late last year the national transport safety board issued rulings on five accidents between 2013 and 2014 say the railroad was riddled with many years and management problem. weak procedures and old equipment. in december 2013, four people died when a train derailed in the bronx after the engineer fell asleep at the controls his train barrelling down the line at 80 miles per hour when he should have been going 30 and in may, two crashes in connecticut injured 65 passengers and killed a passenger. >> a team from the national transport safety board is heading to the accident. we'll keep an eye on that as we learn more. >> frightening pictures >>> breaking news from taiwan a plane carrying 58 has gone down. details are limited. taiwan's central newsagency reports the trans-asia airlines plain cash lapped into a river. apparently wherebying cash landed into a river, hitting a highway viaduct. there are no reports of deaths. >>> to a top story, jordan has taken revenge over the killing of a jordanian pilot. they announced they have executed two prisoners, one is sajida al-rishawi the iraqi

>> reporter: the headline of the day from the national transportation safety board, the ventilation systemre at l'enfant plaza did not work the way it was supposed to. instead of pushing the smoke away from the train stuck in the tunnel, metro fans pulled thick smoke toward the train. and the train that was stuck did not turn off its own ventilation system, kind of like its own air conditioning system and in turn was pulling smoke inside the train. now the national transportation safety board has made an urgent safety r

tonight, investigators from the national transportation safety board are on the scene of a horrifying rail disaster. it happened about 20 miles north of new york city at the end of the tuesday evening rush. a commuter train out of grand central terminal slammed into an suv that stopped on a crossing. the explosion lit up the night sky. the driver and five on the train were killed. several others were injured. vinita nair is in valhalla new york. >> reporter: investigators spent the day shifting through charred wreckage trying to figure out why the train plowed into an suv at 60 miles per hour. it was an horrific scene of twisted metal, smoke and flame visible for miles in the night sky. james wallace was in the second car of the train. >> we sturted to smell gasoline fumes and the fire was getting larger up front ahead of the car. i was thinking this is not the place we want to be. we need to go. >> reporter: police know the driver of the suv was ellen schaefer brody 49-year-old mother of three from edgemont, new york. they say she had just been diverted from the scene of another acci

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 question because i think it's been con flated about whether the keystone would

that incident came hours after a scathing recommendation from the national transportation safety board about last month's deadly smoke incident on the yellow line. now the focus is shifting to how the system's ventilation fans worked near the l'enfant plaza station. >> the allegation that the fans weren't working was dead wrong. >> but now, after -- now almost a month after you first heard the claims about the fans hear on abc 7 news metro is being urged to make sure it has a plan to use those massive fans correctly. stephen tschida live at the l'enfant plaza station with more on the recommendations for transit systems around the country now. stephen? >> alison this sharp criticism of metro from the ntsb, word is spreading among passengers. a lot of concern here. a lot of concern at the council of governments today where those recommendations were delivered. now, the ntsb investigated the fatal event here near the station back on january 12th and today, it released some of the preliminary findings of its investigation and i can go over a few of those for you. it stated basically that t

testify and be questioned by congress metro's interim general manager, the head of metro's board, the head of the national transportation safety board. and a man named jonathan rogers. the passenger from d.c. who posted a series of alarming photos from inside that smoky train car january 12th. one footnote -- the subcommittee investigating metro tomorrow has no d.c. area members of congress on that panel. congressional staffers tell me the committee is likely to let some at least one local member of congress join the hearing anyhow. so they too, can question the executives. doreen? >> thank you, scott mcfarlane. >>> a developing story in ukraine tonight where a cease-fire deal has been reached after 16 hours of negotiation. but there are many doubts that the agreement with russia will hold. the deal calls for a cease-fire beginning on sunday with heavy weapons pulled out of eastern ukraine within two weeks. tonight, though there is still disagreement over the status of a key town under rebel siege and whether rebel groups will be given autonomy. >>> the senate today voted to confirm ashton carter as the new secretary of defens

