trains, trains, trains. i like trains. trains are great, garbage-can-pudding great. and we all know how great garbage-can pudding is. whoa, whoa. - bob. have you seen them? - seen what, rich? [chuckles] - my bees. i can't seem to find them. they're small. they buzz a lot, so you should be able to hear them. they travel in swarms, and-- hey. wait a minute. you're not bob. - oh, yes, i am. see? "bob." - [chuckles] well, "bob," if you are who you say you are, - um... trains? - [gasps] bob, it is you! - yeah, okay. [grunts] - bob, you got to help me find my bees. i can't seem to keep them, and it's in the job description. - hey, you got any honey? - no, i don't, but the bees might. have you seen them? - can't say as i have. - oh, no. my boss, mr. combs, is really gonna sting me on this one. the last time this happened, i got the whole honey farm covered in honey. [bells clanging] - whoa, holy smokestacks! it's the bees! - those aren't the bees. that's a train coming! both: whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh! [train whistle blowing] - whoa-oh-oh-whoa! that was awesome! - hi, guys. coupl

weren't trained? >> what percentage i'm sorry again. >> you're saying there is times you missed trainings and couldn't you had to reduce the size and now your falling behind in at number of drivers you need how far have you fallen behind and i'll be happy to to send you a followup letter to cancel classes and drop down. >> you stated that i was asking about the numbers. >> we'll provide you those numbers. >> you don't have an idea of - you know sort of a general idea. >> yeah. if a typical pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. class of new bus operators is two thirty and 40 you would depending on the staffing level if you have the facilities you'll want to be on the high-end especially, as you there are no go through so at least i can think of two occasions the last two years the classes were having to be cancelled another one to make adjustment at the last minute that caused us to pay people over time to miss runs all kinds of redoll effects class that

>> was not a conductor on my train. the conductors on my train were very professional and so upset. >> reporter: the student suicide at the botanical garden station in the bronx snarled the monday evening commute. the many stuck trains is accused on social media of sharing a vulgar view of the situation via that train's public address. conductor on our metro north train intercom hearing the news, someone got killed. i hope the mother expletive suffered. #metronorth. #speechless posted miriam ward on twitter. >> that's true. they shouldn't say that. >> reporter: another twitter user posted a technology message that made it seem the crewmember accidentally hit the p.a. button versus an internal radio system for staff. i hear the mic key up followed by a train wide broadcast in the most bronx accent. yeah, i think some guy got killed. i hope he suffered like a mother expletive. >> oh, wow. >> what do you think? >> that's messed up. i mean, i would never hope that anybody would suffer. >> reporter: the student prep student

weren't trained? >> what percentage i'm sorry again. >> you're saying there is times you missed trainings and couldn't you had to reduce the size and now your falling behind in at number of drivers you need how far have you fallen behind and i'll be happy to to send you a followup letter to cancel classes and drop down. >> you stated that i was asking about the numbers. >> we'll provide you those numbers. >> you don't have an idea of - you know sort of a general idea. >> yeah. if a typical pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. class of new bus operators is two thirty and 40 you would depending on the staffing level if you have the facilities you'll want to be on the high-end especially, as you there are no go through so at least i can think of two occasions the last two years the classes were having to be cancelled another one to make adjustment at the last minute that caused us to pay people over time to miss runs all kinds of redoll effects class that

weren't trained? >> what percentage i'm sorry again. >> you're saying there is times you missed trainings and couldn't you had to reduce the size and now your falling behind in at number of drivers you need how far have you fallen behind and i'll be happy to to send you a followup letter to cancel classes and drop down. >> you stated that i was asking about the numbers. >> we'll provide you those numbers. >> you don't have an idea of - you know sort of a general idea. >> yeah. if a typical pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. class of new bus operators is two thirty and 40 you would depending on the staffing level if you have the facilities you'll want to be on the high-end especially, as you there are no go through so at least i can think of two occasions the last two years the classes were having to be cancelled another one to make adjustment at the last minute that caused us to pay people over time to miss runs all kinds of redoll effects class that

and training and method to support the academy training and ems training. with that i'm happy to answer any questions and open for discussion. >> thank you very much, mr. korso. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. i will go to my fellow commissioners. beginning with vice-president cleave land. >> thank you very much. now you can hear me? good report. thank you very much. a lot of the enhancements are going to need to have dollars placed to them. that hasn't taken place yet? >> no it has not. >> okay. so that will come up with the other seniors in the department with a priority list for enhancement as with this past budget cycle. >> i will submit that and we submitted all of our needs because they are all priorities but eventually the committee vetted some of those later on in the process. >> some of the things in the list you will have great public appeal if you will can be quite inexpensive. we have to not only look at it not only how important it my be but to install that and get it done. that's a concern. >> abs

