I thought im going to die. Federal investigators look into the deadly derailment in new york city. At least four people were killed after the commuter train jumped the tracks as it rounded the curve yesterday morning. Were eager to hear the results of the investigation whatever it is. The white house says the newly launched website has made progress from the disastrous begins. Theyve taken the step to come back. Amazon. Com or ebay. The government rejected political trade deals with the european union. Freezing rain in massachusetts causes a huge pile up. More than 70 cars and three tractor trailers crashed on the interstate. I knew i was going to hit somebody or something. The passenger on board may have tuberculosis. Online sales could reach 2 billion. You look lovely. Are you married . No. Well i am. Dont get ideas. The referees changed their mind. They screwed this thing up. Never seen anything like it. Giants stay a live. All that matters. Are we safer now than a year ago or two years ago . I dont think so. I think terror is up worldwide. On cbs this morning. Companies have short life spans charlie. Amazon will be disrupted one day. I would love for it to be after im dead. Welcome to cbs this morning. Good morning norah. Good morning charlie. Hope you had a great thanksgiving. I did. Welcome back. Hundreds of thousands board commuter trains to work today. There are Unanswered Questions on the east coast about the deadly derailment in new york city. Four passengers were killed yesterday, more than 60 others hurt. The train skidded off the tracks. Several cars jumped the track rounding the sharp curve along the river. Cars are still scatter along the railroad that remains closed. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning charlie, norah, viewers out west. Constant activity all night including the use of cranes to take cars derailed and set back on the tracks. Its a testament to violence that happened here yesterday. Some of the cars are on their side some 30 feet from the track. It was a peaceful sunday morning commute transformed by screeching metal and screams. Reporter it was right around 7 20 a. M. Sunday when the manhattan bound train jumped the tracks violently tossing passengers. I got thrown across back and forth. It came to a halt. A lot of screaming everywhere. Reporter all seven cars and the locomotive derailed with one stopping short of the river. Her 19yearold cousin was on board. She hit the side of her face on the glass and it shattered. It started to roll. She grabbed onto the railing and wrapped herself like a monkey around it while it was rolling until it stopped rolling. Reporter like many passenger joel has dozed off after the train made the sharp turn j. You could hear the unbelievable screeching thoiz inging noises that occurred. I said to myself i think this is going to be it. Were done. Within minutes, witnesses say First Responders were on the scene pulling people to safety injured rushed to hospitals. There was one gentleman with a spinal cord injury that could be serious. Emergency crews used air bags to search for victims under the wreckage wreckage. Three of four that died were thrown from the train. Donna smith and jim lovell were among the victims. Its not clear how fast the train was going as it made the fatal turn. William rockefeller jr. Was among those treated. Nobody knows whats happened in terms of why the accident occurred. What is clear is that there are four people who lost their lives. Its very tragic. Reporter as bad as this was, Railroad Officials say it could have been much worse if it happened on a weekday morning. Yesterday the train was about half full. This is metros fourth major mishap in six months. This is the first deadly computer accident in the commuter history. Jeff has the investigation from the bronx. Reporter good morning out west. The train engineer told First Responders he tried to apply the brakes heading into the curve. He felt the train was not responding. This information comes as the investigators try to figure out what went wrong. Investigators from the National Transportation safety board recovered the black box which will show how fast the train was going and if it was functioning properly when it left the tracks. The team spent sunday combing the overturned rail cars searching for clues on the ground. Our mission is to understand not just what happened but why it happened with the intent of preventing it from happening again. Reporter the former chairman of the ntsb. Theyre going to be looking at track signals, the the event recorder where theyll do downloading and ultimately do analysis. Reporter the seven car commuter train was traveling south powered by the diesel locomotive pushing the rear. The speedometer is 70 Miles Per Hour but drops to 30 Miles Per Hour where the tracks begin to curve. Its not the fact its a curve. Weve always had this configuration. We havent had accidents. There has to be another factor. Reporter the investigation has only just begun. Many times what we believe is the real cause of an accident turns out it is not that cause. Very accidents are just one thing. Reporter investigators will examine every inch of track in the crash area and review maintenance records for the locomotive and rail cards. Theyll interview masspassengers and crew members on board also. The ntsb will explore if the past incident affected this derailment. Reporter theres another derailment that factors into this. In may near bridge port connecticut an eastbound commuter train was struck by a westbound commuter train. There were no fatalities. Investigators found there was a flaw in the track near where the train derailed. First thing investigators did here on scene was examine the tracks. Charlie and norah. Thank you. Two months after the disastrous launch, healthcare. Gov has a new look this morning. An Obama Administration official says the website has new life. Pthe health and Human Services department met this weekends self imposed deadline removing 400 bugs from the site. The project needs to prove itself to insurance customers. Major garrett is at the white house. Good morning. Reporter good morning norah and charlie. Troubleshooters from Google Microsoft and other companies was brought in to fix the website. Two months late the white house says the website is far from perfect but at least usable. The Administration Says its poorly designed Health Care Website is operating 95 of the time. That looks good compared with this fact. One full month after obama care launched healthcare. Gov was only available 43 of the time. The department of health and Human Services says error rates meaning website freezes and failures is less than 1 now. Response time is how long consumers wait to perform a simple task have declined from 8 seconds to less than 