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Been a good day since. i'm turning it over to chris hayes, "all in" takes over right now. >> all right. >> thanks chris. >> thanks for joining us. i'm chris hayes taking over we are live as you see from philadelphia at the scene of amtrak train's 188 catastrophic derailment last night. where investigators are continuing to probe through the wreckage, the crash killed at least seven people eight are listed in critical condition. more may still be missing. the federal investigation has only just begun to probe what happened. here's what we know according to preliminary information from the train...

That area generally. has absolutely no recollection of the incident or anything unusual. >> police now in the process of obtaining a search warrant of the engineer's phone records to determine if he was distracted during the time of the crash. lawmakers and critics also saying even if human error is the cause, this crash raises issues about safety systems that still are not in place. and could have saved lives. who made this happen and why did it happen at all? let's get deeper into these questions in the terms of what we do and do not know. we have cnn's transportation and government regulati...

Had a medical condition that he knew might incapacitate him but he didn't report it to amtrak that could rise to the level of criminal conduct. so we've got to see what his prior medical record looks like and what the results of the toxicology tests on his blood are. >> you'd be interested to know that like airline pilots we have an annual physical. our annual physical covers everything from drug screening to hearing to our sight and weight and blood pressure. >> i'm sure the plane in germany that crashed, they have an annual one as well. could the deadly amtrak crash have been present snd i...

Funding? >> without a doubt. what you had is a major cut in the house. amtrak needs more money. the house is cutting money, but that's not the only reason. if speed ends up being what is going on there are parts of amtrak on that northeast corridor that already have electronic train control. they need to put it on more of the northeast corridor so if he's coming as the report that you just had at 100 miles an hour on a curve that ought to be 50 miles an hour if he had that electronic control that's on other parts of that amtrak line, he in fact would have had it automatically slowed down inste...

Impersonal when i say that's not our lane. we are very concerned about each and every individual on that train. however, we are here to investigate the accident itself and figures about accounting for every occupant that comes under the philadelphia office of emergency management. >> we are told that police detectives actually tried to interview the engineer of the train, but he refused and left with a lawyer. is that right? >> i don't have firsthand information about that. we are interested in interviewing the engineer. we want to find out his side of the story. it's not uncommon for somebody...