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Heard of any reported signals that could have been a warning? >> thats one of the things were going to be looking at. were going to look at all of the signals as well as the track, as well as the mechanics. and human factors. thats part of interviewing the crew as well as looking at all the operations bulletins and some of the records to find out what exactly was the speed environment and the requirements for this area. >> well, i want to stay on that speed environment because thats definitely a...

Performance investigator is going to be involved in this accident, and hes excellent, so theyll find out. >> when you talk about positive train control, we were talking earlier and i said would this ever be allowed to fly if this had to do with planes, no pun intended, meaning if there was something known to be sort of the backup, the fail safe, that would stop something like this, but instead multiple crashes in the last few years that could have been stopped by positive train control, were not...

Derailed, critics say constant deadline extensions are costing lives. >> national transportation safety board has been begging the industry to indicate positive train control and anytime it gets close our congress pushes it back, pushes it back and keeps doing that. thousands of lives we have lost because we dont have positive train control. >> reporter: federal investigators say the engineer driving the train was not alone in the cab, he was training a conductor to become fully with the new rou...

December of next year. >> okay. stephanie, thank you very much for all that information. joining us now is deborah herzman, president of the national safety council and former ntsb chairman. thank you very much for being here. a train traveling at 80 miles per hour in a 30-mile-per-hour zone, how does that happen? >> unfortunately, this is something that weve seen before. and whether theres a mechanical issue, an equipment issue or a human factor issue, its something that doesnt need to happen a...

From where this crash happened. this is the first day of this corridor running, and this was upgraded to handle amtrak trains traveling at a higher rate of speed, a max speed of 79 miles per hour. now, amtrak did tell cnn that at this point, they can confirm that the positive train control, that it was not activated, so there are going to be a lot of questions about this technology, why wasnt it activated? and amtrak also released a statement. if you know somebody aboard this train, if you are c...

Had been ejected from the train on to the pavement. i heard people in there asking for help and stuff. there were people yelling, theres people looking for each other, looking for loved ones. >> reporter: mccoy, taking these photos from inside the train as he pulled passengers to safety. president trump talking politics before sending his condolences to survivors, tweeting shortly after the crash that the derailment, quote, shows more than ever why our soon-to-be submitted infrastructure plan mu...

Around to that curve, theyre probably going to have a lower speed. so you either have that enforcement of positive train control to back up the human being if they fail to slow the train down or dont create those b big differentials in speed on the track. >> what kind of tests had to be done? this was the inaugural test with passengers, but of course before you run a new train route like this, you test it with engineers and locomotives, et cetera. would that have been extensive testing? >> yes. ...

Hand. human performance does things like was the engineer -- did he get enough rest, what kind of training did he get. >> do they automatically do alcohol testing, drug testing? >> exactly. >> as you look at this, what jumps out at you? >> i would -- just -- >> i and i realize youre looking at a picture and im not asking you to tell us what you think happened here but are there some things that are obvious to you that would immediately draw you to look at certain things? >> since its positive tr...

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New tracks for speed. speed is where the case is squarely focused. >> the headline, the train was going 80 miles an hour in a 30 mile an hour zone. stephanie elam with the very latest. stephanie? >> good morning, john and poppy. that is correct. the national transportation safety board saying they were able to access that data recorder from the back of the train. that is how we know that the train was going 80 miles per hour in a zone it should have gone 30 miles per hour. the other issue is som...