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Under those tipped train cars just to freeze some trapped passengers. this happened in the bronx area north of manhattan right near the merger of the hudson and harlem rivers. you can see from video at this scene one of those cars came to a stop on its side just inches from the harlem river. the area where that train came unhinged is a very steep curve. its considered a slow-speed area. of course, the ntsb is going to determine what went wrong. we dont want to speculate, but theres at least one ...

This train was headed south. that work train, the garbage train, was headed north. but its yards that separate these two accidents. so theyre going to have to look at whether a repair done to those northbound tracks should also have been done to the south, whether it was done or not, and theyre going to have to examine the condition of the whole stretch of track. >> yeah, has foul play been ruled out? >> yes, the fbi was there very early. we also spoke to the senior metro north police officials....

Derailed, killing at least four people and injured 63 more. this happened in the bronx area just north of manhattan. these cars overturned precariously close to the hudson river. look at the video thats been shot at the scene. look at that. seven cars jumping the tracks, two of them turned completely on their side. firefighters, rescue workers, ambulances all on the scene, as well as the ntsb. and a passenger who was on board describes the seconds before impact and what happened next. >> just co...

>> did you see any of the injuries? >> yeah, actually. a couple people were hurt badly right in front of me. when the dust was starting to settle a little bit, literally, the woman in front of me, she was bleeding from her head pretty bad. >> lets go live to nbcs kristen dahlgren at the scene. i know with regard to what the ntsb will do. theyll look at black box. theyll try to determine all sorts of things from a technical standpoint. but youve got to think that gentleman we just heard from who ...

Theres a really steep curve that this train has to go around here. were seeing an area where its straight going into the station and then to the north. it is a pretty big curve. so some of the witnesses that we were talking to who heard this said they heard a screeching noise, something just didnt sound right for them when they heard this accident taking place. so its something that the ntsb will be looking into very closely. to have two train derailments in this general area in such a short per...

Theyre going to look at the condition of the track bed, the condition of the rails. theyll look at the speed of the train. theyll see if there was anything that could have interfered to cause this derailment, and theyre going to look at the engineer, was he performing his task as he was assigned? you know, was he distracted? had he had enough rest? its a pretty standard investigation. but it will be thorough. >> yeah. peter, im looking at that which governor cuomo said, just paraphrasing a coupl...