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It's a bad day for California.
There was a bad accident on the Metrolink, Los Angeles' commuter rail system. So far it looks like nine people are dead and over 100 people are in critical care at area hospitals. That toll will rise. The Metrolink is the same in many ways as the Caltrain, which runs up and down the coast of the Peninsula along the west side of the San Francisco Bay. Both systems make use of old Union Pacific rail lines and both systems even use the same car manuacturer - which makes pictures like this a little hard to take:
AP Photo
There was a bad accident on the Metrolink, Los Angeles' commuter rail system. So far it looks like nine people are dead and over 100 people are in critical care at area hospitals. That toll will rise. The Metrolink is the same in many ways as the Caltrain, which runs up and down the coast of the Peninsula along the west side of the San Francisco Bay. Both systems make use of old Union Pacific rail lines and both systems even use the same car manuacturer - which makes pictures like this a little hard to take:
AP Photo
I use the Caltrain all the time. I live only a couple blocks away from my station in fact, which is right through the fence from a Costco. The California Report was reporting this morning they are using a Costco parking lot in LA as a triage center.
S.J. Mercury News article on crash: [http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/10738645.htm]
The other bad California news is much further away. Actually, it's just more bad news for America. It's the deadliest day for American soldiers in Iraq since the war started, 36 so far, and only five were killed by combatants. 31 soldiers were killed in a helicopter accident, and it's believed most of those soldiers are from California's Camp Pendleton.
I'm steeling myself. It's gonna be an awful week in Iraq.
S.J. Mercury News article on crash: [http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/10738645.htm]
The other bad California news is much further away. Actually, it's just more bad news for America. It's the deadliest day for American soldiers in Iraq since the war started, 36 so far, and only five were killed by combatants. 31 soldiers were killed in a helicopter accident, and it's believed most of those soldiers are from California's Camp Pendleton.
I'm steeling myself. It's gonna be an awful week in Iraq.
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