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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 on what the conditions were when the train derailed. we also know it happened at 7:33 a.m. pacific time. there were 12 cars involved plus two locomotives, two engine cars. 13 of the 14 cars jumped the track. there have been multiple ....
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 have a sense, if the amtrak folks put in place some of the safety recommendations that were given to them in 20166 in the wake of that philadelphia accident? no, i don t. i believe they did implement ....
gre greg: i want to update our breaking news story. an automobile plowed into a group of pedestrians. several have been injured. taken to area hospitals. the latest on their condition, serious to minor. no deaths reported so far. the driver of the vehicle, it was actually a cab and near the pool of cabs at logan airport. 56 years old. a cambridge man. he s cooperating with police. it appears to be operator error. we ll update you as we get more information. new jersey governor chris christie getting a load of criticism after he went to a state beach that is closed to everybody else. christie ordest a government shut down after he and lawmakers couldn t reach a budget deal before the july 1 deadline. he and his family still went to ....
Their own military presence in the south china sea. hundreds of military heros facing off in the 2017 warrior games. a look at this year s competitors. some of the challenges they ve had to overcome. all ahead in this hour. we begin with breaking news out of boston. i m gregg jarrett in for shepard smith. we re at logan airport where a car crashed into a crowd of people. ten patients have been rushed to nearby hospitals. we don t know the severity of the injuries. according to local media, the driver is on the scene. police telling the associated press, investigators are looking at possible operator error as the incident. ....
reporter: dozens of firefighters on the scene desperately pulling out bricks and debris. three have been removed from the rubble. two of them are life threatening. reporter: in 2013, a crane collapsed and killing one and injures two others. an investigation found it was caused by operator error. david, tonight in this incident, we know that the workers were loading construction thmaterial on the roof when it collapsed underneath them. no doubt an investigation is under way. david? all right. when we come back, the risk of breast cancer and which women are at highest risk? we have more on that. and vitamin d. are americans taking too much of the supplement? and o.j. simpson and the parole board. will he go free? parole board. will he go free? this is my body of proof that i can take on psoriatic arthritis with humira. humira works by targeting and helping to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to both joint and ....