york city. dramatic accounts and pictures of the wreck showing up on social media this morning. cnn following that. nick? good morning, joe. we ve been scouring social media since we heard news of the derailment and we obtained a handful of photographs to share with viewers. the first coming to us from daniel cohen revealing a very sort of scale of the crash here. you see cars turned on the side. a lot of eyewitnesses we heard from talking about it coming around the bend, coming around a curve there at a relatively high rate of speed. another photo coming to us from terry. this is a closer photo. another photo from daniel there. but terry shows photos of boats in the water. u.s. coast guard as we ve been reporting initial reports said that train may have made its way into the water. we know that that s not accurate at this time after more details
going back to the bronx now. four people dead when a commuter train goes off the tracks in new york city. officials say 67 people are injured including 11 who are in serious condition. seven cars of a metro north train traveling south along the hudson river came off the tracks. a law enforcement official on the scene and familiar with the investigation says the train operator who is among the injured told investigators he applied the brakes but the train didn t slow down. a white house official tells cnn that president obama has been briefed and the president s thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected especially the friends and families who lost a loved one. there you see pictures from the scene as those train cars lining on their sides. investigators from the national transportation safety board on their way to try to unravel what it is that caused this crash. cnn s alexandra field is on the
stelter. let s beginning in new york where emergency crews are on the scene of a deadly commuter crash. a number of cars went off the tracks near the spuyten duyvil station. i just heard a screeching noise, you know. i happened to be by the window. i m on top of the hill. i heard a screeching noise. and then within seconds the ambulance and fire trucks started coming past my window. i knew something big happened. there had to be 50 or 60 trucks coming by. for more, let s go to cnn s alexander field in the bronx at the scene of that derailment. alexandria? reporter: we know that seven cars derailed at the tail end of this holiday weekend.
two cars turned on their sides and that s where four people were killed. 11 people are in critical condition. estimate is there were 100 people riding this train. important to keep in mind that during the weekday during rush hour there would have been more people on the train. it left early this morning before 6:00. it was traveling from poughkeepsie to grand central. a law enforcement source tells cnn the operator of the train says that he tried to apply the brakes but that the train did not stop. the operator is now being treated for his injuries. we have spoke to witnesses in the bronx and they heard the familiar screeching sound a train makes and they heard the horrible crash and this is what they saw. seven cars turned on their sides. it s far too early to speculate on what caused the accident. investigators are en route. emergency workers came here to help 100 or so passengers onboard the train. they ll look at the track and train to see what answers they
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