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Welcome back, everyone. investigators in the deadly train crash in hoboken, new jersey are facing new hurdles as they work to figure out what went wrong. the data recorder recovered from the locomotive that crashed last week is not working. they say the other record he along with its front camera remained on train because its unreachable due to the damage to the hoboken platform. the trains engineer told them he does not remember the deadly crash. thomas gallagher told investigators while he had...

Students onboard were injured. >> we have someone injured right here. >> reporter: once again raising the issue of why more school buses dont have seat belts. currently, only six states require them. in this rollover crash simulated by one of the largest providers of school bus seat belts, kids not buckled in go airborne. >> seat belts save lives, and three-point belts should be on every school bus. >> reporter: tom, federal safety officials have called for seat belts to be in every school bus. ...

1.2 billion in tolls. >> it cost -- just so -- cost $16 to come in and out of new york city if you have to do it today its 16 bucks admission to get in here. you mention the midtown tunnel. and its falling apart. its literally falling apart. where is all that money going. >> the midtown tunnel right now. who he you are not late for work right now engaged in one year plan, a year to go. 200 and some odd million dollars to fix the tiles and electricity and that sort of thing infrastructure of the ...

>> politicians. >> the governor, the mayor? half the roads in manhattan, the gel in the city are in poor condition 50%. 43% of the roads in poor condition and 47 bridges in new york. >> mismanagement the other thing is the union pensions. people who work on the roads here are all union people. get a disability, you are out. you have got to pay pensions. im not hitting the working man on this. enormous amount of money going to pensions and disabilities. >> for the whole country estimate weed need...

>> politicians. >> the governor, the mayor? half the roads in manhattan, the gel in the city are in poor condition 50%. 43% of the roads in poor condition and 47 bridges in new york. >> mismanagement the other thing is the union pensions. people who work on the roads here are all union people. get a disability, you are out. you have got to pay pensions. im not hitting the working man on this. enormous amount of money going to pensions and disabilities. >> for the whole country estimate weed need...

Will they have to get heavy-duty inflatable bags, means to pick up off the tracks to make sure nobody is in there? >> theres a group of 15, you know, other cities that are sending people, mutual aid. as each unit comes in, theres a protocol for reporting to the person in charge and hes breaking it all down into sequence. the first car, of course, is primary, then in the second car and somebody sending underneath the first car and underneath the wall thats been hit. they have a plan thats set up,...

For a lot of others who were said to be in critical condition and the extent of critical injuries run the gamut. there were also reports that people were trapped. we have not heard a clarification of that. i suggest more than an hour. if that is the case and no one is trapped, that is a bit of good news out of the story in new jersey. >> workers who arrived at the scene and other witnesses seeing people stream away from the scene, pushing their way away from the scene, people were terrified as t...

People around the world saw, the device that went off in the chelsea section of new york city on a crowded, bulsing, saturday night, beautiful night, streets crowded with people enjoying the city. that followed by the ultimate shootout and arrest in linden, new jersey, not far at all from this train station. we are talking about. that puts the spectre of terrorism back in the air. weve been able to relax a bit now that we have a suspect under arrest and in the hospital. search is on for two peop...

A 1:00 p.m. news conference scheduled. let us know what you hear. >> lets get over to new jersey congressman joining us right now. he has just been briefed. thank you for jumping on the phone with us. this is your district. what can you tell us? what have you been briefed on? >> well, i have spoken to one of the executive directors at the north hudson regional fire and rescue. he tells me there were 76 people in total. one dead, two critical and about 12 seriously wounded and 44 walking wounded....

>> the height of morning rush hour as well. john: absolutely. daily event for millions of people in new york metro area jumping on the train commute to go work. today is a very different day. live coverages continues now with shepherd smith. >> the tracks passenger are extracated. some of them critically, at least one person killed as the train plowed through the station, dozens of people left under the rubble. i want to show you where this was. it was the valley line. this is manhattan right he...