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The pilot will not be they are suing the airline and intend to go to the hearing as well. >> oo she lost part of her leg when a taxi jumped a curb and hit her is suing the city of new york. shawn green filed a $27.5 million claim against the city saying the taxi cab driver license should have been suspended because he had several prior violations. he served a 30-day suspension. according to federal safety add foiofficials the national transportation safety board said the train was traveling 82...

Welcome back to "new day." funerals start today for the four victims of sundays train derailment in new york, as two surviving passengers prepare to file a lawsuit. against the railroad. now investigators are looking into possible criminal charges against the engineer on that train. cnns nic robertson is joining us now with much more. weve been following it from the very beginning. whats the latest, nick? >> the question is was the mta, this is what the lawsuits will put forward, was the mta neg...

Investigation. >> prosecutors are most likely looking now at a charge of criminally negligent homicide, a form of manslaughter in other states. >> reporter: rockefellers lawyer says his client had a good nights sleep before the crash. but two weeks prior, his shift changed significantly, from late to early. could be a defense. could explain why rockefeller might have nodded off. >> a jury might look at this and say, you know something, its a horrible situation but its a terrible accident. he had...

Train derailment told first responders he was dozing off just before the crash. >> every indication he would have had time to get full restorative sleep. >> reporter: investigators who combed the wreckage found no problems with the train signals along the routes or the brakes. >> based on this data, theres no indication that the brake systems were not functioning properly. >> reporter: sources tell abc news that human error was likely the cause of the crash that killed four and injured more than...

Months from the metropolitan transportation authority. a former ntsb director says a gps system that can control trains remotely would improve safety but implementing it wont be easy. >> the u.s. has a very complex system in which you have multiple operators with different equipment running on the same rails. if were going to having positive train control, the government has to be serious about it. and theres got to be resources applied so that this kind of system can be put in place where its n...

Today federal officials have begun removing data from two black boxes recovered from the wreckage of the deadly train derailment in new york city. four people were killed and more than 60 others injured when the commuter train spun off the tracks while taking a sharp turn into the bronx. the national transportation safety board tweeted this picture of investigators downloading data from one of those recovered boxes. officials believe speed was a factor in the crash and the trains engineer told f...

Implement positive train control. that system is supposed to be installed bay the end of 2015. had that been installed, theres a good possibility this accident would have been avoided if it was due to human error. >> are you blaming that system? the lack -- >> no, obviously, its a very expensive system. its going to cost the industry $10 billion to put the system in, that theyre going to pay themselves without any federal funding. the benefits of that are only about $400 million over 20 years. t...

That something called positive train control could be something that helps prevent accidents like this. explain to our viewers and me, frankly, what positive train control means. >> it means that theres an outside influence on how the train is operated. so if you have a computer driven system, the system is going to tell the train to slow down, regardless of what the operators telling it to do. lets not forget that we have a lot of trains in this country operating with no operators whatsoever. r...

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To the hospital after the crash. this train was making its first run on apparently, what were refurbished tracks meant to provide a faster trip for this popular route. it happened at a spot where the track curves and the speed limit drops. they are looking at the pab possibility this train was going as fast as 80 miles per hour in a 30 mile per hour zone. now, thats being looked at. investigators have not said yet what caused the crash, but they have said the train wasnt using the latest safety ...