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happening again. that's why we are here. >> that metro north train was traveling from new york city during rush hour carrying commuters heading home. it crashed head-long into the jeep cherokee that was on the tracks inside the gates. it appears that the car triggered the explosion. one passenger remembers what happened next. >> within you know either seconds or a minute after that happened people in the front of the trains said move back move back, there's smoke in the car and that sort of built that kind of -- it wasn't panic because people were saying to stay calm but people were getting more anxious and that's when we started to get the emergency doors and windows opened. >> this happened north of new york city in the town of

valhalla. our adam reiss is there. how did the suv end up on those tracks? >> reporter: ronan, good afternoon, it appears that the suv was stranded in between the two gates. you can see that it's still embedded in the train. this happened last night. the train was headed north of new york city. it was rush hour it was a packed train. six people killed and 15 injured when the train hit the suv. the woman got out of her vehicle, tried to lift the vehicle and got back into her vehicle and that's when the train slammed into her, pushed it 400 feet north on the track. the train never derailed. it stayed there. at the same time the third rail the electrified third rail pierced the front of the train and passengers jumped out and tried to pound through the windows to get out of the fiery first car. ronan? >> adam thank you for that update. we're also following another

commuter train crash. the massachusetts transportation authority is telling us a train hit a truck at a railroad crossing there. you're looking at a twitter picture that just came in courtesy of the patriot ledger. so far, four passengers are injured. to give comfort, nothing more major than that. 60 people were on the train at the time that it happened. this comes on the heels of yesterday's accident in which six people are dead. death toll still rising today after a plane crash in taiwan that defies belief. look at this video captured on a dashboard camera. just after takeoff, transasia flight 235 turned sharply on its side. it hit a bridge and then plunged into a river in taipei.

the pilot relayed a mayday message several times but we don't know what caused this event. i'm here with an faa expert, anthony roman, and a former pilot yourself. you know these situations. i want to walk through this video with you. let's start here. you see the plane coming in on the left side of the frame here to start out. what could have caused the plane to get into this position in the first place anthony? >> well what i believe here based on the slow-motion examination of the aircraft is that their left engine failed. now, most people would think, well they only lost 50% of their power. what really happens is you lose 80% of your aerodynamic efficiency. so you only have 20% flying capability. what happened here was probably the worst-case scenario for any turbo-prop pilot, low to the

ground, low air speed and the engine is gone. >> you can see there is a barrel roll that sort of happens. >> right. >> and then of course it clips the bridge where it actually slices the taxi. is there anything that the pilot can do? >> no, they were doomed at that point. that's known as a roll they failed to maintain minimal air speed and the power in the right engine lifted them over to that left hand row. >> it plunges into the river there. >> right. >> does that look like something a pilot would deliberately do to get into the river for safety? >> yes. the pilot would attempt to avoid at all costs all of that dense populated area. as a matter of fact, when they passover the first apartment building, they appear to raise the nose up. that would actually slow the aircraft down. that's when they began the roll and lost the aircraft attempting to miss that apartment building. >> thank you very much, anthony

roman, for that breakdown. our thoughts are with the family. now to the middle east where we're following difficult news. jordan promised and delivered today retaliation after a death of its own. the gruesome isis video purporting to show pilot mu'ath al kaseasbeh being burned alive. earlier this morning, jordan executed two al qaeda prisoners. the female failed suicide bomber isis had been demanding the release of as well as a lieutenant for al qaeda in iraq. jordan's king abdullah is weighing his next steps, which could include increased military action against isis. richard engel has the latest from istanbul. >> reporter: jordan doubted all along that their pilot was alive and jordan insisted before any exchange took place, that it

wanted proof of life evidence that the pilot wasn't killed shortly after or any time after his capture on december 24th when he ejected from his f-16 on a bombing mission in syria, captured according to isis close to the city of raqqa. it was isis that floated this idea of exchanging the pilot and perhaps one of the japanese hostages, the japanese journalist in exchange for sajida al rishawi. when that name came forward, it surprised a lot of people. al rishawi was not a well-known figure and had been forgotten about, actually. she was the only woman on death row imprisoned after she tried and failed to do a suicide attack in 2005 in november 2005 at an amman hotel. and when her name came out, that's when jordan said we want proof of life first. and that proof of life was never

forthcoming. instead, what did emerge was this horrific 22-minute highly produced video by isis that culminates with this execution by fire which has caused an enormous criticism in jordan clearly with the king saying there will be more retribution. already the two militants, two people on death row, two prominent militants, including al rishawi, the woman that isis wanted back, have already been put to death and there are expected to be four more militants executed. it's unclear when that might take place. the condemnation hasn't been just in jordan. in the wider muslim world, we're seeing, for the first time a very local reaction from people like the head of the university saying that there is no islamic justification, no grounds, no bases in islam for this kind of

