csx tells us tonight 25 tank cars in all derailed. at least 20 were involved in fires yesterday afternoon. we showed you some of these pictures yesterday. none of those trains wound up in the river. one person was hurt and the fire consumed a nearby home. a water treatment facility downstream shut off its intake valves and warned thousands not to drink their water as a precaution. >> when we saw the train explode or the car explode and it shot up a mushroom cloud about as high as those -- there it is now, like that. >> the train was headed from north dakota to virginia. at this point, no word what caused the derailment in the first place. >>> now, that explosion could come up in a lawsuit here in washington this week as a judge decides the future of the csx rail line running through downtown d.c. the news4 i-team's tisha thompson here p with why neighbors say what happened yesterday matters so much to their case. tisha? >> people live eight long virginia avenue and southeast wanted a judge to stop csx from renovating its 100-year-old

a judge will decide the future of the csx rail line passing through downtown d.c.. csx says the one track in the 100-year-old tunnel along virginia avenue in southeast is starting to decay. the train company wants to double its size. homeowners who live mere by want to stop that construction citing a long list of reasons including growing concerns about hazardous materials traveling through the city. >>> change minds about the way police handle calls involving mental health. the news 4 iteam and doreen gensler are teaming up to learn more about a special team of officers on the front lines when it comes to cases involving mental illness. >> they're often working behind the scenes as made of the region's biggest crime scenes. we're talking about barricades or missing children, murder-suicides. tonight on news 4 at 5:00 and 6:00 we take an inside look at the region's crisis intervention teams and the community they're helping. kristi gallagher and her daughter, meg, are laughing and smile today but not too long ago, she had to call the police on her own daughter. >> s

csx release a statement late last night, saying csx personnel and agencies are continuing their assessment to continue the number of car derailed and resulting oil loss. nbc's tracie potts is live in washington following this story for us. what's the latest in this investigation? >> well betty it's all about that snow you were talking about and the bitter cold we're experienced here. it's part of the same system that swept through west virginia. investigators want to know if that caused the crash. it looked like a winter wonderland on fire. >> did you get a picture of that? >> reporter: a 300-foot fireball over west virginia thick, black smoke blanketing two small towns. a thousand people were evacuated. they're in hotels and shelters this morning. >> when i went outside, one of the bigger explosives happened and by that time i was too eager to get into the car and be ready to get out of there. >> reporter: the csx train was carrying more than 100 tankers of crude oil. it slammed into a house, several cars exploded. >> we're standing there on the riverbank when we saw the train explode or

and over the weekend, 111 car s csx train derailed near a south philadelphia rail yard. there were no injuries and no oil was is spilled in those incidents. >> i think we have been certainly very fortunate in the whole scheme of things that we have not had, you know any significant accidents certainly any tragedies. >> reporter: but the the question is did philadelphia just dodge a massive bomb-like catastrophe with the latest derailment is here. "action news" found those trains traveling day and night and across multiple sections of the city. some trains so close, that we or anyone else could access them. in camden, near a playground. >> i'm extremely concern now because this is first i have heard of crude oil being transported here that flammable. >> reporter: right along the schuylkill trail. >> i don't know what kind of chemicals they have. >> in one knows, it is scary. >> reporter: those residents we spoke to had no idea something so explosive is being transported right in their own backyard. >> it is dangerous. >> reporter: new jersey state police invited "action n

they have a meeting of csx transportation. csx is proposing a new project. first to fix up the station house. >>> you can see a document written by george washington. the statehouse in annapolis is putting the speech he used to resign from the continental army on display tonight. i would be afraid to touch it. >> they're concentrationists are going -- no. >> be careful. >>> news 4 continues right now at 5:00 a.m. >>> this is a storm team 4 weather alert. >> it is disrespectfully cold outside. temperatures -- >> word. >> windchills in the single digits. and we have snow on the way, too. tom will break it down for us. >>> the bitter cold is causing problems at dulles airport, too. we have an update on a pipe burst that affected travel overnight. >>> here is a look at the storm team 4 radar. snow is heading our way. and we don't mean conversational snow. let's check in with tom k. >> our windchills right now are sub zero. windchills 5 to 10 below. the winds have diminished. only dusting 20 to 25 now. we'll have absurdly low windchills. and all of the area in pi

