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The harlem river, compared to a speed limit of 70 miles per hour. >> the curve has been here for many, many years, right, trains take the curve. it just cant be the curve. >> reporter: the train conductor said he tried to apply the brakes but says they didnt work as all seven cars derailed barreling off the tracks. >> by the time i looked up, it was completely going off its track and there was the rubble from under the tracks flying at my face. >> reporter: only 1,700 feet away from a previous j...

>> reporter: early sunday, a rescue worker scoured the grizzly scene. one railcar nearly diving into the water, where divers check for people. >> i see people flying from the left side to the right side, people from the back. its just crazy. >> reporter: at 7:20 a.m. the commuter train carrying 150 passengers on its way to grand central station from po kip ski that required a speed limit of 30 miles an hour along the harlem river, requiring a speed limit of 70 miles per hour. >> the curve has be...

Strewn along the tracks in the bronx. >> i got thrown across back and forth and it came to like a halt and there was just seem screaming. >> reporter: early sunday a throng of rescue workers scoured the grizzly scene, one railcar nearly plunging into the water. >> i can see some people like flying from my left eye to the right side, people from the back. its just crazy. >> reporter: at 7:20 a.m. the commuter train carrying 150 passengers on its way to grand central station approached an extremel...

Reach the rolling baby carriage, frantically waving to alert the train conductor. but its too late. the stroller drops onto the tracks right into the path of the arriving train. in an instant, the boy and stroller are gone. on the train station surveillance footage, the mother can be seen lunging for the rolling stroller and nearly jumping from the platform to save her son. stunned onlookers watch helplessly as the train slams into the carriage. the mother screams in anguish. fearing the worst, ...

Be unhappy having to take their kids to the parade? what about them. >> in captivity. australian, incredible video showing 88-year-old man from australia narrowly escaping the path of an oncoming train. the man can be seen falling from the platform. whoa. >> oh, my god. >> then with seconds to spare the train conductor uses the emergency brake to stop inches from the mans head. they believe the man may have fainted before he fell. he only suffered minor injuries. >> "cleveland plain dealer" walm...

With only seconds to react, the panicked mother struggles to reach the rolling baby carriage, frantically waving to alert the train conductor. but its too late. the stroller drops onto the tracks right into the path of the arriving train. in an instant, the boy and stroller are gone. on the train station surveillance footage, the mother can be seen lunging for the rolling stroller and nearly jumping from the platform to save her son. stunned onlookers watch helplessly as the train slams into the...

And courage. >> he no longer wants to be a train conductor when he grows up. instead, he wants to work at the aquarium and be with winter. >> what a sweet story. >> its happy tears. lets check in with chris cuomo and kate bolduan to see whats coming up on "new day." >> we are doing what most people do on labor day, labor. >> yes, we are. >> good to have a job. feel good about that. >> good point. >> tough day to have a job for the president. president obama is in full campaign mode. hes trying t...

Racial unequinequality. >> but, this is what i find to be so valuable about these testimonies recently. both president obamas and winfreys which is theres this idea of sort of, you know, people getting sorted a little bit. these folks are good, these are bad. you can tell these people are climbing up and these are not. theres not. folks come, they look all kinds of way and still get essentialized in this way. >> this is a very old part of sort of a civil rights movement that goes all the way bac...

Warning the train conductor that there is a change in the track or somethings up ahead this. >> thats right. the system is designed so as the drivers approaching a section of track where there is a speed restriction, it would flash on the screen with possibly an audible warning, and the driver should take action accordingly. jenna: so you have a question as whether that system was actually working here. >> well, it wasnt fitted to the track because this is sort of an isolated portion of high-spe...

Platform. with only seconds to react, the panicked mother struggles to reach the rolling baby carriage, frantically waving to alert the train conductor. but its too late. the stroller drops onto the tracks right into the path of the arriving train. in an instant, the boy and stroller are gone. on the train station surveillance footage, the mother can be seen lunging for the rolling stroller and nearly jumping from the platform to save her son. stunned onlookers watch helplessly as the train slam...