employees that were killed about a mile north of here. the ntsb is at the accident scene on a fact-finding mission. ntsb investigator in charge jim southworth arrived in walnut creek this afternoon. with a team of investigators examined the tracks, the signals and the train involved in the deadly accident. the train was in automatic mode when it struck the two maintenance workers who were looking into reports of a dip in the track yesterday afternoon. he said he hopes to interview the train operator tomorrow. basic questions on what he was doing that evening. what his job assignment was. how he goes about doing his job. we ll look at his training. b.a.r.t. says it was on a routine run and the person behind the carole was an experienced operator. but they said he was a b.a.r.t. manager training to replace employees and he hadn t operated a train in years. at a candlelight vigil, b.a.r.t. workers expressed their grief and their anger. like taking away one of our family me
john, here with the latest totals we have as far as those who have succumbed to their injuries. 75 injuries. 2 critical. 12 serious injuries. we know there are two hospitals locally, one being a trauma center that the victims have been taken to. the governor christie out of town but on his way to the scene now. he is saying that everyone has been moved from the train at this point. now, expecting an official briefing right here behind me in one hour from now. so we can actually get the facts and the figures. but here s what we do know. it was 8:45 this morning. just the height of rush hour in hoboken, new jersey. just across the river from new york city. and it was a train that was coming in from spring valley. and that train according to a new york transit worker, new jersey transit worker, said it was going at a very high rate of speed. so that the front car became airborne and just went straight into the train terminal at that point. it was a very fast situation. fast-mo
ar train per day they tell us. but it s coming into the hoboken station, which is the terminal stop or final stop of this train. they come right in off this line and head to a bumper in the final yard here right on the hudson river. i have a better picture of it over here to show you. it s coming off these tracks. so many of them, each one of these is a separate train. hundreds and hundreds of them from new jersey transit and each of these is a docking station, track one, two, three. with track five where this happened. the train should have been coming and coming in at 5 miles an hour and by then people would all be standing holding on to the rails because in new york and new jersey you don t wait to get up when it stops, you make a line and prepare to file out and that s what had happened and this train never shroud down. it came from all witness accounts including people as they arrive at full speed and instead of hitting the bumper here at the end, this is the terminal, t
doct those catching most of the wounded. good news is upwards of 40 of them have walked into the er. they came in originally by bus. that means their injuries though injuries are injuries are on the minor side. we have several people in the er and undergoing critical care. but you see the scenes of damage on the right. and you see, frankly, the typography, the area that says waiting room and two trains. the hoboken train station looks like what it is. it s from another era. it s from the golden era of train travel along the east coast of the united states. it s one of those train stations where the guts and wiring have been slowly updated over the years. but the bones remain the same. not unlike grand central terminal here in new york city. it is part of an aging, rapid area transit here in new york and elsewhere. look to the bottom, that s an old pier, long since burned off and the remnants are visible from the air right through the murky water of the hudson river. it s
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