Good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America, im morgan live from new york. This morning 26,000 commuters in new york city suburbs have to find another way to get to work. This after a train derailed yesterday just outside of manhattan. The accident left four dead and Dozens Injured and ntsb investigators have now recovered the trains data recorder and trying to determine exactly what caused the crash. Our mission is to understand not just what happened but why it happened with the intent of preventing it from happening again. Reporter the train jumped the tracks just as it was getting ready to leave the bronx and cross into manhattan and 7 cars derailed with the lead car feet away from the hudson river. It happened along a curved section of the track and trying to figure out the excessive speed played a role. An al jazeeras john is here live from the bronx, john . Morgan good morning. The hudson line of Metro North Railroad is one of the busiest Commuter Rail routes in the world. 26
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And im michelle griego. Tis 6 veloping this morn good morning, everyone. Its monday, december 2. Im frank mallicoat. Im michelle griego. Time now 6 00. Developing this morning, two earthquakes shook gilroy overnight. The first was magnitude 2. 5 at 1 35 a. M. Then a stronger quake struck at 2 05. That was magnitude 3. 7. Both were centered about 4 miles southsoutheast of gilroy. We have had no reports of damage or injuries. Im mark kelly live in San Francisco. The Holiday Shopping season is finally here. And fedex expects this to be its busiest day of the year. And crooks are also working overtime on this cyber monday. We have a couple of tips to protect yourself when you do shop online. How about traffic, liz, whats going on . It is all about the fog this morning. Especially over at the bay bridge toll plaza. Lawrence will have more on this but it is impacting the morning commute. In fact, chp issued their own dense fog advisory for the eastern side of the bay bridge. And it looks lik
Famous dress in the world . And good morning, america. So much to get to on this busy tuesday morning. Cold weather set to hit even l. A. And phoenix. One of many reasons to welcome sam here right at the start this morning. Good morning, everybody. You made headlines yesterday. You were off yesterday. But you were not resting. We are so excited for you. A big, new adventure for you with your new job at the Weather Channel. After 25 years here, the one thing i can tell you is everybody has been amazing for an opportunity that i have that i never thought i would get a chance to do Something Like this. And i cant wait to get there. But this place, my home and my heart. And everyone here has been amazing. You know, our sadness is only superseded by our happiness for you. Yep. You deserve this and so much more, sam. A lot of happy tears. Not just for today, but for tomorrow. Uhoh. Just so everybody knows. Today is not it. Were going were getting extra special ready for tomorrow. What is sam
Kpix 5s mark kelly is in our newsroom. Were learning that newman apparently in good health. Mark. Reporter frank, swedish diplomats have been able to visit him giving him medication for his heart. The Obama Administration is now urging for newmans release citing his advanced age and health conditions. I can understand that in u. S. And western countries, there is misleading information and propaganda about pprk. Reporter north korean state media released this video over the weekend of detained american tourist 85yearold Merrill Newman reading a handwritten apology. Pyongyang said newman admits he is guilty of big crimes when he fought for the u. S. In the korean war killing civilians, working with anticommunist guerrillas and planning now 60 years later to try to meet up with them. The video shows newman signing the fourpage statement he read on camera dated november 9 and sealing it with his thumbprint in red ink. What was to him next isnt clear. After being held since late october, t