All right. Wooil leave it on that important note. Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Outfront next the breaking news. A pac train crashing at high speeds slamming into a busy train station at rush hour. How could this happy . And Donald Trumps lies and conspiracy theories. We check the record on just one rally tonight. Lets go outfront. And good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight the breaking news. Rush hour horror. A path train running at a high rate of speed goes over barriers the lead car goes airborne and
into the crowd of biasers. One person killed. By falling debris as she was just waiting on the station platform to go work. More than 100 people injured tonight, some critically. The engineer said to be cooperating with authorities tonight. The scene immediately after the crash one of horror. Witnesses say the trains first car was it lerly demolished. A loud boom and then people screaming as the lights in the train went out. It didnt slow down. There was no brakes. All of a sudden just crash. Many passengers were getting ready to exit the train, so they were 1257bding in the aisle. Bloody commuters were crawling out through windows. Debra, truly horrific what happened here. What more can you tell us about why . What was the cause . Reporter that is what investigators are trying to
determine. What happened and why did it happen . They are saying they are going to be on scene for at least 710 days and not going to be determining probable cause while they are here but they are looking at mechanical issues. Human factors. Whether there was a traffic component that contributed. They are looking at every single angle to find out why this tragedy happened. It happened without warning at the height of morning rush hour. A new jersey commuter train packed with passengers traveling at a high rate of speed as it entered the hoboken station around 8 45 a. M. I looked outside the window. Were proemping the station and we a we arent slowing down. And people are standing ready to get off. Shook. Like an earthquake. Didnt stop. Got thrown around. Lights went out. I think the roof caved in on the train. Witnesses say the train slammed into a protective bumper. The force sending the front car
several feet into that air the on to the platform full of commuters. They said there were major injuries from people falling. I saw a deceased person right there. Which disturbed me. A young lady. And she was actually gone. That woman has been identified as the new Jersey Medical examiner as 34yearold fabiola, vikrun. Hers is the only death. More than 100 others injured. The train caused massive damage to the station. Pipes burst. Beams came crashed down. And with them electrical wiring. William blaine, a train engineer for Norfolk Southern was there and he ran to help. He said he saw the engineer right after the crash. You looked up. He was slouched over. The video shows the train running along the track as usual
around 8 05 in the mornings but 40 minutes later a routine commute came to a crashing end. And ntsb investigators are not even going to be able to get into the front car until friday afternoon at the very earliest. Contractors have to come in and remove the ceiling the crashes on the car and also removing potential asbestos. So this could take longer than anticipated but in the meantime they are going to be speaking to the neng near and also locking at the event recorder to determine the speed and whether the train was braking and if not why. There are also two cameras on the train. Outward facing cameras is how they are describing it. They are going to be looking very closely at that video and that information to see what they can learn from it, erin. And i want to go now to brian todd out front in hoboken. 114 patients. Some have been critically injured. What do you know about how they are tonight . Erin were told many have been treated and released at local hospitals. Some for injuries as minor as scrape, cuts bruises. Some of the injuries were more serious. We were told that at least a couple of patients had to have surgery and we hope to get an update soon on their condition. But the accounts from the victims at the scene are just horrific. Some victims saying there was blood everywhere. At least one passenger said he saw a man who was missing an eye. And there were reports of a woman trapped under rubble who was motionly. You know, these accounts are just incredibly disturbing to hear and very graphic in detail. You know, some passengers saying they had to crawl out windows. One man described having a window being kicked out. And he had to crawl through that. So again, you know, this was just pure chaos. At the moment of impact here. And the passengers with some really graphic descriptions. What they have also said, many
almost uniformly is look, a lot of us were standing, getting ready to deboard the train when it came into the station. As people so often do in these stations. And all of a sudden they were just thrown forward, into other people, seats, things like that. And many of them said they never even felt the train brake. So, you know, again those are questions that are going to have to be answered with the event recorders that deb are was talking about. Whether they are going to be able to recoveried from the scene. We know from the ntsb they should be able to access the event recorder in the loemtive in the back of the train. They have not yet been able to access the recorder in the front car. It is too dangerous to get in there right now. The injuries you describe are gruesome. It is just horrific. And you think about people just going to work. Some of what you were describing is very hard to hear. How are they able to get out of the train. When you see the condition it is in they are not even able to get into that first car yet. How were people able to get out . When you see the pictures ux erin you wonder how they could have gotten out of that. Many of them said they had to crawl out wrnds. Some of them were in the vestibule between cars and were kind of tossed around. There may have been an opening there that some of them were able to get out through. And some of them said they were of course helped by First Responders who got there very quickly, erin. So it is really incredible that so many people were able to get out with injuries and that as of now we only have one fatality. Thank you very much brian todd. The train was carrying 250 passengers. Among them ross bower. On his way to new york. He was going to work and ross first im glad you are okay. As i said a gruesome and horrible thing to hear about what happened on the train. The injuries that others are enduring tonight. What happened as you experienced it when that train pulled into the station when it derailed . We were pulling into the
