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Though, recovery is now over. take a look down there. that is a crime scene. they ve cordoned off the area, and there are investigators on scene now trying to figure out what they can about what happened here this morning. the medical examiner was here also, taking pictures, trying to figure out exactly the type of injuries they were looking at. so the investigation will continue for some time as they try to determine just what went wrong. a lot of people from this area, you know, you heard from someone who was on the train. people in this area who heard it also said they could tell that there was something difficult. they heard a screeching. one person described it as they thought there was an airplane coming at their apartment. so a very loud noise that sounded different than it normally did. we re also hearing just a lot of relief from people in this area who say they take that train all the time. it s a very popular line from here and from upstate down into ....
The ntsb has launched a team to investigate that deadly train derailment in new york. four people confirmed dead, 63 injured when a commuter train bound for grand central station jumped the track right along a steep curve and came to a stop just inches from the harlem river. one official said this is considered a slow-speed area, and the black box at the scene should be able to determine just how fast that train was traveling. new york governor andrew cuomo visited the scene earlier. there are a number of factors that can be looked at. the ntsb is going to do an investigation. speed is one of the things they ll look at. they ll look at track condition, et cetera. but we can t speculate on what they might find. all seven cars derailed just about 100 yards north of the ....
Systems. they will look at the event quarter on the engine. while it s not as complex as, say, the black box on a commercial airplane, it will tell you how fast a train was going, whether brakes were being applied, whether the brakes were effective in slowing the train down, if they were applied. if it s a question of speed, that will come out very early in the investigation. okay. overall, how long until you get conclusive answers, though, typically in something like? given the fact there are four fatalities, well over 60 injuries, and a lot of people still pretty shaken up. well, the ntsb typically takes a year or slightly less in their investigations. but they give daily briefings. we ll have some indication of what happened here within the next two to three days. peter, are you concerned at all about the overall infrastructure, the extent to which the wear and tear after so ....
They did have cadaver dogs on scene. we saw those going through the train cars, looking under the cars, sniffing to see if there was anything they might have missed because the officials on scene here were working with the mta to figure out just how many people were on the train. they said that s difficult to do. you have people getting on and off at different stations and they didn t have an exact number of how many people they needed to account for. so for several hours, they were really going over and over this scene making sure that there was nobody that they could have missed. yeah, and you make a good point that this didn t happen on a monday morning commute, but let s face t this is a huge day for people traveling back from thanksgiving holidays. there will be a monday morning tomorrow. people are going to be trying to get to work. anyone who s trying to use this is the hudson line, correct, of metro north? reporter: yeah, it is the hudson line. there have been no disrupti ....
When the dust was starting to settle a little bit, literally, a woman in front of me, she was bleeding from her head pretty bad. one woman who first thought her daughter was on board that train talk with our affiliate wnbc about the moments of panic. i called my daughter because she was supposed to be on that train. luckily got on the train before. talk to me about that, the relief you re feeling right now. you know, i feel like i got one free. i was able to confirm she was okay minutes later, but those are probably the some of the worst minutes of my life. let s go live now to the scene where nbc s kristen dahlgren has the latest. kristen, it s been about 4 1/2 hours since this derailment. what are the numbers coming in right now and in terms of cleanup or cost, where are we on that front? reporter: right now we still have the four dead and 63 injured. they say they have checked and rechecked. they don t believe that there s ....