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6:24 on the east coast.amtrak says it was just months away from finishing installing a safety system that could have prevented that train derailment in philadelphia. officials say the train did have automatic speed control as did the track, but it wasn't operational yet. amtrak says budget issues and delays in receiving clearance to use radio frequencies are to blame. meanwhile federal investigators say train 188 started to accelerate 65 seconds before it derailed. it hit 100 miles per hour 16 seconds before the crash. and the worst fears have been realized for the family of a baltimore execut...

These investigators are going to be combing through over the next 4 hours. >> and obviously, after every train crash, there's a talk about positive train control that would have prevented this accident from happening. give us a sense of what exactly it is and how it works. >> well, in the northeast corridor, these trains that go-between cities like washington, d.c. and new york, as was the case, was supposed to be the case with this train, this type of system is already in place. it's automated speed control. so if the train doesn't slow down, if the engineer doesn't bring it down to the speed...

Of three times. but if it only clicked once would it lock into place or does it need to click the other two times? >> i would say the bar's position is dependent on the size and weight of the individual. you could have a device like that bar fit over a woman that has certain size that would be 95 percentile and wouldn't get to the further lower position because of the restraint of the body. this all has to be looked at and understood if this ride was appropriate for a person of this size. >> witnesses say she was concerned, but only because of the clicking noise. so, it's possible the lap bar ...

The full picture will become clear, if it ever will? i suppose that's really entirely dependent on how cooperative the russian authorities decide to be with the u.s. >> oh, absolutely, anderson. we don't know what the russians are willing to tell us and what they're not. maybe they did make contact with him at some point, attempt to recruit him. it's something they wouldn't want to admit to us. not that they had known about the attack in boston but intelligence services will do that, in particular the russians, they will go to an american, try to recruit him, go back, spy on other chechens, so...

With the u.s. >> oh, absolutely, anderson. we don't know what the russians are willing to tell us and whether they're not. maybe they did attempt to contact him and recruit him. they won't tell us that. not that they knew about the attack in boston but intelligence services will do that, particularly in particular the russians, try to recruit him, go back, find another chechen. there's a whole file that they have that they're probably a little bit embarrassed about at this point. i'll go back to the explosives. i'm sorry for running this into the ground, but i talked to the fbi today, they sai...