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NBC Nightly News-20131203-01:34:00

ntsb investigators say they are now looking at the cell phone belonging to sunday's engineer. >> we certainly will be looking at the cell phone. we have found distraction to be an issue in a number of accidents, but not all accidents by any means. >> reporter: this wreck comes two years before the federal deadline for railroads to install something called positive train control, automatic braking systems. the metro north system has been pushing for a delay talking about the cost and complexity of the systems. experts say it may have meant the difference between life and death in this case. brian? >> tom costello in new york tonight. tom, thanks. tonight, many of the survivors of the derailment are describing that awful moment, that awful scene when the train had left the track. katie tur has more on the passengers. she's with us tonight from grand central terminal. tate katie, good evening. >> reporter: hey there, brian. 75,000 people pass through these doors every day.

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Anderson Cooper 360-20131203-06:41:00

it does have a 1960s feel to it. a desperation move to get attention. >> a high level move, hoping the united states will have a photo with them and the dictator and somehow give legitimacy to the regime there? >> it is possible, i don't think they will get that. what they will get is something much more practical and material. this is a regime that desperately relies on the outside world for fuel, oil, food and energy. sort of the essential facilities to keep its people alive and the country running. remember, it is wintertime there on the korean peninsula, and food is in short supply. and remember, the attention has been off north korea, it has been on iran, north korea is still putting their hands up there saying hey, we're still out here and can cause trouble.

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ABC World News With Diane Sawyer-20131203-01:32:00

it sort of takes your breath away. >> reporter: the train left poughkeepsie for new york's grand central terminal on sunday making several stops without incident. at 7:20 as the train sped around the curve, all seven train cars derailed. last this afternoon the ntsb announced the train's emergency brakes were fully activated five seconds before it careened off the tracks, nearly into the harlem river. >> i thought, i'm going to die. >> reporter: passengers inside tossed around like rag dolls. >> by the time i looked up, it was completely going off the track and there was just like the rubble from under the tracks flying at my face. >> reporter: a photo obtained by an abc affiliate shows people in one of the overturned cars. four people were killed. james ferrari heading off to work as a supervisor. kisook ahn heading home from her night shift as a nurse. donna smith on her way to see

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CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley-20131203-01:59:00

your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald city's top job. tonight - she's officially in the raco quan. i think oakland can do better. >> and you're looking at the councilwoman gunning for that city's top job. tonight, she is officially in the race to challenge embattled mayor jean quan. good evening, i'm ken bastida. >> i'm elizabeth cook. new at 6:00 tonight our phil matier at oakland city hall with the race's newest contender. phil. >> reporter: that's right. this contender is very close to the mayor at least when it comes to council meetings. take a look. embattled oakland mayor jean quan got some competition very close to home today when libby shaft who holds the mayor's seat on the city council signed up to run against her for the top job. >> i think she can do better. >> reporter: she isn't alone.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131203:23:37:00

he has rewritten the constitution for himself as a part of his effort to fundamentally transform the united states of america. >> so with these kind of charges, i don't know how she claims he has rewritten it, but it begins the legal basis of trying to have a serious kind of discussion that is outrageous, ryan. >> sure. and she just lives in another world here. you know, in the real world where the rest of us live, there are progressive immigration activists who are, you know, begging the president to slow down on deportations because comprehensive immigration reform can't get through the house. and obama says, look, the laws are on the books. it's my job to carry out these laws. you know, if i could, i would stop these deportations. that's what he told the heckler recently at the speech. so michele bachmann's idea that obama does anything he wants, flies in the face of the fact that he is not doing the very

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Around the World-20131203-17:37:00

praise because of real accomplishments, wes are creating a society where kids just are satisfied with mediocrity. >> that actually, that's something again as a parent has always bugged me, you show up you get a trophy without doing anything. we can't be too unfair here, steve. if you take massachusetts in this study and turn it into its own country, they would have finished sixth. as you say, not everything is created equal. what are they doing that other places aren't? >> their expectations are higher. it's very clear. they've been higher for years. in fact, if you look at massachusetts, massachusetts has many poor communities. massachusetts has minorities and immigrants and people who are special ed and special needs. yet and still, they're among the top performers in the world. we have to understand that the adults created this system. this is not about the kids who get the trophies but the adults uncomfortable going home with a child who doesn't have a trophy, the adult who doesn't want to

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20131203:06:29:00

violence and other factors, that's where the numbers come from. >> diabetes, third highest in the world behind china and india. >> what is that? >> diabetes. >> we are too fat. >> that's a misnomer. it's not just a poor people's problem. >> you are adding problems in this country that you don't have including automobile accidents and also when you add gun violence statistics in it, it skews the numbers. it doesn't take the away from the fact that advancement in health care, heart disease, diabetes and cancers. where do you want to go for cancer streemt? sloan kettering. >> where my mom goes. she can afford it. >> okay. the problem is this. politically now every promise the president made is predicated on a lie. can't keep your doctor, can't keep your plan. why don't you join me and say let's have a new debate on health care. >> i'm all for it. >> are you for it? >> i'm for doing away with obama care, with doing away with the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131203:18:35:00

america is the world's leader in wireless. let's keep it that way. free up licensed spectrum today, so wireless... can do more for america tomorrow. breaking news right now. jay carney at the briefing on health care. >> we'll talk about pre-existing conditions, slowing health care cost, data that demonstrates for the past three years the growth in health care cost has been the slowest in half a century, the three years since the affordable care act was passed. i think that conflicts significantly with opponents of the affordable care act. a significant story in the "new york times" today business section about the fact costs of affordable care act are coming

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CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley-20131203-01:48:00

>> reporter: laura weiss, the lab chief scientist says the drone's technology has raced far ahead of current f.a.a. oversite. >> it's happening, it's moving forward anyway. i think regardless of what happens with the f.a.a. decision, things are going to happen. >> reporter: the f.a.a.'s administrator predicts 7,500 drones could be flying in the next five years. mark strassmann, cbs news, atlanta. >> pelley: today the new a.p. poll proved that one second can change everything in college football. florida state is now number one. ohio state second. auburn third. alabama fell from first to fourth after what many believe is the greatest ending ever. look again. alabama's last second field goal fell short. auburn's chris davis caught it and look at him go. he ran 109 yards for the winning touchdown. auburn won 34-28. there was a tragic case of life imitating art. we're going to look at the crash

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CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley-20131203-01:42:00

they're home. we saw they were using it through whole turkey dinner. >> reporter: sales over mobile devices were up 43% from last year. still to come: likely the biggest day for retailers-- december 21. that's the last saturday before christmas. >> pelley: anthony, retailers have been trying to expand the sales period. we were watching all these christmas commercials before thanksgiving. did that work? >> reporter: the push to get people to come in thanksgiving day did work, scott. but more and more consumers are programmed to go in, in quick strikes. they find the deal, they go home. so that didn't work. >> pelley: anthony, thanks very much. well, investors today were not in a buying mood on wall street. the dow industrials fell more than 77 points, closing just slightly above 16,000. overseas now, today thousands of protesters were back on the streets of ukraine's capital, kiev, they're furious the president rejected a trade deal with the european union. he favors closer ties with russia instead. yesterday police attacked the

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