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Accounted for every person we think may have been on that train. >> in terms of why this happened? do we know if the locomotive engineer who's driving the train, do we know if he has spoken with investigators, if investigators have had the access to him that they want to have to him -- do we know -- he's got a key role in explaining what happened here, do we know what position he's at with regard to the investigation now? >> all i can tell you about the engineer is that he was injured, he was in the engine compartment. the video shows them separated from the rest of the train. he was injured b...

>> they are owned by the freight companies? >> incredibly dangerous. >> they are owned -- >> they're the priority. >> they get priority, what we're talking about the implementation of something like positive train control, that has to be done with the tracks, which the private companies have to do, amtrak can't do that by themselves. >> absolutely not. absolutely not. >> and, you know, i don't blame amtrak. first of all, our rail bed from boston to washington is so bad because it's curved everywhere, curves are inherently dangerous when you're going any significant speed. to give you an exampl...

From amtrak train 188 today. traveling from d.c. to new york at this time last night, when it suddenly derailed and crashed while rounding a curve on its way out of philadelphia. seven people confirmed dead at this point, more than 200 people injured. as to what happened and why. what we've learned substantively about the derailment has largely come from that data recorder. investigators confirming that the recorder indicates in a the train at the time of the derailment was traveling at more than 100 miles an hour through that curve. more than twice the posted speed limit for that stretch of t...

Actually automate -- make it impossible to go above the speed into a turn. >> yeah. it takes a bit of that human element away. now what happens is the engineer will get a signal to reduce his speed. if the engineer doesn't take some type of affirmative action to do that to get into compliance, the signal system will essentially stop the train. >> and we have -- that technology exists? >> it's out there, it's developing and evolving, and it's out there, and we're still looking at it, and railroads are striving to implement, but yeah, it's out there. >> now, in terms of implementing positive tra...

Broadcast for the delivery of the big rockefeller center christmas tree we get delivered here. every year right at the beginning of the year. his name was james and worked at the "today" show for 20 years. he was one of four people that were killed that morning in that train crash. it's a miracle that no more than four people didn't die. unlike the l.a. crash that had happened five years earlier, this one was one train crashing, it didn't hit anything. it was one train derailment, there are erie similarities between that metro north crash and what happened in philly. the train was the same siz...