Transcripts For WPVI Action News 530 AM 20150515 : vimarsana

Transcripts For WPVI Action News 530 AM 20150515

Temperatures and we are going to introduce the idea of a spotty shower or thunderstorm both saturday and sunday afternoon, ill have future tracker 6s latest take on that in a exaf seconds. Reporter no weatherrelated problems on your morning commute. Schuylkill expressway Spring Garden mlk drive over to the sight looking good, youll want to take that instead of kelly drive because its shut down doesnt open until 6 00 p. M. Tomorrow thats closed between Strawberry Mansion drive and Fountain Green drive. We have a disabled vehicle partially blocking the ramp bensalem, traffic is squeezing by. Lets get the latest with mass transit. No service on amtrak. Officials say they hope to he resume some service on monday and full service on tuesday were with a watching for that the early part of next week. Otherwise were seeing modified schedule for the rest of the northeast corridor. This is affecting mass transit here. New Jersey Transit is honoring amtrak tickets between trenton and new york city. The Atlantic City rail line is resuming service between 30th and pennsauken. Septa is encouraging everyone to go to the corn well heights station to catch the market frankford lionel. Of course were starting with the latest on the Train Derailment. The message from the president and ceo reads in part. With truly heavy hearts we mourn those who died on behalf of the amtrak family i offer our sin sympathy and prayers for their loved one. Amtrak takes full responsibility and deeply apologizes for the role in the event. The engineer of the train says he will share his story. Katherine scott is in Port Richmond with more on that angle. Reporter good morning, tam you can see the Police Barricades are still up in the neighborhood. Ntsb has released the site to amtrak. Ntsb has started to interview passengers on the train and they are planning to interview the engineer in the coming days as they work to determine the cause of the fatal crash. This video shows the train moments before the crash. Federal investigators say it was speeding up from 70 Miles Per Hour to more than one hundred when it should have been slowing down. The engineer applied the brakes before the curve. Seconds into the turn we could see the train tilting approximately ten degrees to the right and then the recording went blank. Reporter so far the investigators have not found problems with the track, signal or locomotive. 32yearold engineer was in the front of the hitech engine. On the left the thodle handle to in throttle handle to increase speed. On the lcd scene a speedometer that would tell him how was how fast he was going. There is no sign to show reduce speed ahead like you see on the road. Thats part of the engineers qualifications that they are supposed to know. Youre looking at a rail car being moved to a facility in delaware overnight. Ntsb is planning to interview the engineer in the next couple of days, and were starting to learn more about the engineer, the fact that he had issues and concerns about train safety that he has voiced in the past. Well hear about that coming up at 6 00 a. M. Live in Port Richmond, Katherine Scott channel 6 action news. Thank you. We now know the names of all 8 People Killed on the train. 47yearold Laura Finamore was returning to new york. Jim gains associated press. Abid gilani, as bob guildersleeve of baltimore. Daric griffith and Rachel Jacobs and Justin Zemser who was a Naval Academy mid shipman. Moke and flames smoke and flames shot of a rail car in wisconsin, all 51 passengers got out safely. The train was heading from chicago to milwaukee when it caught fire. Democratic lawmakers from new jersey will make a call for more funding for railroad safety. Bob menendez and corey booker will hold a press conference at a train station in newark. House Appropriations Committee voted to cutting amtraks budget. John boehner argued that this weeks crash is not connected by a lack of federal funds. New this morning a fire forced four people from the house in camden county. The action cam was on the unit block of hidden acres drive in voorhees township. Firefighters had a tough time getting their ladders around the trees to the attic where the fire broke out. Crews do not know what started. A gunman carried out a deadly ambush in a philadelphia neighborhood in olney. Witnesses say the 50yearold victim was sitting on the front steps of the neighbors house the gunman ran out of a rear driveway and fired three shots at the victim at close range. Police do not know who shot him. 6 drug officers were acquitted in a Corruption Case they are accused of stealing money and beating suspects and lying. Family and friends of the officers cheered outside the Federal Court House after hearing the not guilty verdict yesterday. Else going home to his he is going home to his wife and children and his badge. A lot of time people said a lot of things about us, the truth came out. Reporter the president of the fop said the acquitted officers will begin arbitration