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Sentiment going on and i think it's fair to remind the american people that the people that work in government and serve at the highest level are just people like us and they have all their biases and they all have hopes and wishes an dreams. heather: all right, and we are now learning amtrak train that slammed head on was on the wrong tracks, federal investigators trying to figure out why a switch was in the wrong position sending amtrak train on to the side rail in south carolina where the freight train was parked. the head of the ntsb says the disaster could have been prevented if federal s...

Two months past his 20th birthday. >> he was his high school valedictorian and just finishing up his second year as midshipman at the united states naval academy. >> 39-year-old rachel jacobs had tested her husband at 8:45 telling him she had just caught the train. ceo of a philadelphia tech startup commuting from her home in new york. 49-year-old jim gaines worked for the associated press doing digital video. wells fargo confirmed abid gilani is also among the dead. the number of deaths is likely to climb. train safety experts say the technology exists for a failsafe able to slow a train down...

Systems. they will look at the event quarter on the engine. while it's not as complex as, say, the black box on a commercial airplane, it will tell you how fast a train was going, whether brakes were being applied, whether the brakes were effective in slowing the train down, if they were applied. if it's a question of speed, that will come out very early in the investigation. >> okay. overall, how long until you get conclusive answers, though, typically in something like? given the fact there are four fatalities, well over 60 injuries, and a lot of people still pretty shaken up. >> well, the n...

Included and folded into the investigation. however, that certainly does not negate the facts, steve, that a positive train control system would have prevented -- slowed this train down, regardless of any type of human error or that could have resulted in the acceleration of the train going into the serve. >> when you start seeing the talk and the reports of the projectiles, the possibility of sabotage, of something intentional here from somebody not on the train is at least raised. what do you think of that? >> well during my tenure at the ntsb in the 1990's as chairman there were two inciden...