CBS Evening News - 2008-09-14
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[0:00] Storm on the horizon. No when no now.
[0:02] CBS 2 News.
[0:07] >> Tonight, more questions about that Los
[0:08] Angeles train crash. Was the engineer
[0:11] negligent? And what do survivors
[0:13] remember? I'm Russ Mitchell. Also
[0:15] tonight, assessing the impact of
[0:16] Hurricane Ike. Millions remain without
[0:19] power as gas prices surge around the
[0:21] country. Last ditch talks this weekend
[0:23] to save struggling Wall Street giant
[0:24] Leman Brothers. And the Palin record
[0:27] under the microscope. New details emerge
[0:30] about her years as a mayor and governor.
[0:37] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Russ
[0:40] Mitchell.
[0:43] And good evening. 2 days after the
[0:45] deadliest US train accident in decades,
[0:47] investigators in Southern California
[0:49] still have more questions than answers.
[0:51] At least 25 people were killed and 135
[0:54] others injured in Friday's rush hour
[0:56] collision. And although early evidence
[0:58] seems to point to the engineer, some
[1:00] officials are cautioning against a rush
[1:01] to judgment. Bill Whitaker is following
[1:04] the investigation.
[1:08] The cleanup of the deadliest US commuter
[1:11] train collision in almost four decades
[1:13] continued today. Investigators sifted
[1:15] through the twisted wreckage. Warners
[1:17] left flowers on an empty platform.
[1:20] Officials with the Metroink train say
[1:22] the 25 passengers died when the engineer
[1:25] ran a red signal and plowed headon into
[1:28] a southbound freight train. Norma Gomez
[1:30] Havstock survived the crash. She rode
[1:33] the same train home from work with the
[1:35] same people every day for 12 years.
[1:38] >> I feel like it's my family, you know, my
[1:41] family when I when I saw the train is