interest. >> as for that federal interest the department of transportation will be doing an audit of metro safety procedures and the national transportation safety board will hold two days of hearings on the incident in june. now, the ntsb doesn't expect to have a probable cause for last month's incident until sometime after those hearings. >> thank you, derrick. >>> new at 6:00, a struggle with a convenience store worker is caught on video during a robbery. a man with a mask ran into the high-up food mart in sterling about 9:30 wednesday night. he jumped over the counter and grabbed money, then got into a fight with a the cashier. at one point the robber's mask came off, giving us a good look at his face. police say cash was taken but they still haven't caught the guy. to get a closer look at him, go to nbcwashington.com and search "robbery." >>> the number of fighters reported to be involved in an attack by isis at the al asad air base in iraq has tripled. we're now hearing that 25 fighters were killed by iraqi security forces today. three of them were wearing suicide vests. 400 u.s. marines are stationed at that base to train iraqi forces. they wer

>> reporter: the headline of the day from the national transportation safety board, the ventilation system here at l'enfant plaza did not work the way it was supposed to. instead of pushing the smoke away from the train stuck in the tunnel, metro fans pulled thick smoke toward the train. and the train that was stuck did not turn off its own ventilation system, kind of like its own air conditioning system and in turn was pulling smoke inside the train. now the national transportation safety board has made an urgent safety recommendation not only to metro but all transit systems to check their ventilation systems to make sure they're functioning properly. chris hart the acting chair of the national chpgstransportation safe safety board briefed leaders. >> we've seen there's a problem in the area and the problem needs to be addressed immediately. >> reporter: this was the scrum after the meeting at the regions council of government, everyone wanting to know why the fans didn't work the way they were supposed to. we asked questions as the interim president walked out to the elevator. do the fa

both of those brand-new revelations that were learned today from the national transportation safety board. stay with us. we'll have much more on the story coming up all throughout the evening. we'll hear from metro as well. reporting live at l'enfant plaza, adam tuss, news4. >>> more breaking news now. moments ago, president obama made the case for his formal request to congress for the authority to wage war on isis. >> there is wide agreement now that something has to be done, but the details are likely to spark a battle between the hawks and doves in congress. news4's steve handelsman live at the white house with the details. >> reporter: no question this announcement at the white house, the president detailing his war powers proposal, the first such request to congress by any president since 2003 to wage war is going to spark opposition, even though the president in his remarks said he's optimistic this will pass in a bipartisan fashion. it looks unlikely. let me tick off the details. the president promises a three-year time limit, but he wants an okay from congress to allow no geograp

the microscope for safety there's a focus on getting hundreds of these cars off the tracks. they were involved in the deadly 2009 crash on metro's red line and after that event the national transportation safety board was highly critical of these cars calling them uncrash worthy. >> while you're on the train, you can feel the train is already making a lot of noise. >> reporter: today we caught these cars on the brand new silver line. you can tell which series of rail car you're on by looking at the number on the top corner of the train. you see metro needs to keep these running to handle crowds. they're planning to replace them with the brand new 7,000 series rail cars which are expected to roll out in the coming week. you can see our behind the scenes tour of our rail cars by searching 7,000 series rail cars on nbcwashington.com. and for some riders like emily smith and the worn out carpet, enough alone to start the replacement process. >> it is. it just feels old. >> reporter: so what happens to the old rail cars once they're replaced? well, take a good look at them now. metro tells us they're going to be torn apart and sold for scrap. along the silver line, adam tuck, news4. >> that's old. >>> t

the national transportation safety board says metro needs to improve the way it ventilates train tunnels. the recommendations follow last month's deadly smoke incident near l'enfant plaza. they include the creation of a uniform ventilation procedure and the full review of exhaust symptoms. today, the ntsb said metro's response to the january 12th tunnel fire made things worse. >> that initial action of turning on the fans in the station actually sucked the smoke from the source in towards the train. >> metro says it has inspected all tunnel fans since the incident and found them to be working properly. last month's incident killed an alexandria woman and sent dozens more to area hospitals. another incident for metro today when an insulator caught fire at the courthouse station in arlington. the station was briefly closed and trains single tracked through the area. no one was hurt. hope you enjoyed the sunshine today. it's about to get really cold though. abc 7 chief meteorologist doug hill tells us what we need to plan for. doug? >> hey, two cold fronts coming our way. one tomorrow and o