brutality. ronan? >> nbc's richard engel in turkey. joining me is aymanmohyeldin. he seems to have talked about this revenge. what is next? >> there will be more in terms of participating in the coalition in a larger capacity. and they have been trying to put up some pressure against isis and they could follow suit perhaps even provide some you

know, more air flights and more air strikes against coalition targets. keep in mind the united arab emirates since december has suspended their flights into fighting against isis as part of this coalition after this pilot went down. they wanted the u.s. to provide more search and rescue capabilities in the event that something like this had happened. >> it doesn't seem like jordan is likely to get cold feet as a result of this. if they were to pull back in any way from operations, how devastating is that to the campaign against isis? >> well let's be clear, the united states is leading this mission in terms of its capabilities. it is the united states intelligence, united states resources, fighter bombs inflicting the most damage. the other countries that are participating certainly are playing an important role. if jordan does pull out, it would be more of a setback for the united states in terms of the optics of it more so than necessarily the strategic impact it would have on the battleground. >> ayman mohyeldin, thank you.

let's go over to capitol hill. big news there, too. the fight against isis a major topic today during confirmation hearings for the secretary of defense nominee ashton b. carter. he had tough questions, including this one from senator john mccain. >> do you believe that we need to have a strategy to combat isis? >> i believe i understand our strategy at this time and i also have the intention, again, if confirmed, to make it my first priority to go there. >> our kelly o'donnell has been following this on capitol hill. any surprise in the testimony so far? >> well one thing that i think stands out and it's not about isis but about the u.s. and the ukraine and its role to keep russia back. ashton carter said he would support our allies of the united

states in ukraine and it's somewhat different than the white house position. the white house is reconsidering what it would do with respect to that. ashton carter who has a long history with the pentagon put down his own marker there. john mccain is the chairman of the armed services committee, had real questions about whether or not a new secretary of defense, even one well-regarded by the committee, would have enough influence in the white house, he was critical about the decision making on foreign policy there, saying that someone like ashton carter should be listened to by the president. so this is interesting because ashton carter is someone who knows the department and in the final two years of a presidency someone who knows the bureaucracy, knows the planning could be a very good fit. the question is, can he be independent? he promised to give the president very thoughtful advice and would be independent and talked about the threat the dire threat of isis and isil

against the u.s. a little different than some of the other testimony that we've heard recently on capitol hill where china poses the greatest threat to the u.s. carter really zeroed in on isis and isil and the committee acknowledged the death of the jordanian pilot and offered condolences there. so the really world events ronan, were playing out in this hearing today. we expect that the committee would vote to confirm carter in one week. >> kelly o'donnell on capitol hill, really appreciate that. >> thank you. and the internet is one step closer today to becoming a utility, chairman tom weilder said there will be a list of rules to define the internet as an open platform. that's said to ban paid prioritization, the blocking and throttling of services and content to what is being carried over those channels and will

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after isis' apparent of burning alive of a jordanian pilot. jordanian police is telling msnbc that the country executed two prisoners this morning including sajida al rishawi. they had been trying to negotiate an exchange and that's something that didn't happen, obviously. back here in the u.s. president obama's new budget proposal ramps up security spending significantly asking for a base budget of $534 billion in 2016 and an additional 51 billion to pay for overseas conflicts. particularly for operations in iraq and syria. congressman chris van hollen, a ranking member of the house budget committee. chris, thank you so much for being here. a lot of people are looking at the president's budget and saying that this is a picture of a nation doubling down on these overseas conflicts.

is it the president's efforts dead at this point? >> well, the president's budget two things in this area. first of all, it reduces the overall money in what we call the overseas contingency account because of the president's efforts to continue to draw down our troops in afghanistan. so the account for overseas contingency is actually going down in next year's budget compared to this but i just came from the first hearing in the house of representatives on the president's budget for the coming year and helps our allies like jordan in that fight. that -- those resources are there even as we're able to draw down our troop levels in places like afghanistan. >> in recent days we've seen this rapid succession of an isis beheading and now a burning alive. do you see that changing in

political will power. >> well, i think there is already the resolve to keep the fight with isis. after all, the president is already providing air support to iraqi forces and kurdish forces both in iraq and syria. to push back isis and push back iraq over time. and to fight them in places like kobani in syria. so i think the will is there and the resources are in the president's budget to do that. i will say one troubling thing out of the hearing, is even as the president has put forward his budget for next year here in congress, we have not completed the department of homeland security and funding for that will run out in a few weeks. unfortunately, even with the ramped up terrorist threats like

france and europe and elsewhere that they are not going to fund the department of homeland security unless the president. >> tell me about that. >> the homeland security department, as the name suggests, the first line of defense here at home. we need to make sure that we're fighting isis in places like iraq and syria and make sure that we're doing everything possible to prevent terrorist attacks here in the united states, like the attacks that we saw in france and elsewhere. so that's why it's so so reckless for our colleagues to say they are going to defund the department of homeland security unless the president, you know comes around to their perspective when it comes to issues like immigration reform.

