Northbound Freight Train News Today

>> listen, my question for the group as a whole is everyone who has read about these incredibly hi-tech high-speed trains in europe and asia, its not like they havent been proposed in florida. there was a proposal for a high-speed train. but in this country is there an appetite, because joe said is the problem we dont throw enough money. your points about percentage of gdp. were spending more and more money on ballooning entitlements. we spend plenty of money on infrastructure. if you drive from...

Horse carriages. >> the bicycles and rickshaws have a purpose. >> were going to debate, actually -- >> the question the people are asking this morning is what is the deal with metro north. whats going on. stretches of new yorks commute rail line closed after a deadly train crash over the weekend. four people were killed. more than 60 injured. 11 in critical condition. early morning metro north commuter train traveling south from poughkeepsie to grand central station derailed in the bronx. 100 pe...

Flying. >> there was screaming and people crying out god and asking for their families. it was pretty gruesome. >> reporter: the train left poughkeepsie, new york at 5:54 a.m. downed for union station in manhattan. less than 20 minutes from its final destination it went off the tracks in the bronx alongside the hudson river. seven cars derailed. dan cohens apartment is above the crash. >> it sounded like a plane crash that kept going on and on. that buckling sound of the train. it lasted for abo...

The speed of the train, any possible equipment failures which have been rumored. and the conduct of the operator. if there are any lessons to learn from this tragedy, obviously, we want to learn them. and that will be from the ntsb investigation. >> give us a sense of safety standards. i take it youre looking into whether metro north was up to par. im hearing all sorts of things tracks being pulled off the concrete off to the side because the impact was so intense. im hearing tracks not meeting ...

The track itself. could be an equipment problem. or could it be operator error. the engineer of the train who happened to be an experienced conductor, he had operated this route many times before. he could have just made a mistake in coming to the turn too fast. 70 mile-per-hour speed limit up north supposed to be doing 30 miles per hour in the curve. so we want to know what it was because if theres any improvements to be made we want to make them. this is a very heavily traveled route. we want ...

Strongly these issues. >> thats why he does seem to be a better voice for this period where basically people are making a sense with all the money they are creating. how we make that into a better world. giving tuesday is in that spirit. >> we want to make a turn now. well be joined by governor andrew cuomo of new york. hes here with an update on yesterdays deadly train derailment. governor cuomo can you give us the latest on the situation there and big picture state of metro north, the state of...

That turn, that speed in that turn. they have been making that turn for decades and decades. there was an accident in july with a freight train around that same spot. obviously something went very wrong there yesterday. >> one of the four fatalities hits close to home mother. jim l oemovell has worked at th "today" show for 20 years and leaves behind a wife and children. just taking the train from poughkeepsie to grand central. on thanksgiving weekend. >> it is terrible. ill tell you something e...

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