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Developing this morning, a major power outage brought the worlds Busiest Airport to a standstill. You can literally hear the cheers the moments the lights came back on at atlantas Hartsfield Jackson airport. The power outage came at the start of the busy travel season. Passengers were stuck in the dark for 11 hours. One person described it as pandemonium. You can hear it there. People literally had to yell to find each other because they couldnt see. Georgia power says a fire in an underground e...

Had sprinkles and showers overnight so you might experience damp road conditions. Theres a sprinkle or shower popping through the region, Storm Tracker 6 live showing it moving east of philadelphia or off the coast. Nonlt e not seeing the green there coud spotty drizzle. The farther you go into the northern suburbs, the better chance of a freeze up on roads. Matt will tell you will theres some problems out there. 36 in philadelphia. 34 in readi. There could cool spots and freezing drizzle. 39 de...

Channing street. Caution there. We have a red line delay. A full look at traffic next. Back to you. 7 oclock is our time right now. Developing overnight the power is back on at the worlds Busiest Airport. But now thousands are backed up after being stranded and delayed in atlanta. All right in the thick of Christmas Travel of course and fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live at Reagan National airport with how these major delays are affecting us locally. Mel. Reporter hey, good morning, and, yes, it is d...

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 reall...

The house will resume proceedings on postponed questions at a later time. For what purpose does the gentleman from kansas seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i move the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h. R. 3759 as amended. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 3759, a bill to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a family caregiving strategy, and for ther purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from ka...

Amtrak 501, emergency, we are on the ground. Thats a first tonight. Lets get started. We are all over the three parts of this big breaking story tonight. Heres whats ahead. Transportation reporter pete muntean talks about the trains speed. Weve got a reporter on scene, too. But first lets set the scene for you. It is a jumbled mess. There were 14 cars on this train. Most of them jumped the tracks. There were about 80 passengers on board and a crew of five when the train rounded a curb over inter...

This tuesday, including the weather. Im going to pull out the short sleeves just one more time. [laughter] veronica feels like holidays down in florida, somewhere down to the south today, but its not going to stay that way. We will move back very quickly to temperatures with highs in the 30s. This morning, my goodness, fairly mild in most neighborhoods. Big range, depends on where you are, just west of d. C. , starting out in that cooler range, low of 95. 0 degrees east playing it cool across th...

Southbound 50 inbound residual delays. And next. 7 01. And we learn that deadly train sdmaent Washington State may have been caused by speed. Later fox five Melanie Alnwick is live outside head qu5r9ers. Mel, good morning. First full day for ntsb go team which left here in washington d. C. And headed to Washington State for that crash. When they arrived at the seattle tacoma area quick briefing gave jaw dropping information and 80 miles an hour in 30 mile an hour zone. One of the trains then dat...

Going 80 miles an hour in a 30 miles an hour zone when it wept off the rails along a curve near tacoma killing three and injuring dozens more. They are still unsure if the high speed caused the accident and are looking into whether the conductor was distracted by an employee in training. The train which was carrying 86 people was on its first journey on a new route from seattle to portland. Fox talked to a local soldier who helped passengers to safety after the crash. I couldnt afford to be scar...

[ bird caws ] im jamie colby in tucson, arizona. Wagon trains used to pass right through here on their way to california during the gold rush, and one of the roughandready pioneers who helped settle this area left behind a very strange inheritance. Im here to get the skinny on it. My names jock taylor. In 2009, i inherited a wooden trunk full of family heirlooms going back more than a century. Now im told i could pocket a small fortune. I meet jock, a 60yearold electrical engineer, at his home h...