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Successfully with their families. >> joining us now is the president of the national safety council and former ntsb chairman deborah herzman. thank you very much for being here. >> good morning. >> so they've already charged the 24-year-old driver with vehicular homicide. how do they know already that he did something criminally wrong? >> you know, i'd say the local authorities probably have a lot more information on the ground than we do. there can be anything from cameras that are on board the bus to witnesses to even self-disclosure by that driver and so when you have fatalities involving c...

The three leaders. >> well and they have one of the black boxes although it's very damaged. peter goelz says they'll be able to get information out of there so that's good. they'll release that probably fairly quickly? >> they'll release it on their time scale, not on ours. that's really the way it goes yes. but here's the interesting point, the ntsb changed the rules by themselves effectively. if you go back to asiana in san francisco. deborah herzman gave more information than we've ever seen and it's the rest of the world following their normal procedures. it's the u.s. that went on this --...

Unfortunately, ntsb investigates a lot of accidents where things weren't bad until someone ran off the end of the runway. >> miles, the plane slides did not deploy. that's kind of disturbing, too. >> well it appears you see that tail cone is missing. it appears the rear slide, there was a deployment there. if you look at the forward doors, it's not an advantageous place to get out of the plane because the fence and the berm and everything else. so the idea that passengers had to go through those doors over the wing and shimmy down the extended flaps would be the course of action. however, i wi...

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 we've seen before. and whether there's a mechanical issue, an equipment issue or a human factor issue, it's something that doesn't need to happen and something like positive train control can certainly prevent it. >> it is such a no brainer. a...