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Derailments equipment and track issues. a 2002 train crash near crescent city, florida was blamed on inadequate track maintenance. there is also human negligence. the ntsb blamed a 2008 metrolink crash in california on the engineer texting just seconds before skipping a red light. mother nature can be a factor as well. a 2009 crash in illinois was blamed in part on heavy rain washing out some of the tracks. another possible cause, human error. cited when a metro north train crashed outside of ne...

106 miles per hour in a 50 miles an hour zone. everybody knows what that is. and then they have an idea that the engineer jammed on the brakes which tells you he knew he was going to fast and tried to avert disaster. >> with what we know it is hard not to think that human error is playing some role here. now i suppose its possible there is some mechanical set of events that would cause a train to sort of speed out of control. >> yeah. >> but from what we know, certainly things seem to be pointin...

Correct, but the first thing theyre going to look at is how fast was this train going for the track it was on. >> if it was going too fast around that curve, is that a human error, conductor, the engineer or some other problem potentially? >> it could be any number of things, but you start with human performance. was the conductor, was the engineer operating the train appropriately leading up to the turn was he applying the brakes ape lately was there any kind of failure in the braking system th...

Miles per hour. what other factors could have contributed to the crash? >> well i dont think anything other than human error. they are developing positive train control that would allow the computer to intervene if the human make answer error. but thats a work in progress. thats proceeding about as fast as it can. theyre having a lot of technological growing pains. but thalg get there. >> kitty, how does this derailment compare to others you have seen? >> well reverend al i was in california for...

Issue. its going to be about the optics of the transparency right? >> yeah. and you dont make mistakes this big. i mean this is not some mom and pop foundation which hes trying to say, well we did it right last time and we messed up this time. we werent hiding anything. the biggest threat to hillary clintons campaign is people not trusting her and not feeling like shes been honest and open and transparent on these issues. and when you say, oh it was an accident we didnt mean to and people make m...

Burned. >> fortunately, the train explodes just outside of town and no one is injured by the blast. >> another mile down the road, it had been right here in the middle of our town. it could have been a really messy deal. >> after the explosion, the fire eventually burns itself out. >> all 26 years of flying and all the news that ive covered, it will be one of the things that will stick in my mind just from the fact it was such a large ball of fire and it came so high. >> oh, it just blew up. my ...

Departments into federal monitorship over the last few years, last several years and still, we have a massive problem. is there a bigger national legal remedy that could possibly be pursued? >> you know two words. body cameras. i know that may seem glib but in a society again where we live on a 24-hour news cycle with social media and video pretty much dictates what happens in our lives, thats really going to be the only prophylactic measure i can think of. theres going to be human error but we ...

Most viewers of brian williams have stuck around for lester holt. but are you choosing david muir -- >> i am watching david instead. im really fond of lester. i think he does a really good job. it was what he does but hes not brian. >> jackie let me bring you back in sings aur pr executive. what advice would you be giving to nbc about how to handle this. theres an august timeline where the suspension will end. im thinking nbc will say something about the situation soon and much before august. wh...

Makes no sense to me and i think it was -- it was overkill. >> bates attorney says their client has had hundreds of hours of police training and was qualified to be on the scene. the sheriffs office says mistaking this large, brightly colored taser for this small, black pistol was a tragic, human error. >> theyve taken the fact that this man has been good to the community, has been ben negative lent to the community and has be a great citizen for our town and made it something bad or sinister. t...

Experience mistake a taser for a gun? >> well its human error, frankly. its like you lock your keys in your car. >> thats a major error sir. >> no, well, i know. it cost someone their life. so its major. but its inadvertent. you are in a stressful situation. you react in a way that is automatic, and he pulled the wrong device. and frankly he pulled the gun instead of the taser. >> do you have any idea -- because ive talked to a number of of police officers who say your dominant hand the right ha...