Two workers were hit by an amtrak train late last night. It caused trains to be sus penned. They are trying to pig yur out why the workers were on the tracks. We have more on the investigation. Reporter we have been watching now for several hours an Ongoing Investigation and multiagency response from amtrak, the federal railroad association, ntxb ntsb and more. Lets explain this to you. 11 20 or so on tuesday night came reports of this incident. Amtrak 175 was make its way to Washington Union station and two people on the tracks were struck. The two people were rail workers. There were no jr. Injuries or c that were aboard. Now, on the scene we have a very investigative presence a and so many questions here such as what were the workers doing there and could it have been prevented . They will take data and analyze it. Nbc 10, back to you. We continue with the impact it is having on service in our area. We are live at 30th street station to update us on the delays, pamela. Reporter one train from boston to washington just boarded another one from new york to washington. Everything else headed south is showing delays of two hours or more. Over the loud speaker a voice breaking the silence of a crowd not assure of what to do next. They said all trains going south are delayed late last night another witness describes what he saw after. I could tell one of the workers on the train who probably had seen what happened was really i guess in shock. The investigation that followed closed down the tracks for several hours holding up trains on the northeast corridor especially here at 30th street station first delays then cancellations and by late morning some trains began moving again as amtrak restored its service. Amtrak is still advising customers to check out their web site, to check the train schedule before they arrive to the train station just in case there are delays. We are seeing many of them posted on that board. Im pamela osborne, nbc 10 news. Well keep you updated on our app. Now keeping you updated on the roads in the area. Jess, what are you seeing out there . We are watching the expressway right now. We have some pretty big westbound delays because of construction. Right now its at 15 minutes. Earlier i was looking at this. It was 31 minute. So from 95 speeds into the 20s. Watching 95 they are moving maintenance vehicles moving by the bridge there. This is doing great. 13 minutes to the vine street expressway. This is around 168. Both directions are moving along nicely. Watch this on the northbound side. It is moving from new jersey into philadelphia. That part and we have a debris there with lane restrictions. Back back to you. A fun evening ends with a 16yearold girl being rushed to the hospital with multiple bullet wounds. She was sitting at the steps of a home when someone started spraying bullets at the group of teens. She is list until stable condition. A car was spotted speeding away. No arrests or motives. Police idea i iffed a man identified a man. It happened just after 12 30. Police tell us a minivan hit him as he stepped into traffic and an suv ran over him. Police calling this an accident. Somebody opened fires on homes and cars in this neighbor noo hood. This is in from dyre street. No one was hurt. Whoever opened fire got away. Corruption trial of seth wi williams is back underway. Philadelphia bar owner gave the da tips so he could get help with his lick to license. He told the jury he liked helping people and gave gifts to others as well. New video shows an attempted robbery in center city. Four Good Samaritans helped the victim. Police say a woman was walking on june 18th. A man tried to grab her purse. He started kicking her. Four people jumped in to help and chased the suspect away. If you recognize him police want to hear from you. You couldnt ask for a better summer day. I guess you could, but plenty of sunshine as we give you a live look at boat house row. Glenn hurricane schwartz is here with the forecast. Yes. It is unusually low for the middle of summer. 73 degrees in philadelphia now. Average high is 86. We are not getting any where near that. 74 atlantic city. The ocean at 59 degrees. Not a cloud in the sky. We have go taall the way back t near chicago. As we go through the day today we are getting into the low 80s. Very low humidity again. Of course zero chance of rain today. The suburbs and lehigh may not even get to 80 degrees. It was also true for the jersey shore. Well be getting the sea breeze during the afternoon. The heat starts to build in from the west and talking about temperatures in the 90s and feels like near 100. Details on that coming up. Police on the hunt this morning for two teenaged girls behind an Armed Robbery spree. They have targeted cab drivers and tourists. They recently stole purses from a woman and her 86yearold mother. I didnt want to let go. I grabbed my purse. I grabbed my and they even took my dentures that were inside. Two cab drivers were robbed. Police want do you look out for the pairs get away car described as a dark gray hyundai. Looking for thieves who stole thousand of dollars worth of equipment from a youth football team. This shows the aftermath. Broken windows an doors and a mess on the ground. Police say the thieves stole sell mt. S and their dheer squad. They tell us they recovered some of the equipment but not all of it is even usable. They were just going to take our stuff. Yall are letting the team down, all of the parents that paid for their child to play. It