To clear the scene of a train crash in new york city that derailed on its way to manhattan. At least four people are dead, 63 more hurt of those, at least 11 are in Critical Condition tonight. Al jazeera kimberly dukehardt has the latest from the bronx. Fire fighters, police and the ntsb could not working through the night, checking the tracks, the actual train cars, mechanical equipment, communication equipment, to try to figure out what went horrible wrong. The Holiday Weekend ended in tragedy and chaos for those on board this suburban commuter train in Northern New York city. The crash happened early sunday morning. Incidentally, we have reco recovered the event recorder and downloaded the data off of the locomotive. We havent had a chance to analyze it or verify it at this point. Officials say the train was carrying about 150 passengers and heading to new yorks granted central terminal. There was screaming and people trying out to god and asking for their families. It was pretty gr
Gaps and nerve Agent Program and an initial plan to destroy them. The declaration was in line with its International Agreement led by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. The organization hopes to eliminate all of syrias chemical weapons by mid 2014 reporter syria is reportedly meeting an ambitious deadline set by the organization for the w whohibition to destroy lethal stockpiles by next year. Syria handed over the details of its poison gas and nerve Agent Program thursday ahead of its october 27th deadline. Opcw is not releasing what their report says but it did say the Syrian Government disclosed 23 chemical weapons sites. The head of the opcw u. N. Team said last week that the country has so far been cooperative. We have had very good meetings with the Syrian Government at most senior levels there is strong corporation, with the secretary general and director general of op cd and opcw have confirmed and we build on this because we have one shared goal which is
The United Nations has now pulled out nearly 700 workers. Gunshots forced earlier rescues to abort. Tribal differences between the president and his former Vice President are driving the violence there. It escalated when the president dissolved his entire cabinet in july. He also reshuffled the government creating a oneparty state making it nearly impossible for anyone else to be elected president in south sudan. More from harrah mutasa. As the violence in central south sudan esc lanes, thousands of people are trying to escape the fighting. Government soldiers have lost control of the capitol to rebels. They have battle to go recapture bor. There are a lot of people in the u. N. Compound. The whole town is barricaded completely. It is only these rebel soldiers who move about in the town. All of the bodies have not been collected. We dont know how far, what is the number of the death up to now because the town is under the control of the rebels. The rebels are loyal to former Vice Presi
Prisons. We begin this sunday night in ukraine where divisions over crimea has led to street violence. And there has been little progress on the diplomatic front. Ukraines Prime Minister will travel to the white house on wednesday. They will discuss the standoff in crimea days before a referendum there. Today, rallies took across across the country. Scuffles broke out where demonstrators raised a russian flag over a government building. In the crimean city of sevastopol, people pushed to join russia. In some places protesters supporting ukraine were physically attacked. Tennessee of thousands gather in kiev rallying for a unified kiev. Russian forces are keeping up the pressure on ukraines military. Jennifer glasse has more on the tension thats keeping both sides on edge reporter its a crainiukraip with nothing to do. The armed boards are a sign all is not well here Ukrainian Navy cant go anywhere. Its blockaded by the russians. This is where the sea blockade gets up close and personal
You could look at the n. F. L. s first openly gay player. Tonight, an investigation into a major meat supplier in the United States, a California Company has recalled nearly 9 Million Pounds of beef. Federal inspectors say the slaughtered animals were sick and had not been inspected. Lisa barnard has more from california reporter inspectors first took a look here last month and ordered a much smaller recall. And then, the usda says upon further investigation, they found this company, the rancho feed corporation had been processing meat from animals that were decisived or quote, unfit, and thats when they ordered a much larger recall, one of the largest in years. Operations at a standstil in pedaluma, california. Federal regulators recalled 8. 7 Million Pounds of meat sent to retailers in california, florida, illinois and texas. The usda said the company processed diseased and unsound animals. The agency says the Processing Center wasnt fully inspected. Well, clearly what happened was t