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from abc news this is world news now. good thursday morning to you all. i m t.j. holmes. i m reena ninan. we are getting our first look at the hero train engineer who helped to save passengers in the fiery commuter crash north of new york city. he is being treated for smoke inhalation and trauma. observers say he did everything he could to avoid hitting the suv on the tracks. elizabeth hur has the latest from the crash scene. reporter: t.j. and reena, at daybreak investigators will be here to resume their work and while they believe it was a terrible accident, they want to know why this happened so it does not happen again. day one in the search for answers, ending with crews lifting and removing the wreckage off the tracks. these charred and mangled pieces of metal, the remnants of a fiery crash that killed six people just north of new york city. report of an explosion on the tracks. reporter: the commuter train had 700 passengers on board, traveling at 58 miles an hou ....
Could have prevented the issues from coming to light sooner. now sustained to testify over the lost lois lerner e-mails. they claim the e-mails from learner and other administration departments were lost in a commuter crash and can t be turned over. e-mails just disappearing pretty hard to belief. today s society and the irs unlikely for the data. you are talking about major between 2009 and 2011 where all of this was supposedly happening that s a big deal if they don t have any documentation an how they recover there. he will testify before the house panel next monday. baseball hall of famer tony glen has died. nicknamed mr. padre win was drafted in san diego in 1921 and spent all 20 seasons in the ....
My heart is broken. it s broken. she was my best friend. we have some stunning new video to show you. you have to look at this. this is a construction worker trapped on a ledge as the building he was working on goes up in flames. what does he do? he managed to swing himself on to a lower ledge. that s the ledge he is on right now. firefighters hosted the ladder to rescue him. just after he got on there, you can see the whole wall comes tumbling down there. authorities say the worker was not hurt. they say the strong winds fueled this five-alarm fire. the cause under investigation. that s a miracle. it could have been a very different scenario playing out there. investigators believe that mechanical failure played a role in monday s commuter crash. a train crash. the train jumped the tracks and slammed into an escalator. ....
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. ....
Seasoned. are there different regulations for cargo pilots as far as training is concerned? yes, f.a.a. has been trying to move to one standard of safety, and it s been a struggle over ten, 15 years, people flying the passengers planes and people that ply in a commuter plane have the same safety standards. cargo has been a bit more different to regulate. they have a different flight regimen, they flight at night, different pilot rules. but remember, all this came out of the that horrible crash in buffalo, the commuter crash, a lot of lessons learned, applying to pilot rules and safety. for example, what lessons were learned from that crash. the hours in flight were ridiculous. a young 20-year-old with 15 hours in flight. the pilot salary is $25,000, $30,000, same as you make at mcdonald s. no offense to mcdonald s, but they weren t paying the pilot. ....