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[ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. good morning. thanks so much for joining me. here are some of the top stories we're watching this morning at 32 past. the rail union is no longer part of the investigation into the train derailment because federal officials say it violated confidentiality rules after a union representative told cnn the train engineer was nodding off and caught himself too late to stop the crash. the union rep also said investigators are leaning toward human error as the cause.

The engineer of the train, william rockefeller, nodded off at the controlled. what's exactly the problem? if that was the report that came directly from officials, what seems to be the issue with it? >> reporter: well, the ntsb says whatever partners they had in this union that there's a confidentiality agreement that they don't explain what's going on behind the scenes with the investigation. of course, one of the key things in the investigation, the interview with the train engineer william rockefeller. and his union has come out courts to the ntsb, and if you will divulge what's been said a...

Nic robertson is in the bronx overlooking the crash site with much more. good morning, nic. >> reporter: good morning, kate. the ntsb says the association of commuter rail employees did break the confidentiality agreement to be part of the investigation into this accident. they say that because their representative came along, talked after the ntsb press conference, it wasn't so much what he said but the sort of things he was explaining and the insights he wassive gooding. they have excluded that union from being part of the investigation. we heard from the lawyer of the train engineer and he ...