Awaited mother natures show. Glasses and beer and wine. Dont need more than n right. Right, right. Just after 1 20 p. M. The moon made its move. Clipping the right most edge of the glowing osh that is our sun. Pretty cool . Its amazing. Report roar wearing special glasses designed to block harmful race show the eclipse as partial orange ball in front of the jet black background the crowd oohed and ahhed. With the glasses you can see the sun perfectly round perfec perfectly beyond yellow sun no light shining around it and you can see the curve of the moon slowly coming across. Where is the moon coming in from . That way. Coming from here to there. Reporter the kids were kept busy learning how to build homemade eclipse viewers and during intermittent cloudiness they played games. But when the brightness returned, so, too, did the excitement. One understands why, you kn know, ancient societies used to get really spooked by this. Reporter are you getting spooked. Not in the least, no. No.
Passengers were injured and our police and fire personnel and e ms from Delaware County hospital got them off the trains and out to area hospitals. I was talking to a guy at gulph mills. He is like that is not right, it never passes like that. I almost waited for the next train. We got to the terminal. I stood up to get off and get to my bus on time and smack, it hit the other trolley, parked. Reporter so last number that we received was 42 injured people four transported to hospitals with traumatic injuries, including, the conductor of that train. Remember back in february, a train derailed at this same station after crashing into a stopped train seriously injuring the operator there, that crash did not involved any passengers. So again, an Investigation Underway into exactly what caused this train to crash shortly after midnight here at 69th street station, thomas and karen. We will learn more throughout the morning, darby,. Another big story is going to be bill cosby back in c intod
Francisco who is against this event. Our Live Team Coverage starts in minutes. First, an abc7 news iteam exclusive thats new at 6 00. These are our dead. This is not a poltergeist joke. Its not halloween. It is a sensitive issue for native americans whose ancestors lived here hundreds of years ago. An iteam reporter dan noyes is here with more. Reporter its been tough getting answers from the builder, from an indian descendant, but crews have dug up 32 skeletons in just two acre where is the homes are being built. The website for a Southern California builder touts the project in fremont, elegant floor plans, priced around 1. 2 million. No mention of the 32 indian skeletons they found there. One carbon dated to 650 years ago. Tim fisher is the senior project manager. S the developer is not going to talk on camera about this . Im sorry, we would just like to provide our native american representative the opportunity to address your questions. Reporter are you paying her . She is retaine
Proposition, the defenders of the proposition conceded to everybodys surprise, certainly to my surprise, that the fiveyear limitation was wildly impractical and probably unenforceable. They recharacterized that fiveyear limit not as a mandatory deadline, but as an aspiration. Reporter speeding up the process was no longer mandatory, the constitutionality of prop 66 was upheld by the California Supreme Court by a vote of 52. But it doesnt address the logjam in finding qualified attorneys to represent Death Penalty cases. Essentially what were getting is a process more vulnerable to mistakes, because attorneys that are not experts on doing this kind of litigation that is very specialized are going to have to start doing it. Reporter this criminal justice expert said more cases could end up in federal court and the approximately 18 inmates now on death row who have exhausted all of their appeals could face execution in another year to year and a half. As for the rest . Prop 66 on its majo
Penalty . Good evening. Im dan ashley. And im ama daetz. San quentin, roughly 700 inmates condemned to die there. That includes Scott Peterson who awaits the execution for the murder of his pregnant wife lacy. The last time california executed an inmate was in 2006. Some in the Legal Community doubt todays ruling the affect death row. Leslie brinkley is live now to explain exactly why. Leslie . Reporter the California Supreme Court today, dan, overruled a constitutional challenge to prop 66, the Death Penalty initiative passed by voters last november that was supposed to speed up the Death Penalty process. Californias 750 inmates on death row wait an average of 16 years for a qualified attorney to take their appeals case. It can then take decades for the case to pass through the appeals process. Prop 66 was pitched to voters as a fix for that. At the heart of it . A mandatory fiveyear limit for the Supreme Court to complete appeals. The proponents of the proposition, the defenders of t