Train Activity News Today

Belt. all train activity has been suspended for now. authorities are on large numbers. the ambulance services have left the scene and police have now confirmed that they have neutralized the person wearing an explosive belt, and were waiting to find out anything more on that. at some times, the first reports are wrong in the early going. the reason for that is youre in the middle of a situation that is very familiar. if youre a commuter or an urban dweller, on and off trains all the time. a cert...

Theres ambulances there, lots of police there around union station as well as the fbi assisting in this. again, no active shooter situation but we are told, wolf, that there was a shooter there at union station earlier today. were trying to learn more details. the big question, it is the anniversary of 9/11 and people are wondering what could be behind this. we dont those details yet, wolf, and were searching for them. there was train activity halted today but it appears everything at union stat...

Thats not a good time to jump in, either. so democrats dont want to view him as a smiler so i think he has to get in early october. thats the next fund-raising period so thats a opportunity. he has a window. but the window is closing, or at least inching down ever so much. >> hold on, brianna, were getting breaking news out of washington, d.c., reports of a shooting incident at union station, thats the main train station in the nations capital. i think our justice correspondent pamela brown, wel...

There was such a violent derailment just outside philadelphia. milissa? >> we want to go back and listen to this helicopter from our local affiliate. >> making sure that the people who were injured are getting the proper treatment as necessary and just going at this one step at a time. but you do see a lot of train activity in this area in this one little section here in port richmond. >> all right. we understand that there are a lot of people that might be stranded tonight? >> reporter: yes. a ...

Just ripped them off of the railroad ties and bent the entire rail. we talked about this being a junction. you see a freight train car right there. does not appear that this train hit any of the other vehicles that are out here in this area but i was just looking at a google map of this entire area because its very dark up here. you cant really see too much from this vantage point, which is why they had a lot of the police helicopters and the lights out here but you can see that the tracks do di...

I was just looking at a google map of this entire area. it is very dark. you cant see too much from this vantage point which is why they have police helicopters and the lights. i was looking at the map. you can see that the tracks do diverge in all four directions from this point. as the mayor said it is very soon and too soon at this point to speculate exactly what happened. you see tracks here as well. you see this is filled with train activity but right in this area here we have some of the d...

Records as well as the records related to the operator and the maintenance of the tracks and signaling equipment. >> so you have to cover all your bases, of course, is it in the issue although its not uncommon this was being pushed the enjen was behind the line of cars and this as opposed to pulling, is that relevant? >> well, the configuration of the train may be relevant or may be not. this is not an unusual configuration, but it certainly will be looked at. >> then, of course, you start looki...