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Metro north crash north of manhattan where the tired train conductor zoned out and four people died. and what happened in philadelphia, for some reason heading into that 50-mile-an hour curve that train was being driven at over 100 miles an hour. the cars flung off the rails. yeah positive train control would have prevented this crash too. but the system is not in place yet. amtrak has been slowly getting that system in place piece by piece, doing this here and that there. they have positive train control on on some of the tracks but not in philly where the plane crash happened last night. and...

Just north of manhattan at a curve in the river, it's called spiten ivel it's technically in the bronx. a lot more people could have been killed in that crash, the aren't tracks curve is because of how close the rail line gets to the river there. when that train derailed those cars -- see the water at the bottom of your screen. those cars went spilling toward the river. had they gone into the river, we may not just have seen blunt force trauma. we may have also seen drownings. both the metro north train and amtrak crash was on a sharp curve, in both of those cases we had trains traveling alone...

The case of the metro north crash of 2013, and at least preliminarily, it appears that the cause was the same. it appears that what caused the derailment was the train traveling at a very high rate of speed into a sharp curve. we do not yet know why that happened last night in philadelphia in this derailment that claimed seven lives already and may have claimed more. the ntsb determined that the aren't train engineer was speeding at more than 80 miles an hour, going into that 30 mile an hour curve was because the train engineer was tired. he wasn't necessarily completely asleep. he told invest...

Then robbed him of his life. paul walker was in the middle of shooting another "fast and furious" movie, not to be indelicate but fans want to know what will the series do without him. welcome to "the lead." i'm john berman filling in for jake tapper. we do begin with the national lead. any moment from now we are spaeare' expecting new information on the deadly crash in the bronx that killed four people. the national transportation safety board holding a news conference, again, any minute, we will bring it to you live, the whole subject is something none of us wants to think about when we bo...

Have in mind some kind of stopgap for this positive system. talk to me about what kind of monitoring systems are now in place for the engineers, for the people who run these railroads. there's the black box, so-called black boxes, the recorders, there were two of them on this train. what about video cameras? is anyone taking pictures of what's going on inside these trains? >> not that i know of. i don't believe anybody has got a video system on board. they do review the operation of the train and there are people that ride the train, safety inspectors, if you will, to make sure they are abidin...