This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley, reporting tonight from washington. Pelley good evening. Tonight, investigators from the National Transportation safety board are on the scene of a horrifying rail disaster. It happened about 20 miles north of new york city at the end of the tuesday evening rush. A commuter train out of Grand Central terminal slammed into an suv that stopped on a crossing. The explosion lit up the night sky. The driver and five on the train were killed. Several others were injured. Vinita nair is in valhalla new york. Reporter investigators spent the day shifting through charred wreckage trying to figure out why the train plowed into an suv at 60 miles per hour. It was an horrific scene of twisted metal, smoke and flame visible for miles in the night sky. James wallace was in the second car of the train. We sturted to smell gasoline fumes and the fire was getting larger up front ahead of the car. I was thinking this is not the place we want to be. We need
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley, reporting tonight from washington. Pelley good evening. Tonight, investigators from the National Transportation safety board are on the scene of a horrifying rail disaster. It happened about 20 miles north of new york city at the end of the tuesday evening rush. A commuter train out of Grand Central terminal slammed into an suv that stopped on a crossing. The explosion lit up the night sky. The driver and five on the train were killed. Several others were injured. Vinita nair is in valhalla new york. Reporter investigators spent the day shifting through charred wreckage trying to figure out why the train plowed into an suv at 60 miles per hour. It was an horrific scene of twisted metal, smoke and flame visible for miles in the night sky. James wallace was in the second car of the train. We sturted to smell gasoline fumes and the fire was getting larger up front ahead of the car. I was thinking this is not the p