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How could that happen? >> its really inexplicable in this day and change we dont have positive train control on all of the credit kritical pass lines. europe is different, the rail lines are state-owned ma tphaup tease, and here in the u.s. we have private entities, the railroads and the integration problems, and lets be clear, this is inexplicable and the engineer will face problems on this. >> yeah, if theres one thing you would want to avoid is this. how will they figure out what happened eve...

Its 5:00 a.m. in the east, 2:00 a.m. in washington state. lets begin there. federal crash investigators are on the ground in dupont, washington, probing the deadly derailment of the passenger train. three people were killed, 100 injured when all but one of the 14 cars jumped the track. overnight the.n ntsb confirmed speed was a critical factor. >> preliminary indications are that the train was traveling at 80 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour track. >> there are also questions about positive...

Investigators, this was the first day according to the schedule on their website. this was the first day of this new high speed service. this was a new train and new run. its highlighted on the website that it could make the journey faster. and to have this happen on the maiden voyage will be of huge interest. they will be looking at whether the tracks were sufficient for i believe the train was going 81 miles an hour. thats pretty high speed, but not japan bullet train speed. fairly high speed....

Conductors. one of the things they will look at very carefully is the survivability. were these railcars -- did they function in the accident to protect the occupants as much as they should have. a number of years ago the fra backed away from certain crash worthiness regulations that allowed lighter cars to passenger cars to operate. the real issue is, this is the third time, you know, where we have had a major accident that could have been prevented by ptc in the last four or five years. >> on ...

Turn. clearly that didnt happen. and the question is why didnt it happen. and also, theres a lot of attention being paid to positive train control. thats the technology thats been around for a while, but only spe radically implemented around the country that can automatically slow down a train going too fast. the technology was in effect here. investigations dont know if that would have prevented the accident. this is a tragedy with multiple levels. take a look at interstate five now. you see th...

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Laborous process because weve all seen the wreckage and one of the cars is hanging over the overpass. state officials say this stretch will be closed through at least the morning rush, likely longer than that, because once those train cars are removed, they have to check for any damage on the roadway that was left behind. as for the latest on the victims, the numbers havent changed much since last night. three people confirmed dead. 72 people were taken to the hospital to be evaluated and treate...

Derailed. >> we now know it was going 80 miles an hour at the time in a 30 mile-an-hour zone. >> ntsb has been very adamant on this. positive train control saves lives. >> what we need to find out is whether there was positive train control and how much of it was already implemented. >> the positive train control were cold was supposed to be installed next year. >> have you ever tried a jury trial? >> state or federal court? >> i have not. >> i dont think they were got ya questions. i just dont ...

Many are dead. we know all the fatalities happened to individuals who were on board the train. believe it or not, no one died on the road beneath. all of that said, we do know that there were 14 cars altogether on this train. 13, as you mentioned, jumped the track. two of those -- two of the 14 cars were engines. we know there were some 78 passengers on board, according to amtrak, and five crew. this was a new route. that will be something that will be of interest to investigators. one of the qu...