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>> youve been asking for this topic all night. miley cyrus, artist of the year named by mtv. >> i guess she wins. on talent, i dont really enjoy listening to her. except for that song a party in the usa." i have that song on my ipod. >> eric, youre nodding? >> dont hate her for all that stuff. the santa claus and whatever shes about to do next. theres going to be another twerking one. but the songs are great. i mean, her music is fantastic. "wrecking ball" is one of the better songs of the year....

Union off the case. lets head to nic robertson in new york. >> reporter: good morning. that union has been kicked off. they have been told that they have shared that information, made their own interpretation of the interviews that have been given and that means that they wont be part of this ongoing investigation into the train accident here. what were learning from the engineers lawyer is that he says that this was purely an september, that his client had had a good nights sleep the night befo...

Some of them severely when the commuter train entered a sharp turn going 82 miles an hour in a 30-mile-per-hour zone. nic robson is at the crash site with the latest. >> reporter: human error, william billy rockefellers daze, increasingly the probable cause. his union representative saying he was nodding off and caught himself too late. >> he is extremely distraught over it. and he feel for the families. i dont believe that in my opinion, anybody could ever make billy feel worse than he is makin...

On him. was he zoning out? it was road hypnosis? he probably fell asleep. there is a great likelihood he could have fallen asleep doing this. if his biological clock wanted him to stay up later and he forced himself to sleep, how good of sleep could he have got snn. >> and applying the brakes be a short time before a full stop, that would seem to be more of a nodding out. >> if youre nodding out, its happening for a second or two. i mean, my understanding is in this particular track, this is a p...

Firefighters as they arrived on the scene of the deadly train derailment in the bronx. this morning, new details about the man at the controls. the trains engineer, william billy rockefeller, his union representative saying he was nodding off and caught himself too late. >> hes extremely distraught over it and he feels for the families. >> reporter: in the minutes after the derailment, according to a senior law enforcement source, rockefeller told first responders, going along and im in a daze. ...

Lets go to the beach, i think you ripped off an old springsteen song or possibly 30 old springsteen songs. that was really all i took from what you said joi. there is nothing of value in what i said? >> no. >> thats what you call real world experience. thats what you see. you kind of go nope, nope. and then you see a normal kid and you say that kid is good because he is not trying to influence her to do something now. >> but then how do you end up becoming americas bad boy? >> i am americas bad ...

And mr. rockefeller acknowledges he had a temporary loss of concentration just at that vital moment. that is why hes been heard to have said he was in a daze. the ntsb, of course, giving us more details about the investigation today. human error, william billy rockefellers days increasingly the probable cause. his union representative says he was nodding off and caught himself too late. >> hes extremely distraught over it, and he feels for the families. i dont believe that in my opinion that any...

That casing. then you would are to attach it to an explosive device with the intent to disperse it. just handling cobalt 60 according to experts outside its casing is extremely dangerous. its been known to make people very sick quickly and it has killed people just from handling it. >> a worrisome development indeed. brian has more 5:00 p.m. eastern in "the situation room." thanks very much. the engineer in the deadly new york train derailment was nodding off and caught himself too late. thats...

On him. was he zoning out? it was road hypnosis? he probably fell asleep. there is a great likelihood he could have fallen asleep doing this. if his biological clock wanted him to stay up later and he forced himself to sleep, how good of sleep could he have got snn. >> and applying the brakes be a short time before a full stop, that would seem to be more of a nodding out. >> if youre nodding out, its happening for a second or two. i mean, my understanding is in this particular track, this is a p...

Even the lawyer said to us, he finds it hard to put it into precise words. highway hypnosis is, lapse of concentration, nodding off coming to before the moment when it was too late to do anything about it. his union represent said look, who hasnt when theyve been driving down the highway, who hasnt in their car had that momentary lapse where theyve come to a few seconds later and said i dont remember those last few seconds, i dont remember that part of the highway. thats the comparison that he m...