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after boarding a fast train, he transfers to a subway train. however, because this is the quickest route, he will not be able to sit down and will have to battle crowds at the transfer station. the second option is to take one train all the way to ginza so he can get a seat. the drawback is that he has to wait for that train and it makes more stops. in addition, this option takes two hours door to door. the limited express has arrived, but sako does not board it. if he rides this train, he will have to stand up all the way to ginza, so he waits in line. ( announcer speaking over p.a. ) ( whistle blows ) sako waits for 15 minutes while three limited-express trains go by. he wants to sit down this morning, so he will ride the train that starts from this station. since it starts here, it is empty. he always stands in the second line from the front of the train. so long as he gets here early enough, he will get a seat. he tends to ride in the same car every day because he has learned that this is the least crowded car. when he first moved out here,

under easter bond training. under station 16 under building permit review it's anticipated to start construction early summer of 2016 and it's also under review and anticipated that the inspection will be within the next 2-3 months. the department has contracted with an industrial hygienist from dph to conduct on health and safety and osha compliance. the team has been working closely with the division team on various projects including airport station 3 relocation and working closely with the department of environment and local 798 and the cancer foundation. chief lombardy along with residents from the community and the cancer foundation have met with the neighbors from the airports to discuss their concerns regarding health and safety of that relocation and that construction and it has been met with positive results. chief lombardy plans to meet again with the staff to discuss any other concerns they may have with the actual construction of the remodel of the new station. under faculty maintenance, a total of

if you're in a six-car train, eight-car train. i could be one car away and the crime occurs the next car over. it's something we constantly got to work at. >> obviously they realize there's a little shift here is what's happening with crime on the system. that more of these things seem to be happening actually with the train and the focus and they're going to be shifting some of their resources there. you heard him say toward the train side of things, moving some officers around. >> so go through again the tactics, the plans that metro transit police have to make pe safer riding the trains. more transit police? what else do they plan to do? >> well so metro transit police are talking about something to make themselves more visible and on trains and in platforms and in stations. they actually want to change their uniform to make it more of a bright neon color. so that they would be more visible to anybody who is thinking about doing anything bad in the system. so transit police certainly are hearing riders, they're hearing from peo

trains to catch their train somewhere else. live at south station, dan hausle, 7 news. >> adam: much more on the train trouble at whdh.com. including the schedule changes and because of the all of the signal problems. we also have video from sky 7 of the repair work that is happening and reaction from commuters. check it out any time, whdh.com. >> kim: to an interview you will see on just one station. situation. i don't think he strong armed. he took advantage of a guy who was trusting. >> kim: the son of a local dry cleaner owner talking relationship with state senator brian joyce after federal agents raided the senate's office. the man claimed his dad gave the senator free dry cleaning services, f.b.i. under a the irs are investigating the shore. let's go to south korea south korea who is in milton outside of joyce's home with more on this interview that you will only see on one station. >> reporter: harry richmond tells us that his dad wanted to do the senator a favor but a started to feel like he was being taken advantage o

and training and method to support the academy training and ems training. with that i'm happy to answer any questions and open for discussion. >> thank you very much, mr. korso. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. i will go to my fellow commissioners. beginning with vice-president cleave land. >> thank you very much. now you can hear me? good report. thank you very much. a lot of the enhancements are going to need to have dollars placed to them. that hasn't taken place yet? >> no it has not. >> okay. so that will come up with the other seniors in the department with a priority list for enhancement as with this past budget cycle. >> i will submit that and we submitted all of our needs because they are all priorities but eventually the committee vetted some of those later on in the process. >> some of the things in the list you will have great public appeal if you will can be quite inexpensive. we have to not only look at it not only how important it my be but to install that and get it done. that's a concern. >> abs

training on deescalation and crisis intervention training. a digital simulator for training officers. a lot of when not to use force and when not to shoot. we'll also be including items around less lethal equipment such as shields and range such as targets that turn. meaning an officer can assess whether or not that target is a threat or not. we will include other types of training as well including procedural justice and cultural competency and other types of training. all of that will be included in the discussions with our mayor's budget and we'll also expand our existing program and use in community engagement, summer jobs and safety initiative and the technology solutions and to increase transparency with the report are about body worn cameras is a big chunk of that and we are on the way to having those up and running. also better collection of better demographic data in the warehouse to understand if and when there is disproportionate alt -- i want to finish with good news. for the first time we have a time line on the replacement of ou