overnight, another person died from that accident. >>> later this morning, the national transportation safety board launch as go team to investigate that crash. the team leaders are expected to do a quick media briefing before they hop on a plane at reagan national. >>> tracie strahan is on the scene and joins us with new developments this morning. >> reporter: good morning. that train involved in the crash is still on the tracks here in valhalla new york. ntsb are had been here if just a few hours to investigate the crash that metro north officials are calling the worst in its bill lowed from the back of the train. officials say a jeep was stopped on the traction when the railroad gate came down on top of it. the driver drove it forward and it was hit. several departments responded to what was a mass casualty accident. seven people were killed many more injured urks some seriously. 400 riders had ob evacuated from the rear of the train taken to a sports club in the area. when the ntsb arrives here in valhalla they will be investigating two things specifically the speed of the train involved in the

the national transportation safety board's preliminary report revealed train engineer in the new yorke did try to stop, we still don't know why the driver of the suv drove on to the tracks instead of backing up. every three hours a vehicle or person is hit by a train in the united states. according to the federal railroad administration. safety experts say most of those accidents could be avoided if people didn't push their luck trying to beat trains across crossings, ignoring horn, ringing bells flashing lights and closing gates, if they even noticed any of it at all. the train safety organization operation lifesaver, says distracted driving is one of the biggest dangers. it released a series of public service announcements to show what could happen if you absent-mindedly swerved in the path of oncoming train. >> we can't people away from the cell phones and no texting while driving, to focus what is going on around you and react in safe appropriate way. >> reporter: meantime railroad safety equipment manufacturers are engineering new technology to prevent these accidents, including

the national transportation safety boards it's going to hold an investigative hearing this summer to talk about what happened. it's set for late june in dc. the emergency response effort, metro's -- and the state of metro's infrastructure. >>> where flakes could fly and how it might impact your commute to work. >> we're tracking it right now. a solid line of snow showers from new york state all the way to pennsylvania back into ohio, back into missouri. temperatures -- 7 below in international falls. we were 55 today. we're still 48 right now. arctic air is really going to change our lives tomorrow. between windchills and the drop in temperatures, we're going to lose about 4 degrees tomorrow. 39 in haguers town. you thought we were warmer than this time yesterday? you're correct. we're plus 16 degrees. plus 14 in charlottesville. >>> deliberations will pick up again tomorrow in the case of the so-called beer pong rapist. joey poindexter -- some of the victims say they didn't know the assault had happened until the police found the video evidence on his hard drive. he is facing 70 year

the national transportation safety board says the transit operator activated two giant sets of fans at opposite ends of the tunnel. so instead of drawing the noxious smoke away from a train take was disabled on the tracks, it actually kept the fumes over the train car. investigators say two of the six fans involved in the ventilation effort didn't even work. >>> don't look for tiger woods on the golf course any time soon. woods says his game is not acceptable for the pga tour and he won't return until it is. the move comes after woods withdrew from a tournament at torrey pines last weekend. before that he shot a career worst 82 to miss the cut at the phoenix open. woods' world ranking is now 62. it's the lowest it's been since he turned professional in 1996. >>> we have new information about that hawaiian mystery involving golfer robert allenby. he told police he was beatenned, robbed and kidnapped last month in honolulu. police say they've caught someone who charged up to $20,000 on three of allenby's credit cards. owen patrick harveson was already locked up on an unrelated case. >> t

the national transportation safety board is still investigating. ill ahead -- dogs in arlington made sick by a substance inside of sausages. the police say they know what it was. leon: "consumer reports" has the best cars for safety and reliability. which ones got the top honors. alison: and winter fun on capitol hill? alison:s in a story that you saw first on 7 -- two dogs were given caffeine pills. the american welfare league said that the dogs ate sausage tainted with caffeine. they were second. leon: 7 on your side with a consumer alert about the best car brands. "consumer reports" looks at crash tests, and reliability. the best overall car, the tesla model s. the high-scoring compact car was the subaru impreza. just a few of the categories. the full list is at wjla.com. alison: a u.s. capitol police officer is recognized for saving the life of a man suffering a heart attack. the national law enforcement memorial fund has named officer simon the officer of the month. he just received his cpr certification when he performed it on a man last may.

