And supergroup. Rihanna is burning up the charts with a steamy new song and has help from her friends, paul kanye, why theyre all shining bright like a diamond. Good morning, america. Were following those two deadly disasters breaking overnight. Investigators trying to figure out what brought this plane down. Youre going to see it right here going over that bridge. Clipping the end of the bridge right there hitting the car and emergency crews are searching for survivors right now. And there are survivors. There are and we are going to begin, though with that rush hour disaster in new york. This is the scene where at least seven people were killed when the commuter train collided with an suv stuck struck at the height of rush hour. Abcs linsey davis is in hawthorne, new york, with the very latest. Good morning, linsey. Reporter good morning, robin. The governor of new york calling this crash site behind me ugly and brutal. What we know is that an suv for some unknown reason at this time stopped or stalled on the tracks. The driver then got out, looked at the back of the car and got back in drove forward and thats when the vehicle was struck. Overnight a devastating scene on these train tracks north of new york city. This is probably the worst tragedy ive ever ronalded to. Reporter this commuter train smashing into a Jeep Cherokee stuck trying to cross the tracks sparking a massive blaze that consumed the front of the train. Seven People Killed in the crash including the driver of the suv. At least a dozen more injured. The fire so hot, it melted the windows off the trains side. Screaming, yelling, it was just total panic. Reporter some of at least 750 passengers on board jumping to safety. Third rail of the track came off from the explosion and went right through the car. Reporter the crash occurred at 6 30 p. M. Cell phone footage capturing the chaos. You can see the smoke billowing out of the first car. There was a passenger that ran past me he had blood on his face. Reporter the mangled suv pushed 400 feet by the force of the collision. Now appearing to be attached to the front of the train. Rick hope was in the car right behind it. The gate came down and hit the back of the car in front of me. She was trying to make it to the other side. Reporter from above you can see the massive emergency response. Flashing lights up and down the rail line. At least 400 passengers taken by bus to a local gym for shelter and triage. Later Governor Cuomo arrived to survey the damage of what is now the deadliest crash in metro north history. So it is truly a devastatingly ugly situation to see. Reporter the rail line has been under intense scrutiny after a series of crashes including one in 2013 that left four commuters dead after the conductor fell asleep. Metro north is the nations second busiest railroad carrying about 280,000 commuters each day. The National Transportation safety board is currently investigating what went wrong here robin. All right, linsey thank you very much. Joining us now is chris gross who was riding the first car on that train. Chris, thank you for joining us and how are you this morning . Did you suffer any injuries . I didnt luckily enough. I walked out unscathed. I had a second hit of adrenaline at like 2 30 so i havent been didnt sleep a single minute. Where were you in the car . I was in the very front of the first car behind the first set of five seats, so theres a five high seater fourseater and twoseater. Did you see what was about to happen . Were you able to brace at all . Not at all. I was had my laptop open watching a mel brooks movie and all of a sudden impact. And tell us what happened when that impact occurred. People started falling over each other. It was so quick. I saw flame ss, a guy sitting in the fiveseater, he started screaming. Turned over and looked he lost his leg right underneath his knee and the guy sitting across in the fourseater had a compound fracture similar area. And once i fell right in the middle between those two seats, i saw flames coming at me about a foot from my head. How were you able to get out of the car . One of the people who was burnt, both his hands were burnt, well the emergency exit latch and started to pull the door open. We were talking before we went on the air and you never know how youre going to react and something just kicks in. It was just it was one of those things where i was just like i dont know. Its life or death at this point. You were able to get out of the car, the train and we saw the footage, the video that you shot and the flames that were coming out. Were there any train personnel . Anybody telling people what they should do . Not at all. Like i said before the guy who opened up the door jumped out, stuck his hands in the snow and people were just everybody on the train including myself were helping people get off. You had no idea how that you had struck an suv . Either the engineer or conductor got over the speaker and said that we hit a car. I had no idea until i got off and turned around and saw a car. Were people i can imagine helping just doing whatever they could to help fellow passengers . I was the second i hopped out i turned around helped a few people off called 911. Well chris, thank you. I know its a difficult time for you and to share your story and you and i and others are thinking of those families who lost a loved one and who were affected but grateful you and so many came out unscathed. Thank you, chris. Awe the best going forward. Thank you. George. Just awe horrifying scene. We move on to that deadly plane crash breaking overnight as well. Here you see the plane