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This. they have informed us that it looks pretty certain that the tracks were okay. they're still undergoing signalling, but preliminarily, looking at the signals, they were okay. so two choices. one would be human error on behalf of the engineer. the other would be mechanical error on the locomotive. and they will look thoroughly into that over the next few days and come up with a good answer. but it's premature to blame anyone or anything right now. final thing, i guess, i would say is this. rail safety is darn good in america, overall. there haven't been many deaths. things are safer today ...

Traffic is minimal on the tracks. earlier this afternoon, mta provided us with a copy of a surveillance video from a nearby bridge. that surveillance video was of low quality. we have sent it back to washington, d.c. to our laboratories to see if it can be enhanced. the engineer's cell phone has been recovered, as is part of our routine process, and the forensic evaluation of that cell phone will be provided to the ntsb. finally, all seven cars and the locomotive have been rerailed and our team has conducted the preliminary assessment of five of those cars and the locomotive. the two remaining...

Nine stops prior to derailing. we need to understand how the brake system was working throughout that part of the trip. at this point, we are not aware of of any problems or anomalies with the brakes. also today, we began interviewing the engineer. that interview will be continued over the next couple days. we have interviews in process with the other two, three -- the other three crew members. investigators from the track group have completed the assessment of the track, have conducted a detailed engineering survey of the site. earlier this afternoon, we released the track back to metro. metr...

For four debts was going 82 in a 30 miles-per-hour bend. let's listen in. >> we need to understand how to the brake system was working in that part of the trip. we're not aware of any problems or anomalies with the brakes. also today we began interviewing the engineer. that interview will be continued over the next couple of days. we have interviews in process with the other two, three -- the other three crew members. investigators from the track group have completed the assessment of the track. they conducted a detailed engineering survey of the site. earlier this afternoon, we released the t...

Into the train crash in canada the worse it seems to get. >> good morning to you at home. 20 people are now confirmed dead in the quebec train disaster. many, many more are still missing but investigators say they were likely incinerated in that inferno. we want to show you new aerial images showing you the before and after damage, you can see that explosion leveled the town. this as the railway ceo places blame on an employee, casting doubt on the engineer's story that he said 11 handbrakes on train cars before they broke three. for the first time attorneys for james holmes admits he killed...