a a terrifying sight in taiwan. a video shows a passenger plane clipping a highway before crashing into a river. commuter disaster. at least seven people are killed north of new york city when a train slammed into an suv that slammed slammed onto the track. jordan seeks retribution on isis after a terrorist group carries out the horrific death of jordanian captive. jordan responds by putting two al qaeda prisoners to death. and britain moves toward a scientific barrier giving doctors preliminary approval to create dna of three people. captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning news" for wednesday, february 4th, 2015. good morning.

i'm alison harmelin in for anne-marie green. this morning the national transportation safety board is investigating the deadly collision between a commuter train and a sport utility vehicle. at least seven people were killed when the metro north train slammed into the truck about 20 miles north of new york city last night. the suv was stuck on the tracks. the front of the train burst into flames. the victims include the driver and six people on the train. don champion is in valhalla. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, alison. over my shoulder you can see buses have been brought in to give them privacy. after getting stuck between railroad crossing gates that had come down, witnesses say the driver of the suv that was hit got out of her vehicle and then jumped back in. that's when the collision happened, sparking that fire that consumed the first car of the train. more than an hour after the deadly collision, smoke still

billowed from the front of the north train that was heading at rush hour tuesday evening. the train never made it to its destination. investigators say it crashed into a jeep cherokee stopped under the gates at the track triggering an explosion and a fire. >> the third rail of the track came off from the explosion and went right through the car. >> reporter: hundreds of commuters were on board at the time. >> when i heard the extent of the damage to the first car and saw it burned completely, i couldn't imagine how many lost their lives. >> reporter: others escaped the charred front cars of the train by jumping into the snow below. >> you get out in the freezing cold and realize how fortunate you are. >> reporter: even in the overnight hours investigators could be seen going in and around the train. meantime service on the train has been suspended. metro north is the nation's largest commuter rail line and serves close to 300,000 riders in new york and connecticut a day.

shuttle buses will now be used to transport commuters in the area. >> when things will get back to normal on the harlem line, i can't say. >> reporter: tuesday's accident is the deadliest in the railroad's history. and this morning we are told that ten passengers are being treated for serious injuries. two others suffered minor injuries. alison? >> don champion in valhalla, new york, thank you, don. the ntsb has investigated five metro north accidents in the last two years. in the worst four were killed in the bronx in 2013. it was the railroad's deadliest crash. investigators determined the train was traveling three times the posted speed when it entered a curve. the ntsb said the engineer had fallen asleep because he had severe sleep disorder. overseas now, at least 12 people were killed when a taiwanese plane crashed after takeoff this morning. dramatic video showed the twin engine flying on its side and

clipping an elevated roadway before plunging into the river. the transatlantic airplane had just taken off on a domestic flight. 58 were on board. 30 are missing. many of the passengers are from china. early this morning jordan responded to the apparent execution of one of its pilots by islamic state militants. just hours after the militants released a video purportedly showing the pilot being burned to death, jordan executed two al qaeda-linked prisoners. susan mcginnis is in washington with more. good morning, susan. >> it calls for quick action and the jordanian government did not waste any time. two terrorists it was holding including a would-be bomber were executed by hanging. a convoy carrying the prisoners arrived at the prison were they were executed this morning. one sajida al rishawi faced the dealt penalty for her failed

bombing attempt. they were willing to trade her for the pilot but they failed to show he was alive. yesterday isis released this video purportedly showing him being burned alive in a cage. the video sparked protest and calls for revenge on the streets of ahman. they say the pilot was killed last month. he was captured after his plane crashed in syria. jordan's king abdullah cut short a visit to washington but met with president obama last night. earlier the president said isis is only interested in death and destruction. >> it's just one more indication of the vicious us and barbarity of this organization. >> this latest execution appeared aimed at pressuring jordan to lead the u.s.-led coalition that's been bombing isis targets. >> they're trying to intimidate the west, right, with this vicious execution. they're trying to scare countries from participating in this coalition. >> in a recorded address to his

nation, king abdullah called for national unity. in an interview with scott pelley abdullah said isis and its leader in no way represent islam. >> to even call itself a muslim to me is the worst -- i don't want to use -- >> now, jordan has been struggling with pressure from isis's growing influence in iraq and syria. yesterday the u.s. and jordan signed an agreement nearly doubling u.s. aid to jordan to nearly $1 billion a year. that still has to be approved by congress. >> susan mcginnis in washington. thank you, susan. for more charlie d'agata joins us by phone. what's been the reaction to jordan and the execution of the two al qaeda prisoners. >> reporter: you have to start out with how many people were angered and how many were talking about revenge and it came quickly. nobody would say they're happy to see two people executed but

that's exactly what people here were demanding after witnessing that video. you know, the people of jordan, when you see somebody pop up on isis video, you don't expect that this person's going to be released but nobody's expected that this pilot, who has good so much respect you know reverence for the military here in this fight against isis, and then you see him burned alive. well, it just galvanized the people of jordan. they are angry. they're saddened, of course, and they're angry and they're demanding vengeance and king abdullah is due to arrive here, in fact, within moments, and there will be pressure as susan said in that report. there's a division between whether or not this is the right idea for jordan to be involved in this coalition fight against isis, but it has galvanized the effort, and if anything it has reinforced the support now after seeing this horrific video for the people of jordan to go even

further in the measures that they can against isis. >> how else is jordan planning to respond to the execution of that pilot? >> reporter: well as we've seen, they were very swift in their version of justice. sajida al rishawi and ziad al karbouli were both executed at sunrise this morning. they had said they would execute as many as six suspected isis suspects, but now there are calls considering where we are that perhaps it might be time for jordanian troops to start ground forces to go into places like syria and iraq to step up the military campaign, and we've heard in the past few moments there had been a kiss mount of air strikes from jordanian air

