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Metrolink crash investigation, Silicon Valley women, NFL Inglewood stadium
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Feb 25, 2015
Listen • 46:58
Metrolink crash investigation, Silicon Valley women, NFL Inglewood stadium

The latest on the investigation into the Metrolink crash in Oxnard, women in the Silicon Valley workforce, Inglewood votes for 80,000-seat stadium.
An overturned Metrolink passenger car rests on the side of the road after the train crashed into a truck and derailed early on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015 in Oxnard, Calif. Three cars of a Southern California Metrolink commuter train derailed and tumbled onto their sides after a collision with a truck on tracks in Ventura County northwest of Los Angeles.
An overturned Metrolink passenger car rests on the side of the road after the train crashed into a truck and derailed early on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015 in Oxnard, Calif. Three cars of a Southern California Metrolink commuter train derailed and tumbled onto their sides after a collision with a truck on tracks in Ventura County northwest of Los Angeles.
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The latest on the investigation into the Metrolink crash in Oxnard, women in the Silicon Valley workforce, Inglewood votes for 80,000-seat stadium.

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