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Into a debate about policy. but its just way too early. >> senator casey, thank you so much. >> thanks for your time. >> back to you, krystal. >> interesting to hear senator caseys perspective. again, were going to hear from hospital officials in just a few moments and we will also get an update from the ntsb at 5:00 eastern. thats where we want to focus now. what are next steps here for federal investigators. george is a professor of mechanical engineering and author of "train wreck" the forens...

Atmosphere becomes very bad. what i would like to have happen is in these communities to start to realize, hey, lets fix black-on-black crime. >> you dont want to talk for the president, i understand that. but we have to address this. he picks and chooses with the bully pulpit of the presidency what he talks about. he never talks about black-on-black crime. hang on. he talks about ferguson where michael brown was responsible for his own death, according to the eyewitnesses and the evidence foren...

Joining me now is university of north dakota mechanical engineering professor george bible and author of "train wreck: the forensics of rail disasters." and back with us former ntsb board member kitty higgins. professor bible, let me go to you. what questions do you have tonight for investigators? >> well they seem to be zeroing in on speed. and thats gross human error. derailments are almost always equipment failure. about the only way you can derail a train with human error is too fast on a cu...

The train. all the people awake and talking to me were in the last two cars. >> well get more from the hospitals in philadelphia. bill: rudolf giuliani was impressed with how well they were prepared. martha: the cause is the next thing people will try to figure out. a team of investigators from the ntsb is on their way to the site. they will try to pull apart the forensics of the motion of this train. doug mcelway is on the scene. we know the go team has been dispatched to this accident scene. >...

Nobody is involved or caught up in that twisted metal. nobody is under nooeft these cars. so theyve also had dogs on the scene sniffing the area smelling for any signs of human life or any signs of cadavers candidly right there in the wreckage. the ntsb go team is on the scene. this is a massive investigation. its going to involve not only the ntsb but the federal rail authority and, of course you would expect that the pennsylvania state police will be involved. there will be all sorts of elemen...

Son and for the follow-up of any forensics and finally last week she gave in and her her sons body cremated. >> at the very least you think that family deserves answers, a decision one way or another. >> up next jeanne moos with -- with video you have to see to believe.

Shots. one apparently killed him. which indicates to me this isnt some kind of assassination type thing, okay. the forensics that the police look at as a result of what the police officers comments were and what happened theyre going to probably match based on that. if theyre matched based on that the officer had a concussion actually also i think is going to be exonerated. >> marc what do you think about this? do you agree with harry? we do know that he was said to have been on -- the family sa...

Guilty and claimed he killed his father in self-defense. the jury didnt buy it. jason was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. matt moeller pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 30 years. >> sometimes i still cant believe that im here in prison. i still cant believe the decision i made to put myself here. >> the boys plan to murder ken maclennan went off without a hitch. but the coverup couldnt withstand scientific scrutiny. >> this was not a sp...

Marilyn mosby came out on that friday and announced criminal charges, many people were surprised bit speed of that investigation. but on the other side we hear from so many people these investigations are taking months years in some cases. explain why are they taking so long? >> these are very difficult cases, the standard is so difficult. when you look at the district attorneys case manslaughter something not available at the federal level. they have to show an intent on the behalf of the offic...

We need to stick with forensics. we need to stick with known facts. >> most people in the fbi never even read the manifesto. the popular opinion was that it was nonsense, it was just scribbling. >> the media and the fbi are faced with a dilemma. publishing the manifesto could be seen as giving in to terrorist demands. >> the last thing we wanted to do is set a precedent that we would be blackmailed into publishing terrorist manifestos. because every terrorist could come out of the woodwork and d...