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Today is Tuesday. It is October 9th. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning. The supersized limousine that crashed and killed 20 people outside of a country store failed.

A safety inspection last month and shouldn't have been on the road

and the driver wasn't properly licensed. New York's governor said Monday. The state moved to shut

down the owner's prestige limousine as state and federal authorities investigated the cause

of Saturday's wreck. The company said it was taking its cars off of the road while conducting

its own probe into the crash.

The crash about 170 miles north of New York City came three years after another deadly stretch limo wreck in New York State spurred calls for Governor Andrew Cuomo to examine such vehicles.

Safety, there is no evidence the state took any steps to do so.

The group of friends and family were on their way to a 30th birthday party.

The wreck killed two pedestrians and all 18 people in the limousine, including four sisters who were headed with friends and relatives to a brewery for a party for one of the sisters.

This is staggering. Terrible. The 19-seater vehicle had at least some seatbelts, but it is

unclear whether anyone was wearing them.

The limousine ran a stop sign at a T-shaped intersection at the bottom of the hill and slammed into an unoccupied SUV.

Investigators have yet to determine how fast the limousine was going and whether the driver tried to break.

The crash left no visible skid marks, but that might be due to misty weather or anti-lock brakes.

The driver didn't have the necessary commercial license and the vehicle failed a state inspection.

The limousine was built by cutting apart a 2001 Ford excursion SUV and lengthening it.

It had been created without federal certification, though the NTSB officials said they hadn't yet

determined whether the vehicle

met federal standards.

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