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instructing the crew to slow and stop the train. >> dana: ahead of the national transportation safety board revealing the train derailment in ohio was 100% preventable. the accident was caused by an overheated axle. republican ohio governor mike dewine is standing by with reaction. go to mike tobin live in east palestine, ohio. good morning, mike. >> good morning. that ntsb report is really 0ing in on a wheel on the 23rd car in the freight train. sensors along the train tracks and the wheels were getting hot. the wheel bearings heated up some 215 degrees information a 30-mile stretch. that sent an alarm to the engineer. he started braking the train, automatic brakes kicked in. by that time the wheel bearings failed and train derailed. axle and wheel were so hot the car was carrying a lot of
automatic brakes were also applied, and they detected what appeared to be smoke and fire underneath. that is a big indicator that this train was coming in very hot with its bearings potentially on fire, but clearly well above the threshold at which the train should have already stopped when it started getting hotter and hotter and hotter if you will. as surveillance video from a local residence showed what appeared to be a wheel bearing in the final stage of overheat failure moments before the derailment. as we've heard, there have been reports that there was fire underneath the train before it derailed. this report would suggest that was the case and in fact, the bearings were overheating well in excess of the temperature at which the alarm goes off and at which they should have stopped the train at that moment j you can see that video on our screen showing what looks to be sparks here or even that fire you were talking about. flag us as you continue to read
that was manuel. imagine someone on the ground trying to override. who knows what might have happened. >> that's like automatic brakes on cars, they bother me. if it brakes for me and a car is coming this way. i want to get this way. i try to disarm those on my cars. >> jump in. >> you may talk about two different things. one is fully robotic that automatically does things. the other possibility is a human based system that's not on the plane. basically you have ground controllers that says if you have a plane doing something really unusual and won't communicate and tell us what's going on then they take over. sully says i've got an emergency and going to land on the hudson. they say go ahead. if a plain starts circling and they won't answer a, they then say that plane is under our control and flying it somewhere else. >> not long ago was the boeing