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Information of where the train is at any given moment. and it passes on information about switches and passes and other trains and you can combine that into control stations on the ground and put into one simple graphic showing the engineer how fast he must get on the brake ss and if the engineer does not do that then all of the information through the compoourtcom computer system will take over the train and even stop it to avoid a problem. thats the positive side of it. theres actually congres...

The ntsb is looking at the signals and mechanisms involved. they are saying the key component is speed. they say the train was going twice the rate of speed it should have been going at that section of the track. at that curve, the limit was 50 miles an hour. another thing they are telling us this section of the track near philadelphia did not have positive train controls. that is an expensive piece of technology but mandated by congress to be placed on all rail lines in the united states by the...

Crucial factor that really could have played a significant role in the situation. a default system that could have stopped this accident. what were told about positive train control is its a system designed to alert the engineer when the train is moving at excessive speed where there are places of a specific speed limit. its based on the grade, the contour of the track, and the speed with which the train is going. its supposed to alert the engineer the train is going too fast. if the engineer fa...

Theyre incubated in this environment. they live and breathe it. i have kids of my own. as young as 4, 5 years old, they were already online or interacting with some kind of computer system. i think we need to understand this is the environment in which theyre born and bred and work with individuals who know what works. >> what else did you tell those senators? i mean, that answer was very, very clear and very, very practical. and you could actually see something coming of that. but were there ot...

It seems as though there was a lot more planning that went into this than weve previously known, guys. >> fred if you stick around with us that would be great because we also want to bring in cnns aviation analyst miles obrien. miles, is there any other way to interpret this? all of the facts fred just gave us about what the altitude monitor was showing, how else can you see it and this was a dry run? >> it was a dry run, theres no question alisyn. the captain leaves the cockpit and the co-pilot...

The aircraft and safety. and so this would be a good way to test to where the alarm bells might go off so you can set the selection for the intent which of course we all know what happened. >> but, miles, i want to stick with that for a sec. so if this computer system overrules something thats an anomaly, why wasnt it triggering? >> well i think he was trying to figure out the outer bounds of what the computer would allow using the laws of flight that were in play. so you know if you make it too...

Plus, new details about just how much access russian hackers got into president obamas e-mails. its being called one of the most sophisticated attacks made against a u.s. government computer system. we will have details in a moment. 40% of streetlights in detroit at one point did not work. at the time that the bankruptcy filing was done, the public lighting authority had a hard time of finding a bank. citi did not run away from the table like some other bankers did. they had the strength to help...

Moment and the huge aftershock that occurred this past hour in just a moment. right now we want to turn to other stories we continue to follow, as well. it appears hackers got in to the u.s. presidents e-mail. russian hackers apparently read some of barack obamas unclassified e-mails last year when they breached a white house computer system. earlier we spoke to cnn prime and justice producer about the breach. >> cnn was first to break this story back in the beginning of april. we have reported ...

Today that wasnt yesterday, yesterday when you looked at the video closely you broke it down, it looked like there may have been a struggle for the taser. now theyre saying that the taser fls out because the police officer used it ineffectively. it didnt work. thats why he was shooting at him. so this police officer will be going to jail. its not if. just how long. >> well stay on this case here on "outnumbered" and keep you updated on the news as it breaks. president obama calling out his fello...

State department and the white house computer system had access to details about the presidents schedule his meetings his movements. you are on the foreign relations committee. how vulnerable is the united states that this could happen again? >> well it concerns me a great deal. i think we have to protect ourselves. thats one of the reasons why i think we require that our high officials use government servers. this is one of the concerns about hillary clinton using a private server that she may ...