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Though, recovery is now over. take a look down there. that is a crime scene. theyve cordoned off the area, and there are investigators on scene now trying to figure out what they can about what happened here this morning. the medical examiner was here also, taking pictures, trying to figure out exactly the type of injuries they were looking at. so the investigation will continue for some time as they try to determine just what went wrong. a lot of people from this area, you know, you heard from ...

The ntsb has launched a team to investigate that deadly train derailment in new york. four people confirmed dead, 63 injured when a commuter train bound for grand central station jumped the track right along a steep curve and came to a stop just inches from the harlem river. one official said this is considered a slow-speed area, and the black box at the scene should be able to determine just how fast that train was traveling. new york governor andrew cuomo visited the scene earlier. >> there ar...

Systems. they will look at the event quarter on the engine. while its not as complex as, say, the black box on a commercial airplane, it will tell you how fast a train was going, whether brakes were being applied, whether the brakes were effective in slowing the train down, if they were applied. if its a question of speed, that will come out very early in the investigation. >> okay. overall, how long until you get conclusive answers, though, typically in something like? given the fact there are ...

They did have cadaver dogs on scene. we saw those going through the train cars, looking under the cars, sniffing to see if there was anything they might have missed because the officials on scene here were working with the mta to figure out just how many people were on the train. they said thats difficult to do. you have people getting on and off at different stations and they didnt have an exact number of how many people they needed to account for. so for several hours, they were really going o...

Ntsb agents have been sent in to try to figure out why a commuter train headed for grand central station in new york city jumped the tracks, killing at least four people. 11 more remain in critical condition. first reports showed this was not a criminal act. a transportation authority spokeswoman said the curve in the track there is a slow-speed area. the black box at the scenes should be able to determine how fast that train was traveling. all seven cars derailed just about 100 yards north of t...

Anyone else unaccounted for. take a look down here, and you can see just how difficult of a scene this was to get to. theres a steep hill. theres that one car thats just inches away from the river. so a really difficult extrication for the officials that were first on scene here. they actually had to shore up the train, use air pillows, giant air pillows to lift those cars off of some of the victims. so thats just how horrific it was here. were told that they believe three out of the four deceas...

With regard to the commute tomorrow, it looks like theres no way those tracks are going to be open for the hudson line commuters there with metro north, right? >> reporter: yeah, and i think the mta is still figuring that out. if you look down here, you can see there are two sets of tracks. it was on the outside, the southbound tracks. those look like theyre damaged. obviously, the rest of the train is still blocking some of that. the northbound appears, at least in area, to be clear. so theres ...

Witnesses, though, is thank goodness this wasnt a monday morning. obviously very bad. were still trying to get the numbers of just how many people were on the train when it went off the tracks. people saying if this had been a monday morning, people going back to work, it could have been much, much worse. really just a terrible scene. well continue to stay out here and let you know if we hear anything else. >> right. kristen, anecdotely speaking, have you heard anybody talk about the speed? we o...

Manhattan. a lot of people say they normally ride that train. if it were tomorrow morning, they would be on that train. i talked to one woman who was talking about when she first heard it and found out what had happened, she thought her daughter was on it. take a listen to what those moments were like for her. >> my daughter was supposed to be on that train but luckily got on the train before. >> talk to me about that, the relief youre feeling right now. >> you know, i feel like i got one free. ...

Taken off the train and all the passengers have been accounted for. we have an update right now. the death toll remains at four persons dead. it appears to be three women and one man who were fatally injured in the derailment. as the governor just said, its a sweeping curve there and theyre going to look at the track condition and the speed of the train. as he also said, he doesnt want to speculate. its a little early. the engineer is, in fact, one of the people among the injured. you can be sur...