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here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. disgraced cyclist lance armstrong is facing a new round of controversy. police in aspen, colorado, cited armstrong with failing to report an accident after he allegedly hit two parked cars with an suv. but a police report shows armstrong's girlfriend anna hanson initially said she was driving because armstrong had been drinking. the couple allegedly decided to

let hanson take the blame in order to let armstrong stay out of unwanted attention. he's due in court next month. the united kingdom may be expand ing expanding. the house of commons approved a scientific technique allowing one child to have the dna of three parents. mark phillips reports. >> reporter: jessica newell is 13 months old and has mitochondrialdy cease. her parents vicki and keith know jessica's life will be difficult and short. >> she struggles with swallowing and muscle tone as well. you can see she's very floppy and can't hold her head up. >> it's a severely life-limiting order. it might be two years. we don't know. >> reporter: yet while there may be no known cure for jessica, there may be for the condition that caused her illness. in a mother's eggs that has a healthy nucleus surrounded by

mitochondria, the battery that powers cells, that nucleus is transferred to a donor egg with healthy mitochondria which has had its nucleus removed. the hybrid egg is fertilized with the father's sperm and the resulting embryo then has genetic coding from three parents, the mother, the parent, and the egg donor. >> the ayes to the right, 382. >> reporter: britain is the first country to sanction this technique. >> the ayes have it, the ayes have it. >> reporter: approving it in a parliamentary vote. but in a heat language with inflated language about playing god and designer babies. >> once the genie is out of the bottle, there will be no going back for society. >> if this was genetically modified props, we would be all up in arms. that's what would happen here.

>> this is light at the end of a very dark tunnel. >> reporter: the dna of the egg donor would not affect the appearance of the child, eye or hair color for example, but it would be passed on for generations. the church protestant and catholic, oppose it on grounds but science has won the argument. science could be born here using the new technique in or two or three years. mar phillips, cbs news, london. this morning more than 10,000 people have donated $270,000 for a man who walks to work on foot. his trip has gotten nationwide attention. he walks because his truck broke down ten years ago. bus service is potting yet he has perfect attendance at charge. this morning nearly 300,000 has been funded through go fund me page. and coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," amazon ceo jeff bezos is in studio 57. i'm alison harmelin, and this is the "cbs morning news." i'm alison harmelin and this is

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here's another look at this morning's top stories. a packed new york commuter train slammed into an suv that was stuck on the tracks last night. the driver and six people on board the train were killed. the front cars of the train burst into flames. the crash happened about 20 miles northeast of new york city. a plane crashed after takeoff. the twin engine plane clipped a roadway after coming down in the river. 51 people were on board and at least 12 people were killed. in 1960 harper lee wrote a novel "to kill a mockingbird" and never wrote another. it turns out she wrote another and it was locked away for years.

as jim axelrod reports, it's about to be released. book sells 40 million copies, wins a pulitzer prize, is translated into several languages, and becomes an oscar-winner movie starring gregory peck, it stands to reason a lot of people will be waiting for your second book, even if it takes 55 years to come out. >> it's great gift to the world. >> reporter: cary maddon isn't just a fan of harper lee's. she wrote an autobiography of her. >> i completely believe it will have her voice, and it will be so wonderful to see the voice of this young writer. >> reporter: the new book to be set to be published in july will be called "go set a watchman." harper lee wrote it before "to kill a mockingbird," but it's a sequel of sorts. it takes place in the same

make-believe town of macon, blame. scout finch comes home 20 years later to visit her father atticus. >> we'll get to see, you know, the grown up scout going back pinto that world. >> scout, there are some things that you're not old enough to understand just yet. >> reporter: lee set "to kill a mockingbird" to take place in depression-era alabama through the eyes of scott whose father defends a black man accused of raping a woman. lee doesn't talk to reporters but said in a statement about this new book, i hadn't realized it had survived. i am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years. when asked why she never wrote another book after "to kill a mockingbird," harper lee always used to say i've got nowhere to go but down, but in a statement yesterday she calls "go set a watchman," quote, a pretty decent effort.

jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," reaction to the killing of jordanian pilot. plus we'll speak with the surgeon general of the first in his first interview since his confirmation. and jeff bezos joins us in studio with actor jeffrey tambor starring the hit series "transparent." that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm alison harmelin. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

good morning, everyone. taking a live look from the golden gate bridge. i'm sorry but that view never gets old.

love that bridge. >> a little foggy. >> a little foggy. >> and no cars. >> that's not bad, though. good morning, it is wednesday, february 4. i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. 4:30 out the door, a little traffic and weather. and roberta, it's all yours because it's all about the rain that's coming up here shortly. >> i think you nailed it. whenever we post a picture of the golden gate bridge on the website it gets thousands of views. we have fog in the bay area. areas of patchy dense fog across the vallejo area also in pleasanton in the east bay. otherwise mild. temperatures up to about 70 degrees. rain is coming. good morning, elizabeth. >> they were also right bus there was no traffic on the golden gate bridge. overnight roadwork, eastbound