csx released a statement late last night saying personnel and agencies are continuing their assessment to determine the number of cars derailed and resulting oil loss. nbc's tracie pots in washington for us. what's the latest? >> reporter: the latest investigators on the scene in west virginia. federal investigators trying to figure out if the weather, the severe weather that we're having frigid temperatures and snow had anything to do with that crash. it looks like a winter wonderland on fire. a 300 foot fireball over west virginia thick black smoke blanketing two small towns. 1,000 people were evacuated. they are in hotels and shelters this morning. >> when i went outside, one of the bigger explosions happened. by that time i got in the car to get ready to get out of there. >> reporter: the csx train was carrying more than 100 tankers of crude oil. it slammed into a house. several exploded. >> we were standing by the river bank and saw the train explode and our cars explode. >> concerns about contamination, oil leaking out. power went out. officials shut down two water plants as a pr

. >>> and the penalty csx will have to pay for last year's disastn lynchburg. doug? high temperature is now close to 50 degrees. we were there yesterday. temperatures droppin >>> according to t national law journal, eric surge filed a $2 million lawsuit against the ride-sharing compa incident happened back in september of 2013. he says he ordered an uber car in the washington harbor area of georgetown. when the driver arrived, serge and another person with him said the driver was acting aggressive and they decided to get out of the car. the driver johan, continue fronted them. officers say surveillance video showed the driver stabbing search three times and the other person at least once. he was originally charged with assault with a deadly charges were dropped. uber hasn't commented on the suit. at the live desk i'm jim handly. >>> the rail company csx could be faced with a huge fine because of a fiery train derailment in lynch burg virginia last year. the virginia department of environmental quality is proposing a $361,000 fine because of that crash. 30,000 gallons

that csx train was carrying crude from north dakota that's the heavier more flammable type of crude that sparked a debate and action by the national transportation safety board to propose new rules to overhaul crude by rail safety standards including heavier duty cars and slower travel speeds. and while the new safety rules are still being discussed and await approval, the industry is preparing for them already beginning to halt older rail cars but the csx train involved in the accident was actual a newer model car leaving some with raised eyebrows. it's not a new debate but reemphasizes some old questions. one being, are pipelines like the keystone pipeline safer to transport crude and many people asking if the ntsb is doing enough fast enough to prevent these incidents. for "nightly business report," i'm jackie deangelis. >> and joining us now to talk more about rail safety is peter geps. senior vice president at o'neil and associates and former managing director of the national transportation safety board. peter, welcome. good to have you with us. i don't want to wade into the questio

and i could feel the heat on my face. >> reporter: initially csx had a hard time identifying how manyars were involved. they had to use our camera and our lens to be able to identify which cars were involved in the derailment. oil is also spilling into the canal river. residents were told to evacuate as emergency response and environmental officials assess the damage. a nearby water treatment plant which serves about 2,000 customers has been shut down. so far no word on what caused the derailment. in boomer west virginia, bryan hughes for cbs news. >>> jurors at the american sniper murder trial saw and heard a videotaped confession by accused gunman eddie routh monday. in the recording, the former marine can be seen handcuffed in an interrogation room after the killings in 2013. he admits to a texas ranger that he shot navy s.e.a.l. chris kyle and another man. routh also says he's sorry for what he's done. his defense team argues he was insane at the time. >>> important new research on women's health this morning. a study finds hot flashes which afflict up to 80% of middle-aged women

official estimates from csx is that this is a 109-car train two locomotives. they said only one is on fire but clearly that is not the case. also crude oil has spilled into the canal river. just moments ago csx and the coast guard had to use our cameras to look across the river to identify the actual rail car numbers so they can possiblyers so they can possibly disconnect these rail cars and identify other rail cars that could have potential problems. >> pelley: bryan do, we know anything about deaths or injuries? >> at this point no injuries have been reported. across the river there is one house right underneath where these rail cars are that one has been absolutely incinerated. >> pelley: and roughly how@ being evacuated? >> reporter: at this point there is a community that's around 100 that's bo virginia, they have been evacuated to the local school,Ñi but it's just downriver of this location. at this point there's not an actual estimate of the amount of people that are displaced, but there are a few stragglers who are here. like i said, half mile is going

