Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150514:08:23:00
Just north of manhattan at a curve in the river, it's called spiten ivel, it's technically in the bronx. a lot more people could have been killed in that crash, the aren't tracks curve is because of how close the rail line gets to the river there. when that train derailed, those cars -- see the water at the bottom of your screen. those cars went spilling toward the river. had they gone into the river, we may not just have seen blunt force trauma. we may have also seen drownings. both the metro north train and amtrak crash was on a sharp curve, in both of those cases we had trains traveling alo...