the national transportation safety board will examine the adequacy of the train's exits. passengers who survived described a quite chaotic scene. >> someone reacted quickly, broke the emergency exit window -- not window hatch, pulled the learner down helped pull the door down and we jumped out. and while it's impossible to predict what could happen in the event of a train accident rail experts say historically some parts of the train may be safer than others. >> sit in the aisle seat rather than the window seat and sit toward the middle of the car instead of the end of the car. >> now the railway says an average of 230 to 250 people are killed each year at highway railroad crossings and 90% can be blamed on driver risky behavior or poor judgment. anne-marie? >> thank you, don. >>> this morning we'll hear from a survivor whose quick actions helped his fellow passengers off the train. >>> the fbi is investigating a database breach at anthem. it cover tainted the personal information of about 80 million customers. the names information includes names, addresses and social se

. >> the assertion from the national transportation safety board is in sharp contrast to what metro officials said shortly after the incident that claimed the life of a woman. >> the allegations that the fans weren't working was dead wrong. >> today, the ntsb released some of its findings. procedures for ventilation of smoke in some systems are inadequate. metro should immediately address these issues to prevent recurrence. it found that metro has no means to determine the exact source of smoke in the tunnel network. it concluded ventilation strategy during the accident was not consistent with best practices. the source of the smoke january 12th, a fairly common electrical arcing event. >> how can you have all of these arcing incidents taking place throughout this system and what are you doing with respect to that? >> there are various classes of arcing incident. the one that occurred on june 12th was way out of scale. >> metro officials remain vague. >> we're working on a daily basis to make it even safer. >> >>> we heard from an array of elected officials all expressing concerns about the f

the national transportation safety board is en route at this hour to determine what went wrong. >> that is the big question here tonight, thank you. we will update all night on abc news.com and we'll have a full report on gma first thing in the morning. >>> but we do move on to a game-changing conviction that could shake up a controversial industry. a guilty verdict for a man who operated what's known as a revenge porn the website where people could post naked pictures of their the ex-lovers. >> reporter: after years of ugly headlines and nude pictures splashed across websites, women humiliated for the sheer sport of it another kind of revenge. >> guilty -- >> reporter: kevin bullard guilty in a san diego courtroom of six counts of extortion and 21 counts of identity theft. tonight from jail, he says he's sorry. >> yeah. here i am in a holding cell right now for 24 hours. waiting. it's pretty miserable. i hope everybody realizes. >> reporter: the state's top prosecutor went before the news media to announce that so-called revenge porn operators are going down. >> i would suggest that an

the national transportation safety board said the train engineer saw the suv on the tracks. he hit the emergency brake and sounded the horn. investigators interviewed the driver who was immediately behind the suv. he said he saw flashing lights at the crossing and backed up. he assumed the suv driver would do the same, but she didn't. >> the suv driver exited her car and walked to the gate. she touched the gate but not as to move it. the witness did not communicate with the accident driver. the accident driver then entered her vehicle and sat there for a moment and he described it as if she had enough time to put on her seatbelt. >> well, the suv was inside the crossing gates for 30 seconds before the collision. >>> aviation officials in taiwan say both engines on the airliner that crashed in taiwan lost power. the transasia airways flight crashed shortly after takeoff hitting a roadway before plunging into a river wednesday. there were 58 people on board. 35 were killed. one engine lost power just 30 seconds after takeoff. it's unclear why the engines failed. >>> and as ear

the national transportation safety board launched a team. >> we are concerned with crossing accidentsere's over 2,000 in this country, 250 are fatal. >> reporter: this is the second grade crossing accident in three weeks. earlier this month a commuter train in new york smashed into an s.u.v. stopped on the tracks. the driver died so did five people on the train. >> every three hours a person or car is hit by a train, that's an alarming statistic that we want people to know how large a problem this is. this operation runs road safety campaigns. efforts like this and safety campaigns made a difference. >> stay focussed and alive. >> in 1978 there were more than 13,000, and it dropped in 2013 to 2,000. an 85% decrease. the number of deaths from over 1,000 in 1956 to 2001 in 251 in 2013. a 70% decline. there were more crossings. the californians metro link trin had positive train control, designed to stop a train if there's another crane on the track or the engineer blows through a red track light. it doesn't help in cases like today's accident. according to metro link they were the lates