going down clipping that bridge and ending up in a river and david kerley is tracking the latest developments. Good morning, david. Reporter good morning, george. Those pictures are striking. A nearly brandnew plane crashing. There are survivors, but many victims too. These are the last seconds of transasia flight 235 as it clips a bridge and crashes into a river. Watch again. Dash cam video provided by tvbs catching the turboprop dipping its left wing as it crosses the bridge with 58 on board. Rescue workers took to inflatable boats to get to the fuselage in taipeis keelung river pulling survivors including children from the wreckage. Many dead and many still listed as missing. The atr was just recently delivered and took off just before 11 00 in the morning from the taiwan capital headed to some nearby islands but mopes after takeoff the pilot said he lost an engine. Mopes later these tragic and striking scenes as the plane crosses the bridge hitting it and injuring a taxi driver before crashing into the river. An airliner of any size is a metallic egg shell. When used as designed its strong but if you smack a bridge with it it will do terrible damage to anybody in the back portion of the airplane. Reporter this is the second deadly crash for them in less than a year. This morning, the head of the Airline Apologizes and says its too early to know what happened here as survivors are being treated in local hospitals. At last report there were 15 survivors, 23 are dead another 20 are missing so that death count could go up. The black box has been recovered. We should get a good idea what happened. It should have been able to fly on one engine so something went wrong. Such a mystery. Thanks very much. More on it from our aviation consult colonel Steve Ganyard and, steve, well wait to hear from the black boxes, a brandnew airplane. What clues are you seeing in the video . George i dont think we know why this airplane crashed or what happened but this video tells us clearly the sequence of events. If you look in the beginning you can see its quite slow. We know for some reason the engines were not producing the thrust to keep it flying. They sent out a radio mayday. The airplane is very slow. The pilots are holding the nose up trying to clear those Apartment Buildings and just before they clear the bridge you can see they run out of air speed and the left wing begins to fall off. They clip the bridge and impact the water. You see the pilots doing everything they can to get that plane to the river so they have the best possible chance of having survivors and i guess it was a lucky break that they came to the shallow part of the river. Yeah i mean you think back in 1982 the air florida crash in washington, d. C. Same sort of circumstances where the airplane went down right after takeoff, clipped a bridge, went into a shallow part of the potomac. Same thing here so the clipping the wing on the bridge absorbs some of the impact. They hit the water. Thats a little bit of a help and landed in shallow water. If it was deep or fast moving i dont think anybody would have survived. Steve ganyard, thanks very much. All right, george. Now to outrage this morning against isis. The brutal terror group releasing a new video showing the execution of a jordanian pilot and the key u. S. Ally quickly retaliates overnight. Abcs brian ross is here with the latest on all that. Good morning. Good morning. This morning the cries of outrage turned to calls for revenge and just before dawn in jordan two al qaeda terrorists on death row were hanged. One of them a woman in swift retaliation for the brutal murder of that captured jordanian pilot. This morning, the bodies of the two executed al qaeda prisoners were removed from the prison where they were hanged. One of them was the failed suicide bomber Sajida Al Rishawi who isis had wanted to swap for the captured pilot. She had been sentenced to die nine years ago following an attack that killed some 60 jordanians. The order to execute the two came from jordanian King Abdullah who met last night at the white house with president obama. And in a tv address urged jordanians to show their mettle in confronting isis. This morning, in jordan a nationwide prayer for a country in shock over the barbaric murder of the pilot. First lieutenant Moaz Al Kasasbeh who was put in a cage and then burned alive by isis. Images abc news will not broadcast. Unlike previous isis video, there was no jihadi john executioner. Instead, a contingent of isis fighters watched over the scene as the pilot was enveloped in flames. The pilots family prominent tribal leaders in jordan demanded revenge and said today the execution of the two al qaeda prisoners was still not enough. At some point this kind of act backfires on a group like isis. Reporter the murdered pilot was part of the u. S. Coalition air force that has carried out some 2,000 air strikes against isis. But short of sending in Ground Troops military Officials Say the strategy will remain the same with no explicit retaliation. And now for the u. S. There remains great concern of the plight of a Young American woman still believed to be held hostage by isis. U. S. Officials tell abc news they believe she is still alive based on the recent evidence they have received robin and george. Thank you very much. Going to turn to amy with the other top developing stories of the morning. