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That owns that pipeline that not only does the pipeline need to be drained immediately, they also need to physically send the ruptured section of the people pipe out for testing and conduct what sa called a root analysis of the spill and involve a third party outside to review the ults results of previous pipeline inspections. but as of tonight, it is still a mystery as to what caused the pipeline leak in the first place. local papers have been digging into the safety report of plains all americ...

>> at this point youve gotten results from the black box. its really a data recorder isnt it? >> it is indeed. its a black box. there are really two sources of information -- forward-facing video camera which weve looked at. and also the event recorder. so weve obtained data from each of those. >> when you look at the locomotive powering this train, and we are talking about a train increasing tens of miles per hour in the course of the final minute, what would it have entailed for the train to d...

Spinal injuries. his attorney says amtrak is to blame whether it was operator error or mechanical failure. hes seeking at least $150,000. >> a california man is facing charges for flying a small drone near the white house. drones not allowed anywhere in the nations capitol. its a no drone zone and the incident comes after a series of security concerns there. abcs pierre thomas with this story. >> the threat of another drone flying onto the white house grounds led to a massive response from autho...

Many lives with such dangerous speed? >> we certainly are looking forward to the opportunity to interview him. we are so glad that we will have that opportunity in the next few days. >> the engineer has agreed to talk with the ntsb investigators, but according to his lawyer, he doesnt remember much about the accident or the moments that led to it. he did suffer a concussion in the accident. in philadelphia, for abc news, im jim dolan. >> and amtrak is facing its first lawsuit stemming from the c...

Are there possible mechanical reasons a train would be going at that speed into a curve, independent of operator error? >> we want to look at that. we want to look at the operator the mechanical condition of the train. we want to look at the signal. we want to take a holistic approach to understand why this train ended up in the situation that it did. when you look at the crash site as i did in a helicopter today, the physics are pretty apparent. you guys dont have a lot of mystery in terms of w...

How many people do we know that have been in car crashes, for example that say, i dont remember the accident. thats not uncommon. weve been through a traumatic event, the brain wants to protect us by filtering out those bad memories. so thats not uncommon, and i hope that when we do interview him some of that memory will have come back. >> when do you expect to hear from him? to speak with him? today, tomorrow? >> were not expecting it today, but sooner than later. by the time i meet with the in...

Like, you know, hydrogen powered cars and jet packs and futuristically hypermodern stuff, just some basic systematic safety upgrades that would take advantage of the fact that we are now a society that has things like computing machines and gps. this is not the most high-tech stuff. what they mandated for the u.s. rail system is something called positive train control. a very basic avoidance system that reduces stupid operator error or a train conductor having a heart attack at the engine. it re...

In the u.s. would have to get just slightly more modern, not like, you know, hydrogen powered cars and jet packs and futuristically hypermodern stuff, just some basic systematic safety upgrades that would take advantage of the fact that we are now a society that has things like computing machines and gps. this is not the most high-tech stuff. what they mandated for the u.s. rail system is something called positive train control. a very basic avoidance system that reduces the risk that stupid ope...

That the engineer missed something or operator error. help us understand what these other possibilities are. how can the engineer not be in some way responsible. >> i believe he is responsible. theres certainly a small possibility of a mechanical problem. when youve got a train going twice the maximum speed of 50 miles an hour, to me its a no-brainer. its intuitively obvious to the casual investigator the train was going way too fast. generally speaking thats going to be an engineer operating fa...

Lot on your hands. we know youre going to be giving a briefing, update later this afternoon. first off, most importantly, whats the update on the investigation you can offer us right now? >> good morning, kate. today is a very busy day for our investigatee. we have a lot of investigators going out in different directions. were looking at that forward facing image recorder. were going to do further analysis of the event its self. were going to do a brake check of the train. just a lot going on to...