i have the vice president of the services at csx transportation. mr. dave brown the chief operating officer of wyoming services which serves our state of south dakota. mr. bill johnson the former director of port of miami and former chair of the florida ports council. mr. teal, the multimodal director of the missouri department of transportation and we have mr. chris john who's here on behalf of the fertilizer institute where he serves as president. thank you so much for being here. i look forward to hearing from you. we will start to my left mr. lonegro. >> good morning mr. chairman. mr. ranking member and members of the committee. i am frank vice president. thank you for the opportunity to appear here. i am here to represent csx and our current view of the state of tran train control in preserving the safe tif of our workers the safety of our communities and operating capacities in the thousands of decisions that we make everyday. since the year 2000 the freight train accident rate has fallen to 42%. through the consistent investment in infrastructur

the csx train that was going to a depot in virginia had a new model of tank car that are supposed to be tougher and harder to puncture than the older model. the good kind. as production ramped up, there has been a surge in the amount of crude shipped by rail in the u.s. the surge in oil by rail as resulted in a surge in accidents like the one yesterday. it is hard to know where the routs for those potentially explosive trains go. the network goes through just about every region of the country. one of the main destinations for crude is none other than the city of philadelphia where the train tracks go past the university of pennsylvania. take another look at the explosion happening, and imagine that happening in the middle of philadelphia. consider this, a train, carrying crude oil derailed in south filly less than three weeks ago. luckily for everyone involved, it did not ignite. joining me is bob kinkade, have you seen the site? >> yes, i have, chris, i noticed there is still a considerable amount of smoke pours out from the wreck side of the river. it looked ourself that there was

firefighters battling an enormous fire after a csx train derailed and exploded in fayette county filling the air with smoke and fire. a second explosion, the biggest one yet, shook the area around midnight. the governor of west virginia declaring a state of emergency. one home was incinerated. one person injured. nearly 30 of the train's 100 plus cars came off the tracks. two towns have been evacuated. officials are concerned about oil. the train was carrying oil. that train spilled oil into a local river which is the source of drinking water for people in two counties. it is not known what caused the derailment. >>> breaking overnight. a federal judge putting a temporary action on executive action on immigration. 26 states planning a lawsuit to put a permanent stop to the president's action. this could protect 5 million people in the u.s. illegally from being deported. >>> breaking this morning, at least eight people killed in a blast in pakistan. authorities say it happened as a suicide bomber tried to enter a police station in the city of lahore. again, eight killed in a bombing. >>>

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for much of the day today, tomblin appeared along with represents from csx. they made themselves available today, but that doesn't mean they had many answers. for example, we try to run a safe railroad. obviously something has gone wrong there in west virginia. you think? that is the basic truth here. stuff does go wrong. in west virginia yesterday, two days before that, it was two different oil trains and two different parts of canada in the same day. remember the huge derailment and oil train explosion, that huge one from december 2013. it happened again there less than a year later. it happened just this past november. this time they didn't have to evacuate the whole town. the oil tanker cashes that flipped over and crashed again in the second wreck, this time they happened too be empty. lucky lucky in north dakota. but before cassleton, it was the lynchburg, virginia crash they had to let burn out. before that alabama, before that quebec. it happens. stuff goes wrong. oil trains derail. and crash. and blow up in huge apocalypse-like fire ball. part of the

this happening after a csx train carrying crude oil through flew off the tracks.ouse caught on fire. 35 people vakhomes evacuating at this hour. one spilling oil into a river used for drinking water. residents being told to conserve water as emergency crews bring in tanker trucks. >> to extreme blweather now tens of millions of americans are feeling the freeze waking up to record low temperatures snow and dangerous commutes. >> fire and ice in philadelphia. firefighters battling three degree temperatures for three hours trying to put out the flames in this building. by the time they were done the building and their hoses coated in ice. >> also coated in ice niagara falls. tourists braving temperatures 13 below zero yesterday just to get a glimpse of the natural treasure. >> it is beautiful, though. >> over in boston they can't catch a break. people once again digging out from their homes their businesses. so far they had seen 8 feet of snow this winter. >> and our families down south are not being spared. freezing rain could make for a dangerous compute this morni

firefighters battling an enormous fire after a csx train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in fayette county filling the sky with smoke and fire. a second explosion. the biggest one yet shook the area around midnight. the governor of west virginia declaring a state of emergency after one home was incinerated. nearly 30 of the trains 100 plus cars came off the tracks in the incident. two nearby towns have been evacuated now. officials are concerned about oil from the train that has spilled into a local river. that river is a source of dripping water for people in two counties. it is not yet known what caused the derailment. >>> also breaking overnight, a federal judge putting a temporary hold on president obama's executive action on immigration. this is in response to the request by a coalition of 26 states planning a lawsuit aimed at putting a permanent stop to it. the president's action could protect as many as 5 million people who are in the u.s. illegally from being deported. >>> u.s. officials expressing grave concern this morning about mounting cease-fire violations and w