hurts us a lot. We have kids who may not have their helmets at the start of the season this year. The organization set audiotape up a go fund me page. We have new information about human bones found at a construction site. Police now think remains may be female based on the pink jackets wrapped around the bones. They found the bones when they were digging at the site of a former laundromat. A neighborhood vigil set for this evening. Remember a woman killed while walking through a park. She was knock ground and brutally stabbed. Nothing was taken from her, not her pocketbook or her phone. We talked with her mother who says she will be remembered for the joy she brought to her family and friends. Health care bill in critical condition, the delay to vote on the obamacare replacement as republicans continue to rally support. And the race is on to stop a new form of ransomware. Big changes are coming in time for the Holiday Weekendm. T well let you know when wha we are used to around here just ahead. Nanana a little soul a little tune to play to make the good times roll here we go nanananananana nanananananana here we go crazy square eyyyyy crazy square uh oh from our crazy delicious family to yours. Crave those crazy squares republicans remain confident today they will pass their Health Care Plan despite delaying a vote we this week. Tracie potts has reaction from washington. The fight is still onto get the vote to replace obamacare. I would sit down with them in a heartbeat. I dont have the license to do that. Nine republicans to leaders cancelled the vote. Now we are starting to get information. The information im seeing can lead to a good result. Now they head home facing intense pressure. The American People had spoken. Hopefully the republicans in the senate and house will continue to listen. President trump summoned to the white house for a new game plan. We are getting very close. We have to have health care. Getting it will involve switching on both sides, convincing skeptical republicans. I need to look realistically at the cost implications. Now more than ever we need americans to understand this democracy is not a spectator sport. Both sides agree its not over. Its deja vu here. A couple of months ago they tried to rush a health care vote. It got trapped and it wasnt enough support. They went back and members negotiated and made changes and that bill passed. Nbc news, washington. Part of a massive cyber attack. The ransomware appears to have originated in ukraine. It has been the target of hackers in recent years. This newest attack effected merk. The hackers are holding data up for ransom. Human error is what caused a subway to derail yesterday. They say a piece of replacement rail is not properly bolted down on the tracks. Crews worked to make sure every replacement part was securely attached. At least 34 people were hurt. More evacuations are underway. The weather is not helping fire fighters. Another warm dry and breezy day there. We certainly have a very dry day around here. 10 Miles Per Hour winds at the moment. 73 in philadelphia. Pretty close to that across the rest of the area. You can see all of the sunshine across the region and in the delaware for example not a cloud in the sky today. The winds does not really pick up. The temperature goes up to 80 degrees and thats about it. The ocean 60 degrees right now. It is 27 ocean city. We can get the sea breeze as soon as those inland areas heat up. It would cause it to level off temperatures right at the beaches. It will still be a beautiful afternoon. 81 degrees for the high today, 89 tomorrow and then 90 for friday. Humidity goes up saturday. Saturday is likely to feel even hotter than friday. Not a cloud in the sky around here. Not going to be seeing clouds or showers. It is 71 in dap may with that sea breeze. Here we are tonight into tomorrow its not going to be as cool as it was. Here hewe are at dinner time. It will be a much warmer day. We dont have significant cloud cover into early friday. Now we are starting to see a little bit. It is to the north and thats through friday. Then the moisture starts increasing. Even saturday morning showing us dry weather. So over the next three days in general most of us will stay dry. 89 thursday, 94 friday. The farther north and west you get the better the chance for thunderstorms on friday. In the afternoon the rest of the day is okay. The rest of the area i dont have any showers or storms in for friday. Duo have a cooler at the jersey shore because of the sea breeze and everybody is going to get into the showers and thunderstorms in the forecast for at least a part of the weekend. Thats coming up a little bit ba later. He made a huge impact on rock and roll. Up next ill talk to a show all about the great buddy holly. And lets take a look at some of the free events part of the wawa welcome celebrate. Even though buddy holly was only in the music scene far short time it is all most unmatched. It is called the buddy holly story. John plays buddy and gilbert performs as richie vallenz. You recognize the influence he had on modern music. Yes. He was the beatles before the beatles. He was the kind of hole that he left in music is the the beatles came over and filled that. That was rock and roll. He influenced the beatles, the stones, you name it. Some of the unigiants of the industry were influenced. Yes. By 18 months of one man. That is pretty amazing. You play richie. I do. They call it the day the music died. He was only 22 years