Veteran rail workers rolled their backhoe on to an active rail line on sunday. Cnn is quoting a source that called it a colossal mistake because the workers their lives and injured scores of people on an amtrak train south of philadelphia. Bruce leshan is live at Union Station recovering after a crash that jammed thousands. Reporter most of the tr ains are running on time. The ntsb is trying to figure out exactly how this could happen and how to keep it from happening again. Trains are moving through a stretch of track in chester, pennsylvania. Speeds can hit more than 100 Miles Per Hour. Amtraks palmetto train gathered speed on sunday when a railcrashed into cc1 based backhoe mistakenly on an active track. It killed one worker and a supervisor on the Construction Equipment and sent 3035 people on the train to the hospital. Im lucky to be alive. I called my Church Members and asked them to pray. s reporter the impact blew out windows on the train and passenger said they saw flames and smelled smoke. What do you do . Do thank god you are okay and hope everyone else is, as well. Reporter not everyone was. The ntsb is trying to figure out if something went wrong with amtraks twelvestep of construction workers on rail lines. It is unclear whether the two workers were conducting routine sunday maintenance, or if they worked urgently to clear debris from the weekends high winds. Someone went on the track and when they did that, they have to let everyone know. They need to get out of the way when a train comes at 120 miles an hour. Reporter amtrak has implemented positive train control along the northeast corridor, and advanced system designed to automatically slow or stop trains in certain dangerous situations. It is still unclear to me why it failed to prevent this crash. Live in Union Station, bruce leshan, wusa9. Good question. Reporter congressman brady said there mustve been some kind of communication failure. A pedestrian struck and killed by a Police Cruiser saturday tonight is identified. Jeffrey ponce aguilar of alexandria worked at lucky sports theatre and grill for six years and friends are mourning his loss on social media. They describe him as an up to mr. , funny and helpful young man. The accident happened in kingstown. The officer has not been identified. The Virginia State trooper killed at a richmond bus station will be laid to rest tomorrow. A visitation for trooper chad dermyer takes place today at the Liberty Baptist church in hampton, virginia. The funeral will be tomorrow and he will be buried in virginia. He is survived by his wife and two young children. A man faces multiple sex charges after police said he used craigslist and the app kick to have a sexual relationship with a 14yearold girl. What the mended and how he there could be more victims. Stephanie ramirez has that story. Reporter i found his pseudo name still on the kick app. We talked about it already involved in two recent and very big child abuse and murder cases. Kick is how police say the 31 yearold contacted the 14year old girl. It started last summer. Police said the teen responded to a craigslist ad soliciting young models and they said 31 yearold roy evans jr. , at least three times, drove one hour or more from Baltimore County to Montgomery County to have sex with the minor. Explicit Text Messages and videos and photos were shared on kick. It goes against his personality. Reporter ellen brooks said he saw the neighbor friendly and happy, married man who work with the international guard. I believe he has a day in court and anything is possible. Completely inappropriate. Reporter the sergeant said he searched with craigslist and you will find ad listing his kick handle, raw danger 86 and others for an apple is. He is willing to travel up to pennsylvania since he lives north of baltimore, he will travel to washington, dc. If it is true, it is totally sickening. That is social media for you. Reporter police say the craigslist ads go back to 2014 and are seen all over the area. There are concerns there could be more victims and theyre looking for anyone who can corroborate the illegal activity. Stephanie ramirez, wusa9. The victims mother had the program teen safe on her daughters phone but it could not prevent activity. It did allow police to track her social engagements with the suspect. Three people are treated for stab wounds at a Port Washington lounge. Police were called to a teen and found two adults and a Security Guard with stab wounds. Police say the injuries are not lifethreatening and that a suspect is under arrest. Is identified as 33yearold, Philip Harrington a southeast dc and investigators say the stabbings happened during the fight and the Security Guard was hurt trying to break it up. Breaking news. The irs building has been evacuated. Dc fire tells wusa9 it was a transformer fire in the basement at 11th and constitution. The fire is out. The traffic in that area is affected. Your tax return will not be impacted by this because returns are not processed at that location and we havent heard of any injuries. Investigators are searching for the cause of a fire in northwest washington. Crews were called to the 1800 block of 14th street before 11 00 this morning and found flames on the roof restaurant. A person said the fire was put out quickly and no one was injured. 