Good evening, everyone, im jessica dean coming to you live from hoboken, new jersey at the scene of that train crash that was just a horrific moment for so many people early this morning. Lets give you a better idea of where we are and how it plays into the morning commute for so many people every day. Hoboken terminal is locate add cross the hudson from man hat han and roughly 50,000 people flee through every single day in and out of the city. This crash happened at the hite of rush hour. We know the return person killed was 34yearold decroon from hoboken and an attorney and mother of young child. She was standing on a platform when flying debris hit and killed her. We also know a total of 114 people were injured, 13 of those are still in whats known as guarded condition tonight and many others released from the hospital. Good news there. Crews from the National Transportation safety board are already here. They are trying to anything youre out exactly why this train kept going and th
From hoboken and an attorney and mother of young child. She was standing on a platform when flying debris hit and killed her. We also know a total of 114 people were injured, 13 of those are still in whats known as guarded condition tonight and many others released from the hospital. Good news there. Crews from the National Transportation safety board are already here. They are trying to anything youre out exactly why this train kept going and their investigation has just begun it was around 8 45 thursday morning when a new Jersey Transit commuter train slammed into Hoboken Terminal collapsing part of the buildin building. It was like a big crash and then everything from the ceiling fell. This is video of the train in route prior to the crash. Eyewitnesses say the train was moving at a high rate of speed when it stayed to stop, entered the station and crashed beyond the tracks. Debris blasted throughout the station. Metal mangled, dangling wires and people severely injured. There were
End of the line. Eyewitnesses say the commuter train slammed into a wall at full force, inside have of the rail station at hoboken, new jersey around 8 45 this morning. Michael larson a transit employee was inside of the terminal about 30 feet away from the crash. I observed it coming at a high rate of speed. It went over the bumper block, basically through the air, traveled about another 40 feet, and came to a rest. Reporter people were standing on the platform waiting to commute into new york city. Will were folks, hobbling around, People Holding their limbs, holding their backs and things like that. There was definitely some bad injuries. Blood, kind of on their faces, and people were like, you know, holding on to each other. Reporter officials a stations roof partially collapsed on top of the train, mike was on board the train when the accident occurred, and said it was hard to see what was going on around them. We were between pieces of metal or what, but the first person in front
Getting little break toward the delaware beaches, where weve had the most rainfall, through this event. But, new castle county, the rain continues, widespread in nature, current winds speeds, the winds are really whipping out there. Winds speeds up around 1520 Miles Per Hour. With even higher gusts, gusting to 36 Miles Per Hour right now, in atlantic sit, gust to go 23 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia. And throughout your day today, it will be another wet and windy one for the 9 00 hour. 61 degrees, high temperatures only topping in the middle 60s, with the clouds around, windy conditions, and showers continuing to impact the area. Meisha, through the day today. Another hard day of travel, everyone. What we are looking at right now an accident, schuylkill westbound approaching the vine. Left lane compromised forly while. Now all lanes blocked right now. You can see penndot zooming around, peaking whats going on here. Again, all lanes block, crews just showing up to the scene right now. L
Control which will be required on all trains. Its been delayed in a lot of cities and states including new jersey, but no doubt, politicians seizing on that. Another politician interviewed on fox news saying its a sign that Infrastructure Spending is a low priority for congress and that is why we keep having events like this. Again, that begs the issue that if we had more Infrastructure Spending or more spending on trains or High Technology trains, we wouldnt have. Let alone the fact we dont know what caused this. But this happens every single time. So much to get into here. Heres what we know thus far, one person is dead, a hundredplus are injured in this accident today. The accident, whose cause we still havent discerned even though a number of politicians have already concluded. Adam shapiro with the very latest. Adam. Reporter and, neil, you can see part of the train station behind me. Let me bring you up to laters on what we know about the latest on what we know about the people w