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. We begin with new threats from north korea on state tv today, the north accused the u. S. Of plotting to bring down its regime calling the u. S. Gangsterlike imperialists. The north korean government also said its no longer interested in negotiations and warned its capable of bringing quote, final doom to america with nuclear strikes and cyberwarfare. Well back here at home toyota is expected to appeal an 11 million verdict over the safety of its popular camry. A jury in minneapolis found the carmaker was mostly responsible for a crash that killed three people the driver claimed his 1996 camry had suddenly accelerated. A big boost for stocks overseas and on wall street. The dow surging more than 300 points tuesday. Thanks to a spike in oil prices. That helps Energy Stocks but not drivers at the pump. Overnight gas prices jumped an average of 5 cents. One other business headline word is just coming in staples will buy office depot. The stock deal is valued at nearly 6 billion. And new details about that suspicious package on an overpass that forced the shutdown of a major highway through atlanta this week. Turns out it was a camera and it was part of a college art project. The bomb squad blew it up. Georgia State University has apologized. Another scandal in the nfl. The owner of the Atlanta Falcons now admitting the team did pipe in fake crowd noises during home games. The falcons could be fined or lose a draft pick. New trouble for Lance Armstrong after a hitandrun crash in colorado. His girlfriend first told police she was behind the wheel when they hit two parked cars but later acknowledged that wasnt true. Armstrong was then cited for failure to report an dent and speeding. He is due in court now next month. And finally these days were all so busy Walking Around with our eyes down staring at our phones sometimes we miss the best moments in life. Case in point, this guy, texting on a boat off california while a huge whale surfaces just feet away. The guy who took the photo says the man never once looked up from his phone. He never saw it. An amazing sight. So listen to that all of us who have our noses like this. Beauty and majesty is all around. Youre missing it. Theres a whale right there. Look look. What. Hold on. What. Thank you, amy, very much. Good lesson. This story really caught our eye yesterday. Absolutely. We were talking about it at home last night and we want to share it with you. A bombshell in the book world. The followup weve been waiting more than 50 years for. To kill a mockingbird author harper lee says she will finally release a sequel to her beloved american classic, a prequel, i dare say actually but turns out it was written decades ago. Its the story that taught us justice isnt always black or white. Do your duty. Reporter and that goodness exists where you least expect it. Hey, boo. Reporter the Pulitzer Prize winning book to kill a mockingbird has sold over 40 million copies and is a must read for every American High School student. But while the book has been a bestseller for more than 50 years its awe that are harper lee remains one of the most private in history so it was great surprise this morning in publishing circles the 88yearold lee who published only one book has suddenly discovered the missing manuscript for her long rumored second book go set a watchman. Now set for a july 2015 release. Watchman was written before mockingbird and was a prequel starring Atticus Finch and scout as an adult woman who moves back home from new york city but the miss 2ri remains where has the watchman been and why did lee just decide to release it. 55 years after the release of her only other book. After suffering a stroke eight years ago, the 88yearold who never publicly commented on mockingbirds success resighs a nursing home where she is deaf and blind. Lees lawyer found the manuscript earlier this year attached to a copy of to kill a mockingbird. Lee put out a statement saying i am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years. But her book agent at harpercollins says she didnt hear about the manuscript till this week and many are wondering if lee ever wanted this published. So a lot of speculation. Among the speculation throughout the years many believe that the reason that lee only published one book was because the success of mockingbird so overwhelming she felt anything she ever did would never quite measure up. She talked about that a lot. She did talk about that so you do have to wonder. Ive always wondered. You have a daughter named harper named after the author. Sort of. Ali harper came to her in a dream. She woke up that morning and said i think her name is harper and i thought of harper lee so i said great, and that was it. And the rest as they say is history. Is history. I love how we learn nuggets about one another every morning. Now to the new round of snow and lets first of all, ginger on her way back from iceland. Those images yesterday. My jaw was on the ground. Good to have her back tomorrow. First, wisconsin just north of milwaukee. These are the imimages coming in. Another batch of snow rolling through the midwest and great lakes. A few inches but wisconsin just north of milwaukee these are the images coming in overnight. A another batch of snow rolling through midwest and great lakes. Few inches. Slowing down traffic yesterday for the afternoon commute. Morning commute today we got Winter Weather advisories from gary indiana back through kansas city, another pulls of snow coming through heavier snow across parts of nebraska. These systems trying to get together for bigger snow across the northeast but not going to make it well stay light. Your local forecast is 30 seconds away but first your rainy cities brought to you by royal caribbean. 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