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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...

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Over 105 miles an hour. there are only a few explanations. >> if we take out the human factor. what else could cause the train to be traveling at twice the speed limb it? >> the human factor is, is the central point here. you could have had a stuck throttle. that would have shown uppen the event recorder. it was not discussed by the ntsb. there simply is no other explanation other than, other than hey human factor issue. >> is there a safety margin for these trains? can they travel above that 50...

>> reporter: now when hes say looking at the human factor theyre also trying to establish a time line about the engineer, brandon bastion more importantly, the time line employment records, raps what he was doing in the past 24 hours. hes already handed over his cell phone hes given a blood stamp and an initial interview. the ntsb says they have not yet had a chance to speak to him. they plan on speaking to him today or tomorrow as well as conducting several other interviews. in terms of examini...

>> so he -- but if we take out the human factor, what else could cause the train to be traveling at twice the speed limit? >> well, the human factor is the central point here. you know, you could have a stuck throttle, but that would have shown up in the event recorder and it was not -- by the ntsb. i mean, there simply is no other explanation other than a human factor issue. >> is there a safety margin for these trains? can they travel above that 15 miles per hour limit and do this, they know t...

In any way did anything wrong. theyve got to begin eliminating everything and thats a very very long process. in the meantime this busy northeast corridor that stretches from washington, d.c., up to philly up to new york and up to boston it is really slow today because theyve shut down all of the northeast rail traffic between philadelphia and new york. so thats going to be a very big inconvenience for many tens of thousands of travelers who rely on the northeast corridor every day. the mayor is...

There are four different types of braking systems on a train. it gives you an up to second status on each of those systems. in addition to that the signal system itself has a number of event recorders connected to it. that they should be able to reconstruct what signal aspects to the crew. and idea is system failure. or human factor at this time. >> robert thank you very much. we appreciate it. i want to tell the viewers that amtrak established a hot line for family and friends of passengers on ...

Can begin to normalize this. i want all of us to normalize this. they have always been here. they are not going anywhere. we need to embrace them to be as fully human as we can be. >> dont go anywhere. put on the boxing gloves for the next segment. hillary clinton has the democratic field all to herself but her campaign is off to a rocky start with more than one controversy. republicans are not holding back. should we expect mud slinging for 18 long months? but first, the nba playoffs test every...

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Are working these long hours and they are making critical care decisions. well, that also happens in the commuters where people, they dont necessarily have to be dome sild where they are flying out of. so a lot of times you are commuting staying in a hotel room, and then flying the next day, or deadheading, if you will, on a plane before a flight. so this is an area that has been well-known to the faa. and they have been trying to take steps to mid-mitigate that risk. >> do you think they have d...