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82 Miles Per Hour, that is how fast federal investigators say a commuter train was traveling before i derailed sunday outside new york city. The train was heading into a dangerous curve and should have been going 30 Miles Per Hour. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, its good to have you with us, im thomas. Crews used heavy equipment to clear the crash scene and turned the derailed cars upright and put them back on the tracks. Al jazeera erica has the latest on the investigation and good morning. Investigators say over the next few days the rail cars and train will be moves to a secure location for a more detailed examination. At this point they have not determined if the train wreck which killed four people and injured 60 others was the result of facility brakes or human error but each day it uncovers in ....
Recall takes memorization to a whole new level. We begin with details in sundays deadly train crash in new york. The stunning finding so far the speed. Authorities say commuter train was traveling 50 mph faster than it should have been when it derailed, and there is more. Jonathan martin is on the scene. Whats the latest . Reporter john, we know a piece of key information, you mentioned the speed. But what we dont know is was this a situation where it was operator error . Where the conductor was operating this train too quickly, or was there a mechanical mistake . Was there an issue with the braking system . An issue on the track . Thats something that ntsb wants to know. But today speed may have caused is derailment, something reported early on by many witnesses and those people on board. Investigators with the National Transportation safety board say they now know that the commuter train that derailed was going too fast ....
82 Miles Per Hour. Thats how fast federal investigators say a commuter train was going when it derailed on sunday. Four people died when the metronorth train jumped the tracks on, on a curve, dozens more were hurt. Investigators now know how fast the train was going. They still dont know for sure why it derailed. Lets take you to jonathan martin. He is at the crash site in the bronx. Jonathan . Reporter hey, tony. You know, investigators have said from the start that this is a very preliminary information, but as you mentioned, these two black box data recorders have revealed key information. One frust from the front and one from the back, showing this train was going too fast echoing what a lot of these passengers and witnesses have been saying from the start. Reporter investigators with the National Transportation safety board say they now know the commuter train t ....
There is much we do not know about yesterdays deadly Train Derailment but we know this. It was traveling at an extraordinary rated of speed, almost three times the limit as it approached a dangerous term. Several cars jumped the track leaving the scene of devastation. Four passengers were killed. Scores injured. Investigate orders are trying to figure out what went wrong and why. Jonathan martin has the latest. Reporter the question remains now was this caused by operator error or some sort of mechanical error on the brakes. We know from the ntsb, speed was a factor. Thats something that was reported early on by passengers and witnesses. Investigators with the National Transportation safety board say they now know the commuter train was going too fast as it approached a curve. The preliminary information let me emphasize this is preliminary information from the eve ....
Than expected. The second take on the secondquarter growth, but nothing to brag about. Secondquarter gdp growth revised upward versus the streets estimate of 2. 2 . This is as we are reporting the last gdp report before the fed reports on whether or not it will paper, some transparency at the next meeting next month. His 2. 5 growth good enough . Then, welcome to you. Forecasting 3. 3 expansion rate into 2013, so it is two and. 5 right now. Growth is only a lousy 1. 4 , but if you cut out the cutbacks, growth around the range of two and. 5 . So the fed is seeing a rate private sector demand supporting higher hiring and todays data is broadly supportive of their moves to cut back qe3. Lori lets talk about the strong upward revision in the Second Quarter. Economies are pointing to export growth. An inventory. Can you expand why we saw such a big jump. Inventory stuff has been choppy, but there is something important with the trade d ....