Ar train per day they tell us. But its coming into the hoboken station, which is the terminal stop or final stop of this train. They come right in off this line and head to a bumper in the final yard here right on the hudson river. I have a better picture of it over here to show you. Its coming off these tracks. So many of them, each one of these is a separate train. Hundreds and hundreds of them from new Jersey Transit and each of these is a docking station, track one, two, three. With track five where this happened. The train should have been coming and coming in at 5 miles an hour and by then people would all be standing holding on to the rails because in new york and new jersey you dont wait to get up when it stops, you make a line and prepare to file out and thats what had happened and this train never shroud down. It came from all witness accounts including people as they arrive at full speed and instead of hitting the bumper here at the end, this is the terminal, theres no where else to go. Instead of stopping at the bumper, hit the bumper, went flying into the air, hit the ceiling and fell to the ground, thats the reason so many people injured and thats the reason we have a mass casualty situation. From here normally you go to waiting area, you can go downstairs and catch the path train which would take you across hudson river or new york city or Lower Manhattan or you can get to fairies which terminates here and come across on the water. They mentioned 250,000 people a day take this, as many of million in new Jersey Transit in a day and in this day 250 at a time and now we know about 100 of them were hurt. As many 40 walking wounded. People who were at the terminal described dangling wires, collapse roof and water pouring from the ceiling because the train had hit the ceiling, one witness said she saw a woman stuck underneath concrete and many people bleeding and it happened as people were communicating at 8 45, 250 on the train at the time. Some witnesses said it never slowed down when it entered the station. I was about 30 feet away from the train when it pull intoed the station and i observed coming at a high rate of speed. It went over the bumper block basically through the air, 40 feet, came to a rest when it hit the wall of the waiting room. It was just initially a horrendous exploding noise and concrete walls and electrical wires and the train flying into the depo. I couldnt believe what i was seeing, you know, something you really working there so long, you never believe that would happen. No wound would have. Other witness that the train launched forward as it was approaching the train. This is a live look where they are updating on the condition of the victims. Lets listen. Weve connected this women with the transit hotline to make sure they can be communicating with loved ones to make sure everybody is safe. At this time, the Emergency Department and hospitals are stable condition and every patient has been treated for and is safe. We are not expecting any more at this time. There might be a walkin wound that had went home and comes in later and we are prepared for anyone that comes in. [inaudible] bumps, bruises, lacerations, fractures. Whats the most serious . Fracture that happened. Bad fractures to lots of people, 40 walked in there and were treated on the scene. The Hoboken University medical center. Rick made across in the Early Morning and showed first pictures. Rick, it was tough getting up there and once you did it was like a mad house. Yeah, it was, shepherd. Hundreds of First Responders who were blocking roads and assisting people getting out of here. I spoke with Law Enforcement source who was inside the terminal working this scene telling me that many of the injured actually selfextracated, were able to get out of the cars, walking out the doors once they were able to open. Many of the First Responders putting some of the wounded on stretchers and carrying them out, help them get the care they needed. One of the reasons that the number of injured was fluid was a lot of people were walking out on the road. Excuse me, rick, a patient who jumped out of the train describing his situation at the hospital. Listen. It didnt look like you were on the tracks was i on the tracks . I couldnt tell you. Whats your name . David miy mielac. What do you remember . Lets take a listen. As i was coming into the station it felt like the car went off the tracks and everybody shimmied and then the impact happened and then sounded like an explosion and everybody fell. The car, the fourth car was diagonal after the crash and luckily the doors opened and we were able to get out but the fourth car was sideways almost and we got out. You know, crowbar fell. What were your injuries . I was very fortunate. I just injured my foot. Nothing that matters today. What about other people that you saw . We were all very lucky. How did you get out in. We were able to get out, the door opened thankfully even though the lights went off and we were all able to walk out. It was from from the landing so we had to jump over to get on to the platform. What crossed your mind when everything happened . It was surreal. When it first shimmied my first thought this is going to be a life changer. Why did this crash coming, do you know . It was coming faster than normal, usually it crawls when it comes to the station and it was overcrowded because there was a car short. I only hope that whoever was running the train, driving the train had a medical problem that caused this to happen or wasnt anything other because its too tragic for anybody. You felt the brake failed . I didnt feel brakes at all. Im afraid to get back on the train and ive been commuting to new york city for 30 years. So i dont know. You always take the train . I take the train, im in sales so i have to take Public Transportation all of the time and im just staying home tomorrow. You made it, though. I did. God is watching over me. The hospital over here were just a lot of bruises, a lot of people were just stunned. People just trying to to recreate what happened in those moments and realize that they were grateful and thankful ones to be here and not be in Critical Care or worse. So people here really have the