old. Tell us what it was like to play somebody so iconic. The truth is i grew up watching la bamba. I was like i got richie. My family were thrilled. I feel like i have big shoe to fill. It is such and i spir ration on my life. It was exciting to get a chance. And tell us more about wawa welcome america. We are singing a couple of shows from the show. Yeah. We dont really know that much about it either. We know we will go out there and have a lot of fun and try to hopefully get some people to come out and some see us. Philadelphia will respond. This is a city that loves great music. We look forward to hearing more from you guys. You can catch more now through sunday, july 9th inside the kimmel center. For more details go to our web site at nbc 10. Com. Thanks for coming in. Thank you. Appreciate it. We are continuing to monitor the situation for commuters in philadelphia all because of a deadly train accident in the nations capital. New details ton investigation into the crash that killed two workers. Thats coming up. Plus President Trump fires back after questions about this magazine cover currently hanging in the president s golf resort. Fios is not cable. Were a 100 fiber optic network. Now with our new fios gigabit connection, you get amazing download speeds up to 940 megs, 20 times faster than most people have. And the price is amazing too for 79. 99 a month online for the first year youll get our fastest triple play with hbo included for 2 years. Leave cables slower internet speeds behind. So hurry up and switch to fios gigabit connection for 79. 99 with tv, hbo and multiroom dvr service for two years all with a two year agreement. We continue to monitor delays out of philadelphia station because of this deadly accident in washington, d. C. Service is now back but commuters are being warned expect delays. Here is what caused problems. Two csx workers were killed outside Union Station late last night. That caused trains to be suspended until 9 00 this morning. Investigators are trying to figure out why the workers were on the tracks in the first place. We have been monitoring the problem at 30th street station and joins us now with an update. Whats the late snes. Reporter we have seen people kind of huddled around this big door there hoping when it starts to click they will see an update of when they will get going to their final destinations. Everything is deplayed by an hour 130 30, hour 45 or more. Two employees were struck and killed by an amtrak train late last night. They were closed for several hours as investigators worked to determine how the accident happened. The tracks did reopen earlier this morning. Amtrak said it could take more time for service along the northeast corridor get back to normal. They are advising customers to check out their web sites before they come to the station just to make sure everything is running on time and as i said, things are not running on time as of now. Im pamela osborne, nbc 10 news. Thanks. This video just in. Someone spray painted Police Graffiti all over a few buildings in south philly. It said five homes were hit. Crews are cleeng it up while police investigate. Well, such a great day to be outside. Plan on spending some time outside. Plenty of sun outside. Humidity continues to be low. Here is a live look at camel beach mountains. Great place to go. Wouldnt it be fun to go there . Glenn hurricane schwartz is here with the forecast, glenn. And in the other end of our area we have the beaches. The beaches are looking great too. A pretty good crowd here at cape may. We have blue skies and the ocean is pretty calm. Youre not seeing the waves or white caps or anything that you would often see at this time of the year. The ocean is 60 degrees now, by the way. It is 75 northeast philly is the warm spot right now. The sea breeze will change things later on this afternoon. Nothing in the way of clouds across the area. So obviously no chance of rain but the next area to the west is all the way back to chicago. So it will be a while before we see any kind of significant threat of rain. As you go through the afternoon we get into the low 80s perhaps in philadelphia. The humidity is extremely low. The average high is 86 for this time of the year. The cool air that is with us this morning is leaving. Its warmer today, but it will be hot starting tomorrow and then humidity starts going up too. Well see just how hot and humid it is going to get and when storms are expected for Holiday Weekend coming up. All right. Thank you. Happening now a Senate Intelligence committee, the fifth time european elections. Here is a live look right now from the Office Building in washington. Lawmakers expect to hear from experts and a member of nato. Time magazine is asking the president to take down the magazine cover hanging ton walls of his golf resortings. Take a look at it. It was in at least five of the president s clubs from south florida to scotland. It talks about his tv show being a smash. Time says this cover is a fake. There was no march 1st edition. Sheer more from the Washington Post reporter. No issue of Time Magazine that year that had donald trump ton cover. The designer is all wrong. You can tell the thinness of the border, place of the headline, its not a realTime Magazine cover. The question is how did it goat so many different places . Donald trump who literally has fake news hanging on his wall. The actual edition is the one to the left of the fake one. Its not clear who created the do cover. The