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Engineer. thats a big difference. the conductor does ticketing. youve seen the conductor going up and down the aisles of the train. the engineer is the one whos operating the train. so whatever data that this engineer is able to download to the police and to investigators will be massively significant in all of this brooke. >> absolutely. as you mentioned, that event recorder sitting in wilmington, delaware going through that piece by piece, figuring out the what the why. ashlee thank you. let m...

Administration. the fra says that accidents are declining going decreasing. joining us now is an adjunct professor with the railway program at michigan state university. sir, great to have you with us. in your experience how does a crash like this happen? from the wreckage that you have seen, what would your assertion be? >> when the investigators look at the pictures they see a train where all of the cars rolled over on the outside of the curve, and that means that they will be looking at wheth...

Apparently the train was believed to have been going over 100-mile-an-hour when is it crashed. thats just into us. lets talk about it. a former safety official with the federal railroad administration is with me. paul ginsburg is with me as well a forensic audio expert whos examined recordings for the federal government in multiple high-profile criminal cases. lets get right to it. george first to you. we had heard obviously speed could potentially be a factor around that curve, especially when ...

It also could be be the train control system and what concerns me in this accident this area should have come under basic positive train control system in the end of 2012. >> positive train control, so our viewers know that is a system that is leak a autopilot of the plane. it regulates the train. >> it controls the speed of the train and makes sure it is safely complying. >> you are saying that the train should have come upper that requirement but obviously was not? yeah even if the engineer fa...

National transportation train and rapid investigator. what is job one with, russell? >> preserve the evidence at the wreck site and anything that is perishable and gather all of the facts they can related to the different areas of the investigation. >> we have heard reports from outlets like the wall street journal who say the train was doing more than 100 miles per hour on a curve where design speed indicates 50 miles per hour should be the maximum speed. if that is true it is going to be a maj...

Made that curve safely. >> i mentioned a similar accident to our viewers a short time ago. there was an accident and i believe we have the video. and an accident on metro north tracks that are amtrak tracks north of manhattan a year and half oochlth and metro north commuter train missed a curv e and turned out that the engineer was taking the curve three times the posted speed and he was going much faster than that. >> is that the kind of thing we might be looking at here? >> positive train cont...

Confirmed, of about 2403 total individuals we believe were on the train. we are still comparing train manifests and hospital records and matching up individually pieces of information that we can glean. again, people buy tickets and dont get on the train. some amtrak personnel try to get from one place to the other, may not have had a ticket or identified as being on this particular train. so were tediously trying to two through that. im not going to get into, you know the mathematical calculati...

There? >> theres one event recorder. and thats in the locomotive in addition to the event recorder there is a forward-facing camera. >> was the train equipped with any sort of system that could have or should have slowed a train that was going too fast prior to the curve? >> was the train equipped with any type of device that could have or should have slowed it down to keep it within its limits? amtrak throughout a good bit of the northeastern corridor has a system called advanced civil speed en...

Correct, but the first thing theyre going to look at is how fast was this train going for the track it was on. >> if it was going too fast around that curve, is that a human error, conductor, the engineer or some other problem potentially? >> it could be any number of things, but you start with human performance. was the conductor, was the engineer operating the train appropriately leading up to the turn was he applying the brakes ape lately was there any kind of failure in the braking system th...

You know the mathematical calculations of how many folks and what happened to the people in between? yes, if you want that answer yes. >> mayor, can you talk about the train control system? we heard there were gaps here in this corridor. >> i have no information about that and im not in any position to articulate on that. yes, maam. >> a lot of philadelphia may be looking for leader in washington about what your office is going to do to prevent these kind of disasters from happening. can you spe...