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Been a good day since. im turning it over to chris hayes, "all in" takes over right now. >> all right. >> thanks chris. >> thanks for joining us. im chris hayes taking over we are live as you see from philadelphia at the scene of amtrak trains 188 catastrophic derailment last night. where investigators are continuing to probe through the wreckage, the crash killed at least seven people eight are listed in critical condition. more may still be missing. the federal investigation has only just begu...

That area generally. has absolutely no recollection of the incident or anything unusual. >> police now in the process of obtaining a search warrant of the engineers phone records to determine if he was distracted during the time of the crash. lawmakers and critics also saying even if human error is the cause, this crash raises issues about safety systems that still are not in place. and could have saved lives. who made this happen and why did it happen at all? lets get deeper into these question...

Had a medical condition that he knew might incapacitate him but he didnt report it to amtrak that could rise to the level of criminal conduct. so weve got to see what his prior medical record looks like and what the results of the toxicology tests on his blood are. >> youd be interested to know that like airline pilots we have an annual physical. our annual physical covers everything from drug screening to hearing to our sight and weight and blood pressure. >> im sure the plane in germany that c...

Funding? >> without a doubt. what you had is a major cut in the house. amtrak needs more money. the house is cutting money, but thats not the only reason. if speed ends up being what is going on there are parts of amtrak on that northeast corridor that already have electronic train control. they need to put it on more of the northeast corridor so if hes coming as the report that you just had at 100 miles an hour on a curve that ought to be 50 miles an hour if he had that electronic control thats...

Impersonal when i say thats not our lane. we are very concerned about each and every individual on that train. however, we are here to investigate the accident itself and figures about accounting for every occupant that comes under the philadelphia office of emergency management. >> we are told that police detectives actually tried to interview the engineer of the train, but he refused and left with a lawyer. is that right? >> i dont have firsthand information about that. we are interested in in...

Train last night. >> lets find out. im sure you will update us. once you know well know. the train was traveling, we are told by the ntsb 106 miles per hour going into the curve and shouldnt have been going faster than 50 miles per hour. was this a human error, a mechanical error? what are you hearing? >> i dont know that ntsb made that decision. clearly, it was reckless in terms of driving by the engineer. theres no way in the world he should have been going that fast into the curve. i mean mos...

Emphatically. he said some things we know many things we dont know and they will not speculate or rush to any kind judgment what happened here. they are asking people who may think that they had someone, a loved one, a friend on the train to contact authorities because they are trying to match the amtrak manifest with the names of the people they know and are aware of and are accounted for, but things may not match exactly so thats why they are asking people for their help. as you pointed out le...

That as some trains do. so if speeding excessively, to be able to slow it down. so im not that familiar with all of the mechanics of this. but an alerter system as i understand it essentially would be a loud enough noise to get the engineers attention. >> john what will we know tomorrow this time that we dont know now? >> were going have a better handle on the equipment, because of the work that they did today. so it will be able to tell us -- put more focus on whether its a mechanical failure o...

Im erin burnett. "outfront" we begin with breaking news. the amtrak train that derailed near philadelphia was speeding big-time. traveling 106 miles an hour at the time of the crash. more than twice the 50-mile-an-hour speed limit. we are also just learning at this moment the engineers name from three amtrak employees. heres what we can tell you. his name is brandon bostian. drew griffin is going to have much more on the man at the center of this in just a moment. the mayor of philadelphia on cn...

There should be more specific information about those metrics soon. >> the event recorders themselves can give you information about the speed of the train. any brake applications throttle applications that the engineer could have made horn bell. it can give us a lot. that will be key to this investigation. a good download of those data will be done this afternoon, i think. we hope to be able to provide you with information. the engineer driving train 188 was hurt but the mayor says if he hasn...