president did send out this tweet this morning. The amazonwashingtonpost some times referred to as guardian of reportedly hid messages in the training facility. The man wrote things like trust the process and hinkie died for this. He was the former gm. He told fans to believe in the teams experiment. They are hidden in Lighting Fixtures and electric boxes throughout the building includes inside the office of current gm. They wont be visible to anyone. Just Walking Around you wouldnt see it but it will be a fun shut for those who work there. The stoot chew will be moved to the top and will be the home of word wo nbc 10. We are going to go find that. Lets do that. It is believed to have broken the curse of philly. Well do social media as soon as we get in that building. Yes. We will. The program is coming off back to back seasons. The work is just beginning. And this was the workout this morning. Look at that. The streng coach has players hopping and running their way up the steps. It is part of a rocky themed workout. There is nothing tougher that be rocky and the people that live in this city. We have been waiting for this. This guy is right here. It is fun to come out and do something utilizing our environment like this. It is my first time doing Something Like this. Keeps it fun. Cool. They open the campaign on september 2nd. Simple talk. Yes. She a kind and warmhearted guy and proof that Everyone Needs a family to encourage and support them no matter how old you are. Yeah. He has a lot to offer and a lot of love to give. I would like you to meet this weeks wednesdays child. Button him up. He loves to cook and learn new recipes. We brought him to the culinary art institute. It is something he would like to make for his forever family some day. I would like to cook for my family. So you want to cover it so you have this. He is 19 and just graduated from high school. He plans to go to a trade school or Culinary School because he wants to be a chef some day. He loves music. Here is how he describes his dream family. Having a mom and dad and sister and dog keeping me safe and taking me on trips, basketball games. This young man loves school an did quite well in math. His entire future is before him. He needs guidance and love. He can be reserved and shy. When you get to know him he is really sweet. She energetic. He loves sports. He is a very down to earth kid. Has no problems talking to anyone once he is in his own element and in his own world. He is a really great kid. Franklin would be best served in a two parent home and he loves pets. He would bring a joy to your family. He loves life. He loves doing various things, whether its just being around people, being at home, being outside franklin is this weeks wednesdays child. Yes. Its good. If you would like to make his dream come true go to nbc10. Com or call the National Adoption center at 1866doadopt. Aaa tells us it will be the most traveled 4th of july weekend ever. Nearly 600,000 people are expected to take trips this year. For those driving gas prices are projected to be at their lowest level. Thats according to a gas buddy report. The pennsylvania average is 244. It is 229 in new jersey. You really dont have to go any where because philadelphia is the best play to be for the 4th of july. Stick around. You really should. Wawa welcome america kicks off tomorrow. The event has tons of free family fun in store. Well tell you where you can get a free taste of history and a free lunch tomorrow. It will be heating up for the Holiday Weekend. We could see thunderstorms as well. Ill break down the Holiday Weekend forecast just ahead. Its time that we bring addiction out of the darkness and into the light. To everyone struggling in silence addicts, family, friends you are not alone. Its time we lift each other up, reach out, say something. Addiction is a disease. Dont suffer. Dont wait. Help is within reach. Call 844 reach nj or go to reachnj. Gov the road to recovery starts now. Is here is something worth checking out. It includes nearly 70 pictures of national landmarks. They are set against old and knew views. We unvail an exhibit that will be on display for an entire year and as the first World Heritage city in the United States of america. A World Heritage city distinction is given to towns of ark tech dhur and history. We are excited and to celebrate several museums are offering free admissions. Tomorrow you can visit for free. There are so many reasons to stop by there. Carrie thanks for being here today. Great to be here. What a great way to kick off the week. Yes. Tell us what all there are for visito visitors. Do we have an hour . [ laughter ] what you get to do is historical location with the National Constitution center and top it all off with hogies. We will have reenactors, adult friendly and well be doing a huge festival at noon. It is the perfect philadelphia day. You have a new exhibit in the constitution center. Whats that about . It is about the welcomed draft of the constitution. I know i sound like a constituti constitutional geek here. You can watch it being written in different drafts. You realize when they were thinking about it they were putting an outline down. You see things evolve like concept of we the people. You watch it and the ideas come out of that of how do we put together this idea of democracy on paper . Thats why philadelphia is the World Heritage site because of this great thing that happens there and what happens every single day in philadelphia because of