. >> the national transportation safety board will hold hearings in june on that fatal metro smoke incident. the board will look at conditions leading to the electrical arcing. that arcing created smoke causing the death of one person and sending dozens to the hospital. the hearings will also look at emergency response. the driver of a dump truck who ran two prince george's county police cruisers faces charges of attempted first and second-degree murder. the incident happened january 7th. the officers were standing between their parked cars at woodmore town center when jean brandon allegedly drove up and said the officers killed his brother. during the exchange, brandon was accused of hitting the vehicles. there will soon be two vacancies on the arlington county board. chair mary hines announced today she will not seek re-election this fall. hines says she wants to focus on her family after eight years on the county board and a previous 12 years on the school board. board member walter tejada announced last week he too won't seek another term. the school board meets in less than an hour to

the national transportation safety board and the federal railroad administration are investigating. >>> a mysterious tunnel is 33 feet long it was found underneath a tennis venue in toronto for july's pan am games. no one was inside. there were signs of life light bulbs, a gas generator, food and a rosary. cops are pus ld over who is behind it. >> we're trying to find and establish who built it why they built it what were their intentions? >> some officials want a security review ahead of the gaels. >>> here is an extreme sport you don't often see. think of it as ski racing with the help of a horse. more than a thousand people came out to watch this competition in silverton, colorado. nice to see someone has pretty perfect weather, in the sweltering 60s. >> 60s? they'd have to turn the ac on. the south is in for it. it's their turn for the big winter weather' haven't. 25 million people in the south going from tlooef sport all the way to raleigh and some areas here could get significant snow. we could be talking enough to plow maybe even enough to shut down some of the cities for a sho

this morning the national transportation safety board is investigating the deadly collision between a commuter train and a sport utility vehicle. at least seven people were killed when the metro north train slammed into the truck about 20 miles north of new york city last night. the suv was stuck on the tracks. the front of the train burst into flames. the victims include the driver and six people on the train. don champion is in valhalla. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, alison. over my shoulder you can see buses have been brought in to give them privacy. after getting stuck between railroad crossing gates that had come down, witnesses say the driver of the suv that was hit got out of her vehicle and then jumped back in. that's when the collision happened, sparking that fire that consumed the first car of the train. more than an hour after the deadly collision, smoke still billowed from the front of the north train that was heading at rush hour tuesday evening. the train never made it to its destination. investigators say it crashed into a jeep cherokee stopped under the gate

. >>> the national transportation safety board is investigating a crash of a train that killed people. the rail line says that the driver of a jeep cherokee got stuck on the tracks when the crossing gates came down around. as she tried to move off the train hit her and the driver was killed and six people on the train were also killed. >> the first two cars came through so it was quite terrifying. >> it was hard to say what i saw on that front train is something i will never forget. it was completely charred and burned. >> the force of the crash called the electrified third rail to buckle and pierce the train. six people died on the train and 12 were hurt. >>> they plan to put an elevator in the bridge span. there are problems with the elevator's door and drive shaft. the elevator is designed to get maintenance workers to the top of the tower and was supposed to be used to show the unique view of the bay for investors. the manufacturer will fix the problem because it's under warrant e. >>> this is a review of the wing to be loaded on to ships at oakland. a group that represents export

the national transportation safety board is using social 3d laser scanning devices to take images of the train as they try to figure out what led to the commuter railroad deadliest crash. >> we are not here to speculate or determine the cause of the accident. we are here just to collect the information, and then we go back and conduct a thorough analysis of the facts. >> the s.u.v.'s driver and five from killed. dental records are being used to identify them. a dozen were injured. one is in critical condition, another in serious. the impact was so severe that the electrified third rail pierced the train. the first rail was engulfed in trains. a passenger in the second car shot a video of people trying to leave the train. the driver of the s.u.v. was trying to lift the crossing gate at the time of the crash. there are more than 200,000 grade crossings in the united states, this is in valhalla new york down the road from the site of the accident. not all were marked as this. half of all accidents involving a train and vehicle happened at crossings like this where there are gates, flashi

