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Thoughts? >> my thoughts were it was like the lion air crash last fall. the thought amongst pilot force is it possibly was a stab trim augmentation system. and we pretty much all felt the same as far as that is concerned. >> so youre blaming the automated system? >> no, i am not necessarily blaming the automated system. it could be part of the stab trim augmentation system or a computer glitch or another possibility which is a jack screw which manipulates the elevator on the airplane itself. >> ...

Than five months ago, both jets after takeoff, moving up and down erratically. in the first crash, lion air, an automated safety system to prevent a stall, did play a role. this is a graph of the up-and-down movement of the lion air jet. experts zeroing in on a 20-second dip. when compared to the ethiopian graph, another 20-second dip. that similarity, triggering the faa to ground the fleet. >> the graphs were similar between lion air and ethiopia. why? we dont know exactly. that needs to be sor...

That was palm beach county, the president will be going to california this weekend, as the which was hampered, officials state deals with the deadliest say, with old machines. wildfires in their state history. it was a couple days ago when he jessica dean joins us from west went off on twitter on forest palm beach. jessica, did they make it or no? state. so how is this going to go? >> reporter: they did not make it, brooke. >> reporter: he has spoken with the governor obviously disagree we just ...

Here, what is causing this to happen? the numbers just absolutely staggering. so the military always has investigations into all of these incidents. there could be a good deal of concern that this may involve lack of money for readiness and training in some cases. we do not know for sure, but readiness and training has been an ongoing issue. of course, the investigations could find other reasons. they could find mechanical error, crew error. we dont know. lets come back to where we began, in the...

But it doesnt mean you cant get back on track. great. yeah, great. id like to go back to bermuda. i hear its nice. yeah, id like to see it. no judgment. just guidance. td ameritrade. new details breaking this hour on a deadly amtrak crash in south carolina. investigators are trying to figure out if the signal systems along the railway were working properly at the time of the crash. we know an amtrak train collided with a freight train overnight, killing the engineer and conductor. over 100 peo...

I dont see anyone broke any laws? >> no, there were no laws broken. this is like, you know, i personally think he should have went to tokyo. the guy was supposed to be on a partner airline, they could have waived to eac other in the sky. but, yeah, i mean what happens now is ana probably $200,000 cost to them to huge around a huge jet. so, you know, i guess they were being overly cautious. but i dont think there was any actual security risk here. >> i hate long flights to begin with. i would be ...

Could be mechanical error. we dont know what -- why this happened. and we really want to know that. and i think -- i think its almost irresponsible just to say oh, positive train control would have been prevented it. it might have. but you really need to know what happened here. >> and i know from investigations in other train accidents long before there was positive train control that was controlled by satellite or gps there are mechanical systems on trains meant to do the same thing if a train...

Monitoring in d.c. gary tenney is there. >> one of the first questions with the ntsb will answer them in a on scene this afternoon, if this is the result of human or mechanical error appeared to do this, ntsbs go team includes experts across the field, train operation, track engineers human performance as well as damage assessment. they look from anywhere from the schedule the last few days and the condition of the track. as well as the engine, most amtrak commuter trains, they do have black box...

Doing to try to fix the larger problems this string of mishaps may reveal. but first, jim sciutto has late word on what may have caused this particular collision. jim, what are you hearing? >> reporter: a navy official is telling me that the crew lost steering. the simple ability to steer as it was entering these busy shipping lanes. and they -- this is crucial as well. they werent, for some reason, able to activate the backup steering system, which these advanced destroyers have. they dont know...

Beginning to see why that is. was it a human error, a mechanical error? the steering, its not like you have a big screw that turns the screws. there are wires connecting it. so it could be anything along that series. >> jim, thank you very much. more now on this sad string of incidents, and what the navy is trying to do about it. michelle kaczynski joins me with that. the tourt time this year a u.s. warship is involved in an incident. the navy has done a day freeze of activity? >> even one of th...