station. Everything felt normal. We were going at a decent rate of speed and then we just didnt stop. There was a very sunday jolt. We got jolted out of our seats. A very loud crash and explosion outside. I wasnt sure what it was at first and everybody was just in stunned silence sitting there b wondering what had just happened. And when you talk about a decent rate of speed, i know obviously the crucial part of the investigation is did the train slow at all. . Did you feel any slowing . Did anything feel strange in the second or millisecond before impact . Yeah, i mean, you know, the speed seemed normal but as we got closer, you know i didnt really realize it at the time but, you know, did not slow down at all. And it was you know, very sunday jult jolt. There was no warn zwlg and you took some pictures of the crash just to give people a sense of what happened. The roof collapsed. You were able to see that as you were getting out. There was blood on the ground. What more did you see here in these first moments after the crash . After we got off the train everyone was kind of checking on each other, making sure everyone was okay, helping people off. As we got off we were right behind the trains that were heavily impacted. We could see the whole platform had been destroyed. People were climbing out of the emergency exits. We made our way across the tracks onto the other platform where in the second picture you can see that the entire roof had collapsed. And you could see people being pulled out and being tended too by the police that were already on the scene. Well, ross, thank you very much for coming on and talking to us and were sure glad that you are okay. Thank you. Up front now albert gil, who worked on the train line, former transit train conductor. You know the entire set up here. You heard ross say he didnt feel any braking at all. Not something you notice at the
moment but he didnt feel that at any time. How do you explain this at this point . You cant explain it because at the end, when that train is coming into that depot, track five. He should be coming in at restricted speed. Not exceeded 5 miles an hour. As he should have the bell ringing. Indicating to the passengers. There might be passengers waiting to get on the next train to go back out. That there is a train coming in. So there there should be no reason why the train should not be slowing down instead of speeding up. Or continuing to pace that it was in. And anything that happened suddenly to that engineer in that millisecond and he was incapacitated, would there be anything to enable the train to stop there is a system in place at
new Jersey Transit where the plane if the train, excuse me, goes into penalty. You are exceeding the restricted the speed, then it will shut it down. It gives you an opportunity to acknowledge. There will be a bell that rings in the cab telling you, hey, you are going too fast. You have a chance to acknowledge that. If you dont acknowledge that, it will shut you down. The computer will shut you down. But the way this train came in, the ive worked this train a few times. And you go through an interlock. As soon as you go through the interlock and you approach that depot, one, if something happened to that engineer. It would be time. There wouldnt be time to stop the train. You know, there just wouldnt be . Albert. Thank you very much. I appreciate your time. The investigation is ongoing, we do not yet know the reason why. We know the engineer is out of the hospital and cooperating with investigators tonight. Outfront next is Chris Christie about that that take over debate prep for donald trump. And Donald Trumps lies and conspiracy theories. How many did he tell in just one rally . And more ugh. Heartburn. Sorry maam. No burning here. Try new alkaseltzer heartburn relief gummies. They dont taste chalky and work fast. Mmmm. Incredible. Can i try . She doesnt have heartburn. New alkaseltzer heartburn relief gummies. Enjoy the relief. Once i left the hospital after a dvt blood clot. What about my wife. What were building together. And could this happen again . I was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me . I spoke to my doctor and she told me about eliquis. Eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots and reduces the risk of them happening again. Not only does eliquis treat dvt and pe blood clots. But eliquis also had significantly less major bleeding than the standard treatment. Knowing eliquis had both. Turned around my thinking. Dont stop eliquis unless you doctor tells you to. Eliquis can cause serious, and in rare cases, fatal bleeding. Dont take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. If you had a spinal injection while on eliquis call your doctor right away if you have tingling, numbness, or muscle weakness. While taking eliquis, you may bruise more easily. And it may take longer than usual for bleeding to stop. Seek immediate medical care for sudden signs of bleeding, like unusual bruising. Eliquis may increase your bleeding risk if you take certain medicines. Tell your doctor about all planned medical or dental procedures. Eliquis treats dvt pe blood clots. Plus had less major bleeding. Both made switching to eliquis right for me. Ask your doctor if its right for you. How do robots work . You need a team. Working together. Doing all kinds of jobs. And the best place to find the job thats right for you is on the worlds numberone job site. Indeed. How the world works. Breaking news tonight. A new tactic from the Trump Campaign. Advisors unhan with trumps debit prep are now considering having Chris Christie take over. The new jersey gotcvernor and lg time trump friend is one of the few in the circle a thats always been straight with him. The hope he can help from repeating some of the same mistakes from mondays debate. You are the new Miss Universe. Still no apologies from
