The Latest: Clinton, Trump comment on New Jersey train crash

The presidential nominees are extending their best wishes to the victims of the New Jersey train crash.

Republican Donald Trump tweeted, "My condolences to those involved in today's horrible accident in NJ and my deepest gratitude to all of the amazing first responders."

Christie says there's no indication so far that the crash was anything but a "tragic accident," but he noted it was too early to make assumptions.

A New Jersey Transit machinist at the Hoboken train station when a train crashed says he saw it coming in at a high rate of speed and strike a bumper block, which caused the front car to go into the air.

Area hospitals report that 74 patients were being treated, including three who suffered traumatic injuries.

The Democratic governor had planned to pay his respects to the former Israeli leader on Friday.

The New Jersey Transit train that crashed in Hoboken, killing one person and injuring more than 100 others, was not equipped with a technology that is designed to slow speeding trains.

U.S. railroads are under government orders to install the system called positive train control, but the work has gone more slowly than expected.

Bob Chipkevich, who formerly headed the National Transportation Safety Board's train crash investigations section, says the agency will be looking at whether the train was exceeding speed limits, both when it was approaching the station and when it entered the station area.

A state lawmaker says one person was killed and two critically injured when a commuter train plowed into the Hoboken station.

The National Transportation Safety Board is opening an investigation into the crash, and is sending a team of investigators to the scene.

A New Jersey Transit spokeswoman says that more than 100 people were injured, some critically, when a commuter train plowed into the Hoboken station.

A New Jersey Transit spokeswoman says that a commuter train that crashed into a train station in Hoboken was coming from Spring Valley, New York, on the Pascack Valley Line.

TV footage and photos from the scene Thursday morning show damage to the rail car and extensive structural damage to the Hoboken station.

A passenger says the commuter train that crashed in New Jersey was crowded and plowed through the platform at the end of the line.

Images from the scene show damage to the rail car and extensive structural damage, but there's no official word on the number of injuries.

A commuter train has crashed into a rail station in New Jersey during the morning rush hour, causing serious damage.

TV footage and photos from the scene Thursday morning show damage to the rail car and extensive structural damage to the Hoboken station.

Radio station WFAN anchor John Minko told New York radio station WINS that the train "went right through the barriers and into the reception area."