to get their jobs back. President obama will address thousands of the countrys Law Enforcement this morning. The president will visit camden, new jersey only monday and meet with the county police force about its efforts to forge better relationships with the communities. Camden has designated one of 8 promise zones. Time to turn to weather and traffic. What can we expect today. Reporter tomorrow well have spotty thunderstorms, Storm Tracker 6 live double scan shows no such issues with rain today though. We have dry and tranquil conditions, a few clouds overhead. Generally speaking in terms of low humidity. It will get milder as we move through the morning into the afternoon. Winds are light, 6 Miles Per Hour its not humid out there. Satellite shows you we have had high, think cloud cover coming into play. I think this will be thin enough where sunshine will work through the clouds or at least share the sky with the clouds for most of the day. Its going to be warm later after a cool start 8 00 a. M. 58. By 11 00 a comfortable 66. We get up to 2 00. 74 high of 76 around 3 00 p. M. Before dipping back to 73 degrees later on. Well keep that always on day planner up there for those of you with hd tv. High temperatures north and west, 77 in allentown. 78 in reading. Down the shore, 65 in ac. 70 down the coast in cape may. Clouds and sun the high clouds today in place. For the phillies tonight its back to nighttime baseball after yesterdays afternoon win the Arizona Diamondbacks in town tonight were looking for partly cloudy skies with high clouds in place, 70 degrees for the first pitch and 61 in the 9th inning. You might want to bring a jacket as the temperatures drop. If youre planning to barbecue in the backyard. Not a bad night for that. 70 degrees by 3 00 p. M. Low humidity get the grill going. As we look at future tracker 6 well start out with a sprinkle in the morning. During the afternoon we expect the possibility of a spotty shower horror thunderstorm. The model in the shower or thunderstorm. The model in the afternoon wants to put this north of philadelphia and drag it through the region. Not everybody will see this stuff, it wont be happening all the time. You want an out plan if youre outside to get inside in case one of the drenching downpours hit. Sunday morning, its dry but in the afternoon a chance of showers filtering in and it could produce down you pours. We have a High Pressure ridge to the north an high temperatures in times 80s and humid. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast going for a high of 76 and pleasant. Tomorrow, 85. Humid with a spotty thunderstorm i just showed you and sunday, humid and showers and thunderstorms, high of 88 degrees. Monday that front is pretty much off the coast although well get clouds circulating around the low, clouds and sun, 75 the high. Could be another shower buildings in. Tuesday, another system gives a spotty shower or thunderstorm. 5 41 were following breaking news, the search for a missing are a mean helicopter may have come to a tragic end. Investigators he in washington, d. C. Comb through the ashes of a deadly blaze near the home of the Vice President they are calling it suspicious. Karen. Reporter were looking live in Delaware County on the blue route traffic is moving nicely. Well get the latest on the problem thats restricting a ramp. One of kind no more. The world loses a blues guitar legends overnights well have more on the passing of bb king when action news continues. Im lynne abraham. When i became philadelphias da, child victims had to face a judge. A jury. The public. And testify eye to eye with their attackers. It wasnt right. So i got a constitutional amendment passed allowing children to testify remotely. Im running for mayor for the same reason our children should come first. Jim kenney and Tony Williams are fighting over Public Schools versus charters. I disagree. We have to improve education for all of our children. Welcome back taking a live look there across the delaware, all the way over to ben franklin bridge, beautiful start to your friday, still a cool morning though 5 44, 57 degrees, stop, dead end one way, what is going on in the suburbs, karen rogers. Reporter so many things im here to numerous rate them epneumonia rate them for you. We have a tractortrailer blocking the ramble to bensalem. It cleared. Youre looking better, overall were looking better all the overnight construction is in the process of getting out of there too. Things are looking better on the turnpike. We like to start our friday with good news. Academic drive is good between pemberton browns mills road, its the Community College commencement. You want to stick to benchmark per ton browns mills road. This is whitpain township, 202 at swede road. We had debris on the road. It looks better now, looks like something fell off a box truck maybe they realized it was missing and came and got it. Im not seeing too many issues somebody is talking about the Construction Zone in belmawr. When you join waze you can be part of our 6abc team. 55 degrees currently in philadelphia. No weather weatherrelated problems were off to a good start its a beautiful spring day ahead. Breaking overnight a helicopter crew has spotted wreckage in the himalayan mountains in nepal believed to be the marine helicopter missing since tuesdays earthquake. Nepal defense secretary said three bodies were found. 