you can see some people getting on trains but that is only the stoughton and providence trains. everything else that comes in and out of south station that is not going for the evening commute. am transworkers trying to fix problems at this switching station outside of south station. problems that spawned a >> the orange line is a mess. >> we crammed on and waited. >> reporter: t. station, plasms and trains were jammed with passengers forced to finish their trip. >> i got off at downtown crossing. it was a half hour wait to get to the tunnel to get to the train. i'm like i'm going to walk. >> reporter: governor baker says a system crash at this building labeled tower one shorted the switcher that direction trains coming into south station. only a fraction could get in. the rest stopped short at stations where passengers would connect with the t. . some commuters credited the commuter rail plater with doing a better job of warning them. >> they're doing a better job being transparent about what to expect. >> reporter: with the big board showing lots of unknowns, operators are war

with commuter rail trains limited it had a ripple effect on the trains. red line trains were packed and there were long waits for the few commuter trains there was confusion and sometimes anger. >> i made it to work the morning was not fun and i got off at andrew square and walking to financial district because. >> reporter: from andrews square. >> yes because there was a broken down train. >> hopefully it will stop and it didn't. >> reporter: blame me. there's nobody there so you areit. >> reporter: this afternoon the commuters are waiting for train to green bush in scituate. one commuter train showed up and they all started to get on board. but wrong train. it was heading the wrong direction into boston. how is the evening going. >> confusing, slow, frustrating. >> a little frustrating but everyone is trying conductors have been fantastic. it's challenging but as long as we get home safe to our kids it should be good. >> reporter: he's got a positiveattitude and that will go a long way obviously. but, it's not going to help the trains move faster sorry

there are these people coming out to get training. can it happen fast enough where enough people can make a difference? >> that's the goal. right now we're training emergency room nurses, and what's been amazing about that is the fact that we're trying to have as many training sessions as -- that will meet the demand of the nurses. it wasn't really pulling teeth to get the nurses out. now they're arguing who gets to go to the next one. that's been amazing. between the training of our nurses and the demand in the community, i think we're going to be able to kind of saturate the community with trained up folks so when something like this happens the likelihood that we're going to have somebody in that situation or on that scene that's been trained is going to be good. >> and it only takes one person to save one life, and then it will be all worth it. >> thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> next on nbc 10 at issue, we'll discuss what makes a great leader with former secretary of defense robert gates. find out if you have wha

one train is running 10 minutes behind schedule. the rose look appeared a live look outside of the pike. eastbound moving to the top of the screen, looks like some sun glare. sandy will tell you about that. we haven' t seen that. let' s get to the maps and check out your ride. right now, not seeing issues with the exception of her 24 where there are two accidents one by route 139, another approaching 128. that is it. the expressway, numeral values. 25 minutes braintree to boston. the pike looks good. 95 south looks good. issue free. cindy, seeing that somewhere. cindy: clear skies over boston. 6:36 is sunrise and brighter in the morning hours. it is cold or 21 degrees with light wind. 18 in worcester. cover this morning. those clouds dissipate. sunshine through lunchtime, and afternoon. near 40 this afternoon. of european look at the 61 degrees in st. louis. toward us. the leading edge of the cold in. overnight, light snow mixed with rain south of the pike. not a big event coming to the overnight hours. a coating to an inch of snow

and the categories are trains, trains, and 19th century french poetry about trains. - i'll take trains for-- - but first let's meet our contestants. [shouts] [crashing] okay. it sayhere your name is chow chow bop. - uh, actually, that's choo choo bob. - oh. oh, well, that's not what the card says. well, good luck to you, chow chow. ah, and who do we have here? - uh, dave-- uh, conductor dave. that's fascinating. tell us all about it. - oh, well, being a conductor is a very important job in the-- - terrific. oh, and i recognize this face. this is our returning champion, cee cee. cee cee, is there anybody at home you'd like to say hi to? - i would just like to say hi to my mom and dad. hi, mom and dad! i love you so much. - oh. audience: aw. - what a beautiful moment. let's get back to the game. [fast-paced country music] [music stops] [music starting and stopping] okay, i totally forgot who has control of the board. [buzzer rings] - bob. - correct, cee cee, for 200 points. that's why she's our champ. all right, bop, pick a category. - uh, it's bob, and i'll take trains for 100, please.

