82 Miles Per Hour, that is how fast federal investigators say a commuter train was traveling before i derailed sunday outside new york city. The train was heading into a dangerous curve and should have been going 30 Miles Per Hour. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, its good to have you with us, im thomas. Crews used heavy equipment to clear the crash scene and turned the derailed cars upright and put them back on the tracks. Al jazeera erica has the latest on the investigation and good morning. Investigators say over the next few days the rail cars and train will be moves to a secure location for a more detailed examination. At this point they have not determined if the train wreck which killed four people and injured 60 others was the result of facility brakes or human error but each day it uncovers information as the victims families demand answers. The metro north train derailed after taking this turn at a speed nearly three times the allowed limit. The train was trave
We begin tonight with inequality in the economy and the dangers to young americans. President obama says 10 of the population is now taking home half of the nations income. He warns the growing canyon between rich and poor is destroying the economy, and threatening the American Dream. President obama the top 20 , has about a two in three chance of staying at or near the top. A child born into the bottom 20 has a less than one in 20 shot at making i. T. To th making o the top. Hes ten times modifier likely to stay where he is. President obama states statistics that shows the average American Income is shrinking. The president asked the congress to raise the minimum to 7. 10 an hour. Encouraging government dependence. White house correspondent Mike Viqueria joins us with more. Mike, why the speech and why now . Its a great question john. First of all the facts that the president and the statistics that the president cited are beyond dispute. There is a growing income disparity in the cou
He said he will come pain for it until december 23rdrd. Thats the deadline to sign up for insurance coverage. Overseas, Vice President joe biden is in asia trying to ease tensions between japan and china. Countries are fighting over a group of islands. In tokyo today, biden said the u. S. Stands with japan. Those are the headlines at this ho hour. I am John Siegenthaler seeing. Consider th consider this with antone i dont mora is next. You can always get the latest news on acceljazeera. Com. We will see you at 11 00 oclock. Can getting stitches put you in the poor house . Medical costs have skyrocketed with sometimes absurd results. 500 per stitch . Consider this how do hospitals get away with it . Th will it get better or worse with obamacare . Also, an al jazeera exclusive brings new questions to light over irans influentialing program. Plus the Energy Drink Business is exploding with little regulation. We will hear from a doctor whose new study is adding to growing concerns about th
Prostitution in france. Voting begins shortly on the toughest laws in europe. And im gabriel in brazil where the fifa final draw will be happening on friday, but everyone here is worried about the state of the stadium. After ten days of antigovernment protests in thailand the rallies appear to be thinning out, but its temporary. Demonstrators say that the fight will continue. Earlier they marched to thai Police Headquarters in in bang cox where they handed over a letter demanding investigation into the death of four protesters. Many have now joined the cleanup operation. The streets are littered are rubbish and debris. The king is staying at his summer palace, but first on the days events in bangkok. Reporter in less than a day it went from rows of rye rot police to rows of street sweepers. Like they have for the last ten days, these two pitched in. In previous days protesting. But today cleaning. Traveling in from the privileged part of bangkok, the two have been friends for years. At
The territorial dispute in japan. The fighting is heating up. Tokyo on tuesday, joe biden emphasised u. S. Support for japan. There are more protesters in the capital of kiev ukraine. Demonstrators are demanding that the government step down. They are angry at the president rejecting closer ties. Sneeze are the headlines. America tonight is up next. You can always get the latest news on aljazeera. Com. See you back here tomorrow night. Need manpower. Also tonight. Lessons learned . The latest read on how u. S. Students stack up and what it really says about american i hadcation. Hadcation education. And fashion build. What role you play in one of the worlds most polluted places. We take you inside of hell on earth. If you want to see what hell looks like. You come to the tannery and have a look at the tannery that should tell you how the hell looks like. Good evening and thank you thanks for being with us. Im joie chen. It was not much of a surprise detroits financial concerns are well