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Casualties and now amtrak adjusting the number saying 77 passengers were on the train at the time. five crew members also aboard. five motor vehicles down on the highway on i-5 and you see right there, were struck and it also two semi trucks and you can see, i believe that orange is a semi truck right there. that orange vehicle, were also struck. theyre working to secure the trains but the real breaking news here is that positive train control was not implemented in todays incident. train 501 di...

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What was the allure to get into tv? i was offered to be a judge on a show called "pop stars." - right. - and i said yes, then i said no, and then i realized id made a mistake, because if i say no, i didnt get the rights to sign the group. it was very much... "if i dont get in this now, im gonna miss the train." thiss "american idol" that youre talking about. yeah. all i was thinking abo, haey, was "i want to make sure my label is involved in this business, so whoever wins, well sign the artist."...

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...

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Some of them severely when the commuter train entered a sharp turn going 82 miles an hour in a 30-mile-per-hour zone. nic robson is at the crash site with the latest. >> reporter: human error, william billy rockefellers daze, increasingly the probable cause. his union representative saying he was nodding off and caught himself too late. >> he is extremely distraught over it. and he feel for the families. i dont believe that in my opinion, anybody could ever make billy feel worse than he is makin...

>> nbcs tom costello with that report. the new york times reports some metro north planes have what are called alerters. they basically set off an alarm if they dont detect activity from the engineer. when they go off, the eng fear has 15 seconds to respond. if he doesnt respond if time the brakes come on automatically. the train that derailed did not have that technology. >> so this daily news shot, what is the from a camera inside? >> thats him on the stretcher afterwards. they caught up with ...

>> there is every indication he had time to get full recovery of sleep ro. it shows 18 minutes the train had picked up tremendous speed. by the time it was supposed to slow from 70 down to 30 miles per hour to make a dramatic left turn, the train was moving at 82 miles per hour. at that point the engine power suddenly dropped to idle and the engineer slammed on the brakes. but it was all too late. the train came to rest just inches from the water. david wrangle who teaches train engineering says...

Thats just an inherent conflict that ought to be avoided. it hasnt been for generations in every state. >> the league is making promises they cant keep. >> we are negotiating with ourselves. the job with the union is to get as much. the george bush on the other side as a politician is to do the best in the city. >> the new york commuter line where four people were killed in a train wreck over the weekend should be getting back to normal. union representatives, the trains eng 94, william rockefel...

And as i,s the train started to derail, i just noticed that my body was as a serious enclean and that woke me up. it wasnt noise. i had head phones in. i had music playing. then once i opened my eyes i became aware of the screeching metal. i realized, this is a train crash and this is happening right now. >> having that thought as it happened? >> it was like in slow motion. it was very different than a car accident, it was very, very different. i had my phone in my hand and i realized it and i i...