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York city. dramatic accounts and pictures of the wreck showing up on social media this morning. cnn following that. nick? >> good morning, joe. we've been scouring social media since we heard news of the derailment and we obtained a handful of photographs to share with viewers. the first coming to us from daniel cohen revealing a very sort of scale of the crash here. you see cars turned on the side. a lot of eyewitnesses we heard from talking about it coming around the bend, coming around a curve there at a relatively high rate of speed. another photo coming to us from terry. this is a closer ...

Going back to the bronx now. four people dead when a commuter train goes off the tracks in new york city. officials say 67 people are injured including 11 who are in serious condition. seven cars of a metro north train traveling south along the hudson river came off the tracks. a law enforcement official on the scene and familiar with the investigation says the train operator who is among the injured told investigators he applied the brakes but the train didn't slow down. a white house official tells cnn that president obama has been briefed and the president's thoughts and prayers go out to e...

Two cars turned on their sides and that's where four people were killed. 11 people are in critical condition. estimate is there were 100 people riding this train. important to keep in mind that during the weekday during rush hour there would have been more people on the train. it left early this morning before 6:00. it was traveling from poughkeepsie to grand central. a law enforcement source tells cnn the operator of the train says that he tried to apply the brakes but that the train did not stop. the operator is now being treated for his injuries. we have spoke to witnesses in the bronx and ...

Remember those people who we lost this morning and their families and we'll let the first responders do their job. the ntsb will do the investigation. we'll tell you throughout the day what the consequences for service will be and when service will be restored. we need more information before we can make any hard determinations on that. again, i want to thank first responders who are doing a fantastic job right now and i want to thanks both commissioner ray kelly and the other commissioner for their help this morning. >> this train that derailed is one of the vital commuter links to the new yo...

>> that's governor perry yesterday. you'll hear that a lot in the weeks and months ahead. we checked with the bureau of labor statistics and his numbers, do, in fact add up. texas created about 262,000 jobs between the summer of 2009 and now that's out of 524,000 jobs nationwide. but the bureau of labor statistics says many of those jobs were for the minimum wage, minimum wage jobs have more than dunld in texas over the last four years and texas is creating many jobs in part because the population is growing so fast, up more than 4 million since rick perry took office, more people bu...