republicans in congress should pass their own immigration reform bill but not hold the issue hostage to our security and funding for the department of homeland security. >> congressman chris van hollen of maryland thank you for taking us inside that budget debate. in the last 24 hours, the world's understanding of isis has shifted in a number of fundamental ways. and to see the group not as a military force and as "the new yorker" says it's in the name of higher purification. a former cia counterterrorism analyst, what is isis up to here with the latest tactics? is it a strategic mistake that

they are spending their last few high-value hostages? >> well that's a great question ronan. you have to remember that this is a well-capitalized group. they have funding from a number of different sources. but these hostages allow them to penetrate the media of the world and the fact that they can do these terrible beheadings and now emulations of individuals, that captures the world's attention. that's what they want to do. if you watch the latest video of the jordanian pilot, it's a relatively long video. if you're into that sort of videos, then this is something that you might have been into. so they sort of made their point that they are a very violent tough group that bears no -- and the fact that they are using hostages to achieve their goal only serves their purposes. >> what is isis' end game?

we started out understanding that they were bent on creating a caliphate and it seems like there is no longer a focused single goal that they have. >> and that's one of the difficult parts about sort of setting up a radical utopian organization. i'm sure some think that they want to set up in syria and iraq and maintain their state. but if you look at what the organization was beforehand they pushed sort of a utopian ideal that sort of spreads over the entire muslim world and so now you have isis affiliates in libya, in egypt, potentially in pakistan and elsewhere. so the fact is that they are trying to expand their network throughout the world or at least in the muslim world is extremely troubling. sort of what al qaeda tried to do but it's been pushed back into the background lately. >> in japan, there's been a ramp-up of military operations.

in jordan we were bracing for criticism of the government there, a push to spare more future pilots that might be put in the same situation. instead, it seems like there's a cry, by and large, from the public to do more against isis. do you see the tide turning globally, maybe to the extent that isis can't sur mount? >> well look talk is cheap. the question is what are people actually going to do? for example, jordan just executed these two individuals as a first step in revenge. isis is not going to go away. to have this jihadist utopian organization on their doorstep must be very very difficult for the jordanians. in terms of the japanese it's difficult for them to do anything. remember, the japanese defense forces haven't filed a single round in anger since they were formed after the second world war. so for them to actually go out and carry out bombing runs or deploying troops or something

along those lines would be a massive, massive step that japan has really not done since world war ii. and there's a lot of political calculations that would go into that. and they would be crossing a threshold that i'm not sure the japanese public is willing to handle. >> aki, thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. just ahead, easy to use in all of this news in the last 24 hours, a sequel to what many consider a great american novel or pretend it to be the great american novel because they haven't read it since high school. harper lee publishing her second book. that's after the break. ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ (dad) we lived... thanks to our subaru.

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baby not old enough to get vaccinated yet and measles can be serious. >> you must feel that parents say absolutely not, we're convinced in spite of all of the scientific evidence that there are risks. >> actually i don't feel like parents are like that. a new baby comes into my practice and i explain to the parent, we're going to be immunizing in 2, 4, 6 months and then when they turn a year that's when they get the mmr and i tell them with the introduction of the vaccine, within six years, we erradicated men meningitis. i don't seem to have that kind of problem. i think that part of it is that you have to have a relationship

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present allegations against argentina's president christina fernandez. the lead investigator in the case claims that an indictment against the president was found in the trash of his home. an indictment for alenllegedly protecting iranians at a jewish center in 1994. the bombing that killed 85 people and still lingers in memories there in argentina. he claimed that the president protected iranian officials in exchange for oil. she's denied that there was any such deal. for more we talk to a correspondent for "the economist" in buenos aires. >> the investigator in charge of looking into the death -- the

president on her facebook page hours after her death, published a note saying that she believed it was a suicide only to reverse her opinion three days later and insist that he was murdered. but the official investigation has yet to reveal whether it was a suicide or murder. >> it seems clear that at least the public perception is drifting to foul play. the report that they found this indictment in his trash and the fact that president fernandez de kirchner protected iranians in that bombing, where are the iranians now? >> those iranians we don't know their exact whereabouts but we're pretty con if i debt that they are in iran.

