The purpose of having it the cars below who see the decorations can then help honor those victims by honking their horns. The flags mounted above the overpass and drivers honking out of respect in respect to the looifsz lost 15 years ago on september 1st 1. Although a terrible moment in americas history the community kept it positive. The cars are honking so its a positive recognition. Everybody seize us and were happy. Reporter the sar smoen a monthly tradition in lafayette but this group was especially moved and remembered of the tragedy in new york. Not just for the people born after but the people who had 20 experience it as well. When you saw the fire and it was a quarter of mile in the sky, you couldnt figure out how it got there. And then, yeah, you saw the bodies falling and you saw people just streaming out of the twin towers, they were scared. Reporter many recognized the fatherless men and woman overseas and First Responders at home on this day. The Service People do a job i
And they are taking on the contract which awards the vendor a hefty percentage of fines and sets a minimum number of violations. A quota. Safety is first. But you cant deny it creates revenue. The head of the agency says there is no quota and yellow light lanes does vary because it is based on the roads speed limit. The county is deliberately placing the cameras where they know the yellow lights are short . No. But the auto body shops report an uptake in rare end wrecks. You take precautions for a yellow light and now it is speed through it and slam on the practices and people getting caught. And the county says accidents with injuries are down and aa ais awaiting data. Lawmakers wont wait any longer call for the red light camera to be scaled back or stopped. An amtrak train derailed in central vermont after it hit a pile of rocks that had fallen. 7 hurt and one seriously. The derailment happened in northville 20 miles west of mount pillar. The locomotive and Passenger Car went over em
Iain, back to you. All right, scott, thanks much. You can track the weather any time you like this holiday season. Head to our website myfoxphilly. Com and click on the weather tab. They say theres no place look home for the holidays but the question really is, can people get home . Or will the weather snarl their Christmas Travel plans . Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson life tonight at Philadelphia International airport. Shawnette, any issue there is now . Reporter well, iain ill tell was things havent been too bad for people flying out today. Only two flights have been cancel as of this afternoon. And some arriving flights are on just about an hour delay. So it appears a lot of people left for Holiday Travel ahead of Christmas Eve because there was a crowd but it wasnt too busy her at the airport at times. People whos flights were cancel last night did get out first thing this morning. Im told and some flights that were canceled yesterday canceled i say again because of bad weather did actua
82 Miles Per Hour. Thats how fast federal investigators say a commuter train was going when it derailed on sunday. Four people died when the metronorth train jumped the tracks on, on a curve, dozens more were hurt. Investigators now know how fast the train was going. They still dont know for sure why it derailed. Lets take you to jonathan martin. He is at the crash site in the bronx. Jonathan . Reporter hey, tony. You know, investigators have said from the start that this is a very preliminary information, but as you mentioned, these two black box data recorders have revealed key information. One frust from the front and one from the back, showing this train was going too fast echoing what a lot of these passengers and witnesses have been saying from the start. Reporter investigators with the National Transportation safety board say they now know the commuter train that derailed was going too fast as it approached a curve. The preliminary information and let me emphasize this is prelim
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