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Up. meanwhile the obama cares front page is sporting a new design that is supposed to actually make it easier to use. well, if you hop on a train, your commute morning or whenever you commute, your life is in the hands of the engineer, the deadly commuter train wreck in the bronx last weekend now shedding new light on the high-pressure duties of driving trains. we talked to a chicago man who guides a million pound commuter train while carefully balancing signals, speed, and safety. >> reporter...

Train derailment that happened in the bronx. one victims attorney says she was pinned inside an overturned car for an hour, fracturing her spine, collarbone and ribs. >> her lawyer says the railroad has been slow to adopt technology that could have prevented the accident. four people died, dozens injured when the train jumped the tracks sunday rounding a curve. a union representative told cnn the trains engineer was nodding off before the accident. >> the engineers lawyer says he was in a hypnot...

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...

>> a fox news headlines. brian kilmeade and his wife, 20 years. >> cant take it back. kind of like reverse mortgage. >> we begin this hour with a fox news alert. two sky divers are dead after a mid air collision causes them to plummet to the ground. according to witnesses in arizona, they had their parachutes open when they collided and that caused their canopies to collapse. this happened at skydive, arizonas drop location, 60 miles south of phoenix. the company website claims it is considered ...

Union representative in nics report earlier? tonight who said, that mr. rockefeller, the engineer, it looks as though he has come forward and accepted responsibility and accepted blame and been honest about this. obviously you went through was horrific and those who lost loved ones, i cant even imagine theyre going through. is there something there about somebody saying, i spaced out. this was my fault. >> too many lives at stake. too many lives affected. i was at a dental convention today and p...

A source, that they didnt work. >> we determined that the metro north mechanical department performed a proper brake test prior to the accident train leaving the station. and there were no anomalies noted. >> reporter: the federal rail administration is expressing serious concerns about metro norths recent series of accidents. in a letter to the head of the mta saying, four serious accidents in less than seven months is simply unacceptable. now, the engineers union rep and his lawyer both say he...

Laura ingle joins us with the latest. laura? >> reporter: the engineer who told the head of his union he zoned out, just before the accident, reportedly working from the night shift to working early shift but had plenty of time to get sleep the night before sundays deadly derailment. according to the union chief. according to published reports initially engineer william rockefeller told people that first came on the scene that the brakes failed as the it barreled into tight turn going three time...

Or an interview in which cnn has unique access and the ability to get a story no one else has like just who is that other democrat bill clinton might support for president. look at the picture kind of gives it away, doesnt it? or the inspiring story of this computer genius who just happens to be living in the streets. bi bill weir has the story that makes you believe that human beings can conquer anything. these are the moments. the best of cnn today in case you missed it. now lets get started. ...

Funny about john. we did? show it. dont need me. the grinch of politics, john avlon. >> love it. >> bring better news in politics. >> i see you with the little doggy. he wants to do the right thing. >> john has potential. >> max. >> let me save you, john avlon. ill go to the headlines. >> god bless you. >> lets take a look at the latest news right now at 6:30, 0 minutes after the hour in the east. the engineer in sundays deadly train crash apparently started to drift off before the accident. wil...

-- captions by vitac -- [ cheers awww.vitac.com good evening, everyone. welcome to "ac 360 later." a lot on the table tonight including new evidence that american teenagers are falling behind most of the rest of the world in reading, math and science. also new insight on how men and womens brains are different. and macys is taken to task for allegedly racially profiling shoppers. we begin though tonight with break news in the new york train wreck that took the lives of four people and sent doz...