Train crashes into semi in Forest Park, splitting trailer

So coming up here on Fox 5 News Live, we're going to check in with our assignment manager, Tanya Mendoza, and our photog on screen. We're staying on top of this breaking news in Forest Park where a train and tractor trailer have collided. Have collided, that is. We'll take you live to that scene in just a few minutes. And also, coming up here on Fox Local, breaking within the past hour, the SEC has announced that this year's conference football championship game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium will be the final edition of the event. And it all ties to the college football playoffs expansion to a 24-team format. Matt will have much more. On that plus veterans mental health with Veterans Day approaching, we are taking a look at how service members can get better help to support their mental well being. Time right now 10:01. Let's go ahead and bring in our assignment manager Tanya Mendoza to talk about some of these breaking stories here. Tanya, thanks so much for joining us. Let's get to that tractor trailer crash there with the train that we've been following all morning. That's right. So big mess, as you can tell from looking at Aiden Brown's video right now, where they continue a cleanup over in this area of Forest Park. It's over off of Main Street. I'm going to do something different today. We're going to just go ahead and see if we can talk to Aiden. He's behind that camera. But Aiden, can you tell us what's going on over there? Yeah, Tonya, I'm here. So, yeah, as you can see, the cleanup continues. This is the aftermath of a train crash with a tractor trailer. Forgive me if it's a little loud with all the cleanup happening out here. But, yeah, they are currently cleaning up this area. This is right here near downtown Forest Park. I'm along Cedar Avenue and Hale Road. It looks like it's a multi-team effort. Between the trucking companies, the railroad companies, and Forest Park Fire PD, the fire and PD, to clean this area up and get it cleared so traffic can start flowing through here again. They are asking that if people do come through here, just be cautious, be patient with them as they clean up the area. But that's all going on out here for now. As you can see, it continues as they are rapidly cleaning all of this, looks like some grocery items. that were spilled all across the road but most of the crash is removed. The trailer was split into two halves as you can see just behind me here and yeah they're getting it done. It looks like they're moving pretty quick from what you had earlier that we saw in one of the earlier shows. It looks like they've actually cleared up quite a bit so the road continues to be blocked. Aiden, right? Yeah, so most of the roadways that come through this area, like you can see some traffic coming along on the other side of the track, but most of the other roadways are blocked off to this particular area where they're cleaning up right now. But I see they're slowly letting traffic flow on one side of the track. Pretty soon they'll have the rest of it all cleaned up and everything should resume as normal. All right. Thank you so much, Aiden. We're going to keep you out there a little longer until that all cleans up, and then I'm sure we'll move you to some more breaking news. Thanks, Aiden.