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caused a school bus to crash in new jersey. the dramatic moment in irvington captured on surveillance video. nearly a dozen children were injured when the bus collided with an s.u.v. and slammed into a building. since first @4:00, we uncovered troubling information about the bus quo. a.j. ross is at beth israel hospital in newark. reporter: some new information we received from the new jersey motor vehicle commission shows that horizon link, the bus company, has failed the initial service inspections at an astounding rate of 96%. considering the bus driver in this crash said the brakes failed before the collision, it s amazing no one was seriously injured. a thunderous early morning collision involving a school bus full of kids near sanford and springfield avenues brought several people running from homes and nearby stores. i ran out, came across the street, called 911. reporter: watch as a nearby surveillance camera captures the bus striking a silver s.u.v. and ....
into the bus company s safety record. reporter: a surveillance camera captured the school bus slamming into the liquor store on springfield avenue after colliding with an suv. the bus was coming down stanford avenue but the driver told witnesses and police the brakes failed before she could stop at the busy intersection. she was saying, oh, my god, my brakes went off on me. and that was it. and i thought, that s okay. it s going to be fine, you know,. reporter: this bodega owner was among all the people you can see here rushing to help the children, the smallest only 3. i tried to come back here. i grabbed a few bottles of water and tried to give it to the little kids because they were scared. even the ones that they were okay, they were scared. and they were crying. so i tried to help out. reporter: officials here say the 11 children, the bus driver, chaperone and suv driver were all alert and conscious with scrapes, bruises and broken bones. we take injuri ....
it was so big and so hot, the heat. and it was so close to us. it was like die-hard. seriously. the bruce willis movie. and then just flames. it was like something out of a movie. reporter: but it turned very real once they saw the truck driver running, flames shooting up his pant leg. the australian family rushed to help. as they could hear small explosions coming from the scene. he was holding my hands and he was obviously in shock. and he was just saying, i had nowhere to go. reporter: the 61-year-old driver escaped with nonlife-threatening burns, in part thanks to these good samaritan tourists, who stopped and helped. and now have a big story to tell back home to their kids. they ve been messaging us, saying, what are you doing, mom and dad? you re supposed to be safe. come home! reporter: certainly a story there. well, that driver is alive, but sadly he is in bad shape. he told me that he has a number of surgeries ahead of him. he s not sure how m ....
suspension for the role in using underinflated footballs during the afc championship game. the judge will have to decide if the punishment handed down by the commissioner will stand. dari: school bus accident in irvington, new jersey, this dozen people. the driver of the bus says she went out. that bus collided with an suv right there and slammed into a liquor store at the corner of sanford and springfield avenues. 11 children and two adults were on the bus. lucky nobody was hurt. steve: a stretch of the new jersey turnpike is in business 24 hours after a crash involving two tractor-trailer trucks. crews reopened the lanes between interchanges 6 and 9 in east brunswick earlier today. you can see the damage and fire marks on the highway. the roadway was shut down since last night when the rigs collided setting off the massive fire. somehow miraculously, both drivers escaped without serious injury. dari: and new measures to regulate water cooling towers believed to be the ....
he could have easily self-funded a presidential race and not have to resort to brown-bagging his lunch to recoup the money. but this last week, he finally made up his mind. he will not run. mr. bloomberg writing, quoting now. bloomberg accusing his fellow new york billionaire of running, quoting again. joining us this morning, political analyst and pollster doug schoen. he conducted a poll for mr. bloomberg when he was considering a run for president. and political consultant hank sheinkopf. did mr. bloomberg exit too early? i don t think so, bill. the work we did that he cited suggested that almost certainly his entry into the race, and his potential to get five states, maybe about 75 electoral votes against donald trump and hillary clinton would potentially have deadlocked the college, throwing it into the house, and conceivably electing mr. trump or mr. cruz, as the mayor suggested in his statement. but if clinton has trouble, hank, getting to the magic number th ....