amtrak and light-rail stops. >> we did an operation called operation correct fare. >> reporter: tuesday morning police did an undercover sting at the amtrak rail station and at a light-rail stop. they posed as customers looking for cab drives. in a 20 minute span police issued 11 violations, three of them involving arrests on the scene. one of the arrests was for a suspended driver's license and two were for criminal warrants. some of the violations were traffic citation, failure to start a fare meter and refusal to take a customer. >> take you where they got to go. >> reporter: these don't come as a surprise to some customers. >> most cab drivers want the trip out of town, you make yore money than try to run someone local and burn more gas in traffic. >> reporter: jeff used to drive a cab and he has seen drivers not play by the rules. >> we never did like short runs because it's out of rotation and does -- it cuts us short on money. >> reporter: not all people have had problems. >> i have never had any personal experience with the companies doing anything wrong. i'm sure that just like any other business there is corruption. >> reporter: for police the faction is driver

>>mark: a developing story out of oakland, rail service at the amtrak station at jack london square is still suspended after two trains collided around 10:00 p.m. last night. look at the damage. a passenger train coming from sandlot team, bakersfield's oakland, collided with the coast starlight that was headed from l.a. to seattle. it was a low-speed collisions, head on. 17 people injured. no injuries are life- threatening. will tran has been watching the situation at jack london square. >>will: the problem will only last about 45 minutes longer. after that, things for the most part will get back to >>will: here is video from moments ago. they were working busy to make repairs. the track was partially bans. the good news is there are several other tracks that they could use. this might last for a another 45 minutes or so. the bus bridges will stop in emeryville which they would normally do and drop off passengers and then the train will continue to oakland probably starting at around 7:15 a.m..% there, you can see an amtrak bus leaving the location, one of the two bus bridges from this

and rail service at the amtrak oakland station still suspended after two trains collided late last night you're looking at video of this scene. the crash happened about 10 a car, an amtrak train was loading passengers when a second passenger train traveling at a low-speed slammed head-on into the first train in the 17 people were hurt, we had a chance to talk with one of the first responders and he explain more of what happened. >> one of the trains was stationary unloading and loading passengers the other train was traveling 15 to 25 mi. per hour the train that was moving ran a red signal according to the entraps-- amtrak representative and a hit the other train head on. >> passengers who have paid for travel on other trends can always call and receive refunds without any feeder penalties for future traveling or read booking of course ticket to hear will have live updates throughout the morning to see when the servers it started up again. >> our team coverage continues will go to the traffics and to tell you what it means good morning erica. >> good morning justine, this happened late l

rails could be warped. it was two amtrak trains that collided head on last night. one of them was stopped here at the station unloading passengers. the other was going about 20 miles an hour. again, 17 people injured, six of them taken to the hospital. it was the coast starlight train that was stopped here at the station. that one goes from l.a. to seattle. it was letting passengers off here when a commuter train headed from bakersfield is the one that hit it head on. the impact sent the coast starlight off the rails, slamming into a concrete platform. the other train's engine also derailed. >> when we get to the station, we are slowing down to complete the stop down here in jack london, and the train just comes to a stop like and then we crashed. and so we fell. i ran into the bar. a guy in a wheelchair fell over and bumped his head and was bleeding from the head. it was just crazy. >> reporter: there are a few different factors here in the investigation. the commuter train actually ran a red light according to local firefighters. it looks like a switch wasn't thrown. that would have moved the commuter trai

investigators and amtrak engineers busy inspecting tracks in oakland hoping to resume rail service shortly after one train rammed into another late last night at the jack london square station. more than a dozen passengers were injured. amy hollyfield is live at the scene. >> reporter: we have progress to report. they've moved one of the trains off the tracks in the last few minutes. clear track behind me. theyhave one more train they have to get off the track before they can open the station. -- you can see the damage done. we have a good advantage point of the front of that train. you can see the point of impact was it ran into the other train. the trains were pulled apart at 4:00 this morning. they were joined together after a head-on collision that happen 10:00 last night. 16 people were hurt. they all suffered minor bumps and bruises, possibly one broken arm reported. both of the trains did have people onboard. one was at the station unloading the other was pulling in. amtrak says waits a low speed crash. -- amtrak says it was a low speed crash. >> i was on my phone all of a study heard a big crash and didn't know what happened. everyone got off the train, couple peopl

one amtrak train crashes into another train and sends several people to hospitals and this tops our news across america. california. rail officials say one of those trains was stopped at a station in oakland unloading passengers when the second one rammed right into it going 15 or 20 miles an hour. the impact hurt 17 people. a fire official says all the injuries were minor. florida. a small plane making an emergency landing on the florida turnpike north of miami. the pilot managed to avoid hitting any vehicles. emergency workers taking the pilot and his passenger to the hospital. >>> oklahoma. a riot at a prison two hours west of oklahoma city. authorities say wideis spread fighting broke out at the private correctional facility, injuring nearly 50 inmates. the inmates all from california, wisent them there because of overcrowding. prison officials say the violence could be gang related. >>> texas. a fire ripping through a home decorating store north of houston. it started out small and then after explosion got big fast. we are told grew to three alarms but all of the places' employees got out on time. one went to the hospital for smoke inhalation. and that is a fox watch acros

infrastructure for rail, locomotives, passenger cars, stations, all the infrastructures and technology that goes with it. now, the united states once had almost 100,000 trains and hillway stations. amtrak only has 500, and the size of the amtrak network, which is about 25,000 miles, is what the u.s. had in 1856 before the civil war. to rebuild that system would mean thousands of stations would be built, as many contracts would work, many engineers, many cities would be tied back together again. got to remember, our conservative secretary of transportation, ray lahood, is 100% behind it, and president vice president bide suspect 100% behind it. this is a great initiative. it would put many high-paying jobs and would tie our cities back together again. that it is an american icon, the railroad industry. that's what tied the country together initially. we have to be behind this, and we'd be proud to rebuild the system. it will be the best in the world. host: ok, mike. want to get a couple of other points in. in one other iraq story, because you're probably going to hear about a report coming out today, a government report from stuart bowen, head of the inspector general for iraq reconstru