. >>> a csx train carrying carrying 110 gallons of oil ignited and sparked a house fire.u could stee from miles away. there was no serious injuries. >>> nbc 10 this evening where this islamic candle light vigil forgathered to honor those that recently lost their lives like those three students in chapel hill north carolina. steve hicks has been charged with three counts of first degree murder. he killed three young mud limbs over what he calls a parking space dispute. >>> today a delaware judge ordered kurt bush to stay away from his ex-girlfriend. she accused him of abuse. >>> lance armstrong's doping cost him $10 million tonight. they paid armstrong about $12 million in bonuses over his career. they sued after he admitted to using performance enhancing drugs. >>> a woman froze to death feet from her own front door. benito's husband found her. they attended a benefit that night where benito had several drinks. their two homes about ten yards apart. they believe that benito simply fell. >> you could see the expression on his face. it was a sad thing, he knew then she was

csx says the one track in the 100-year-old tunnel is starting to decay. the train company wants to double its size. homeowners who live near dlts by want to stop the construction citing a long list of reasons including growing concerns about hazardous materials traveling through the city. >>> you may have seen these viral videos of people jumping out of windows. look oh, my right into the snow. this is in boston. well the mayor of boston is telling people to stop it. he's piptsointing out these stuptss can be incredibly dangerous. the city has scrambled to keep roads clear after record breaking snowfall. so we know there is a thick padding of snow, but you don't know what is under there. you could seriously injure yourself. >> you can't tell stupid people not to break things. there is no logic there. just stop it. >> exactly. >>> 21 after 5:00. a live look o you this morning. still a lot of snow on the ground across the region and another very cold start. >> tom kierein here with your weather and traffic on the 1s at 5:21. dare you say there might be more

more than 200 people had been living in hotels after that csx train burst into flames and derailed on monday. it was carrying 3 million gallons of crude oil. federal investigators are still trying to figure out why the train derailed. one person was injured. >>> an update to a news4 i-team investigation. a three-hour hearing wrapped up this afternoon on a lawsuit aiming to stop csx from renovating its 100-year-old tunnel along virginia avenue in southeast d.c. a judge will now issue an opinion on it. hoemt owners living next to the construction zone cite a long list of wanting to stop the renovation including growing concern about has malts traveling through the city. construction on the tunnel is scheduled to begin as soon as 30 days. >>> new at 5:00 some people have discovered money is missing from tax refunds. erika gonzalez will tell you why. >>> air bags linked to at least six deaths worldwide. the new action the government is taking to punish the manufacturer. >>> tmi. lawmakers get cheeky in the most unusual way. >>> tax refunds coming up short. that's the reason for lawsuit fi

. >> reporter: this happened about 1:30 this afternoon when a single csx train car went off the tracks in fayette county causing a massive explosion that destroyed a nearby home. one person was injured, nobody killed. tonight about 200 people have been evacuated. the biggest concern is that tanker car is leaking oil into the river. water treatment facilities downstream have shut their intake valves and residents are being told don't drink the water for now. heavy snow tonight is slowing response but, again, one injured, nobody dead. the concern is the water quality. >> amazing sight. >>> there's word tonight of a massive computer hacking attack on banks around the world including the united states. it's possible the hackers made off with a billion dollars. we get details from our justice correspondent pete williams. >> reporter: cyber experts call it the biggest bank job ever. total haul so far 300 million. but a security firm said it could be three times that nearly $1 billion. >> these are some of the most clever folks we've seen. certainly in cyber criminal operations this very well

