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Million pounds of speeding steel. on board with a train engineer coming up next. but, first, dr. sanjay gupta with a preview of whats coming up at the half hour. >> deb, its a statistic that i talk about all the time, someone dies every 19 minutes from a prescription drug overdose and most of these deaths, deb, involve painkillers. so, were exposing one prominent physician who some say was writing these prescriptions with reckless abandon. we got that bottom of the hour. and ah, so you can see...

Peanuts weres were too salty or they served pepsi products versus coke products. you know, they were legitimate concerns and they were expressed in a very, very polite and cordial way. >> rabbi ginsburg sued for $5 million to research the rights of all frequent fliers to complain. well ask him about this case. he joins us on "new day" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. "new day" starts right now. he feels terrible. whether it was his fault or not, it was his train. >> asleep at the controls? ne...

[ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. good morning. thanks so much for joining me. here are some of the top stories were watching this morning at 32 past. the rail union is no longer part of the investigation into the train derailment because federal officials say it violated confidentiality rules after a union representative told cnn the train engineer was nodding off and caught himself too late to stop the crash. the union rep also said investigators are leaning toward hum...

The engineer of the train, william rockefeller, nodded off at the controlled. whats exactly the problem? if that was the report that came directly from officials, what seems to be the issue with it? >> reporter: well, the ntsb says whatever partners they had in this union that theres a confidentiality agreement that they dont explain whats going on behind the scenes with the investigation. of course, one of the key things in the investigation, the interview with the train engineer william rockef...

Nic robertson is in the bronx overlooking the crash site with much more. good morning, nic. >> reporter: good morning, kate. the ntsb says the association of commuter rail employees did break the confidentiality agreement to be part of the investigation into this accident. they say that because their representative came along, talked after the ntsb press conference, it wasnt so much what he said but the sort of things he was explaining and the insights he wassive gooding. they have excluded that...

Even the lawyer said to us, he finds it hard to put it into precise words. highway hypnosis is, lapse of concentration, nodding off coming to before the moment when it was too late to do anything about it. his union represent said look, who hasnt when theyve been driving down the highway, who hasnt in their car had that momentary lapse where theyve come to a few seconds later and said i dont remember those last few seconds, i dont remember that part of the highway. thats the comparison that he m...

Enforcement spokesperson told cnn they have no reason to believe the train engineer was actually on his cell phone during the time of the derailment. and actually, anderson, speaking to another investigator out here, they tell me there are a lot of moving parts to the investigation, one investigator telling me it is just too soon to have the definitive parts. >> all right, jay, thank you very much. and one commuter on her way to work, before you meet her, this was the car she was in on its side....

Welcome back to "new day." lets take a look at the stories making headlines. startling new information in the derailment of a new york commuter train, federal investigators say the metro north train was going 82 miles an hour through a sharp curve. that has a 30 mile-an-hour speed limit. officials say theyve subpoenaed the train engineers cell phone records. that accident killed four and injured dozens more. vice president biden in crisis mode, trying to calm tensions in asia today, he is meet...

Tomorrow on the show, debbie wasser man shultz and tom daschle. >> developing news, president obama set to speak this hour on health care law the beginning of whats described as a full-court press to get people enrolled and turn the page from the flawed rollout. has the white house truly turned the corner? well talk with top democratic leader james clyburn. more news on the train derail xt in new york. the train engineer recently started a new early morning shift. plus, sources tell nbc news the...

Reason. >> a lot of these types of issues will flare up as we see the word advance. there were no iphones or twitter. were using at the fast tech no logical pace. you would think congress would have to confront something similar to this in the near future. it is hard to say it will considering how fast 3d printing is going and folks are making stuff on internet out of it. >> who would have imagined ten years ago that this would be available. >> it is quite remarkable. >> reporter: take care. >> ...