donald trump in response to allegations he called former Miss UniverseAlicia Machado miss piggy after she gained weight back in the nineties. Im not going say anything. I couldnt care less. But it is something i dont know. Dont know certainly very well. I saved her job because they wanted to fire her for putting on so much weight. And it is a beauty contest. Say what you want. But they know what they are getting into. It is a beauty contest. Instead of expressing regret, mocked on the new yorker this week. The Trump Campaign is going on the offensive. Zeroing in on bill and Hillary Clintons marital troubles when he was in the white house. It is fair game to think about Hillary Clinton treated those women of the fact. And talking points obtained by cnn surrogates are urged to dredge up bill clintons past affairs. Why are we not hearing from Monica Lewandowski who started an antibullying foundation buzz of how she was treated by the clinton machine. A line of attack echoed by eric
trump on sean hannity. Amazing when you hear her talk talk about sexism and these various claims which are obviously ridiculous. Aside from her husband bill. Im not sitting here some little woman standing by my man like tammy wi net. Accusing Hillary Clinton of enabling her husbands behavior. Pointing to how she handled the scandals. The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president. On her day clinton declined to engage. Look. He can say whatever he wants to say as we all know. Weve seen it in real time over the last many months. Trump whos also had his share of affairs is facing more questions over his treatment of women. Los angeles time unearthed Court Documents o that show some of
trumps former employees saying he hired and fired female employees based on their looks. A director saying ive witnessed it many times that restaurant hostesses were not pretty enough and they should be fired and replaced with more attractive women. Not true says the trump organization. Adding the allegations were meritless. We do not engage in discrimination of any kind. The Trump Campaign insists the gop nominee has been a champion of women. He was only trying to help Miss Universe at the center of this particular controversy. He gave that particular women a second chance. The Company Involved wanted her terminated. Hold on. Newt gingrich continued to pile on the attacks. You are not [ inaudible ] [ laughter ] as for those talking points struck outing trumps surrogates to go after bill clintons personal life, the clinton
campaign put out a statement saying that would be a mistake and backfire. But guess who agrees with that . The republican lawmakers on capitol hill who support donald trump who told us earlier today that the Trump Campaign should not go there. And outfront today. Mark preston, our executive editor of cnn politics and patrick healey. Let me start start with you betsy. Trump supporters in congress telling cnn dont go there. It is a smart move. I understand that viewpoint and i largely agree with it. After all the Trump Campaign would like to keep this contest on the issues. We have a Record Number of Unemployed People who have given up looking for work. And we have expanded terrorist threats not only abroad but right here at home. But mrs. Clinton appears to have want to shift the issue in this campaign to the treatment of
women. And if she does that, as shes struggling to do. It is certainly fair to ask how she treats women. And that isnt the issue. Not bill clintons extramarital affairs. Id like to just finish here and point out that even though now mrs. Clinton has taken a very modern view and said any woman who claims to be sexually mistreated should be believed. Back then she labeled those women bimbos and did bully them. Hillary clinton would love for this to be about the issues. This is why shes out there talking about how she wants to make the greatest investment in jobs since world war ii. She wants to improve healthcare. Shes talking about college affordab affordability. But the treatment of women, im sorry s a big issue. When women are 53 of the electorate and you have someone viaing for being commander in chief and whos debased women all of his life and this is a good example of that, i think it
is actually a fair issue to bring up. If the Clinton Campaign wants to go there where she had nothing do with it herself, voters are going to smell the putrid stench of. And this loose lipped, shoot from the hip, demeaning okay. On the issue of Hillary Clinton brings up what he said to a beauty queen she says he said miss piggy. He admits he said she was too heavy. Is that equivalent to bringing up Hillary Clintons husbands infidelities . Let me say this. I think it is a politically stupid move to go after Hillary Clinton through her husband. Because it does make her the victim. Because it is his infidelities that we are talking about. If there are some others issues you want to deal with about how Hillary Clinton perhaps treated some people or treated some women, then perhaps that is fair game but that is not how it is. Donald trump is being very crass
in how hes tacking this. And i dont think it is very smart in how hes doing it in his cadence and where he does it but hes feeding off of it. And in november it is only goi