control which will be required on all trains. it s been delayed in a lot of cities and states including new jersey, but no doubt, politicians seizing on that. another politician interviewed on fox news saying it s a sign that infrastructure spending is a low priority for congress and that is why we keep having events like this. again, that begs the issue that if we had more infrastructure spending or more spending on trains or high technology trains, we wouldn t have. let alone the fact we don t know what caused this. but this happens every single time. so much to get into here. here s what we know thus far, one person is dead, a hundred-plus are injured in this accident today. the accident, whose cause we still haven t discerned even though a number of politicians have already concluded. adam shapiro with the very latest. adam. reporter: and, neil, you can see part of the train station behind me. let me bring you up to laters on what we know about the latest on what we k
end of the line. eyewitnesses say the commuter train slammed into a wall at full force, inside have of the rail station at hoboken, new jersey around 8:45 this morning. michael larson a transit employee was inside of the terminal about 30 feet away from the crash. i observed it coming at a high rate of speed. it went over the bumper block, basically through the air, traveled about another 40 feet, and came to a rest. reporter: people were standing on the platform waiting to commute into new york city. will were folks, hobbling around, people holding their limbs, holding their backs and things like that. there was definitely some bad injuries. blood, kind of on their faces, and people were like, you know, holding on to each other. reporter: officials a station s roof partially collapsed on top of the train, mike was on board the train when the accident occurred, and said it was hard to see what was going on around them. we were between pieces of metal or what, but
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