and training and method to support the academy training and ems training. with that i'm happy to answer any questions and open for discussion. >> thank you very much, mr. korso. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. i will go to my fellow commissioners. beginning with vice-president cleave land. >> thank you very much. now you can hear me? good report. thank you very much. a lot of the enhancements are going to need to have dollars placed to them. that hasn't taken place yet? >> no it has not. >> okay. so that will come up with the other seniors in the department with a priority list for enhancement as with this past budget cycle. >> i will submit that and we submitted all of our needs because they are all priorities but eventually the committee vetted some of those later on in the process. >> some of the things in the list you will have great public appeal if you will can be quite inexpensive. we have to not only look at it not only how important it my be but to install that and get it done. that's a concern. >> abs

mbta trains to make up for the lack of commuter rail trains. lori jordan set up a makeshift office at the south station. >> it's always something. >> reporter: because boarding a train from here was not going to happen any time soon. >> i took the red and orange and. >> now it's something else. >> reporter: this morning, amtrak announced the signal system at tower one had failed. making it impossible for commuter rail trains to safely travel to south station a spokesperson for keolis who runs the commuter rain explains. >> it's just like a traffic signaling system or air traffic control system. it tells you whether it's okay along the tracks. when this system guess out it has a enormous impact. >> reporter: after a hectic morning with commuters forced to deboard before south station to stapped in long lines and -- stand in long lines and make unexpected connections amtrak crews were on the tracks trying to fix the issue and using manual signals holding up signs to direct limited trains slowly. >> to have this happen and to find out about it, at

more smoke to fill the air and that train became disabled. passengers on board pulled emergency alarms and you can hear them because the train was not fully platformed the doors remained locks. locked and passengers kicked out the windows to escape. >> there was a lot of smoke. people were kicking out the windows on out orange line. >> it was chaos. it sound like a bomb and people were panicking and people were running around and they were rip open the doors. >> the mbta says the body panel design is specific to the orange line and they say only trains that have been inspected will be in service today. >>> we are following a developing story a infant pulled from a bathtub and rushed to the hospital. the 10-month-old was at a home on logan way and the baby has been taken to boston medical center. no word on the condition of the baby but police are investigating. >>> developing a death investigation in malden. police there found a woman's body in an apartment at cliffside commons on broadway monday night. they are not releasing her name and the

it's hard for people to even board the trains or get off the train because so many people are here waiting to board their train. going on. hour. it's a mess and also amtrak just told mass department of transportation that the problem with the switches is not going to be fixed for this evening's commute and may not even be fixed for tomorrow's commute. so you need to check mbta's website as well as their twitter. check our website at whdh.com to see the latest because again, i mean this is an absolute mess. live in signed back bay station, brandon gunnoe, 7 news. >> jadiann: it is a packed house in there right now. track trouble proving to be a challenge for engineers to fix. >> adam: doing it by hand. they have a been out there since this morning so let's get to dan hausle continuing our coverage. he is live at boston's south station. dan? commuters heir but some of the commuters are facing the same problems. only stoughton and providence line that is leaving here. look at this. you can see some of the passengers who have' run up to the cars. the cars are so full you've got passengers, no

as the train ran over it smoke a second train coming from behind also hit the panel on the track, which caused additional smoke. some passengers started to panic and broke out train windows to escape. overnight and into this morning all orange line trains are being inspected for loose panels. any train not inspected will not be put into service. live in downtown boston doug meegan wcvb news center 5. emily: president obama weighing in on the race to replace him. reiterating he doesn' t think donald trump will win. >> i have a lot of faith in the i think they recognize that being president is a serious job. emily: trump called that a compliment, saying if he' d run against obama 4 years ago, he' d have won. the republicans are focused on south carolina where trump holds a strong lead. the democrats are looking to nevada and courting the minority vote. a brand-new cnn poll just released shows hillary clinton just one point ahead of rival bernie sanders. the nevada democrats caucus is on saturday. randy: bernie sanders is expected to pick up a local endorsement today. a coalition of latino

training on deescalation and crisis intervention training. a digital simulator for training officers. a lot of when not to use force and when not to shoot. we'll also be including items around less lethal equipment such as shields and range such as targets that turn. meaning an officer can assess whether or not that target is a threat or not. we will include other types of training as well including procedural justice and cultural competency and other types of training. all of that will be included in the discussions with our mayor's budget and we'll also expand our existing program and use in community engagement, summer jobs and safety initiative and the technology solutions and to increase transparency with the report are about body worn cameras is a big chunk of that and we are on the way to having those up and running. also better collection of better demographic data in the warehouse to understand if and when there is disproportionate alt -- i want to finish with good news. for the first time we have a time line on the replacement of ou

were trained in a class conducted by the workplace unit. the training teaches people whatever they can to combat an active shooter. we're told to use tables and desks. throw anything you can. if you can't run, attack. mantra, rub, hide, fight. i went back on the madison shooting and found the training and precautions do not change. even if the shooter is 14-year-old. >> unfortunately, for the innocent, teachers, administrators, custodian, and other students. for responder officers, it's someone who is trained to take lives. and transported as quickly as possible >> now ironically one of the first grade teachers of madison is the wife of cannotel, the innocent part of the active shooter program. and the founder of cincinnati safety at madison state. he was trying to reach his wife when the shooter came about >> and we told you earlier, we're extremely fortunate, no one died from the shooting. from what you could tell, on this early, everybody performed pretty well with the training at this point? >> it sounds like the locked down drills they have done there, paid off. the issue of how w

