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The engineer pushed the throttle forward. and that's -- we are -- we -- the convenient recorder does record throttle movement. we will be looking at that to see if that dore rescorresponds to the increase in the train. we talked to the engineer, the person operating the train. he was fully -- he was fully cooperative when we met with him on friday and then also interviewed two assistant conductors that were on the train. >> they still don't know why this happened. jason carroll joined me now the human story of all of this is the most important, people that lost their loved ones you just this m...

Locomotive engines, indeed this is not a one-step process. >> that's right. the only way an operaable train can accelerate is if the engineer pushed the throttle forward, and that's what the event recorder does record throttle movement and we will look to see if that corresponds to the speed of the train. we talked to the engineer the person operating the train, and he was fully cooperative when we met with him on friday, and we also interviewed two assistant conductors on the train. >> but he doesn't remember anything or this is the report he says he doesn't remember anything after leaving no...

Throttles. it's a manual input. we're going to be -- through the event recorder through the black box, if you will, we do -- one of the parameters recorded is throttle movement, so we'll be looking at that to see if that might correspond with the speed increase. but we're also looking to see if there could be any type of mechanical anomaly that could potentially cause the train to accelerate without an input. so we'll come right here. >> have you been able to get any of his toxicology reports back blood work things like that? and are there any other video sources on the train that may show you...

So we have called for positive train control for many many years. it's on our most wanted list. congress has mandated that it be installed by the end of this year. so were very keen on positive train control. we feel that had such a system been installed in this section of track, this accident would not have occurred. [ inaudible question ] is this train equipped with a dead man switch? some have it, some don't. oftentimes in place of the dead man switch they have an alerter. if there's no activity from the engineer within a certain period of time, their oral and visual alerter will activate i...