Wusa 9. Hopefully its much ado about nothing. Ellen, thank you. Like a driver who misses his exit on the beltway, the engineer on that deadly amtrak derailment that happened a year ago, near philadelphia, lost track of where he was. Thought he was farther down the rail line, where the speed limit was 110 miles an hour. Thats the conclusion today, at the National Transportation safety board, which also warned more people are likely to die, until all railroads implement automatic Safety Systems. Wusa 9s bruce leshan is live with details on this. Good evening, bruce. Hey, adam. Here is something i didnt know. There are no posted speed limit signs on the rails. Amtrak engineers pride themselves on knowing exactly where they are and exactly how fast they are allowed to go. But in this case, the ntsb says Brandon Bostian was distracted by reports of someone throwing trcks at trains and simply lost ack of where he was. Reporter bostian hit the throttle just before the crash. Accelerating the
Kind of on the ground that long and doing this sort of damage. White horse is amish country, the deeply religious commune was already cleaning up and rebuilding today. The amish doesnt obtain traditional insurance but count on their fellow man to help. Its amish aid, every neighbor come together and helps the other out. Families will be assessed a certain amount if need be to help pay for the cost and they do the work themselves. A command center is set up at the fire company and amish from around the region came to help those effective. The cleanup is effective but this storm could have been much more devastating. There are no reported injuries that we are aware of and they are fortunate in this area. Reporter and officials tell us that the estimated cost of the damage at this point is 8 million. Thank you chad. Lets switch live to meteorologist, cecily tynan, at the action news big board. Winds up to 125 Miles Per Hour and damage up to 8 million. And incredibly rare for this time of
Back at that Church Parking lot today, investigators deployed a bloodhound to pick up the trail of that potential suspect. This is the last known sighting of that man and theyre trying to figure out why he brought the stolen car here and what he did after he set fire to it. That was pot collins reporting. And the longtime housekeeper of the family just talked to Megan Fitzgerald about her colleague dying in the home. Megan megans in the newsroom with that part of story. Reporter the woman didnt want to be identified on camera and refer to her as nelly. Nelly has been working for the homeowners for more than two decades. She owns the cleaning company and allowed her friend to work with her at the home so she could make a living. Nelly called her friend vera. Nelly says vera was a close friend of hers and hard working and loved life. Vera came to this country from el salvador to earn money before retiring next year. She said she wanted to work for the family and planned to get off of wor
Parts of the region are under flash flood warnings, with the latest set to expire at 3:15 a.m. Friday, as the National Weather Service warned of heavy rain. On Thursday evening, the weather service issued a flash flood emergency for southwest Allegheny County, including Oakdale and Coraopolis, and northern Washington
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