. >> covering metro now, the national transportation safety board will release pictures of that damaged third rail and electrical system from last month's deadly smoke incident. the portions of the rail cover board damaged traction, power cables and associated hardware are at ntsb headquarters. third rail electrical arcing is being blamed for the january 12th incident. you'll be able to see those photos on wjla.com a little later on this afternoon and on abc 7 news starting at 4:00. and metro wants to know what you think about a possible rise in fare and changes to service. officials plan to propose a reduction in train service and a 10% increase in fares during a budget meeting at 1:00 at metro headquarters. that increase, they say will help offset stagnant revenue and rising costs. if the committee approved the proposal public hearings will be held. a final decision is expected in may. mayor muriel bowser is launching a new program aimed at helping homeless families and permanent housing. the program would increase d.c.'s capacity to quickly connect homeless families to housing opport

. >> reporter: the national transportation safety board, ntsb, does not make policy. t of their team that investigates school bus crashes and makes safety investigations. >> we're talking about the science of the school bus and i don't think that's well portrayed to the average mom and dad. a school bus that works extremely well. large, heavy vehicle. bright colors. lights. we have compartmentization which protects occupants in the most frequent crash which is frontal crashes. >> reporter: compartmentization refers to high-back seats that are like a protective envelope absorbing energy during a crash. these design features are one of the reasons federal regulations do not require seat belts on larger school buses. >> the vehicle itself has been designed for safety. yet when you look inside we think, lap and shoulder belts can add and reduce injuries and fatalities. >> reporter: one of the leading school bus seat belt providers invited abc for a look how they think they can improve school buses. larry gray is the ceo and top engineer. >> we're kind of getting a preview

according to the national transportation safety board the oil likely seeped into the kanawha river even though testing by the local water company has known shone non-detectable levels. as a precaution, water to certain areas was shut off and other residents were advised to conserve and boil their supply. the train was traveling from north dakota to a a refinery in virginia. most of the cars were carrying backan crude. the oil is highly combustible. in 2013, 47 people died in quebec after a train carrying backan crude derailed. that same year another crash sent flames shooting into the sky in north dakota, and in 2014, it happened in lynchburg, virginia. older rail cars have been prone to punctures and the industry is moving towards tank cars with thicker shells but it was those upgrade cars that exploded yesterday in west virginia. it's not clear if this derailment will lead to changes, to new rules for crude oil transport submit to the white house for revee earlier this month. scott, some members of congress have been calling for the rules to be finalized as quickly as possible. >> pel

. >> officials with the national transportation safety board are investigating that accident. >>> well, two state lawmakers want an investigation into working conditions at four catholic high schools in san francisco's diocese. at issue are those so-called morality clauses the archbishop is adding to the teacher contracts. they call for all teachers to live by church doctrine in their private lives and that includes opposition to abortion, contraception and homosexuality. two assemblymen say the clauses set a bad precedent for workers rights. >>> here in the bay area, caltrain workers are still repairing a menlo park railroad crossing damaged in a deadly accident. kpix 5's kiet do has more on a crash that happened yesterday afternoon. >> i saw the car, my girlfriend and i were walking and we're like -- [ gasp ] oh, my god, that's horrible! >> reporter: this is all that was left of the car that collided with the train, beyond recognition. a caltrain spokesman says the driver of the car got stuck on the tracks as a train barreled towards the intersection. >> one of the things we try to t