14th street has reopened to traffic this evening. Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a fire in capitol heights, maryland. The crews rushed to find heavy smart date heavy smoke. The fire was brought under control. We are just Getting Started on wusa9 was at five. The florida mayer said he intends to go through with his plan. Reaction to a new bill in dc that would get rid of sales tax on diapers and feminine Hygiene Products. The stakes are getting higher with each president ial primary. A look at to tomorrow fios is not cable. T 10 years our competitors have received a few awards. But weve received a few more, including jd power who ranked us highest in Customer Satisfaction for the third year in a row. Only fios has the Fastest Internet on the most awarded network. Now get superfast 100 meg internet tv and phone for just 69. 99 per month, online. Cable cant offer Internet Speeds this fast at a price this good, only fios can. Voters in both parties go to the polls in wisconsin. The results could have a big impact on whether there is a contested republican president ial nomination of the summer convention. The latest cbs news poll shows ted cruz leading donald trump in wisconsin. Trump insists he will do well tomorrow but would be better of john kasich would drop out. The problem is he is in the way of me. Not ted cruz. It matters who wins wisconsin and how they win. The news poll shows Bernie Sanders has a slim lead over Hillary Clinton and wisconsin. Sanders looks for his fourth win in a row, regardless of the outcome in wisconsin. Clinton maintains a big lead in total delegates. For uptotheminute results in the primary and election related election alerts, download the free wusa9 app. Mcauliffe vetoed a bill that would force schools to notify parents of their children will be assigned books with sexually explicit content. Democrats say it inappropriate to interfere with the local school board policy. The measure requires schools to provide an alternative to the sexually explicit folk if a parent had objections. Virginia would have been the first state in the country with such a law. A Central Florida mayer said he wants to understand what Cuban Migrants experience. Following a visit to cuba in a few weeks he plans to return home in a makeshift raft. Plenty of people, including the coast guard urge him to reconsider. As Kiersten Oconnor reports, mayor Clinton Johnson wants to do it. Reporter the first time started with one hiccup but he said nothing will stop him from planning his trip to cuba. Im doing this trip. When i put my mind to something, i dont give up until ive achieved it. To the first test run. Better than expected. I feel optimistic and confident that i can get this done. Reporter Clint Johnson has been planning this since he wrote from tallahassee to key west on a bicycle. As for the attention he received a. I dont want to diminish the intensity and importance of the trip for the people who have done it before may. Reporter he said even after strong warnings from the coast guard to reconsider his trip from to be, he is staying on course. There is no law that prevents an american from coming home on a boat. It is a smaller sailboat, for lack of a better definition. Reporter after today, the vessel may need alterations before the 90mile journey from cuba to key west. After 10 minutes, one of the metal bolts broke he had to go back to fix it. Im extremely confident. Reporter the coast later this month and then the final test run will be across lake okeechobee. The 30yearold mayor hopes to complete the trip from havana to key west in about two days. A great day early today. It is about to change. It has gone downhill. It was warm. The next 57 days, it will be more like march. April can be a little bit cruel. The 3degree guarantee, we are concerned because it was so warm today. Weve gone for a higher than the upper 60s, seems reasonable. 