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Politicians kind of fighting and on a side track we have very basic economic and corporate fundamental underpinnings that are also including along so i feel like its cooking and cooking and you throw on more gas. neil: and then you have the north korean thing john layfield theres no way to factor in what you got to deal and broker an agreement that calls for him to denook and all that how is that going to be received? its certainly unprecedented and of course he would have to stick to that deal ...

>> jon: the trains engineer and conductor were killed in the crash and more than 100 people were injured when it ran onto a side track and rammed into a parked, unoccupied freight train. >> julie: a last ditch effort to find out what really happened in the drowning death of actress natalie wood. investigators say her death is suspicious. william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with the latest on this one. >> evidence points to husband robert wagner. police say he is a person of interest, not ...

Policy, leaving the switch in the wrong position. late saturday or early sunday, csx turned that switch and moved one of its freight trains from the mainline to a siding. but that switch was not flipped back to the mainline. and when amtrak 91 arrived, heading south to miami, it was diverted onto that same side track, and in less than 700 feet, slammed into the parked freight train at more than 50 miles an hour. that switch should have been flipped back to the mainline, to save this amtrak train...

Remains. no official response from moscow. the cause of the deadly train crash. sundays collision in south carolina killed two people and injured 116. amtrak train diverted on the wrong track causing it to smash into a stationary freight train. cnns kaylee hartung has the latest. >> reporter: the white pod wetes brought out to to dialo dialogu crash. diverting the train on the side track and squarely into the freight train. ntsb investigators have to figure out why the switch was left locked i...

Track to the side track and squarely into the freight train. the ntsb investigators have to figure out why it was locked in the wrong position when trains like the amtrak travel along the path every day. this is the question that the csx corporation has to answer. that is the railroad group that operates and maintains the track where the crash occurred. they are responsible for the signaling and switching in the area. csx offered condolences to the families of the victims of the crash. while the...

Causing it to smash into the stationary freight train. the engineer and conductor were the two killed. we have kaylee hartung in cayce, south carolina with the latest. >> reporter: the chairman of the ntsb diagrammed the mistake that led to the crash. he explained a switch on the track was locked with the padlock in the wrong direction. diverting the passenger train from the main track on the side track and squak lsquarely into freight train. ntsb investigators have to figure out why the switch ...

Angies boom chicka pop whole grain popcorn. boom! >> amtrak is blaming a freight train operator for causing the deadly crash on sunday after the passenger train was diverted onto a side track. amtrak train slammed into the parked freight train killing two people and injuring more than 100. kayla hartung is in south carolina with the latest on what they have learned. what are they learned kaylee? >> reporter: a train was lined and locked. it diverted the amtrak off the main track and onto a side ...

Of the installation of ptc will be something thats very important for us to find out. but to be clear ptc is designed to prevent this type of accident. >> today ntsb investigators plan to interview surviving members of the amtrak crew while memories are still fresh. theyve recovered a forward facing video recorder from the train that could give clues to the trains speed before impact. the ntsb is trying to determine why a track switch was locked in the wrong position sending the train onto a sid...

Learning why that switch was lined that way. because the expectation, of course, is that the amtrak would be cleared and would be operating straight down like this. >> instead the passenger train was diverted to a side track where he crashed into a parked freight train. two were killed, more than 100 passengers were injured. >> there were bodies everywhere. the seats came up off the floor. glass came out all over the train. just bodies laying everywhere on top of one another. >> about half a doz...

Passenger train barreling down the wrong track and into a parked freight train. jonathan serrie is on the scene and west columbia, south carolina. >> third fatal train crash in as many months leaves two dead. investigators gather evidence at the side of the amtrak crash in south canada. >> the event data recorder from the amtrak locomotive was recovered and it was undamaged. it has been successfully downloaded. >> ntsb officials say a switch diverted amtrak train 91 from the mainline to a side t...