Here. rv towing a pickup truck coming up alongside and the rv veers into the median. it rolls over. you see the front driver s side tire blew out here causing the accident. nobody inside was seriously hurt. the small cable barrier in that median is credited with stopping the rv from heading into oncoming traffic. wow. rainfall totals in much of texas are now more than double the into for the month of may. we re not even halfway through the month. that s triggered massive flooding across the state. in the north, officials are taking the unusual step of releasing water from swollen lakes which is starting to swamp nearby neighborhoods. residents are warned that they might have to evacuate. and, of course, all that rain is creating problems on the roads. raging flash flood picked up this car and swept it down stream. the driver was lucky, managed to get out of the car and make her way to safety. unfortunately storms over
When he apparently lost control and hit another car. the vehicles came to rest just inches from a baby s crib. thankfully, no one was home. it is amazing race car driver helio castroneves was not hurt in this spectacular crash look at that it happened during practice for the upcoming indy 500. castroneves got out and walked to an emergency vehicle. he was checked out by doctors and cleared. by the end of the practice session, he was back behind the wheel hitting speeds more than 225 miles an hour. incredible. those cars are amazing. the way they design them to protect those drivers whose heads are sticking out the top of the car. not just survive that. he walked out. get back into the car and keep on racing. that s incredible. we turn to weather now. heavy rain lashing much of texas is causing widespread flooding testing the limits of drainage and holding facilities. in the northern part of the state, officials are taking the unusual step of releasing water from swollen lakes. the problem is that opening
Those floodgates is starting to submerge nearby neighborhoods. we re still hoping for the best but it doesn t come to our house and destroy everything we have. national weather service says much of that area was hit with between 9 and 11 inches of rain in just three hours tuesday night, something that may happen only once every 500 years. all the rain making driving treacherous. not much driving going on right there. raging flash flood picked up this car, swept it down stream. driver managed to get out and scramble to safety. and unfortunately, the forecast for that area is not improving anytime soon. another 2 to 5 inches of flooding rain is expected in texas today. expect very wet conditions in the upper midwest and much needed rain is finally falling in california. temperatures will hit the mid to high 80s across the south, 50s and 60s in the upper midwest and a beautiful spring day here in the east with highs in the mid-70s.
And we are getting harrowing stories of survival and bravery from those who walked away from the crash. and those who helped them to safety. more now from abc s david muir. reporter: they call philadelphia the city of brotherly love and we were moved by all of the acts of kindness that husband and father trapped in the train who told me he remembers waiting for help and the officer who calmly head his hand. leonard later told me something else that his 5-year-old son saw him on the news. looked at the news and said there s daddy, he s missing his hat, his glasses and his smile. he wants his boy to know he s smiling again. so many stories of passengers helping strangers who were trapped with them. helping people and then the car kind of filled with smoke and people were like it s time to get out. and then there was the nurse, joan, a passenger, even within fractured rips, she was helping everyone else. i tried to help anybody who was there s many injured people on the train and they re
Delivering rice and other supplies to earthquake victims when it lost contact. the pilot identified as chris norgren who is from wichita, kansas. back here at home, three killed when their suv crashed into a dallas apartment. witnesses say the driver was going close to 100 miles an hour when he apparently lost control and hit another car. the vehicles came to rest just inches from a baby s crib. thankfully, no one was home. it is amazing race car driver helio castroneves was not hurt in this spectacular crash look at that, it happened during practice for the upcoming indy 500. castroneves got out and walked to an emergency vehicle. he was checked out by doctors and cleared. by the end of the practice session, he was back behind the wheel hitting speeds more than 225 miles an hour. incredible. those cars are amazing. the way they design them to protect those drivers whose heads are sticking out the top of the car. you can not just survive that. he walked out. he walked back into the car and kept on racing. that s incredible. we turn to weather now. heavy rain lashing much of texas is causing widespread flooding, testing the limits of drainage and holding facilities. in the northern part of the state, officials are taking the
She saw the picture, she called the funeral home herself. i was physically ill when i saw that and very upset. especially because her own service included funeral detail. i ve been on funerals where we had to travel for four hours to do a funeral in full uniform in the dead of summer in florida and we didn t stop to get coffee. we didn t stop for bathroom breaks. you just don t do that. it s a rule. it s understood. when a car is headed to a service, if there s more than two people in it, then it doesn t pull over. because of this, both employees have been let go. i think if they had the ability to turn their day back, they would do things differently. she said it right. it makes you physically ill. how disrespectful can you be. we ve been sitting here with our jaws dropped watching this. i can t wrap my head around that how that would ever sound like a good idea. good for the guy for coming out and doing the interview and apologizing and firing the two employees. my goodness gracious. all right, folks. coming up here, we have a debate going on among parents. should a mom have let her
We look forward to hearing from them later this morning. oh, yes, we ve got we have fashion week. seems like it s every other week here in new york. there s a fashion week going on in silicon valley. where else would you have a fashion week without models. you see the clothes but there s no model wearing it. what do you have? you have, of course, a drone. people are obsessed. with drones. yes, so now drones are now replacing models. what they are doing, modeling the clothes. what you need is just display the clothing. so these drones flying over the people there in the audience to attend that particular show, this is an idea of a ceo of beta brand thought was the way to go for silicon valley fashion week and you know. you can t picture what the clothing, how it would look on a person. it looks like a blowup things outside of a used car lot. doesn t make me want to buy the outfit. some would argue those models aren t realistic bodies anyway.
And just has no explanation. the rail line s north of philadelphia s 30th street station are straight with a speed limit of 0 miles per hour but approaching the frankford neighborhood a left corner. the speed is cut to 50 miles per hour. when amtrak train 188 got to that spot it was traveling more than twice that speed. bastion applied the emergency brake but it was too late. in the next three or four seconds the speed of the train could only decrease to 102. it takes a long time and distance to decelerate a train. the train jumps the tracks and leaves them twisted from the force. the 1-year-old hi-tech engine came to rest upright in the dirt. behind it it the first passenger car twisted and mangled. the next three car on their side. the last three still standing. five of the seven fatalities have been identified. but officials have not given details about the others. rescue crews have expanded their search area and now using dogs
Good morning. i m marci gonzales. reena ninan is on assignment. hello to you all. i m t.j. holmes. here are the top headlines we re following this morning on world news now. speeding to disaster. that amtrak train in philly going 106 miles an hour, double the speed limit when it derailed killing seven people. what the engineer has to say about the moments before the crash, exclusive details coming up. iraqi officials say a top isis leader has been killed in a u.s. air strike. he was second in command of the terror group. the pentagon has not confirmed that he was killed. massachusetts police say they won t file charges against a man who boarded a commuter train before realizing he had left his sleeping toddler in the back seat of his car. the distraught dad called 911 and rushed back to find the baby was just fine. race car driver helio castroneves got airborne during a practice run.