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Strewn along the tracks in the bronx. >> i got thrown across back and forth and it came to like a halt and there was just seem -- people screaming. >> reporter: early sunday a throng of rescue workers scoured the grisly scene, one railcar nearly plunging into the water. >> i can see some people like flying from my left eye to the right side, people from the back. its just crazy. >> reporter: at 7:20 a.m. the commuter train carrying 150 passengers on its way to grand central station from poughkee...

>> chris, the work out here started just before day break. cranes were brought in to do some heavy lifting and you can see what theyre doing behind me right now. after they picked up the locomotive and put it on the track they started moving each of the seven passenger cars that derailed. they will pick up each and put them on the track in an effort to reconstruct the accident scene. theyll try to figure out what caused the train to crash. overnight the names of all four passengers killed by the...

Doctors said he was an undesirable candidate for a transplant because it would limit his survive after he got the heart. >> but you did your own research? >> yes. >> and what did you find? >> that that is not true. >> reporter: she asked some of the worlds top experts about her sons disorder and they said it would not limit his chances of survival with the new heart. thats what they told us too. dr. coffin, hes the coffin in the coffin syndrome, he told us its wrong to deny someone a transplant ...

>> by the time it got up it was going off its track, rubble like flying at my face. >> reporter: only 1700 feet away from a previous july derailment where ten garbage freight cars flipped on their sides. >> we dont know what the speed was. we will learn that from the recordsers. >> reporter: in may an eastbound train derailed in bridgeport, connecticut, and was hit by a westbound train. 76 people were injured. sundays crash early similar to the train that derailed in spain killing 79 passengers....

Doctors said he did not qualify for a heart transplant. the mother says she thinks the doctors didnt want to waste the organ or on her son because he suffers from a rare genetic disorder. >> reporter: eight months ago this mom says she was told her son was going to die. >> he didnt want to play or be touched. he slepts all day, every day. it was miserable. >> reporter: maverick was 6 months old and needed a new heart. but his doctors at new york presbyterian hospital said no. >> i was scared tha...

Know what happened. they just need to figure out the why. its an investigation that could still take some time, but at least they have the beginning pieces, joy. >> and we can hear the commute still going on, even right now. and we dont want to lose sight of the fact, there were four people who lost their lives in this train derailment. 59-year-old james ferrari of montrose, new york. 35-year-old ahn kisook from queens. don smith from new york. and 58-year-old jim lovell, a member of our nbc new...

But i always understand that maverick is a baby. and he needed a heart. >> do you think they sort of discredited his life and future? >> absolutely. and if they were to say otherwise, they would be lying. >> reporter: maverick was dying. she pleaded with the doctors. >> i just said will you guys please reconsider this. reconsider transplant for maverick. and, sorry, theres nothing we can do about it. sorry. and they just get up and walk out of the room. that was it. and just left me there. i rem...

Alexandra field. >> reporter: overnight the names of all four passengers killed sunday were released. mta police identifies 54-year-old donna smith. >> she was a wonderful person. she was a kind, neighborly, friendly person. >> reporter: 35 ahn kisook and james if a regardry and this man, james lovell. >> i remember him as having dignity and determination and being a wonderful father. >> reporter: three of them ejected from the train, its cars strewn along the tracks in the bronx. >> i got throw...

Strewn along the tracks in the bronx. >> i got thrown across back and forth and it came to like a halt and there was just seem screaming. >> reporter: early sunday a throng of rescue workers scoured the grizzly scene, one railcar nearly plunging into the water. >> i can see some people like flying from my left eye to the right side, people from the back. its just crazy. >> reporter: at 7:20 a.m. the commuter train carrying 150 passengers on its way to grand central station approached an extremel...

Out worldwide. >> om on. >> reporter: walkers love of speed both on and off the set was well-known. he spoke to cnn about making "fast & furious" and life intading art. >> i bought a nissan and imported it from japan. so the steering wheel is is on the rntds. >> are you a lead foot? >> yeah. i race it actually. >> reporter: walkers new film about a father struggling through hurricane katrina is dpu out this month. he leech behind his 15-year-old daughter meadow and will be remembered to the pass...