it. Whether a great thing for families to look at and experience together and talk about. And then you mentioned it before but the iconic hogie will be celebrated tomorrow. Yes. Tons and tons of hogies. So they start to build at 3 00 a. M. If you cant sleep come on over. Im pretty sure well be there live tomorrow morning in the morning show. It will be fun. The smell or oregano is blocks and blocks around. The celebration is at noon in front of our building. The hogies are given out. It is amazing how much it takes care of the dmcommunities. It is to celebrate and kick off independence week. Once again, free admission at the National Constitution center. Other museums have free admissions leading up to the concert and fire works on 4th of july which you can see right here on nbc 10. Everything you need to know is on our web site. Check out the nbc 10 app. Thanks so much. Yes. Well be there all week. Of course the weather will be critical for a lot of those events. We wish it would be like this. It doesnt get any better. Sunshine, low humidity. Not much wind. We have a few fair weather clouds up in the valley. Knob is going to be getting any rain today, thats for sure. In delaware the temperatures headed towards the 83 degree mark. Farther to south you have fairly uniformed subpoenas. It will be heating up incland as temperatures sefl off at the beaches. No a cloud in the sky. Its threw for michigan and inn ind and kentucky. A lot of dry air all other the east. Not only today but are tomorrow it is fairly dry. There is a chance up to the north like allentown of a late di shower or storm. The rest of the area looks dry. Reading at 89 degrees. Voorhese at the 2. A south wind keeping temperature temperature down sorm. Well billion warmer inland. 89 on thursz, 94 friday. There are the thunderstorms increasing in the Lehigh Valley thursday and friday. The sea breeze is at the jersey shower. Highway day weekend saturday, thunderstorms most likely later in the day and on sunday. It will lep keep the jersey shore. A chance of thunderstorms on sunday. None of these days should be a washout. It looks lick sunday is the best day of rain problems. For the philly pops monday the weather is looking pretty good. For the 4th itself it will be warm. It will be humid and the best chance of any kind of showers is in the evening. So much of the day on the 4th is looking pretty decent especially compared to how it looked yesterday. All right. Thank you. The commitment to clear the shelters. We want to remind you june is adopt a shelter cat month. Steven, tell us who you have with you here today. I have a cat thats been with us for the past six weeks. She came in as a stray. We always talk about dogs but especially this time of the year cats need a home. Yes. It is peak breeding seasons for kats. We might not be as full of cats in the benter but can can get a lot of scats this very can quickly. We go from a small number of cats to a quick one. Cats are much more low maintenance, right . Food, water, clean litter pretty much good to go. A lot of cats are very needy. They want the attention. They love the dlans to cuddle up or snuggle and they enjoy the attention as well. What are some of the basics you want to know . A swarm of need to know make sure we have a more ma sure so making sure they have a chance to sl an older cat at home and also identification, making sure the cat has tags or chip or boechlt if a cat gets lost you have the dhip and tag to make sure the cat gets back to you. All right. For more head to our web site or go to our nbc 10 app. We are proud to work with dozens of rescued in oir area. Adoption fees will be waived that day thank you. Appreciate it. Well be right back. The philadelphia zoo just named their new baby gorilla. It means miracle in swa hee lee. Each one of the boxes had a name choice on it. The mother came out and picked the winning box. Miracle it is. Fantastic. I love it. Ellen welcomes Magic Johnson and nicole richie. At 4 00 a police chase like you never seen before is what this deputy is trying to catch up to that makes the pursuit so peculiar. Thats at 4 00. Now an update today, amtrak trains are running on delays of about two hours. The problem started when two workers were killed ton tracks in washington. Investigators trying to figure out how it happened. There will be an update m coico up in a couple of minutes. You look for the latest information on our app. Its just an incredible day today. It could last all the way through the weekend. Its going to get a lot hotter. Tomorrow will be significantly hotter. The humidity will not be terrible. Im really going to start feeling uncomfortable. Saturday is the most uncomfortable day. Sunday looks to be the wettest and stormiest day. Today, perfection. Enjoy it. Thanks for watching. Im tracy davidson. And im vai sikahema. For glenn hurricane schwartz and all of us here at nbc 10 enjoy it. Have a great day. Its nice out there. Fios is not cable. Were a 100 fiber optic network. Now with our new fios gigabit connection, you get amazing download speeds up to 940 megs, 20 times faster than most people have. And the price is amazing too for 79. 99 a month online for the first year youll get our fastest triple play with hbo included for 2 years. Leave cables slower internet speeds behind. So hurry up and switch to fios gigabit connection for 79. 99 with tv, hbo and multiroom dvr service for two years all with a two year agreement. 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