. >> reporter: the csx train had been hauling the train from north dakota. efforts to contain the blaze are hampered by bitter textures and snow. the accident comes two days after a canadian national railways train derailed in northern alberta, it was from the oil sands. and the fire is burning still today. by far the worse train crash was in july 2013, 47 people died in lat ma gan teek in quebec province when a train derailed exploding, insin rating much of the downtown distribute. >> let's hope it doesn't turn into an environmental disaster. >> part of the problem is the oil is so flammable if anything goes wrong, we get this. >> thank you >>> a political debate is raging in washington obvious how to keep the department of homeland security operating. funding runs out in 11 days. so far the house and the senate can't seem to come to terms on a new budget deal. >> if the house and senate don't come to an agreement over a budget for the department of homeland security. it faces a shutdown at the end of the month. house speaker john boehner races that has a p

as for the cause, csx says it is too early to speculate.was a tremendous snowstorm going on when the train derailed. the other thing that csx points out is that three days before the accident the rails were inspected. tamron, back to you. >> anne thank you. the governor of west virginia confirming families are still displaced at this hour because of that accident. >>> a-rod's handwritten apology, what he is telling fans about mistakes. one of the stories we are following around the "newsnation." >>> and we are learning hillary clinton held a private meeting with senator elizabeth warren in december. new details that have come out, next in today's first read. i know i have a 786 fico score, thanks to all the tools and help on experian.com. so how are we going to sweeten this deal? floor mats... clear coats... >>you're getting warmer... leather seats... >>and this... my wife bought me that. get your credit swagger on. become a member of experian credit tracker and find out your fico score powered by experian. fico scores are used in 90% of cr

officials say a csx train carrying more than 100 tankers of crude oil derailed and caught fire. in addition to the evacuations. they also shut down two water treatment plans threaten by oil seeping in the river. csx says one person was being treated for inhalation issues. >>> large crowd gathered to honor victims killed in the shooting spree over the weekend at the main event in the country's capitol people held candles and observed a moment of silence. white house says president obama called the danish prime minister to offer his condolences on the tragedy. on saturday a gunman killed two people in an attack of the free speech seminar and outside a synagogue. five others were wounded. the suspects gunman was later killed by police. >>> 5:20. we will keep our eye on the storm gripping the delaware valley right now this is a live look at olde city, much more from all over, we are live in delaware, new jersey, and pennsylvania, straight living with chronic migraine feels like each day is a game of chance. i wanted to put the odds in my favor. so my doctor told me about botox® an f

. >> csx, great railroad, steel on steel is the way to transport things. a great company. >> wow.o funds today. adam. >> xlf which is an atf of financial stocks as interest rates go up these are recover. >> i want to thank you all very much. the cost freedom continues with david asman. this is the place for business fox. you watch anything else, you're wasting your time. >> death by bad people or death by bad weather? which should occupy more of our time and our treasure? the president already on record saying climate change is the biggest long-term threat, but a brand new poll saying more than twice as many americans by global terrorism trumps global warming. so whose got it right? i'm david asman welcome to "forbes on fox." let's go in focus with mr. steve forbes, michael zane yan sabrina shaffer carrie she will felled and mike. >> the president absolutely does not have it right. look, it puts the entire obama

. >> the csx train was passing through the small town of mount carbon, southeast of the charleston, west virginia when in the middle of a snow storm two dozen of the 200 tank cars jumped the rails. >> respond to a train on fire involving train cars and a house. >> one person was taken to the hop for smoke inhalation, the 200 or so residents of the small community were taken to the high school and are waiting for word that it is safe to return home. >> and one concern now is the water supply after reports that one of those tank cars plunged into a nearby river spilling crude oil. investigators are looking into the potential environmental impact of that. marcy gonzales channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> those trains were carrying oil that is the same form of highly explosive oil that wendy saltzman alerted you to earlier this month in a special investigation. and it's been transported through philadelphia neighborhoods and south jersey. while no major explosions have occurred, 11 tank cars derailed here in the past few weeks. >>> still to come on "action news" at noon a new clue fo

the governor appeared with executives from the railroad from csx. to their credit they did make themselves available for questions today about this oil train disaster but that doesn't mean they had very many answers. for example, quote, we try to run a safe railroad. obviously something has gone wrong there in west virginia. you think something has gone wrong? that's the basic truth here though. right? stuff does go wrong. in west virginia yesterday. two days before that it was two different oil trains in two different parts of canada on the same day. remember the huge derailment and oil train explosion in castleton, south dakota that huge one where this footage is from? that was december 13 but you know what it happened in castleton less than a year later. it happened again in castleton just this past november. this time they didn't have to evacuate the whole town this time they got lucky because the rail cars that flipped over and crashed again in the second castleton oil train wreck, the train cars this time happened to be empty. lucky, lucky, ca

