welcome back. 39 minutes past the hour. after days of violence and unrest in thailand, opposition protesters suddenly find no opposition from the thy government. both sides in this conflict have called a truce and it is expected to last several days. cnn s paula hancock is live in bangkok with all of the details. what can you tell us? reporter: that s right, a truce for the next couple of days at least. this is because both sides decided to step down from these protests and from the violence because of the king s birthday on thursday. now, the king here in thailand is much revered and very much loved by all thy people and neither side wanted to be seen making a political hate during that time. this isn t a political solution. this is just a temporary truce until the king s birthday has passed. now as you say, we have seen on sunday and monday some violence
that is correct. reporter: what does that tell you? anything at all? at this point in time, i can t really say. they are not sure exactly what caused the train to speed up. was it the operator or was it a malfunction? crews have now removed the train cars from the track as this investigation intensifies. authorities question the locomotive engineer william rockefeller, jr. who was among those injured. they are in possession of his phone and waiting on drug and alcohol tests as well. four passengers died in this accident. more than 60 others were injured. let s not forget the victims. they are 54-year-old donna smith. 59-year-old james ferrari and 35-year-old ann kis on ock and jim loafll, who is 58. cnn spoke exclusively with the lovell family. my dad was not a victim. i don t want him to be known as a victim. jim lovell was so much more than just a victim.
it is tuesday, december 3rd and 5:00 in the east. a stunning revelation in the derailment of that new york city commuter train that left four passengers killed and dozens more injured. they say the metro north train was going 82 miles an hour! wow. into a sharp curve that had a 30 miles an hour speed limit. that, folks s a bad combination. but it is still too soon, they say, to determine who or what is to blame here. a lot of questions. cnn s renee marsh is following developments for us. reporter: john and zoraida, we know this morning how fast that commuter train was going but still don t know why. the report shows that the train was traveling at approximately 82 miles an hour as it went into a 30-mile-an-hour curve. that is too fast for an approach that had a speed limit of 70 and way too fast for the curve s 30 miles per hour limit. deepening the mystery, the ntsb
morning, phil? reporter: good morning, john. yes, behind me, the independence square, a pretty big crowd of people here but the vast majority of protesters who were here walked ten minutes from here to the country s parliament building because opposition leaders today are trying to bring a vote of most confidence against the government. if that is successful that would force the resignation of the prime minister and his ministers. outside the parliament building we were a short time ago, crowds of thousands of people there cheering very, very loudly and very much calling for the government to resign or calling for this vote of no confidence to be successful. there is also a very strong security presence there as well. lines and lines of police officers in full protective gear. it is interesting to see just how that will develop over the course of the day because the most intense violence that we have seen has been outside government buildings just like
indication at this particular time of sabotage, but they are reviewing surveillance video from a nearby bridge. upon word speed played a role in the crash, new york governor cuomo said any responsible parties will be held accountable. john, zoraida? thank you, renee. obama care website has had its first major test in relaunching on sunday and it got close to the 100,000 users it s supposed to handle on a daily basis. people in some states were met with a page that put them in line to get help a problem cleared up overnight. overall the site shows progress but has doubts it can enroll the number of it needs to by the end of march. president obama will refocus people on the benefits of obama care and the white house will emphasize one benefit of the law each day until december 23rd, that is the deadline to sign up for coverage in january. vice president joe biden is in japan this morning, the first