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Flooding has hit two main lines in the West of England, the Derby-Nottingham route and trains in the Leeds area

The Green Line Extension project cost $2.3 billion and was opened in late 2022, while Gov. Charlie Baker was still in office.

It will still be many weeks before staffing can be improved at a key facility, which would allow all subway lines to return to full service.

Important to them. theyll have an opportunity to take a look at the scene, collect some perishable evidence. do documentation and gather the recorders, both the event recorders and the video recorders that might be on board. >> absolutely. there are some passengers on the train that said there were announcements saying there was no air conditioning on the train due to electrical problems. some of those comments are coming in. is that something these investigations will look at as well whether an...

Critical broken bones. they are looking into whether the derailment was caused by track problems, equipment or operator error. the two black box retrieved could provide answers and are currently analyzed by ntsb in washington. what can we expect to learn? whats the latest on the investigation and what kind of information might we see coming out in the next day or two? >> reporter: you know, alex, those black boxes are critical to the investigation and data. a couple of things, how fast was the t...

Today, the presidents got $50 billion in his budget for 2012. its because, really, of president obamas vision. >> physically, what is this money going to do? >> it will fix up tracks, new rails, fix up tracks to get to higher speeds and also buy new equipment, new cars and more comfortable cars not only in this northeast and midwest but california where we made big investments. >> im a constant rider of the train, for much of the last decade, i have ridden next to senator biden. clearly, he unde...