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Mostly resisted opportunities to ak at that time democratic front-runner wp well see what happens tomorrow night in vegas. as the big event approaches theres ongoing discord about the limited number of democratic primary debates, just six compared to 11 for the republicans and the somewhat mysterious criteria for candidates to participate. while three of the democratic candidates, lincoln chafee, martin omalley, and lawrence lessig all scored less than half a percent in the latest national polli...

Front-runner wp well see what happens tomorrow night in vegas. as the big event approaches theres ongoing discord about the limited number of democratic primary debates, just six compared to 11 for the republicans and the somewhat mysterious criteria for candidates to participate. while three of the democratic candidates, lincoln chafee, martin omalley, and lawrence lessig all scored less than half a percent in the latest national polling, only two of them get to take part tomorrow. lessig is th...

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Completely on their sides. in total, seven cars derailed. were told families of four people killed have not been notified. we know there were three conductors onboard this train and one engineer. all four of them have been located. we dont have a word on their condition. again, we do know the person who was operating this train has according to a cnn source told law enforcement officials that he did apply pressure to the brakes and that the train did not stop. there is a bend in the track here. ...

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....

York city. dramatic accounts and pictures of the wreck showing up on social media this morning. cnn following that. nick? >> good morning, joe. weve been scouring social media since we heard news of the derailment and we obtained a handful of photographs to share with viewers. the first coming to us from daniel cohen revealing a very sort of scale of the crash here. you see cars turned on the side. a lot of eyewitnesses we heard from talking about it coming around the bend, coming around a curve...

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...

Two cars turned on their sides and thats where four people were killed. 11 people are in critical condition. estimate is there were 100 people riding this train. important to keep in mind that during the weekday during rush hour there would have been more people on the train. it left early this morning before 6:00. it was traveling from poughkeepsie to grand central. a law enforcement source tells cnn the operator of the train says that he tried to apply the brakes but that the train did not sto...

Remember those people who we lost this morning and their families and well let the first responders do their job. the ntsb will do the investigation. well tell you throughout the day what the consequences for service will be and when service will be restored. we need more information before we can make any hard determinations on that. again, i want to thank first responders who are doing a fantastic job right now and i want to thanks both commissioner ray kelly and the other commissioner for the...

>> thats governor perry yesterday. youll hear that a lot in the weeks and months ahead. we checked with the bureau of labor statistics and his numbers, do, in fact add up. texas created about 262,000 jobs between the summer of 2009 and now thats out of 524,000 jobs nationwide. but the bureau of labor statistics says many of those jobs were for the minimum wage, minimum wage jobs have more than dunld in texas over the last four years and texas is creating many jobs in part because the p...