the national transportation safety board's rail investigator michael hiller is leading a team that left from reagan national airport this morning headed to new york. they will be focusing on signals and the crossing gates trying to figure out exactly what happened. the ntsb will be on site for about a week a full investigation into what is now the metro north commuter system's deadliest accident could take up to 12 months. >> we know that we want to send somebody to look at the signals. the rail traffic signals, the highway signals as well as the crossing arms and each of those devices has a recorder on it. >> officials say the woman driving the jeep was trying to cross the tracks when the gates came down leaving her in the path of the oncoming train. >> went down ladders and walked out here and saw all the smoke and all the -- saw some flames inside the car. >> john gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> new at noon now the ntsb says it will hold an investigative hearing into the metro smoke incident. the hearing will folk us on the ongoing investigation into the january 12th incident at the l'enfan

investigators from the national transportation safety board are analyzing information from the train's black boxes and suv's memory modules. five people aboard died after it slammed in the vehicle will tuesday night. brody was also killed. >>> meanwhile a desperate rescue effort continues, this morning, in taiwan's capitol city. crews are looking for survivors of the train trans asia airways plane that went down yesterday in a taipei river. >> authorities say cold water conditions could hamper rescue teams and accident was caught on dash cam video as it happened. pilot issued a mayday call just moments before that plane hit the water. >> unaudible. >> fifty-eight people were on board the plane when it went down in the the key long river. thirty-one people are already confirmed dead, 15 people were pulled from the water alive. this is the second deadly crash for the a airline in seven months. >>> pentagon is sending helicopters to northern iraq to help eight pilots shot down in the region. move comes after the capture and execution of a jordanian pilot at the the the hands of the islami

the national transportation safety board and the federal railroad administration are investigating that. >>> in toronto, a dirt tunnel is sparking possible security concerns. the mysterious tunnel is 33 feet long. it was found underneath a tennis venue for july's pan-am games. now, no one was inside but there were signs of life. light bulbs, a gas generator, food and rosary. cops are still puzzled over who's behind it. >> we're trying to find and establish who built it why they built it what were their intentions. >> some officials now want a security review ahead of those games. >>> time now to get down to business. six minutes past the hour. let's check in with cnbc's landon dowdy, good morning to you. >> hey, betty. good morning to you. fed chair janet yellen paves the way for a potential rate hike some time this year but she's not tipping her hand as to when that might happen. speaking to a senate panel on tuesday, yellen says the fed is in no hurry, and while the job market is improving, inflation remains low. investors like what they heard. the dow closing at a new record high. >>

the national transportation safety board is sending a team to a new york suburb to investigate a deadly commuter train crash. seven people were killed when train hit an s.u.v. stuck on the tracks. our reporter is in hawthorne, new york, with the latest. >> good morning overmy shoulder you can see the burned out shell of the train still remaining on the track there with seven people dead and 12 people injured. this is the most tragic incident in metro new [ inaudible ] >> sketch was so terrible that the paramedics were in disbelieve. >> the train was on fire, so i realized this is probably the worst tragedy i have responded to. >> north of new york city, 600 passengers making their way home when the train smashed into a jeep stuck on the tracks. >> screaming, yelling, it was total panic. >> the flames engulfed the vehicle from behind with the orange light and huge plume of dark smoke. >> a passenger had blood on the face. >> can you see the massive response flashing lights up and down the rail line as crews rushed in. when the smoke cleared this is all that was left. the scorched and man

. >>> developing right now, the the the the national transportation safety board has dispatched a go team of investigators to the site of the deadly metro north crash in new york. >> seven people tied when the train slammed in the jeep cherokee on the tracks. in west chester county just north of new york city about 20 miles. the vossing gates came down on the jeep. the train pushed it several hundred feet down the track and burst into flames. the driver is among the dead. >> the third rail of the track came up from the explosion and went right through the car, so it truly is a devastatingly ugly situation to see. >> between 80850 people were a game the the train when that accident happened. this is the the worst accident in metro north's history and lateness a string of deadly accidents involving the the railroad. last march a rail worker was killed in manhattan just a few months before that four people died and dozens more were hurt when a metro north train derailed in the bronx and may of 2013 a foreman was hit ape killed by a train in connecticut. >>> a bullet tears through wall of

