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That had any effect on this accident. >> all right, bella, you have your work cut out for you. i'm sorry to hear about this awful accident and thank you for all your work, i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> all right, let's bring in my panel. my dear friend, msnbc contributor and columnist with the daily news. matt welch with reason, a monthly magazine. and larry mann, who helped write the federal railroad safety act in 1970. larry, what jumped out when you saw what happened yesterday? >> several things jumped out. one is had there been two competent crew members on the locomotive, if there had...

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The major causes as well. we have a curve and until they get the event recorder analyzed we will not know what the speed of the train was. underlying all of this is fatigue. this has been a major concern for congress the ntsb and certainly the workers. they are not able to get sufficient rest throughout their workweek. those are the meajajor areas that i think will looked upon by ntsb and will probably know by tomorrow whether there was a track defect or a wheel failure. that is something they will be able to determine almost immediately. >> all right. larry mann thank you very much.

Caused an accident. so a railroad can place whatever it feels may be the cause and fatigue is rarely used as the cause of an accident by the railroads but we know because of many studies and accidents that were investigated by the ntsb that fatigue is a major source of rail collisions and even derailments. >> well, we will certainly know more down the road. the ntsb as i mentioned, is on the way. larry, please stick with us. you are a wealth of information on a night that we don't have a lot of answers. for now, let's listen in to reporter keith jones from the nbc station in philadelphia. he's...

Major questions is of course we don't know what went wrong yet but on a route like this having just left the philadelphia train station, the major station there, the next major station would be new york city. it is a regional train. how fast on average, would it be going and just from the look of things, just looking at them on the screen and seeing this kind of damage -- okay. i'm sorry. we have keith back. larry, hold on. let's listen to our local reporter right now. >> firefighters have said that this is bad. residents can also be seen on the corner. if you pan up a little bit, you can see ...