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To air traffic control in cyprus, the flight crew apparently never connected with the atc there as they obviously the flight crew had a lot of things on their hands. we can tell you there was potentially a request by the flight crew to land in cairo at some point. again, not confirmed by nbc news, so theres some details that were trying to confirm at this hour. but to report that there is a confirmed plane crash here that left sharm el sheikh this morning and crashed about 23 minutes later en ro...

>> well, first of all, i have to say that the folks at amtrak have taken extraordinary measures over the last several days to not only clear the site, but also to take these steps that weve asked them to take. the fact of the matter is that we have challenges in this country with making sure these technologies get this place and we at the fra as well as d.o.t. have been working very carefully with amtrak to make sure not only atc but ptc gets installed by the end of the year. my understanding is...

A look at the local picture. one of the things in the presidents budget is almost a billion dollars annually to put in ptc across not only the amtrak system, but also -- >> how about automatic train control that costs a lot less? >> again deploy that today. again, amtrak will have to speak more for its own decisions on their part. but im telling you the fra has glanded that they put atc in place for of the northeast corridor and thats what is happening today. >> secretary anthony foxx, thank you...

Maneuvering the curve where 188 derailed without problems. technology called automatic train control is now in place to slow northbound trains before the curve. >> if they were able to put atc in over the weekend, some are going to say, if it was this simple why not before? >> from the north to the south, you ear coming from a high rate of speed, 110 down to 50. you had to have it there. but from the south, the maximum speed was 80 and you could get around this corner at 80. >> reporter: at the ...

The ntsb says they found no evidence to back up an assistant conductors claim she heard the engineer say train 188 had been hit. >> weve interviewed the septa engineer and he did not recall having any conversation between him and the amtrak engineer but nevertheless we do have this mark on the windshield the amtrak train and certainly want to trace that lead down. >> reporter: amtrak restored full service today along the busy northeast corridor. maneuvering the curve where 188 derailed without p...

More than 200 people were injured. friday, the youngest victim 20-year-old justin zemser was laid to rest. the naval academy midshipmen was traveling home on leave. hundreds attended his funeral which include full military honors. the federal railroad administration ordered amtrak to take measures to improve safety on the northeast corridor. joining me from philadelphia msnbc correspondent adam reyes. what are the orders issued by the administration? >> reporter: good morning. three orders. one ...

That you have with a lot of these stories is they get reported in the media as the technical detail is complicated for people who dont go the word. automatic train control stands for atc. it has existed for almost a hundred years and is implemented on almost every locomotive that operates in the northeast corridor. when they use this terminology in this situation, they are talking about a very specific implementation of that similar to what exists in that same location for a westbound movement. ...

Northeast corridor its so common getting hit by projectiles, that he actually protect themselves with armor in the front window. listen to robert sum walt of the ntsb. >> we are investigating the accident and have asked the fbi to come in and provide technical expertise to help us resolve and figure out what was a particular damage pattern on one of the windshields. were investigating it at this point and asked hem to help us identify that fracture pattern. >> whether or not this was the cause o...

Calmly ate his crew meal 15 minutes before he started the final devastating descent into the mountain. he had his meal at 9:15. at 9:30 he started the maneuver once the captain left the cockpit. just terrible. terrible news. >> also in this report i want to show the flight trajectory down. that came out of this rort. we can see this is how the story happened. it appears it went down over time. how did the pilot in that first flight if he was actually doing a test run, how did he not feel this de...

The pilot brought the plane down rapidly and told atc he thought they may have a pressurization problem. because of that, they landed on an emergency basis at buffalo, that single passenger who we now believe had taken ill and passed out, was taken by paramedics to the hospital. according to sky west no other passengers had become ill. so this appears to have been a case where a bit of communication breakdown between the pilot radioing air traffic control reporting a possible cabin pressurizatio...