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That owns that pipeline that not only does the pipeline need to be drained immediately, they also need to physically send the ruptured section of the people pipe out for testing and conduct what sa called a root analysis of the spill and involve a third party outside to review the ults results of previous pipeline inspections. but as of tonight, it is still a mystery as to what caused the pipeline leak in the first place. local papers have been digging into the safety report of plains all american looking for clues. the "l.a. times" reporting that since 2006 the pipeline company has received 1...

>> at this point you've gotten results from the black box. it's really a data recorder isn't it? >> it is indeed. it's a black box. there are really two sources of information -- forward-facing video camera which we've looked at. and also the event recorder. so we've obtained data from each of those. >> when you look at the locomotive powering this train, and we are talking about a train increasing tens of miles per hour in the course of the final minute, what would it have entailed for the train to do that? would this have been operator error? is this something that would have taken a lot of ...

Spinal injuries. his attorney says amtrak is to blame whether it was operator error or mechanical failure. he's seeking at least $150,000. >> a california man is facing charges for flying a small drone near the white house. drones not allowed anywhere in the nation's capitol. it's a no drone zone and the incident comes after a series of security concerns there. abc's pierre thomas with this story. >> the threat of another drone flying onto the white house grounds led to a massive response from authorities. including hazmat teams and a lockdown at the nation's most famous address. the drone was...

Many lives with such dangerous speed? >> we certainly are looking forward to the opportunity to interview him. we are so glad that we will have that opportunity in the next few days. >> the engineer has agreed to talk with the ntsb investigators, but according to his lawyer, he doesn't remember much about the accident or the moments that led to it. he did suffer a concussion in the accident. in philadelphia, for abc news, i'm jim dolan. >> and amtrak is facing its first lawsuit stemming from the crash filed by one of its own employees. dispatcher bruce phillips was in the last car heading home...

Are there possible mechanical reasons a train would be going at that speed into a curve, independent of operator error? >> we want to look at that. we want to look at the operator the mechanical condition of the train. we want to look at the signal. we want to take a holistic approach to understand why this train ended up in the situation that it did. when you look at the crash site as i did in a helicopter today, the physics are pretty apparent. you guys don't have a lot of mystery in terms of what happened. how did it get to that speed? >> yes. >> let me ask you a legal question. my understa...