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Snow was falling up to an inch an hour. that storm that is blanketing the midwest is part of the same system that is moving through the northeast right now. we have a team of correspondents scattered across the country covering these breaking stories. lets begin with nick watt and this tragedy in south dakota. nick, what are you learning? >> well, as you mentioned, fred, three people miraculously survived this crash and first responders have to contend with that horrific weather to rescue those ...

Spot incredibly quickly and did an amazing job. it was incredibly cold out there. they had to deal with incredibly cold conditions. wind, blowing snow. it was very bad out. >> then i understand major interstates in the area were closed for much of yesterday. visibility less than half a mile in some parts. do you know whether or how much of a role weather may have played in that crash? >> i dont even want to hazard a guess on that. media relations at the ntsb will be handling that. once they comp...

Weather. as you say, a very bad winter storm moving through the area at the time of takeoff. low visibility. an inch of snow falling an hour. one local official tells us that weather was a factor in this, but that is just one local official. and of course ntsb will take a lot longer to come to any sort of determination. but the tragedy here, fred, nine people dead in this plane crash. back to you. >> terribly sad. nick watt, thank you so much. were going to talk more with theresa mall-russo on t...

General for the u.s. department of transportation mary sciavo, and she works for a law firm that -- mary, ntsb officials says the agency is monitoring the search. it stands ready to assist if needed. what can we provide? what can we do? >> well we have to be invited in. its not our jurisdiction. its not the united states waters or airspace and so if they are invited in of course the ntsb has tremendous expertise and tremendous assets to actually conduct the investigation, but the most important ...

Seat belts should be on trains. there are no seat belts on these trains. i can tell you between new york and washington i ride amtrak more than anyone should ride amtrak and its the same situation there. this is right now this neighborhood is all gathered around. riverdale is on a hill overlooking the hudson and the trains are right on the river. basically the entire neighborhood is out trying to get a peek of whats going on here. also trying to figure out how theyll get to work tomorrow. >> rig...

The only thing that we have is the train is overturned. there have been a number of checks according to fdny with anyone trapped beneath that. they have done that using heat sensor equipment. they dont have information that anyone is. the chiefs of department reported earlier that we believe that we have done a full search and we will not know exactly until the cars are fully removed if theres any other possibility. i dont believe there is at either the fire department but its just a precaution ...

Are going quickly and they say its speedy devil. we cant say if speed is a factor. we know at this point according to our cnn source that train operator said he tried to apply the brakes and train didnt stop. that is to start off this investigation what were told the operator of the train is saying. witnesses cant really tell us for sure right now whether or not that train was going fast or too fast. a question for ntsb on the way here to try to answer it. >> alexandra field on the scene for us....

Going back to the bronx now. four people dead when a commuter train goes off the tracks in new york city. officials say 67 people are injured including 11 who are in serious condition. seven cars of a metro north train traveling south along the hudson river came off the tracks. a law enforcement official on the scene and familiar with the investigation says the train operator who is among the injured told investigators he applied the brakes but the train didnt slow down. a white house official t...

On a day like today would have been a pretty beautiful sort of ride along the river. it did not end that way. this train turning on its side early this morning. and really causing a horrible end to the holiday weekend so many people here. >> a bunch of facts in there. you have a curve and report that brakes did not work. so the question of course would be whether speed is a factor or whether the brakes on the train simply failed. anybody talking about that right now? >> reporter: when we see thi...

46 were taken in for medical review. we have 67 people. those are all of the people we have accounted for. there are other people on the train, im sure, but as far as injuries, there are 67. most of those -- at least the majority were distributed to hospitals in the area in the bronx area. as far as anyone else, we have ntsb coming in in about a half hour. they will conduct an investigation to what occurred and fdny reported earlier they did a number of searches and they have not located anyone ...