i wanted you to expand on training. one is, i would like to you explain why it is that a delay in the annual budget for -- diminishment for training lasts beyond the year. people don't understand there's a permanent affect to underfunding training. i want you to address your sense of how -- what any additional challenges for the training budget are posed by the additional new air frames like the f-35. >> thanks, sir. first on the delay and the lag affect that goes into training. the way we do our program is we budget in two-year cycles as you know, sir. so we project in the future how much we think we're going to fly in contingency flying. given the capacity of any weapon system, will take the f-16 as an example. it's designed for depression of enemy air defenses. very high end fight center focused community. so we look at all of the capabilities in that way to -- and the weapon system to produce flying hours. that's a fixed capacity. and then we project how much of that we think in that weapon system will be flown down

you need to go get training. once you get training, therefore you need to know situational awareness and the laws for self-defense. >> armstrong: brian how are the laws different in virginia and maryland. >> virginia has open carry for citizens of virginia as well as non citizens. they do have a concealed carry, you can register the firearm and get your concealed carry permit. the laws are in the district. >> d.c. doesn't have open carry. >> armstrong: anybody can carry? >> yes. >> armstrong: is it safe? >> i would say it could make for a catastrophe in some ways. >> how do we know they are trained? >> we don't know. >> >> armstrong: how many stam states? >> in the united states, 42 open carry is in about 42. currently, 10 that are restrictive in terms of may carry, in terms of if you go and apply for concealed carry, you application status and background. >> >> armstrong: anybody, can go and get a gun and go to maryland. what have been the incidents where this turned out to be not so good for the state? or have

i think there's a train coming! look out, rich! [train whistle blowing] wow! that train shook the whole clubhouse! you know what? i think this calls for a little further investigation. hey, rich, do you want to help me suss out what kind of train that was that just passed by? - that's okay, bob. i'm a little tied up right now. i think i'm gonna stay here where it's nice and warm and toasty. - all right. well, i will be right back, dog musher rich. - see you, bob. - see you. - oh, i don't mean to sound unsympathetic, but all i really came out here for was to see if one of you two dudes knew what kind of train that was that just passed by. - that was the canadian national. it was sporting a wedge snowplow. it clears the snow and ensures a safe passage for trains of all sorts. - wow. at snowplow was amazing, - sure was, boberino. now, if you don't mind, i'm contemplating a checker move that will revolutionize the world of winter checkers for all time! - what? [shouting] what are you doing? you ruined the game, conductor hambone. - you left me with no choice. and,

under easter bond training. under station 16 under building permit review it's anticipated to start construction early summer of 2016 and it's also under review and anticipated that the inspection will be within the next 2-3 months. the department has contracted with an industrial hygienist from dph to conduct on health and safety and osha compliance. the team has been working closely with the division team on various projects including airport station 3 relocation and working closely with the department of environment and local 798 and the cancer foundation. chief lombardy along with residents from the community and the cancer foundation have met with the neighbors from the airports to discuss their concerns regarding health and safety of that relocation and that construction and it has been met with positive results. chief lombardy plans to meet again with the staff to discuss any other concerns they may have with the actual construction of the remodel of the new station. under faculty maintenance, a total of

also coming up, two passenger trains collide head on in southern germany.ine people are confirmed dead, more than a hundred are injured. >>> new hampshire decides sanders and trump look to claim their first wins in the u.s. presidential primaries. >>> and demands for the south african president to repay money that was spent on renovating his home. ♪ >>> hello, the united nations has called on turkey to open its border with syria to let refugees cross. tens of thousands of people have arrived at the crossing after fleeing intense fighting in aleapt poe. the government has stepped up its offensive there, backed by russia air strikes. with the border camps already full some are having to sleep in the open with just the clothes on their backs. syria's government is trying to surround aleppo, hoping to cut off lebl -- rebel supply lines to and from turkey. zana hoda sent this report. >> reporter: it's their jobs to watch the skies. civil defense engineers are on alert whenever they hear the sound of jets. as first responders to the scenes of attacks, these volun

