Of something wrong came mid morning. We had the report of 16 firefighters that were possibly exposed to Carbon Monoxide. Reporter the firefighters were assigned to the glass fire, but werent actively fighting flames when they fell ill. At an offsite location from the base camp unrelated to the fire area. Reporter they were taken to the fair grounds and were examined on site. Of those 16 firefighters, one firefighter was transferred to a local hospital for further evaluation, and all of the other firefighters have been released back to duty. Reporter investigators are trying to determine what sickened the firefighters including the source of any Carbon Monoxide. The victims were part of the same group of firefighters. It was an Engine Strike Team assigned to the incident. So a group of five fire engines with 16 personnel on it. Reporter firefighters are usually the ones responding to Carbon Monoxide which is known as the silent kill person symptoms include nausea, headache, and confusio
Infighting over aid to ukraine, speaker johnson did an end run around his maga conservative critics and worked with democrats to get a 95 billion package of foreign aid through the house. A move that could cost him his job. I said these are not normal times. Theyre not. The world is destabilized and its a tinderbox. Will it revive the weary ukrainian war effort . Well talk with chair mark warner. Well hear from republican congressman tom cole and senator dan sullivan about all this and more. As former President Trump prepares for Opening Statements in the new york hush money trial, bad weather kept him off the campaign trail this weekend. They say the weather is really getting bad, really, really getting bad. President biden spent three days in a state thats a mustp win for him. Youre my ticket to the white house. You, pennsylvania. Its not hyperbole. Well talk with that states democratic governor, josh shapiro. Ahead of earth day, what impact is the recent run of extreme weather havin
Nbcs sarah dalof starts our coverage tonight. Reporter on the first day of a newly established route monday morning, tragedy aboard amtrak 501. Things started to tip over and as it was going around and then all of a sudden just ended up on side, and everything went dark and stuff started flying around and that was it. Then it stopped. Reporter a stunned motorist watched the train derail. One car falling to the interstate below, another dangling from the overpass. I was right in front of it really. Nerve racking, kind of sick to your stomach after seeing this right now. Reporter multiple vehicles were hit by the falling train car as others came crashing into the pile. The people that were in all the vehicles, even though when you see the pictures, its pretty horrific. At this point nobody in any of vehicles was fatal. Reporter 77 passengers and five crew members were on board the train which was headed south from seattle to portland. Witnesses scrambled trapped survivors and help emerge
Im wilfred frost. The longest winning streak for the dow and s p since february. The dow up about 0. 2 as is the nasdaq, the s p just behind that. Materials and utilities leading the gains while telecomes and financials the worst performers. Intuit, mattel and nrg Energy Better than expected earnings. Dupont is leading the dow on news there are changes to the dow dupont post merger plan. And ge around session lows following the presentation by the ceo jeff immelt, worried about the neglect it tiative im an accounting change. Here is what else is happening this hour. Five House Democrats are asking Deutsche Bank for information on president trumps alleged russian tries. Maxine waters and four others on the House Financial Services Committee Want to see any information the german bank may have on dealings the Trump Administration had with it. The nba says it will play the 2019 allstar game in charlotte, north carolina. This comes after the league moved this years game away to protest. An
Got out of the hospital. Reporter indeed. This incident started earlier this morning, just after 10 00 a. M. Were outside gw hospital where the man has just been released but he did speak to us about his harrowing ordeal. It happened just after 10 00 a. M. He said he was at the Lenfant Plaza station going to catch the blue line. As he gets to the platform he sees the train there. The doors are starting to close. He runs up to the train and puts his arm in the door, and this is where things really started to get scary. Lets hear what he has to say. Im still like this. So i had to snatch my arm out like im hulk hogan or he man. It was like a runaway train. Now im tumbling. I hit the side of the train and it knocked me back on the platform and i get up and im just in a daze because the train is still moving. Reporter and so as he puts his arm in that door, obviously the train starts to move. Now, theres some things that are being disputed by metro. He s conductor look at him and that the