67. How did we do . We will talk about that at 11 00 and you can download the app and track is that way. A live look outside, 60 right now with winds out of the north at 17 and showers and light rain just about everywhere. Doppler shows over the last hour, hagerstown is done with the bulk of precipitation. Frederick, it is just about out of your area. Across i95, more rain and showers and north of baltimore, a little red and orange, a thunderstorm popping up. Around the beltway, it is all green, shades of light to moderate activity. Rain in rockville and i 66, you will have rain showers down 95 and up 95 and 50, everybody has rain. Rest and has rain. Potomac, light to moderate and further out, leesburg and north of 50, yellow and moderate activity, nothing crazy heavy. Everything will push out pretty quickly. We are looking at Southern Maryland where you may have rain and showers lingering until 9 00 or 10 00. The rest of us, 7 00 or so. Freeze likely tomorrow night, not likely tonight. But, rain is likely r good thing. It looks like rain across the board. 60 at 4 00. 56 at 6 00 and 51 at 8 00. That is how it looks now. It could change. Be advised that it doesnt look like a good home opener, weatherwise. By 8 00, the showers are lingering. The skies are beginning to clear with temps in the 50s and by 10 00, 49 downtown and 49 or 50 in silver spring. It will be cold but we wont see freeze tonight. Tomorrow you will have a freeze. Dont plan things to mothers day. 33 in gaithersburg, 33 as far south as la plata and by 6 00 on tuesday, temperatures dont go anywhere. Mid30s and wind chills will be in the 20s. 1 00, we are still low to mid 40s and temps are a wee bit low. 33 downtown, 43 in la plata and sterling. By 6 00, back and upper 40s pretty strong northwest winds all day. Nothing like saturday night. The windchill will be added all day. The day planner, 30s across the board. 43 with full son at 1 00 p. M. 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Drones are one step closer to flying over populated areas. The faa was sent a list of recommended standards for commercial drones lights. Most commercial drones ts the standards could speed up the introduction of packaged delivery drones and more. New rules went into effect today allowing motorists to drive faster in central maryland on interstate 70. The speed limit is entered the speed limit is increased on a 30mile stretch from howard to frederick county. Some people are already doing that. The speed limit goes up 5 Miles Per Hour between frederick and the washington county, pennsylvania line. Alaska air is buying Virgin America for more than 2 billion. The outbidding rivaled jetblue and if this is approved, the deal would let alaska air explant expanded San Francisco, los angeles and dallas. More fights are arriving on time and airlines are losing fewer bags. Why are more of us complaining . The annual report an Airline Quality said traveler year, the highest level since 2000. 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Ahh and take control of your health. Cigna. Together, all the way. New proposed legislation in dc would get rid of sales tax on diapers and femini products. Wusa9 has Stephanie Gailhard live with reactions. Reporter leslie, this would be a huge win for women. I spoke with a single mother who told me she spends 100 per month on diapers. She is excited about this. Very outgoing and bubbly. Reporter her daughter is 16 months old. Im pennypinching. Between bills and everything else, i have to be serious. Its heartbreaking. Reporter shes in favor of eliminating the tax on diapers. And new proposed bill in dc would do that and also get rid of the tax on feminine Hygiene Products. Its estimated women spend 61 per year on tampons 5. 75 sales tax and that money adds up over time. Its strange to have women pay taxes on feminine products. The tax should be repealed. Women shouldnt have to pay more for products that are necessities. Reporter in most states, items considered necessities are exempt from sales tax. In dc, prescription and nonprescription drugs, including viagra and pacemakers, wheelchairs, crutches and artificial limbs are all exempt from sales tax. Feminine Hygiene Products and diapers are taxed. Weve already got too much going on. Reporter Dc Council Members will discuss the nobel tomorrow. It is expected to pass. If that happens, it will become a law in 612 months. It will cost the city 1 million per year. Live in town, Stephanie Gailhard, 9. Tampons. Maryland does not. For diapers, dc, maryland and virginia have attacks on baby diapers. Maryland does not tax adult diapers. California governor jerry brown signed a minimumwage bill. The legislation will raise the minimum wage in the state to 15 a a 15 an hour by the year 2022. Business groups say it could cost thousands of jobs. 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