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long as 30 seconds.
“During the whole time, it was just like ‘What’s going on? What’s going to happen?’ Then it stopped,” he
said. “I didn’t have time to be scared before then, but I looked around and the woman next to me was curled up in some sort of fetal tuck.”
Cox said smoke started coming in from one end of the car.
“It wasn’t heavy smoke, but it was frightening,” he said.
Passengers ended up walking through the darkened cars using their cellphone lights and exiting onto
the platform.
Three other trains approaching the station halted in their tracks. Emergency crews shut off track power
after derailments to prevent evacuees from being electrocuted.
Julian Robinson said he was stuck on one of them for about an hour before rescuers arrived to escort
passengers along the tracks into the station.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the derailment “an unacceptable manifestation of the system’s current state.” “It is my expectation that with new leadership brought by Joe Lhota, the MTA will address the fundamental
issues plaguing the transit system and overhaul the organizational structure of the MTA,” the Democratic governor said.
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Associated Press writers Deepti Hajela and Karen Matthews contributed to this report.
10 Things to Know for Today By The Associated Press
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. ‘OBAMACARE’ REPEAL TEETERS AFTER SENATE SHELVES VOTE
The development leaves the bill’s fate uncertain while raising new doubts about whether Trump will ever
erase his predecessor’s signature legislative achievement.
2. WHAT VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT SAYS ABOUT CHOPPER GUNFIRE
Nicolas Maduro says a stolen police helicopter red on the Supreme Court in what he called a thwarted
“terrorist attack” aimed at ousting him from power, but those who oppose him claim it was a ruse to justify a crackdown.
3. WHERE LATEST CYBERATTACK ATTACK LIKELY CAME FROM
A new, highly virulent strain of malicious software that is crippling computers globally appears to have been sown in Ukraine.
4. 3 CHICAGO OFFICERS ACCUSED OF LYING ABOUT TEEN’S SHOOTING
The of cers are indicted on charges they conspired to cover up and lie about what happened when a white police of cer shot black teenager Laquan McDonald 16 times.
5. WHAT WORKERS SAY ABOUT FACTORY THAT MAKES SHOES FOR IVANKA TRUMP
They tell the AP that they’ve faced long hours, low pay as well and verbal and physical abuse in China. 6. HOW ZINKE VIEWS NATIONAL MONUMENTS
The U.S. interior secretary is recommending that Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument be downsized
instead, noting presidential precedent.
7. EX-TRUMP CAMPAIGN CHAIR REGISTERS AS FOREIGN AGENT
The move by Paul Manafort is for political consulting work he did for a Ukrainian political party, acknowl-
edging that he coached party members on how to interact with U.S. government of cials.
8. SARAH PALIN SUES NEW YORK TIMES
The former vice presidential nominee is accusing the newspaper of defamation over an editorial that
linked one of her PAC ads to the mass shooting that severely wounded Gabby Giffords.
9. GIRLS ARE NEWEST ACTION HEROES
In the Net ix series “Stranger Things” and lms like “Logan” and “Okja,” little girls have the kind of power
and strength onscreen that used to just belong to boys.