. >> jim walker former defense attorney for cruise lines and represents passenger and several cases pending royal caribbean. >> once nay take them into a port. they take no responsibility legally, once yolk basically, entering country at your own risk according to uh the cruise lines. >> reporter: in a statement, royal caribbean said it is doing what it can to assist its guests. including helping with medical care and transportation. the two ships have now left to continue on their journeys and they will eventually return to florida. jeff. >> manny, thank you very much. >>> crews worked to clear the amtrak crash site in washington state. the lead locomotive was hauled away on a giant trailer. three people were killed. 100 hurt monday when the train ran off the tracks on to interstate 5. after taking a 30 mile an hour curve at 80. federal investigators are looking into whether the engineer was distracted by a second person in the cab. >> olympic medalist, suing usa gymnastics. she says the organization tried to cover-up her allegations of sexual abuse, against former team dr. larry nassir. i

. >> jim walker former defense attorney for cruise lines and represents passenger and several cases pendingst royal caribbean. >> once nay take them into a port. they take no responsibility legally, once you walk off the gang plank, there is, you are basically, entering country at your own risk according to uh the cruise lines. >> reporter: in a statement, royal caribbean said it is doing what it can to assist its guests. including helping with medical care and transportation. the two ships have now left to continue on their journeys and they will eventually return to florida. jeff. >> manny, thank you very much. >>> crews worked to clear the amtrak crash site in washington state. the lead locomotive was hauled away on a giant trailer. >>> by covering up sexual abuse by coercing her to sign the agreement. first revealed at abuse in a twitter post. writing that the abuse started when i was 13 years old and didn't end until i left the sport. >> in the lawsuit, she accuses usa gymnastics of covering up sexual abuse by coercing her into signing the agreement. first revealed abuse in a twitter p

. >> jim walker former defense attorney for cruise lines and represents passenger and several cases pendingbean. >> once nay take them into a port. they take no responsibility legally, once you walk off the gang plank, there is, you are basically, entering country at your own risk according to uh the cruise lines. >> reporter: in a statement, royal caribbean said it is doing what it can to assist its guests. including helping with medical care and transportation. the two ships have now left to continue on their journeys and they will eventually return to florida. >>> investigators say the engineer was possibly distracted when he barreled around a 30 mile an hour curve, doing 80. the train flew off the tracks, three people were killed. and there are questions about whether a safety system could have averted the disaster. david begnaud reports. >> preliminary indications are positive train patrol was installed on the tracks here not active at the time. ptc the program that could have slowed the locomotive as it entered the curve here into dupont, washington. ptc led some people to say had it

. >> reporter: jim walker is a former defense attorney for cruise lines who now represents several passengers against cruise lines. he says they don't do proper background checks. >> it's pretty much being offered by way of word of mouth. they're operating primarily to make as much money as they can. >> reporter: there is conflicting information about the bus driver. earlier state tour iism industr said the driver was being held. later prosecutor said the driver's whereabouts are unknown. >> wow. >>> the holiday rush is under way. aaa predicts more than 107 million people will travel by plane, train, or caret that's the highest travel season. the busiest days at airport will be today, friday, and the day after christmas. good news. i'm traveling saturday. the majority of travelers are hitting the roads for the holidays. more expensive gas prices are not deterring driver this year. who can expect the most congestion today, in the late afternoon and early evening. >>> new revelations from apple confirm what many iphone users suspected. apple slows down older phones. the reason, the lithium-ion

walker from in front of her house. christie ileto is there. that's what police are trying to find out. >> you are right, jim. mother tells us she had put her daughter in the car. they took off and accidentally left the walker in the front yard. surveillance video shows within minutes a white truck pulls up and a man jumps out and takes the child's walker. >> why would you do that? it makes me disappointed as a child that an adult would take my walker. >> the pick up pull up in front of the home immediately after the mother pulls out of the driveway, a man in what appears to be construction gear, takes the walker and flees. >> to think two people would take my walker and i'm just a child, it just, it just shocked me. >> it looked like a scrap metal truck, scrap metaling through the neighborhood. >> this woman says her surveillance video caught the lawlessness. >> it looked suspicious. hshe left and he pulled up. >> why would you do that? it wasn't yours. why take it? >> kirstan, who has cerebral palpalsy is now confined to the wheelchair. >> i need it. i'm not walking. most people, it's very hard to not walk r

jim gardner is standing by with these stories next at 6:00. meets have arrested the men that stole from a little girl with cerebral palsy. the charges they face for allegedly taking a walkerto get around with. >>> and congress is pushing through a measure to change the gun law landscape in america. coming up next at 6:00. >>> for the entire "action news" team i'm rick williams, have a nice evening. >>> "action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with meteorologist cecily tynan and jim gardner. >>> it is tuesday night and the big story on "action news" tonight is breaking news from the banks of the schuylkill river in philadelphia. police were called to the riff near the strawberry mansion bridge where a car was found in the drink and a woman was removed from the vehicle and taken to penn presbyterian hospital. a group of rowers rowed to the woman and rescued her. there is no word on the woman's condition or what caused the car to plunge into the water. >>> police are talking about the arrest of a pair of heartless thieves. leeland watson and donald kale has been busted for the theft of a walker belonging to a 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy. we told you abo

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