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Finally a relieved aaron is reunited with his son. >> i was overwhelmed with emotion at that point in time once i saw he was safe. >> with his son safe and secure, aaron turns and hugs the good samaritan who helped them. >> we cried for a minute with her and then everything was okay. >> she gets a warm hug from little aden, too. and little aden tells his dad, daddy, i will never push another button again. an investigation into why the doors did not reopen leads to the firing of a train operator....

The truck knew what was inside. >> we are learning the train operator had recently changed shift times. a union rep claiming that william rockefeller nodded off moments before the tracks. >> sometimes a momentary nod i dont know that he caught himself, but he caught himself too late. he powered down, and put it into emergency but that was six seconds to derailing. >> the ntsb pulled the rail union from the vinvestigation.

Too fast and automatically slow it down. >> reporter: its widely used in europe but its development has been stalled in the u.s. experts hope this crash will be a wake up call. but right now the focus is on that train operator. investigators say his blood alcohol test came back negative and so right now the big question, did he fall asleep? gio benitez, abc news, new york. >> almost sounds like semantics when you talk about nodded off and zoned out. im not sure the difference. >> fell asleep. >>...

Limit curve. the carriage i was in came off the track. it tumbled, it rumbled, it felt like it was going on forever. when it came to a stop, the window that i had had at the side was now in the ceiling. the carriage had turned on its side. i could see us very, very close to a building. we had smashed into a building next to the track. it was a very tough experience at the time. i broke my wrist. but i think looking back on it, we were lucky. there were no fatalities. no fatalities because the fr...

Hypnosis or did this train operator simply nod off? conflicting information about what exactly happened to the driver of that train that derailed early sunday morning in the bronx, killing four people, injuring at least 67 others. what could happen to that driver. im talking legal ramifications here. later today, four students at university of california santa barbara have been diagnosed with the virus that causes meningitis. one of those students even had to have his feet amputated. well tell y...

The curve, i mean i actually looked up. i knew something was -- it was going way too fast. >> there was screaming and people crying out to god and asking for their families. it was pretty gruesome. >> nbcs kristen dahlgren is live at the scene for us. kristen, it seems as if all arrows are pointing to the speed for investigators to look at when it comes to how that train was navigating the turn. >> reporter: yeah, it does. and what it may come down to in the investigation, thomas, is the black b...

Investigation. they have now recovered the plaque b black boxes from both the front of the train and the rear of the train and they hope that will give them the definitive information. how fast was the train going, were the brakes applied and when were they applied. according to the mta, the train operator told their investigators that he did whats called dumping the brakes. that the brakes werent working and so he tried this emergency maneuver when you lit all of the emergency brakes on all of ...

People and injured dozens more. theyve downloaded data from both of the on board recorders, tweeted out this picture of one of them. the recorders will play an important role in helping to determine if speed was a factor. joining us the former ntsb managing director peter goelz. how much are we going to learn? investigators from theres recovered data recorders? >> i think were going to learn a great deal. i think if were focusing in on speed and braking, the data recorders, while theyre not as c...

National transportation safety board. john, thank you so much for joining us. apparently the train operator says that he hit the brakes, but the train would not slow down. this is according to law enforcement who is at the scene. what could have caused that? >> well, its two pieces. when did he hit the brakes, was he too far into the turn before he hit the brakes, so the recorders are going to tell us when and how much of an application he applied the brakes to. i assume he tried the emergency s...

Looking at that, but at this point in time we have no indication that its -- that its a factor. >> do we know how the train was being pushed? was it pushed from the back, the engine? >> what was the configuration of the train? the train was being pushed from the back of the train. >> did that cause a derailment? would that cause any problems for it to derail? >> we will certainly be looking at any contribution that may have had in the derailment. >> is it hard to apply the brakes on a train when...