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Some of them severely when the commuter train entered a sharp turn going 82 miles an hour in a 30-mile-per-hour zone. nic robson is at the crash site with the latest. >> reporter: human error, william billy rockefeller's daze, increasingly the probable cause. his union representative saying he was nodding off and caught himself too late. >> he is extremely distraught over it. and he feel for the families. i don't believe that in my opinion, anybody could ever make billy feel worse than he is making himself feel today. so billy feel terrible. whether it was his fault or not his fault. >> having...

>> nbc's tom costello with that report. the new york times reports some metro north planes have what are called alerters. they basically set off an alarm if they don't detect activity from the engineer. when they go off, the eng fear has 15 seconds to respond. if he doesn't respond if time the brakes come on automatically. the train that derailed did not have that technology. >> so this daily news shot, what is the from a camera inside? >> that's him on the stretcher afterwards. they caught up with him in a blink or something. >> that's sad. >> my god. to the post. >> that's america at its wor...

>> there is every indication he had time to get full recovery of sleep ro. it shows 18 minutes the train had picked up tremendous speed. by the time it was supposed to slow from 70 down to 30 miles per hour to make a dramatic left turn, the train was moving at 82 miles per hour. at that point the engine power suddenly dropped to idle and the engineer slammed on the brakes. but it was all too late. the train came to rest just inches from the water. david wrangle who teaches train engineering says there is no steering the commuter train t. sole engineer on board controls speed and brakes and the...

That's just an inherent conflict that ought to be avoided. it hasn't been for generations in every state. >> the league is making promises they can't keep. >> we are negotiating with ourselves. the job with the union is to get as much. the george bush on the other side as a politician is to do the best in the city. >> the new york commuter line where four people were killed in a train wreck over the weekend should be getting back to normal. union representatives, the train's eng 94, william rockefeller says he nodded off while driving. when he came to, he shut down the throttle and tried an em...

And as i,s the train started to derail, i just noticed that my body was as a serious enclean and that woke me up. it wasn't noise. i had head phones in. i had music playing. then once i opened my eyes i became aware of the screeching metal. i realized, this is a train crash and this is happening right now. >> having that thought as it happened? >> it was like in slow motion. it was very different than a car accident, it was very, very different. i had my phone in my hand and i realized it and i immediately, i'm going to need this and i grabbed my purse, i'm going to need this, too. and even ju...