this would make international travel very difficult. in terps of the arrest warrants found in mr. nisman's trash basket, he found a 26-page document that outlined a request for the arrests of president cristina fernandez de kirc hchl ner along with one other official. it was dated june 2014 and the important thing is i mean this highlights very intense tensions between nisman and the government. the fact that it was thrown out and not included in the 300-page document that he later presented to courts and was supposed to present to congress was that he didn't want to proceed with the motion. >> troubling turn of events there. one other interesting wrinkle in this story is that the president has been pushing for the intelligence agency of the country to be dissolved. what's the status on that and

the potential link there? >> so the senate in a session is debating that movement today. it's a very controversial move. they are sitting out of the debate. they claim that cristina is only pushing this reform to show that she's in charge of the agenda and doesn't solve the underlying problems with the agency. cristina does have a majority in the congress and the senate so it's expected to move forward. >> all right. thank you. an incredible moment there in argentina, one that a lot of analysts could say could lead to an unprecedented shake-up in the government. we'll be watching. back here in the u.s. news from the white house that obama senior advise ver dan pfeiffer is going to be leaving the administration. he's been with the president since the very first campaign. the president issued the statement "he's a good friend and i'm going to miss having him

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the bill is passed. >> does the president plan to sign the bill to improve mental health services for the v.a. >> this is the clay hunt suicide prevention measure? >> yes. >> this is something that the administration strongly supports and the president will sign. >> every single day 22 veterans die by suicide. that is according to the veterans affairs department. 22 a day. one new bill passed unanimously by the senate yesterday hopes to change that. it has a new interactive website and improves the quality of care

and holds accountable the v.a. after outside evaluations and supports peer help for veterans. it is named after a marine veteran who served in iraq and afghanistan, clay hunt who killed himself in march 2011. he tried to get help for ptsd but as is the case for far too many vets, it wasn't enough. his parents and veterans organizations pled with congress to address this issue and after a long hard fight, it finally happened. jake is from team rubicon and a former marine who served in iraq and afghanistan and was clay hunt's friend at sniper school. thank you for joining us. what was your reaction when this bill finally went through? >> quite frankly my reaction was finally. last year the senate and congress failed to pass this bill and push it through and i think the time was right.

and i just want to comment paul rieckhoff and others for passing it through. >> tim coburn blocked this because it would add $22 billion in forward spending. did that surprise you in. >> yes. when we think about $22 billion is not something you want to takeoy stand on an insult veterans. it shook the confidence that our generation of veterans has in congress to help make the right decisions to help bring them home effectively from wars in iraq and afghanistan that congress authorizes to send us to to begin with. >> how did the system fail clay hunt? >> our country failed clay hunt it. wasn't just the system at the v.a. really bringing warriors home from iraq and afghanistan is a whole -- it is a holistic

mission, it requires congress and the v.a. certainly but requires the community and i think that clay certainly slipped through the cracks at the v.a. he wasn't able to get the appointments he needed or the medication he needed his disability claims were backlogged and his medical records were lost and all in all we can't claim my single source for his suicide. >> and do you think the changes enacted by this bill would have happened or could have helped? >> i think they could have helped but i don't think anybody should look at this bill as a magic bullet for solving this problem. this is a comekom complicated issue and it won't be solved overnight and it is a critical component and it will force us to reevaluate our support to the nation's veterans but this is an entire community approach. none of us no citizen in this

country, can shirk our responsibility to the nations a veterans. >> you mention there is no one silver bullet here but one thing that moved so many about clay's story was that in his darkest hour he was on wait list at the v.a. and his charges weren't getting reimbursed and it brought to the front of people's mind of the systemic problem at the v.a. as a veteran yourself what is the greatest frustration on that front? >> i think it is a lack of in innovation innovation. the v.a. has an enormous budget and that budget has increased tremendously over the course of the last 15 years. i don't know there is any department in the federal government that can re late to a budget -- or the lack of budget issues that the v.a. has had. what i want to see is innovation. there is a tremendous opportunity to change those systemic problems that you mentioned with good innovation. how is it that clay once said he could track a dominos pizza from

the moment he ordered it on his smartphone until it gets to his door but he had to fill out this paperwork that gets lost on someone's desk in the v.a. >> it week marks a significant if small step in one part of that. thank you for all of your work campaigning on this. thank you for your service and also thank you for the work of team rubicon. we know you are carrying forward clay's legacy. of course team rescuicon is a safety net for people dealing with this and trying to pay it forward for people with your skillset and thank you for coming on. >> thank you so much for having me. >> jake wood. that wraps up today's rf daily. thank you for joining me. "the reid report" is up next with joy reid.

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