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Friday. looking for very cold temperatures, however, different story in the northeast. it's going to stay mild for the next few days, next chance for rain will be on friday. >> chris warren, thanks for the update. >> federal investigators continue to review the activities at the metro north engineer from the 72 hours before the train who was at the helm that crashed. his client experienced a sort of days in moments before the train traveling nearly three times the speed limit. derailed going around a curve killing four people and injuring dozens of others. investigators continue to pore over c...

Workers in this country has been well documented. i want to point out that metro north alone has 121 stations in seven counties in new york state and two counties in connecticut. you know, as a private pilot, i would ask do we know who's doing the maintenance? i know this is going to come out in the investigation, the ntsb is going to review all of that. i'm not sure what kind of regulations as far as time on engine are put on the rails or anything like that. but do we know who's doing the maintenance and how do you view this as being a big part of the investigation? how does a train get to 82...

To be terrorism. no one is talking about terrorists. was there human error or mechanical error? tell us about the death toll and the number injured. is that expected to rise? >> caller: unfortunately, yes. 77 people are confirmed dead by the court system here. it's court officials who confirm those figures. they are still working on the scene. a spokeswoman says they expect to find other bodies in cars. dozens and dozens of people injured, some in serious injury. just to give you an idea, 218 people aboard this train, a third of those people are now dead. christine? >> what a tragedy in a beau...

Because of that or because of the plane crash. investigators are still looking into that, kate. >> investigators, of course, still looking into the cause, if it was human error, mechanical error, a combination of the two. have they given us any time line of when they think we will have a final answer of what they think caused this crash? >> reporter: well, they're saying it could take about a year but they're making this a priority to figure out exactly what went wrong with this. one thing i should mention, the reason why fire officials saying they didn't see the girl on the tarmac is because ...

Very good information about tell us about the last seconds in the cockpit. we know that seven seconds before impact the crew acknowledged in the cockpit to each other that they were slow. they had a target air speed of 137 knots, and they're acknowledging that they're below that. at four seconds they got a stick shaker activation, basically telling them the airplane was about to stall if they didn't take other action. and about 1.5 seconds before impact, they are calling out to each other for a go around, to abort the landing and go around. that information is very helpful to us as we try to p...