it happened on the acela express train from washington to new york. there were 200 passengers on board. amtrak is investigating what the object may be. last night's incident happened in the vicinity of the fatal crash last may. in the derailment investigators were trying to determine when a projectile hit that train. other trains were reported being hit by something that night. 8 people died and 200 others were injured when the locomotive and four passenger cars jumped the tracks. in the days and months that followed it was determined that the train was traveling tries the speed limit when it hit the curve. the train engineer hit his head in the crash and told investigators he doesn't remember what happened. he turned over his cell phone, investigators say there was no indication he was using it. the engine was new and operating normally. no anomalies were found in the tracks or signal boxes. what today's documents contain we don't know, but the investigative phase is over. what comes next they will analyze all the evidence and put together a report w

training on deescalation and crisis intervention training. a digital simulator for training officers. a lot of when not to use force and when not to shoot. we'll also be including items around less lethal equipment such as shields and range such as targets that turn. meaning an officer can assess whether or not that target is a threat or not. we will include other types of training as well including procedural justice and cultural competency and other types of training. all of that will be included in the discussions with our mayor's budget and we'll also expand our existing program and use in community engagement, summer jobs and safety initiative and the technology solutions and to increase transparency with the report are about body worn cameras is a big chunk of that and we are on the way to having those up and running. also better collection of better demographic data in the warehouse to understand if and when there is disproportionate alt -- i want to finish with good news. for the first time we have a time line on the replacement of ou

train. nicole: she is not alone. thousands of commuters trying to figure out exactly where they need to go this evening. more bad news. i spoke with officials a short time ago. they tell us this problem could go through tomorrow morning' s commute. we will bring you the latest information as we have it. live in south station, w cvb newscenter 5. >> our coverage continues with newscenter 5' s john atwater. he' s live in the back bay. we barely see you john. john: a lot of crowds here. hundreds of people. they are looking at this board to see when their train is going i will sneak through the people. hundreds of people waiting for their trains to arrive. when they announced the train, they come this way, go down the escalators, and try to get on the train as fast as they can. i want to take you downstairs from video a little while ago. you can see the massive crowds down there trying to jam onto these trains that are already full. people desperate to get home. obviously these commuters know th

arctic trained, mountain trained, you know all the superlatives. so thank you for recognizing and acknowledging that. i would ask you, secretary murphy, if you can concur with the judgments that have been expressed by general milley. >> senator, i plan, as i mentioned to you earlier, i plan on going up to alaska myself. i've been partnering with chief milley on this. i come from an airborne unit when i deployed with them. i know it strategically is an incredible asset. my understanding from the chief's report, the facilities are second to none. we've invested a lot of money up there. so we are looking at that and it's my understanding i have the authority to act on that and i look forward to working with you as we review this shortly with an answer. >> again to both of you, i appreciate what you have provided here today and i look forward to working with you to ensure that the capableabilitie have with the 425th are continued to allow for that robust security that we need specifically at this time. and with the components that they have, i think we

one area in germany there has been a train crash involving two, if not three trains. thousands of syrians refugees are trapped at the border of turkey. as many as 30,000 people have fled heavy fighting with the syrian army trying to retake aleppo. russian air strikes are pounding their homes. live to our correspondent. so far the border is closed and it looks like it's staying closed. >> reporter: yes. for the time being. turkish officials believe there is no need to open that border because they're providing assistance to the people who are really camping out on the other side, on the syrian side of that border. tens of thousands of people are on the move and unfolding human tragedy, really, and it will only get worse because the whole of aleppo province is a battleground. there are many front lines and the fact that the russian air strikes have been targeting roads as well as towns, so people caught in the middle of this conflict and the government continuing with their advance to reach the border. they are probably 25 kilometers south of the border and there is goi

a driver getting too close to a train. this is cellphone video taken from the back of the bus as the train whizzes by. the driver says it was too loud, and he couldn' t drive safely. the driver has been fired. >> i want to say thank you for an amazing 12 year career. this is the part where i was going to ride off into the no sunset, i will just write off. emily: an nfl star announces his retirement in a unique way. he posted a video to twitter yesterday. he was the nfl sack leader. his final game was the super bowl loss. the bruins get shut out on the road. the score was less than three minutes into the game, and that was all they needed, but they added insurance later. four power-play opportunities but couldn' t capitalize. 2-0 the final. >> it' s a very challenging thing. you think it is going to go on forever. randy: changes coming to the red sox this season and not just on the field. we talk about the upcoming season. he is optimistic, and is saying he hopes he clicks with the newcomer. he says this style one change em

the train reached 106mph brakes. he said, "i remember holding on to the controls tightly and feeling like, okay, well, this is it, i'm going over." toxicology reports found no evidence of drugs or alcohol in the using his cell phone at the time of the crash. lawyer tom kline represents several of the hundreds who were injured. >> the train was being operated at 106mph and there was a system that could have been in place and in fact was in place going the other way on the tracks which could have prevented it. >> reporter: that technology, positive train control or p.t.c., is now active along amtrak's heavily used northeast corridor linking boston to washington, d.c. >> i'm going to try and put full power on the train here and see how fast i can do. >> reporter: amtrak's chris jagodzinki showed us how p.t.c. prevents a train from going too fast. >> now, what happened here is this. traction blocked. it's taken away all the power in the locomotive. now it's applying the brakes. >> reporter: so regardless of what you do..