right attitude. I just bruised my foot which is, you know, its not nothing that i wont get over. Imagine you have made this trip for 30 years. Commuting into the city like so many millions. Shes in sales and suddenly the train is not slowing down. Look at what happened. The first car as its been described to us, theres no engine in the first car, just the conductor in the first car, that first car went airborne, hit the ceiling and fell to the tracks, the second car crashed into it which left so many people in that car injured. The third diagonal and the fourth diagonal across the station and it was that fourth car that she came out of, that fourth car that had turned completely so the first few observed the major part of the impact, slamming into the barrier, collapsing down from once it came, the fourth one went diagonally so it didnt have as much impact and the lady who has commuted for sales job in the city and scared to get on the train tomorrow, realizes how lucky she was with bumps and bruises, she hurt her foot a little bit. That was not the case in the first car. She mentioned the conductor who was in the front. You heard earlier was unresponsive upon upon authorities getting to the scene. We have varying reports on that conductor but the condition is not good. Another person has died and so many in the very going, rick, i wonder when you came upon this scene if you had any clue what you were about to be in the middle of of in the early reports that a train had a mishap, thats about all we knew. We were told a train crash and at least two dozen injured and, of course, number skyrocketed and the walking wounded began showing up at hospitals and began putting into ambulances. I havent been able to confirm that the fatality was a woman, was possible ejected from the train but they believe in fact, that she was standing on the platform and was hit by debris when this train crashed. So a woman apparently standing on the platform waiting for the train hit by debris and killed during this accident. I was told the emergency unit extracated two people from the car including worker and were taken to the hospital for treatment. One confirmed fatality at this hour. I was told that there is video that they will be have viewing, video on the train and video in the terminal that the federal Railroad Accident investigators and ntsb will be going as part of investigation as to why this train came into this terminal at such a high rate of speed. Thats a very good question. Theres nothing at this point to indicate this is anything anything terrorism related at all. I only bring it up because it surfaced in peoples conversation. There is nothing to suggest that. Its early reporting but our belief is we heard so many people speculate about whose fault it is. Its way too early for that. We dont know if the engineer did anything wrong. We dont know what the engineers medical situation was. We do know there was speculation, i can tell you. There was no positive train control. Theres no what they called deadman switch. For instance, you to keep your hand on it or the train stops moving. If your hands come off, if you go if you faint or something and your hand comes off the large lever the train would come to a stop. On new york city subway systems your hands is on it and if you let off, the train stops. New jersey dont have positive control stops. But for now we really do not know. These are live pictures outside the hospital now. You see people in stretchers, so often some of these people are being admitted. Some are being taken out but its been an incredibly busy there. We heard our own dr. Manny alvarez who works in this hospital system, describable that they could have expected and certainly weve been seeing some of those. Rick, a lot of walking wounded out there. I know you were able to speak to a few speak. What a traumatic event to have to get off the train and talk about it. Horrific. I just spoke with someone who was not on the train but in the station and heard the impact, said he thought there was a bomb, that a bomb went off. It felt like an explosion, the ground shook beneath him. Kicked up all sorts of concrete, dust, he looked into the dusty scene below him and saw people crawling out of the dust, bleeding, crying, horrific scene. This guy who was not on the train was shaking. We spoke to a woman who was on the train and was having a tough time recounting because it was such a traumatic event for her and other people who were on the train or in the terminal when the accident occurred. Yeah, i think for now thats appropriate. We know its a crash. I want to show our viewers. We have been look go back to the video. You see the long stretches of lights in the ceiling. Its not really lights, those are the train tracks there and above it are huge skylights. The train as it went into the station on track 5, the front of it it hit a big bumper like when youre on your boat and youre coming into a dock, they have the huge bummers, well that bumpers will stop 10 feet. My experience has been 5 to 10 feet. When you get off the train, say youre in car four and youre walking toward the terminal and you see the front of the train. Its just down to the left. Here to the other side of this video wall and you would see the empty spot and then the big bumper thats at the end. Instead of stopping 5 to 10 feet before it went in, hit that bumper and it went airborne and then crushed down below and the ceiling collapsed on top of that because of the force of the trains impact. As for the conductor, we know that he was unresponsive when he got off the train. Do we know anything past that . Well, i was told that the conductor and the engineer are both very much alive but obviously theyre being treated for injuries we are told. I was told the two people that were extracated from the front car were brought to the hospital and were living and, you know, there had been various reports of the number of deaths, but i think its worth mentioning we do call this an accident. This is a routine thing that happens every morning and every day, hundreds of times a day the train comes into the station and the trains leave the station, so the key question is why would this train be going so fast when