NJ Transit rail engineers will officially go on strike Friday​ after the union and the agency failed to reach an agreement.

NJ Transit engineers announced late Thursday that contract negotiations between the union and the transit agency failed to reach an agreement and that the union was going on strike. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen announced the move shortly after 11 p.

NJ Transit engineers could walk off the job in just a few hours. CBS News New York's Alecia Reid and Nick Caloway report.