moment the speeding train left the tracks. engineer brandon bostian told investigators about a minute before the accident he realized he was going ten miles too slow and began accelerating. his next memory was feeling as though i was going too fast around a curve. the train's event recorder found bostian applied full throttle oy approximately a mile and a half from the curve. the train reached 106mph before bostian hit the emergency brakes. he said, "i remember holding on to the controls tightly and feeling like, okay, well, this is it, i'm going over." toxicology reports found no evidence of drugs or alcohol in bostian's blood, and he was in time of the crash. lawyer tom kline represents several of the hundreds who were injured. >> the train was being operated at 106mph and there was a system that could have been in place and in fact was in place going the other way on the tracks which could have prevented it. >> reporter: that technology, positive train control or p.t.c., is now active along amtrak's heavily used northeast c

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this comes after metal panel fell off orange line train hitting the third rail causing the train to smoke. passengers broke through windows to escape. officials said that already visually inspected the train but now would physically inspect them regularly. former student filing a lawsuit. they filed the title 9 lault earlier this week. she claims the school was in different to her complaint of sexual assault and harassment and allowed her abuser to live months during the investigation. >> he continued to harass and intimidate me at my workplace and home. i repeatly reported incident to administrators. i reported that i was living in constant fear. harvard has an institutional culture of ignoring and silencing people like me. our reports are not taken seriously. >> she said she hopes the lawsuit will keep future students safe. harvard has not commented on the case. >>> bill cosby suing a women who has accused him of sexual assault over a breach of contract. the women's accusation led to the comedian recent arrest in pennsylvania. the details of this new lawsuit are being kept secret. the w

if you were going to load something illicitly on to the train, you'd need to know where that train was not the same schedule every day. >> the people were loaded into two different railroad cars. 26 as it turns out in one, and when the capacity was reached there, 11 into another nearby car. >> my brother byron, he asked me several times to help him to come to the u.s. and the reason we always denied it was that, you know, we were scared of something, you know, could have happened, would have happened to him. and we didn't want him to go through that. we wanted him to stay with our parents and just avoid all of that. >> we are a young country. we are the country of immigrants. our relatives, our grandparents, great grandparents all dreamed of a better life coming to america. that's what these people are doing. they cannot figure out a way to get in legally. they want to work and they want the same things we do. >> they would have people loaded at the site nearest to the checkpoint and then arranging for the people to be removed at the next site north of the checkpoint. >> they were fed

one of the trains actually bored through the other train's cabin and then rip it to pieces.r: yet come the death toll could have been even worse. because of the holidays come to trains were not as full as they normally are in the morning. the trains along to a french company, the largest local transport company in germany. it operates trains between munich and a city nearby. trains in both directions have to share the same line. investigators continue to probe the cause of the crash. one of the questions to answer will be how to stop a tragedy of this kind from happening again. brent: we have michaela. human error was to blame for this. what more could you tell us? michaela: yes, there is a reputable investigative network in germany, and an investigator says that there could have potentially been a signal failure that was actually down to human error, that the control tower, the signal control tower a sickly overrode -- basically overrode this on the track behind me, and that could have let the drivers into believing that this track was basically free to go, and then that wo

refusing to tell us how often they train or train less than once a year, but probably the most disturbing thing we found, two school districts have not conducted this kind of training. >> i don't want to go through an active shooter. that's a tough thing to do. >> reporter: randy holman is the superintend enter in holody -- superintendent of holly he doesn't have the extra staff to coordinate adderall and doesn't know how to do one. >> when do -- coordinator a drill and doesn't know how to do one. >> when do you do it, how, who do you involve? i know that we need to do a drill. i know we need to keep up. >> reporter: we took our findings to the colorado department of education and its commissioner rich crandall who knows the department has no authority to force schools like holly to do the drill. >> we don't have a budget for it. it would be poppy cock to say we don't need to do anything. >> reporter: do you think it's important to train the kids what to do in the case where an armed gunman walks into a school? >> we definitely have a responsibility to spread the training across the state

