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>> yeah. ede, thank you. >> thank you. >> there are amazing stories, really survival stories that are just unbelievable. but what was the cause? and are we as safe on trains as we think we are? and joining us is author of the warnings doctor. when you see this train wreckage as we look at these live pictures right now, theyre removing a lot of it what does that tell you? >> first of all, don, we know this was a perfect storm of an ant quated instrustructure and we have a possibility of human err...

Welcome back, everybody. youre watching cnns special coverage of the amtrak train derailment early indications are the train was traveling too fast when it went off the rails killing seven people. >> what they dont know is whether it was human error or mechanical problems. jason carol reports from philadelphia. >> the mangles wreckage of train 188 is still on the track. date recording from the trains first car has revealed the train wag traveling at least as fast as it should have been. 106 mile...

Unaccounted. it sounds suspicious. it not about people needing to be located at the crash scene, but the travel on trains. mismatched tickets. people who did not take the train or people gotten on and not presented tickets at the station. whatever the reason there are people unaccounted. we will cover that. the bigger issue, john which is even if this train crashed because of human error. that doesnt mean it had to happen. there are safety systems in place that are not. theres infrastructure tha...

Was still going 102. listen now to the ntsb explain. >> moments before the derailment the train was placed into engineer induced braking and this means that the engineer applied full emergency, full emergency brake application. >> aside from speed, investigators are looking at equipment. the train was relatively new with no major history of mechanical issues but that stretch of track is the most heavily used and authorities acre knowledge there had is trouble keeping it in good repair. the junct...

George oglvy were disrupting the active bomb investigation at the white house. i want to look at what is coming up on "new day." chris cuomo on the crash scene in philadelphia. good morning, chris. >> john three big points of focus. first is the idea of speed being what was the catalyst for the crash. investigators are going very slowly on it. the mayor here, michael nutter talking about the engineer and what investigators believe they know early on about the speed. largely in part from the su...

Traveling at 106 miles an hour twice the appropriate speed entering the sharp turn. >> he was already in the curve at that point. youre supposed to enter the curve at 50 miles an hour. >> bostian spoke to philadelphia police the night of the crash. and according to a law enforcement source told them he couldnt recall his speed. his lawyer says he doesnt even remember the crash itself. >> he remembers going through that area generally. has absolutely no recollection of the incident or anything un...

Need to make. >> but senator -- i know but we are making investments. what im saying is dont make it just about the money. make it about how that money is spent also. and whether youve heard about it or not the idea of money being mismanaged often to the point of criminality is something that passes through our court system all the time involving the railways whether its amtrak or someone else. im saying i get you about the problem. but in terms of fixing it dont you have to be open to the sugge...

The investigators who will be talking to him, probably tomorrow. however, human error looks likely to be involved here and that has to be pointed to the? junear. was he distracted? was he texting? was he on the phone? did he have something in his blood? we dont know the answers to any of these things. but its irrelevant because if the technology had been installed, then the human error would have been put aside. if he was distracted aware of his speed. i take this train myself a number of times ...

And you have to plan for a redundancy to protect people from somebody making a mistake. and the technology exists here. they didnt put it in place. its that simple. >> and, you know were dealing with a system theyre going over 100 miles an hour and they dont even have seat belts on these trains mr. maloney, which also speaks to how old-minded this system is. but heres a prediction for you, when liability starts to come into play get ready to hear from amtrak and other management involved here th...

Potentially what caused this horrific accident. peter? >> yes, indeed. >> yeah. you see the surveillance video. were showing viewers now and all of a sudden you see that. its pretty horrendous obviously. we know there are 243 people onboard. eight confirmed dead. plenty of people in the hospital. some of them remain in critical condition. i mean its -- hard to believe this kind of stuff happens, but it was either a mechanical problem, a human error or a combination of both. >> well i think youre...