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Beginning. let's go back to adrian now, see if we can get her mic working there. adrian telling us the story of the folks in new orleans and what they want the president to know. >> yeah, my bad, a little operator error on my end, but they want the president to know how much they are hurting. for example, in that short amount of time, you notice that blue crate over there, it was once filled with bags of ice. they gave away ice here for free, and that's something small, but it's making a big difference in the looives of th people here. they are desperate, they are hungry, and they are starving...

>> spectrum news. as far as you know, was that vehicle of the crash due to operator error? >> the question is as far as i know is the crash due to operator error? that would be speculation and we want to get all the fact and once we have the facts and carefully analyzed those, we issue a probable cause. but, at this point, we are here just to collect the factual information. there is a question right here. >> can you explain how that expedition was modified to people at home who are wondering if it is actually broken it in half and stretched out and could have had the brakes for an suv not as ...

Over the bridge. that did not happen. investigators want to know why that didn't happen. we know speed is being called a factor in the crash. they want to know what other factors existed that prevented this train from slowing down. >> have investigators had a chance to interview the crew yet or the engineer in particular? do we know their conditions? >> we don't know their exact condition. we are told they are hospitalized and the ntsb says they have not had a chance yet to interview them. so they will obviously be able to shed a lot of light. if this train didn't slow down, was that operator ...

Heard about the coming around the corner. listening to a media briefing led by amtrak president richard anderson. jo what do we know? >> reporter: pretty big news out of this. tom from nbc news asked a question about positive train control, whether or not it was implemented, and there was a one-word answer, no. and the reason that that is interesting and that matters in this situation is ptc or positive train control here can prevent train collisions, prevent derailment caused by excessive speed. ptc cannot prevent accidents caused by excessive speed or train operator error. we're getting news...

Aerial view i could get a better idea of the dynamics of the derailment because that will indicate the speed of the train to some extent. >> sandra: marie harf, you seem to want to jump in with a question. >> marie: this reminds me a little bit of the 2015 derailment we saw around philadelphia, from what i've been looking at, amtrak had 11 safety recommendations given to them after that, it killed eight people, 200 were injured, it turned out it was engineer failure but the train didn't have positive train control, some of these systems if there is operator error they help prevent it. do you h...