1. Jeffrey, the specialist, told reporters on the Conference Call that the website is on the mend zwlchlt we executed hundreds of Software Fixes and hardware upgrades. The site is now stable and operating at its intended capacity with greatly improved performance. Democrats whos political fates are tied to obama care appear satisfied. If thats the case then thats good news. What this really is about is the technology challenges. Reporter republicans remain skeptical. You never get a Second Chance to make a First Impression. The First Impression was terrible. I think its going to be an unfolding disaster for the president. Reporter president barack obama s Approval Ratings have sunk to record lows a midst the roll out. The former Top White House advisor called it a tough patch thats about to bend. Its not just the health care. Lets fast forward to the state of the union and months after. A lot of people signing up hopefully no washington shutdowns. Reporter the next test comes in two weeks when the white house expects the surge of consumers that want to get Health Care Coverage before january 1st. The white house is not launching the big Enrollment Campaign this week. It wants consumers to do what a customed to wait. Sheriff deputies in california are trying to learn what led to the death of a movie star. Actor paul walker was killed in a fiery crash saturday. Hes best known for his work in the fast furious series. Kevin is in los angeles. Good many. Reporter as you can see, fans have turned the site into a memorial. Today it was confirmed by authorities speed played a part in the one car accident. This investigation is far from over. This is the crash site moments after Actor Paul Walker and long time friend roger rodas left a fundraising event in california saturday. Their car hit a pole and burst into flames. Walker is seen next to the 2005 Porsche Carrera just before they drove away. Paul walker jumped in the passenger seat. Looked at guy, said ill be back in five minutes. That never happened. Reporter sheriff detectives tell them speed was a factor but it will take time to determine how fast the car was going and whether or not skid marks at scene are part of the investigation. Walker was best known for his starring role in the fast furious production franchise. Production on the film has been suspended with crucial scenes involving walker. A friend was inconsolable as was walkers father when he spoke to cbs news. I was proud of him every day of his life. He was always doing stuff for us. The Coroners Office says it will take two to three days to confirm the victims body. The bodies were burned so badly they need to wait on dental records. He said the same thing to me. I was here just hours after the explosion sunday morning. I was struck by how violent the explosion was. There was 150 yard debris field. Stuff was thrown up on buildings. I saw a man climbing the tree to grab a piece of the wheel well. Really has shook a lot of people. Charlie, norah, back to you. Thanks kevin. Ukraine is facing a problem this morning. Theyre demanding the countrys president step down. Sunday, more than 300,000 flooded the streets in protest defying the court order. Mark is tracking the developments from london. Ukraine has a split penalty and the two have been at war. One side looks toward berlin london, new york. The other sees the cultural and economic priorities tied to moscow you and russian power in every sense. The two sides formed up like medieval ar mirmyiesarmies. On one side furious about the backing away from the deal joining the union. On the other side the Security Forces intent on not letting the protest get a foothold in independence square. Police use flash bombs to disrupt the crowd. The more force used, the angrier the crowd got. The hard core protestors launched their own assault. Massive proof test brought the government down here nine years ago in what has come to be known as the orange revolution. This time the protestors had a road dig tore break into the president s office. One group managed to get into city hall. The real threat is russian president Vladimir Putin and his threats to cut offer the supply which he has before. The party called punch leader here. Where do you want to live . You want to live in european country with human rights or where you have nothing to say . This morning things were calmer. Protestors were still there. This is about heat in the cold winter. Its primarily about power. Moscow sees ukraine as part of the influence. The government accepts that reality even if more western thinking elements of the population do not. Thanks mark. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in tokyo this morning, first stop on his week long trip to asia. The visit comes as japan and china clash over the communist nations air defense zone. Biden goes to south korea later this week. Hell visit the zone along the heavily armed border with north korea. That comes after he attends the ceremony honoring american troops killed in the war. Benjamin netanyahu met with the pope francis to discuss talks of iran and security threats against jerusalem. Its the first meeting between the two. Tech companies are using lobby bying lobbying to prevent spying. The Los Angeles Times looks at residents of the alaska town that raced to help victims of a plane crash. It went down friday near st. Marys in the southwest. Four a board were killinged. Six survived. Locals took trucks and snow mobiles. They found the plane after the juried survivor led the way. Plane in phoenix saturday from austin was held after landing. Passengers were told someone on the flight had tuberculosis. They were allowed to leave after being taken to the isolated area. Cdc says no infection is confirmed. Same sex weddings begin joer overnight in hawaii. Dozens tied the knot as soon as it game legal. 16 states and the District Of Columbia have legalized same sex marriage. 16 of drivers lack coverage. Some states are going to yank license plates from those uninsured and have the right to sue after wards. The jade rabbit is said to arrive in december. China would soft land on the moon. The jade rabbit will study one more day before the big chill, some clouds moving in now. We have some patchy dense fog this morning some of the visibilities to about a quarter mile or less in some spots. We are seeing some of that outside right now into San Francisco will slowly break up this morning leaving behind some sunshine and a few more clouds coming our way. In fact, High Pressure going to bring us one last day of some mild temperatures. After this things going to change. 60s around much of the bay area. But by tomorrow, we struggle to get into the 50s. Maybe even a chance of showers at least along the coast. 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