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Engineer may have been distracted by an employee at the time of the derailment. >> heartbreaking. all right. officials say its too early to determine why the train was going too fast but there are questions to be raised about safety. new technology known as positive train control was on the tracks in washington but wasnt operational yet. nbcs news tom costello has more. >> reporter: among the questions for federal investigators did the engineer know the track he was on? had he done the test ru...

The cause of the derailment was. but certainly when youre looking at upgrading track, theres specific requirements that the federal railroad association has for classes of track and if youre going to operate high speed, in this case, up to 79 miles an hour passenger service, the tracks have to be inspected and have to be able to support that kind of speed of train. you can also look at the curvature of the track and look at where they might have speed limits because you cant go 79 everywhere. th...

People. as a crane carefully moved peas of the wreckage today, we learned the event data recorder clocked the train going at 80 miles per hour yesterday in a 30 miles per hour zone. were also getting the identity of one of the three victims killed, zach was an i.t. specialist for a local company. rene marsh just got new information along testing along the trains route. >> thats right. the company that opens the tracks spoke to us. their name is sound transit. the rail signals as well as the trac...

At where they might have speed limits because you cant go 79 everywhere. theyre going to have lower speeds in certain parts of the track. youve got to pay attention to that as well. >> in terms of data, we have recorders and we also might have a forward-facing camera here, deborah, quickly? >> yeah, very consistent in rail events. you get a recorder, there wasnt a post-crash fire. they should be able to download the data from that recorder and forward-facing video so you can see any issues with ...

They do not do that. they graduate down with different speed limits. that is possibly a suggestion that could have made this a little less likely to happen, but again, if you lost track of where he was, or he misjudged, or you are unfamiliar with the territory, any of those things could have happened, and once again, some positive train control for space and the like saved in the coming we would not be having this conversation. >> jon: this was the first time that amtrak was using that particula...

Bring some cool stadium video today but when things go boom we watch instructor go down. that is not what happened. this is the dome outside of detroit. the former home of the nfl detroit lions. it was slated for demolition. as you can see it had a controlled explosion. they did go off. it was really controlled due to a wiring issue, not much appeared to happen! it has been closed since 2011. it is still standing at this hour. maybe they will have to try again. >> roadsigns are usually for showi...

Working at tnt, lebron had a huge game and i tweeted something like if i could pick one player to have f in a road game, game seven in the playoffs, id take lebron. you think any cleveland fans might have retweeted that after cleveland beat us on the road in game seven? so ive learned my lesson. im more interested in retweeting articles. trying to spread the word if i see something really sensible. nick kristof wrote a great piece in "the new york times" with two weeks ago about comparing gun sa...

Action. with controlled fire. if you listen to what he said, he probably didnt even realize what he was actually describing. but he was describing not only well placed but controlled fire. whats interesting about training, theres nothing wrong with it. and anybody that carry as weapon would probably invite the training. and really enjoy the training. but heres the downside of gun control. criminals, gang members, do not purchase guns legally. and if you get rid of legally purchased guns those we...

If you listen to what he said, he probably didnt even realize what he was actually describing. but he was describing not only well placed but controlled fire. whats interesting about training, theres nothing wrong with it. and anybody that carry as weapon would probably invite the training. and really enjoy the training. but heres the downside of gun control. criminals, gang members, do not purchase guns legally. and if you get rid of legally purchased guns those weapons are still in the hands t...

It just did not sound like it was doing normal city speed limits. >> did you actually see the driver? >> no, i did not. >> all right. were glad all you and your kids are safe. thank you so much for talking to us. we really appreciate it. jim, i want to reiterate what you said. 19 people were injured. we have confirmed with police that one person was killed in what is preliminarily believed to be an accident. but of course that is still being investigated at this point. as i mentioned, we just co...