the conductor and the engineer know that theyre arriving at a station, the end of the line, why would they be speeding . Was it a brake failure, equipment failure, operator error . Thats something that they will be looking into it. Im watching officials as they approach microphones. We are expecting News Conference at the top of the hour with mayor and transit officials and i see state officials approaching microphone. Im not sure if they will be speaking right now. They have landed in a helicopter. A lot of officials trying to get to the bottom of what happened. A lot of officials coming in by chopper. The governor and mayor is arriving. Chris christie, main statement that there was zero indication that it was more than traffic accident. Any warning signs, none that theyve been informed of. All appearances, this was just one of those things that now has to be explained, one of the many questions that we are going to have to be dealing with, how are people going to get into man heatan. To say that this is a massive transit station is no understate it. There are other ways into the city. Theres a light rail you can take to get to the western side of the river there. There are other tunnels that bring trains in. There are enormous bus system that operates a bus system which brings thousands upon thousands of buses into the Port Authority bus terminal which is actually just about east of this. The Port Authority bus terminal which there are lines of buses. If you were to leave manhattan in the morning driving towards new jersey, theres an entire lane of nothing but buses as far as the eye can see, hundreds and hundreds of them coming in. I tell you they are all full. They are public and private and many different lines, they come from every little town, inland, down the shore and the prospects of moving people around in this enormous city are daunting and im very interested personally to find out how in the world theyre going to manage this. Is that right, ben, did you see it . Yeah, thats right. I came in around track 16 or 17 which is the farthest away from where the where you connect to the path and my typical commute kind of takes me through the main area of terminal to catch the path when it came because most people dont live here, the path is underneath hudson river or around fourth street, take you up 33rd, around sixth avenue, into the heart of the city a thats the way you would go . Thats correct. I was walking and i didnt realize the severity until a few seconds after. You get into the normal routine and you get stunned by what you just saw. I didnt see it take place. I bet you heard it. I didnt hear it but it was weird because the train conductor didnt say anything on the train that we were on and it was quiet. A lot of people i heard a lot of people were trying to figure out how to help including myself but the debris and roof had collapsed and we tried to get closer but you realized that you were going to put yourself in danger by doing so and the Emergency Service folks hadnt quite arrived yet. Did you even have an idea of what happened . Yes, it was immediately clear that there was a crash. The train came on to the platform and ran directly to the terminal. There was debris everywhere and people climbing out of the windows, a number of people who had gotten off, bleeding. I witnessed one woman unconscious on the ground. It was a devastating scene for sure. Ben, i dont know about what but getting on and off the train is a everyday a thing. You do it with your eyes close. I can walk out of my apartment and end up on my train station without even paying attention. You do it as such a matter of routine and have that routine blow up in your face must have been really traumatizing. Even when i went to get on the train to go to work after this happened this morning, you know, youre thinking, this could happen any time. Yeah, when you see something Say Something is so effective because so many people are head down in routine and you dont Pay Attention to your surroundings but unfortunately i was doing exactly as you just described, i closed my laptop and i was trying to get on the path train and thats why it stunned me. I didnt realize until i tripped on the debris and youre absolutely right. It was one of those things where the routine is completely sort of youre literally stopped and floored at what took place. My guess is you will get back on the train tomorrow if available . I would. I heard you describing of whats going to happen to the whole system working from home is certainly im going to plan on unless theres some sort of alternative. For people who dont understand the train lines all over the place, do you have other options . You can get a bus to Port Authority . I can. Its going to be me and everybody else in the world who are doing the same thing. How many buses are they going to make available, on time. Yeah. So who knows what its going to impanel. I wasnt in the area when sandy hit but i know this terminal took a significant amount of damage when that happened as well. Its quite unfortunate that this is happening after theyve made so much repairs to it. Its unending for new jersey. This happened on track 5. Ben, its good to talk to you. Im glad that youre good. I appreciate it. You come it happens with such a routine that now there has to be a new routine and establishing that sort of thing i cant describe to you the chaos of this coming. He talked about when super storm sandy hit, what happened was the water came into the hudson river and its very low line there in hoboken. I showed you its on water. It flooded that whole thing. I have friends who live in hoboken who were flooded six to eight ten weeks at a time. Not just one friend but lot of friends. I know friends that moved to people over in queens, on the other side of the east river and lives were disrupted for so long and it took them a year or more to get these stations back up and running because its lower, it goes underneath the river but this station as well and hoboken is one of the most densely Populated Areas in america. Its one square mile with as a matter of fact more bars per square mile than any place in the country. 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