Bob Simon, 60 Minutes Correspondent, Killed In NYC Car Crash
Its a terrible loss for all of us at CBS News, Jeff Fager, executive producer of 60 Minutes, said in a statement. It is such a tragedy made worse because we lost him in a car accident, a man who has escaped more difficult situations than almost.
LIVEBLOG: Death toll rises in wake of Amtrak derailment in.
I dont know how that happened, but for the grace of God.��� Among the key developments on Wednesday: 1.) The train was found to be traveling in excess of 100 mph, at more than twice the speed limit of 50 mph for the curve��.
Breakfast links: Derailed
Deadly crash: An Amtrak train traveling from DC to NYC derailed and crashed yesterday... As the decrepit Amtrak train with its doors stuck open in extreme heat or extreme cold hurdles -- no, jerkingly -- moves down the decrepit 100-year old tracks.
Derailed Amtrak Train Was Traveling More Than 100 MPH.
Preliminary data show Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 was traveling at more than 100 mph when it derailed in Philadelphia Tuesday night, the National Transportation Safety Board said. The derailment of. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports this is believed to be the deadliest crash along the Northeast Corridor since 1987, when a passenger train collided with a freight train and killed 16 people near Baltimore.. That brings the death toll in the derailment to six.
Womens final four chosen for $20 bill fight
The competition began with 100 candidates.. As in the first round we want to be able to capture the major flood of enthusiasm , but do not want to over linger, she wrote in an email to USA TODAY.. Nonetheless, three suffragists who were key to.
At Least 7 Dead, Over 200 Hurt After Amtrak Train Derails.
At least six people were killed and over 140 people hurt after an Amtrak train, carrying 238 passengers and five crew members, derailed and rolled onto its side in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia.. NTSB: Train Going 100+ MPH.. of Watchung, New Jersey was on the train with his mother when the crash occurred. Helfman says they were in the last car of the train when they suddenly felt it shake. The car then flipped over. People were thrown to the ground��.
FBI offers $310000 reward in 1995 Amtrak derailment
The Amtrak train wreck occurred early in the morning with 258 passengers on board.. Those responsible for the derailment of the Sunset Limited, an Amtrak passenger train, in the remote desert southwest of Phoenix have eluded the FBI for two decades.
Director of Gregg Allman Film Pleads Guilty in Train Crash Death
He said Miller and his crew went onto the railroad bridge after mistakenly thinking no more trains would pass that day. A train traveling at 55 mph smashed into a metal-framed bed on the tracks, sending shrapnel flying as crew members scrambled for.
Metrolink train crash: Trains camera captured video of truck crash
Sumwalt also said that while the truck wasnt stuck or bottomed out at the grade crossing as often happens to vehicles, investigators havent ruled out that the truck was stuck in the spot 80 feet down the tracks where the crash occurred. Sumwalt.
Larry Dixons Car Snaps in Half at Nearly 300 MPH in Scary Racing Moment
���I got maybe 100 feet before the finish line and then thats when the front end failed and it flew off the car,��� Dixon said following the race. ���At that point, Im along for the ride. Im traveling through the air and hoping that I stay on the race.
Metro-North Crash: Feds Probe Fiery Collision of Train and SUV That Killed 6
The crash in the suburb of Valhalla, about 20 miles north of the city, was so powerful that the electrified third rail of the tracks pierced the first car of the train. The train pushed the. Passengers described a jolt, and then an announcement that.
Amtrak train traveling more than 100 mph when deadly crash occurred
PHILADELPHIA ��� The Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia, killing 7 people and injuring more than 200, was traveling more than 100 mph an hour at the time of the crash, the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed Wednesday. That speed was .
Germanwings Co-Pilot Andreas Lubitz Appears to Have Deliberately Crashed.
That fatal sequence raises fresh concerns about a danger that aviation and security regulators consider among the least controllable: the threat posed by insiders.. U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told an aviation-security.
11 presumed dead in military helicopter crash
NAVARRE BEACH, Fla. ��� Seven Marines and four crewmembers are missing and presumed dead Wednesday after an Army helicopter crashed during a training exercise off the Florida Panhandle. But rescue personnel are poised to search as long as .
Amtrak #188 Traveling Over 100 MPH at Time of Fatal.
A US passenger train was traveling at more than 100 miles per hour -- twice the speed limit -- when it derailed in Philadelphia, investigators said Wednesday, as the death toll from the crash rose to seven.. The National Transportation Safety Boards first assessment of the data came as experts combed through the twisted train cars for more clues about how Tuesday nights wreck occurred. More than 200 people were injured in the crash, which took place along the��.
Portland, Oregon Says No to Indiana
NBC News Channel The mayor of Portland is banning city-funded travel to Indiana following the states passage of the controversial RFRA law. KGWs Chris.. Justin Zemser, a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, died in an Amtrak train crash in.
Kids, 2 and 5, shot, great-grandfather killed in Roseland shooting
The shooting occurred about 6:30 p.m. in the 200 block of West 105th Street, police said. The elderly. The Cook County medical examiners office confirmed the death.. Over the weekend, two people were shot to death and 16 were wounded in shootings.
Frost Heaves Puts Businesses in a Jam
BY TOM COSTELLO, JAY BLACKMAN, RICHARD ESPOSITO AND ERIN McCLAM. The Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia was traveling faster than 100 mph, two sources close to the investigation said Wednesday. Police raised the death toll to seven, .
Woman killed in hit-and-run crash Sunday afternoon
Grasso said the car was traveling an estimated 100 mph when it hit the white sedan. I was just. He did call 911 and get all the information that he needed to give, which gave us enough information to locate that vehicle and make an arrest, said.
Neapolitan Bishop Claims Half Miracle While Pope Is in Town
Faithful believe the miracle of St. Gennaro can occur three times a year on certain regular feast days if they pray enough after it is taken out of a vault and put on display. More scientifically minded skeptics say the miracle is due to chemicals.