Congress members urge aid to Jordan
WASHINGTON – Republicans and Democrats pressed senior Obama administration officials Wednesday to move swiftly to provide aircraft parts, night-vision equipment and other weapons to Jordan after a video purporting to show Islamic State militants burning a captured Jordanian air force pilot to death.
All 26 members of the Senate Armed Services Committee wrote in a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that Jordan’s situation and the unanimity of the coalition battling the extremists “demands that we move with speed to ensure they receive the military materiel they require.”
SUV on tracks probed in fatal train crash
VALHALLA, N.Y. – Federal investigators looking into a fiery commuter train wreck that killed six people zeroed in Wednesday on what they called the big question on everyone’s mind: Why was an SUV stopped on the tracks, between the crossing gates?
A team from the National Transportation Safety Board arrived to examine the blackened and mangled wreckage and the Metro-North train’s black-box-type data recorders the morning after the rush-hour collision with the sport utility vehicle about 20 miles north of New York City.
“The big question everyone wants to know is: Why was this vehicle in the crossing?” said Robert Sumwalt, NTSB vice chairman.
Associated Press