they sigh the csx train was going 33 miles an hour. the speed limit was 50. a fire was triggered that is 85% contained. a philadelphia city council member is taking action over concerns about the potential dangers of oil trains. today, a resolution urging emergency management officials to make more information about oil train roots available to the public. that resolution also urges federal authorities to force upgrades on older model tank cars. >> new at 11:00, princeton university is banning some faculty and staff members from campus unless they can prove they are immune from measles. test results show a student has measles. the school is waiting for additional test results. princeton says the student has recovered and is no longer contagious. but the university wants certain workers to show they have add vaccine or to take a blood test to prove they are immune to the virus. mean while, the town of princeton could raise its smoking age to 21. the board of health is considering an ordinance that would ban the sale of tobacco and ecigarettes to anyone under 2

clark construction csx, giants food, sears and other companies. they're looking for skills in construction retail hospitality, armed services and facility services. you can also learn about ged classes and other services if you're just reentrying the workforce now. the fair kicks off at 10:00 this morning at the arena stage in southwest washington. >>> a warning for parents, proper dwuktduct stores are pulling off shells that could trigger a peanut allergy. >>> an officer ryetries to help a driver stuck. but what happens next. >>> and the feel like temperature outside where you live in your next weather and traffic on the 1s tom >>> you need to layer up or stay inside. those are probably your best options fotoday. d.c. already reached a record breaking low of 7 degrees. tom is tracking your hour by hour temperatures over the next 24 hours. >>> and take a look at this video as a car loses control right there. flies off the road and nearly crushes a police cruiser. here it is again. this happened in michigan north of detroit p the officer was helpin

the csx train was traveling 33 miles an hour along a stretch of track with a 50-mile an hour limit. monday's accident is still under investigation. the fire is still burning. experts say it might be necessary to use a dry chemical to douse the flames to limit the contaminanted runoff into -- contaminate runoff into a nearby river. >>> a source tells the associated press that doctors at emory university hospital replaced bobbi kristina brown's breathing tube with a tracheotomy tube. the surgery comes nearly three weeks after the only daughter of bobby brown and whitney houston was found face down and unresponsive in a bathtub of her georgia home. an ongoing police investigation is still there. >>> coming up the d.c. police department honors. >> but first guess who got more internet clicks than president obama's last state of the union address. this guy, amazing dogs ruling the web, and we got the best of the best coming up next, top. >> we still have a couple of flurries in northwest. we picked up a coating with the snow showers. this wake-up weather will make you want to go back to

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csx officials say they're aware and asking drivers not to drive around the gates when they're down even if they don't see a train coming. >>> developing right now an suv stolen with a child inside. police are at the scene where the car was found at first street and wane place darcy spencer is there live. >> reporter: that's where we are right now not far from mississippi avenue. this child is okay. we're told 5 years old. take a look behind me where you see the d.c. police cruiser. the stolen suv we believe to be a denali is right here behind this apartment complex. police are still processing this vehicle and the two suspects are still on the loose. police say that two suspects stole the suv from a man. it happened in the 3700 block of second street about 9:30 tonight right here in southeast. now, the victim apparently had just gotten out of his denali. that's when two people knocked him to the ground and took off in that suv. now, apparently the suspects did not realize that this was a child in the suv, again a 5-year-old. they basically bailed out of the car right here behind this ap

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> reporter: septa chief safety officer scott sour told me if your car gets stuck like this one on a csx track in newark delaware. >> get out, get everybody out. >> reporter: fortunately the driver by this car struck by a trait in west deptford last summer survived. he cautioned drivers not to stop on the rails if they are stuck in traffic, ahead of them. >> they don't happen that often. but when they dot results are catastrophic. >> reporter: septa reports just three accidents since april 2012 and 87 crossings. none of them fatal. sour says deadly new york crash a reminder when cars and trains collide the victims include not just those in the vehicle but those on board the the engineer at the very front of the train among those at highest risk. >> crossing his fingers and saying a pray their they eat are get out of the way or at the very least there is nobody inside that automobile. >> reporter: sour remind everyone that if you do it ignore signals at crossings like this one it is not only dangerous but illegal, you will get a ticket if an officer spots you just as if you went through a

