40s. The fog will begin to lift. A few lingering clouds. Its a decent december day despite a lot of clouds. Piled between 52 and 57. The weekend will start warm tomorrow and then cooler for sunday. Well talk more about your weekend forecast in ability 15 minutes we begin with breaking news. A 39yearold women killed when her car crashes into a house in north redding. Happened on elm street. The women died at the scene. Part of the road is now closed. Scene with the latest on this breaking news story. Sarah they are working on opening up the road right now. If you take a look theres quite a bit of damage to the home on elm
Operator made several errors. Byron barnett is live with more on the man who should have been behind the controls. Byron reporter yeah. Well, from the beginning, officials have been saying that the investigation was focusing on operator error. With respect to that. Sources familiar with the investigation tell 7 news that the operator of the runaway train apparently, tied a cord around the throttle and failed to set the brake when he exited the train to override the signal. Now, these are some of the preliminary findings of that investigation into yesterday runaway train. A red line train takes off from braintree early thursday morning. Filled with passengers, but no conductor. The train pick up speed. It went from, like, five Miles Per Hour to, like, 30. It kept going and going and going. Reporter t workers noticed the problem within minutes. It had gone six miles and right around that time back in braintree, they were calling for help for that missing driver, 52yearold David Vasquez o
David Felix Vasquez was the trains operator a 28year veteran of the mbta. Adam investigators say the train wasnt receiving signals when it took off. Kim we have nightteam coverage from the passengers on board to the latest on the investigation. Lets head out to the nightteams Ryan Schulteis in sub. This is where the train spent most of the day as investigators are trying to figure out how this happened. A wild ride for commuters on the red line a runaway train with passengers on board with no one he controls. The train picked up speed and went from five miles to like 30 and kept going and going. Reporter investigators say human error likely led to the sixcar train taking off from braintree with 50 passengers on board and without the operator. T workers noticed it within minutes and cut power to make it stop but not until it had gone six miles and through several stations. And we couldnt and we were trying to tryout the buttons to heard. And the people on the first car trying to knock o