6 marines were among the 8 people on board. Ground crews are heading to search for survivors. Breaking news from the entertainment world blues legend bb king has died. [blues] [. You knew it was him the minute you heard that guitar. He rose from the cotton farms of the segregated south. He earned the name blues boy with his ga guitar he called lucille. Bb king died peacefully in his sleep in his home in las vegas last night. 89 years 0 old. Police in washington, d. C. Say a deadly fire at a Corporate Executives home is highly suspicious. Officials recovered the bodies of three adults and one child yesterday afternoon. The names have have not been released. They say they recovered an abandoned porsche that disappeared from the fire scene. On wednesday tanner brown attended an auction to billed on his patrol car. The price soared higher than the colorado teenager could afford and he took it all in trialed and then this happened. 50,000. Reporter heres your car. That was the right thing steve wells said it was his plan all along to make the winning bid. The auction raised 70,000 for charity that helps the families of Fallen Police officers. You see tanner jump up and give him a big hug. 5 48. Woman attacked and robbed her home and the frightening ordeal was caught on video. A man sets out on a day to go fishing and saves another mans life. Reporter we have jackets on the kids, this afternoon, shorts and ts, well have the day planner forecast and let you know how the numbers progress today. A spring snowstorm hit the Sierra Nevada mountains as people are about to open their summer cabins for the season. A light coating covered the area near lake tahoe yesterday. Lower elevations saw rain. Reporter were dry today, we have a good morning commute so far, the ben franklin bridge westbound traffic on the right heading toward center city. The on going construction is blocking the right lane. You can see how few fema people are up and about. You know, what other people have good hours. Reporter were off to a cool start, some suburbs in the 40s 46 in coatsville, 50 in fleetwood and 51 in chester and center city. Agenda beach 58. 45 in hammonton. 54 in avalon, low 50s from hockessin to dover delaware. Cool, high clouds, mixing with sun. High is 76 degrees, winds on the light side humidity low. Matt. Thank you david. The school board at a private academy in georgia fired the principal who made occasionally charged comments. The principal apologized she said she was trust frustrated people walked out before the ceremony ended. A College Student survived a frightening attack and claims it was a friend who set her up. You can see oconnor struggling to breathe while her capture keeps her in a chokehold. The woman reportedly brought over two men who presented to be interested in purchasing tools from oconnor. They ended up stealing the equipment all the cash she saved up for hardware college tuition. We have more news you didnt see last night including details on a local High School Coach facing sex charges. We have more on the engineer who was at the control of the amtrak train including what he was posting online. A live update at 6 00 a. M. This is dramatic video on action news showing a 19yearold man from tennessee trying to spend a relaxing day on the riverbank and ends up jumping in the water to save a mans life. He had his go pro trapped to his chest when he noticed an elderly man splashing in the water. He jumped in to pull the man to shore. The man was not seriously injured. Arake born u. S an iraqi born u. S. Citizens is accused of pledging aallegiance to isis. He admitted he wanted to travel to syria to fight with the isis control free syrian army. Jeb bush is trying to clarify a recent statement about iraq trying to make it clear he thinks the u. S. Invasion was a mistake. He skirted the issue for sometime, he has defined his position on a war his brother authorized. The iraqi invasion cast cost price of a flight skyrockets after a rail disaster. Well that when action news continues. Good morning, it is 6 00 a. M. On this friday, may 15. Heres whats happening. A new question emerges in the amtrak Train Derailment why was the train accelerating as it supposed to be slowing down. The first lawsuit stemming from the derailment has been filed. Accuweather is tracking warmer air this weekend with a few showers and thunderstorms. Lets find out the details on that and karen rogers is watching the commute. Good morning. Reporter no problems this morning, we have a little bit more cloud cover around than yesterday, as satellite shows the cloud cover filtering through. We do think it will be high and thin enough where youll see sun, but no bright blue skies we had yesterday from end to end

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