the new safety features. >> these are the safest rail cars and the most technologically advanced in the united states. and i believe they probably prevented more significant injuries today. >> reporter: scott the national transportation safety board is sending a team here to california to investigate the crash. >> pelley: omar, thank you very much. tonight, the south is bracing for another one-two punch-- freezing temperatures are expected overnight and snow tomorrow. 3-6 inches from texas to georgia and the carolinas. a driver was killed today in north carolina when an s.u.v. slid off an icy highway and into a tree. we have more tonight on a story that we broke last night about americans receiving medications that they didn't order, racking up millions of dollars in bills to their insurance companies. one of the companies we mentioned is downing labs, a compounding pharmacy that makes custom drugs. well tonight, jim axelrod tells us about an f.d.a. inspection of downing, part of a national investigation after tainted drugs from a different pharmacy called n.e.c.c. killed more than 60 people. >> reporter: the f.d.a.'s inspection of downing labs in july found sterility failures in 19 lots of drug products. ashley downing is the co

the national transportation safety board we are told has just launched one of their go teams from our area out in california to lead the crash investigation. train at the time was headed from ventura county to los angeles and it turns out this isn't metro link's first disaster. in the last decade alone, 25 people were killed september 12 2008 when one of their trains hit a union pacific freight train head on. the engineer was texting at the time. then in 2005 11 died and close to 200 injured when a metro train derailed and hit another second metro link train. we are told the truck driver here has been arrested. police are calling this perhaps, a preventable crash. and we're watching the developments in oxnard and report them to you as they happen. jummy, back to you. >> thank you for that report. we're following other breaking news out of new jersey this noon. a house exploded a short time ago. take a look at these chopper images. some residents of ocean county are being evacuated from that area right now. the mayor says there were reports of a gas leak. workers were on the scene repa

. >>> to metro news, tomorrow the national transportation safety board will allow news agencies to takea close look at the damaged metrorail and electrical components involved in last month's deadly smoke incident on the yellow line train. meantime the ntsb says metro did not have any set procedure for ventilating tunnels when they fill with smoke. now it has issued three urgent recommendations essentially ordering metro to assess the ventilation systems to make sure they work and comply with standards to develop written ventilation procedures and to train staff and first responders on what those procedures are. >>> meantime tomorrow metro will give you a chance to sound off on its plans to raise fares and cut service. it's holding a public hearing at 1:00 in the afternoon at headquarters at 600 fifth street in northwest. metro is considering raising rail and bus fares 10 cents a ride, cutting some bus route and increasing the time between trains from six to eight minutes during peak hours. >>> crews have begun repair work on a beltway bridge in maryland that dropped concrete chunks ont

the national transportation safety board is investigating. >>> 5:13 right now. katie, you were mentioning some snow today. >> we are finding on it there nothing major. the just a couple flurries or snow showers nothing that has a chance to accumulate. tomorrow we will see our next round of accumulation coming in. you can see that modest round of snowy mentioned. it just isn't much. we are talking about a few flurries. this is just on the southern most edge have of, we will call it the a disturbance. it is an area of low pressure. as we zoom out further here we will fine another round of snow over nebraska. this will be the next frontal bun dry that crosses our area coming up late tonight tomorrow morning. timing is less than ideal but as we look a head here 4:00 p.m. today. the front i just mentioned and another off to the south. now earlier in the week it appeared they might come together and create next big nor'easter. this particular model has those pieces coming together but after it moved out to sea which is good news and it means we will be looking at modes

part of the investigation of the national transportation safety board is going to do is gather all those actually km to a conclusion. >> when you look at the damage done, and the damage by the fire, it's actually amazing that not more people were hurt on that train. >> how does the third rail -- >> the third rail entered the flor of the car and under sections of the third rail in the first car. >> any idea how that happened? >> third rail stopped at the crossing and that's where the contact with the automobile was made and entered through the automobile and up through the floor of the car. >> anything else? >> okay. >> thank you. >> all right. you have been listening to governor cuomo and other officials there giving a brief press conference on this train crash that occurred earlier this evening during the height of rush hour. and just a reminder this is a second busiest commuter line in the country. seven people killed at least 12 people injured. and they are at westchester medical center. and the ntsb national transportation safety board, investigators from that agency are headed to th