Chemical in his body. Hello, welcome to al jazeera america. Im thomas draiton, good to have you with us. We are learning about the man at the controls when a speeding commuter train derailed in new york city, killing four and injuring dozens more. The engineer was in a daze at the time. Lisa stark has more on the investigation. The National Transportation safety board wouldnt say what condition the engineer may have been in prior to the tragedy, but found no indications of mechanic call problems. The brakes on the train, that barrelled along at 80 miles per hour, the breaks were tested before the run began, and worked fine at all the stops before the accident. Here is board member earl weener. Based on this data, theres no indication that the brakes were not functioning. Rockerfeller was on the fifth day of a nine hour shift. The ntsb said he should have had plenty of time to get sleep before starting up at 5am on a train run. Another issue is positive train control or ptc. Its a syste
About 90 year to year. Nonetheless, transit workers are showing up every day, not just the train drivers, but the bus drivers as well. Coronavirus, covid19 has hit them especially hard. More than 60 of them have died. 2,000 have tested positive. More than 5,000 are in quarantine right now. In just a few moments im going to talk to the head of the union about covid19s especially brutal effect on his workers. Also this hour, we learned Governor Andrew Cuomo will give the daily update, coming up roughly 30 minutes from now. At the same time were learning former president barack obama will be endorsing his former Vice President joe biden in his race for the white house. Well bring you video of that announcement just as soon as we get it. Meanwhile, over at the white house this hour, were also keeping a very close eye on President Trump. He is going to be meeting with coronavirus survivors this hour. Lots to get to, but we also of course start with the very latest on the numbers. More than
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