trains. >> well the department says they will have more officers on train as you heard them say both in uniform, plainclothes as well and also plan to install surveillance cameras on new subway cars that will be rolling out. reporting live from the east side janelle burrell cbs 2 news. >>> new developments of surveillance pictures of the suspect who slashed a man early sunday morning at central park north. the two men argued after the suspect got into a dispute with the victim was cut over her left eye. >> john good morning to you. >> i think rich lamb and i from our partner station 880 know petula thank you. 58 mild degrees. that's why you've got a south west wind. left over drizzle, pockets of fog. you are driving in and out of it. trust me i just did. a break later this afternoon before that front backs up and we see mixed precipitation into your friday. your day today numbers aren't going to move that much. look at it. studio 54 all day long with very little variations. there are issues w

train. any of those as i just said running late some very late. tonight five:12 to middleborough arrived at 5:34 more than half hour behind schedule this all after unexpected delay on the way to work so many committees telling commute home. today delay came up so they were many headed out to the office rerouted to the red line switch problem popped up. that turned rush-hour commute >> ongoing problems signals right now means that they are no guarantees that the trains will be running tomorrow morning so some commuters have told us are planning on not taking the trains at all but driving to work. >> tonight one man under arrest accused of trying to break into one outdoor store in kingsborough. this is 28-year-old john of hudson new hampshire. police and he was nabbed after breaking into four marine in kingsborough last night. this comes just days after police reported gunshot burglary right down the street at admin firearms. and that that the police report for cuts would take it and no that c

joe, a regular commuter, says his train usually stops and waits for the oncoming train.his morning was different. we wait for five minutes for the oncoming train. three-minutes it set off. jenny: this as horrified germany, a country where rail are relatively rare. chancellor merkel has said that she is saddened and shocked. this is aind that school holiday. people say that on a normal morning these trains would have been full of schoolchildren. this is one of the worst rail disasters in germany for many years. it is feared that the death toll may arise. l, bbc news. katty: in hong kong demonstrators clash with police in the largest demonstration of unrest since the democracy protest of 2014. political activists and their supporters defended unlicensed food sellers from being removed. more than 50 have been arrested. intense clashes between police and demonstrators on the first evening of the lunar new year. the protesters gather to support unlicensed food vendors who are preparing to sell in the dizzy commercial district. officialsars tolerated the practice. this time, t

they want to wake everyone up sleeping on the train crimes happen to individuals sleeping on the train. >> it's always in the back of your mind. you don't want to be that person that it happens to. >> i am a little more aware. i can be absent minded walking back and forth from the train station. i've definitely been more aware and leaving with staff. we've been making changes. >> reporter: the president of the pba, pat lynch, says this is a clear attempt to conceal the fact that the city does not have enough on motor vehicles on the trains and says this is no real solution to the problem. >> dray, thank you. >>> 6:34 today. mayor de blasio will unveil a new way to get around new york city's two largest boroughs. to break ground in the next few years. mallory hoff has details from downtown brooklyn. >> reporter: good morning. as we've experienced, this one in brooklyn which be a projected cost of $2.5 billion. i want to you look at this rendering that shows exactly where we're standing at this very moment. this is what it would look like. you can see it would operate on city streets so

a mangled mess after 2 run ins with trains. the driver accidentally slid into one train. a witness called 911 and the police arrived to help....just getting mccullough out before a second train hit his car again.... after they were told it was "six minutes if you will from the beginning to the end. it was called into dispatch at 10:39. the first deputy arrives on scene at 10:42. three minutes later and the second train hits that car at 10:45 so in that three minutes they got here and they got him out." now that rescue was captured on dash cam video. we'll have that on nine on your side at 5. reporting live kristen swilley nine on your side. right now workers are trying to figure out how to get a crane back on the ground after an accident this morning. jordan burgess is live asking questions about what happened and what it will take to fix right now this crane has all four wheels airborn. it's been like this for a few hours. we're working on getting answers from construction crews here on exactly how this happened. the crane's arm is laying across the top of the parking ga

they're hosting a mediation training today. the linn mar school district is changing some preschool locations because of overcrowding . families can expect the changes next school year. people in robins are happy to have the first restaurant in town. lobowski's bar and grillll is open for business. you're watching kcrg-tv9. now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrg-tv9 news morning news. this is breaking news this morning. waterloo firefighters are on scene of a fire this morning. they were called out to the 200 block of western avenue around 4. our photographer there says there are about five trucks with crews still actively fighting this fire. waterloo police have confirmed that there were people inside when they arrived. everyone got out we are working to get more information on the fire and if anyone is injured. we will continue to update you as we learn more. first, meteorologis t kaj o'mara has your first alert forecast, kaj... while a few flurries may be out there early this morning, they will be quick to exit. wa