U.S. agency releases report on Ohio train derailment

STORY: U.S. agency releases report on Ohio train derailment DATELINE: Feb. 24, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:19 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the derailment site STORYLINE: A federal agency released a preliminary report Thursday on the derailment of a train carrying hazardous chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month. The report issued by the National Transportation Security Board (NTSB) said the Norfolk Southern train passed three hot bearing detectors (HBD) on its trip before the derailment on the night of Feb. 3. The function of the HBD is to detect overheated bearings and provide audible real-time warnings to train crews. One of the HBDs "transmitted a critical audible alarm message instructing the crew to slow and stop the train to inspect a hot axle," according to the report. After hearing the warning, the train engineer "increased the dynamic brake application to further slow and stop the train" and the crew later observed fire and smoke and notifi

2 and a half years after quake

2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Yotsukura beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 18, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, with fire engines gathered to douse overheated reactors and spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, and the same location on the beach about two and a half years later on Aug. 18, 2013 (bottom), after opening to the public for the summer season for the first time in three years.

Probe into ANA's Boeing 787

Probe into ANA's Boeing 787

TOKYO, Japan - Norihiro Goto, chairman of the Japan Transport Safety Board, holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 27, 2013. The Japanese transport authority looking into an incident on board an All Nippon Airways Co.'s Boeing 787 said no faults were found in the airplane's electric system after a lithium-ion battery overheated.

2 years after quake

2 years after quake

IWAKI, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show an area around Yotsukura port in the city of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 18, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, with fire engines gathering to douse overheated reactors and spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, and the same location on March 3, 2013, with wave-dissipating blocks.

The War Of The Roses (1989)

The War Of The Roses (1989)

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Chinese admiral blames U.S. for raising S. China Sea tensions

Chinese admiral blames U.S. for raising S. China Sea tensions

Adm. Sun Jianguo, deputy chief of the Joint Staff Department of China's Central Military Commission, speaks at a session of the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's premier security forum, in Singapore on June 5, 2016. Sun criticized the United States and some of its allies, without mentioning them by name, over heightened tensions in the South China Sea, saying the issue "has become overheated because of provocations of certain countries for their own selfish interests." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Dousing of quake-hit nuke plant

Dousing of quake-hit nuke plant

TOKYO, Japan - Still image taken from video footage released on March 23, 2011, by the Tokyo Fire Department shows members of the Fire Rescue Task Force, a special unit for operations in massive disasters, having a discussion prior to dousing the overheated No.3 reactor of the quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station with water. The nuclear plant was crippled when a wide area of northeastern and eastern Japan was struck by a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami on March 11. (Image courtesy of the Tokyo Fire Department)(Kyodo)

Fire engines gathered to cool nuke plant

Fire engines gathered to cool nuke plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows fire engines gathered in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, to douse overheated reactors and spent fuel at the quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on March 18, 2011. (Kyodo)

Fire engines gathered to cool nuke plant

Fire engines gathered to cool nuke plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows fire engines gathered in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, to douse overheated reactors and spent fuel at the quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on March 18, 2011. (Kyodo)