. >>> in south philadelphia, 11 csx tanker cars partially derailed overnight. the derailment happened near south 11th street, just south of i-95, hazmat crews were called to the scene because tanks were full of crude oil. officials say in leaks were found though. cranes were then brought into get those tanker cars back on track. >>> bensalem police department is mourning the loss of one of their own, a well known detective died during a 5k today in northeast philadelphia. "action news" reporter kenneth moton a has the the story. >> reporter: it was the annual 19154, 5k, a race named for the zip code and the community that it runs through: park wood and northeast philadelphia. this saturday morning one of those runners was bensalem police detective kevin cornish who suddenly collapsed on the course and then died. >> they say everybody is irreplaceable this guy is not replaceable. big loss to us. >> reporter: public safety director fred harring says the four two-year old husband and father of an # one year-old daughter was raising money for saint anslam parish a

officials say the csx train was hauling more than 100 tankers full of crude oil when it skipped the tracks. fourteen of them ignited. one smashed into nearby home and another landed in a river. >> when it blew up, the flame were higher than the top of the mountain. coy feel the heat on my face five houses away from the river. >> amazingly no one was seriously injured. it is unclear if the wet her anything to do with the derailment. the state was under a winter storm warning at the time. the cause remains under investigation. >>> coming up this morning we'll have much more live team coverage for you of the storm that's moving through our area right now. >> here's another look at center city courtesy of our cameras. we'll be right back. slow your roll, family. see you in a bit. >>> here is a view from the philadelphia art museum, looks like some folks just ran up the steps now doing the cool-down walking back down. now we did just get word like ukee said that philadelphia public and archdioces schools are opening two hours late this morning. so oh, pull those covers back over your head, re-s

. >> this happened 1:30 this afternoon when a csx train car went off the trax in fayette county near mt. carbon causing a massive explosion that destroyed a nearby home. we're told one person was injured, nobody killed. tonight, about 200 people have been evacuated. the biggest concern is that tanker car is leaking oil into the kanawa river. water treatment facilities downstream have shut their intake valves and residents are being told don't drink the water for now. meanwhile heavy snow tonight is slowing the response. but again, one injured, nobody dead. the concern is really water quality. lester. >> amazing sight. tom, thanks. >>> turns overseas where isis turned its wave of terror to a new front, libya. releasing a chilling video of christians executed in a mass beheading. and now isis is threatening to go even further. we get more from our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. >> reporter: 21 egyptian coptic christians being paraded along the tip of the waterfront before being beheaded by isis terrorists in libya even as the terror group threatened to kill more e

the csx train had more than 100 cars. 25 derailed, and seven are on fire, and probably won't burn out until midnight. it is bakken crude from north dakota, more flammable than other oil. the amount of crude oil on our rails has jumped dramatically. more than 400% in the last several years. and federal regulators say those tank cars are vulnerable and need to be reinforced. >> and david kerley with us now from our washington baurureau are the fires going to burn themselves out now? >> reporter: that's all they can do. it will be hours before it burns itself out. then a look at the environmental damage. the inlets from the river have been shut down. residents have been told to conserve water. >> david kerley thank you. >>> now, to new developments this evening in the "american sniper" trial. the man amused of killing navy s.e.a.l. chris kyle. his transformation from his days as a marine in iraq looking much different now in court. well, this evening, for the first time we see the video of his police confession. here's abc's ryan owens from texas. >> reporter: head down on the table, han

the train company csx only one person treated foreign halation issues. >> before you head out the door, we are keeping our eye on the storm system. the roads are not pretty right now, so stay home a little longer if you k we'll check all of the conditions across the region, as the snow continues to fall. be right back. jim: standardized testing has gone from a nuisance to a concern to a crisis. michael: we have this finite amount of time, and yet we're spending so much of it on this unproven standardized test when we really should be using that time in a better way focusing individually on our students. dave: education is supposed to be about our students, and it's becoming about a test. ros: what is our end goal in education? to be masters of a test? >> we have snow around the region this morning, please give yourself extra time this morning when you have to roll out. also, hundreds of school delays and closings at the bottom of your screen. katie will be along with your update in just a bit. first, "kyw news radio" 1060 mike denardo still driving around town watch do you see now? goo