breaking news of the amtrak crash. few more details to update you. an eighth person has now been discovered and that brings the death toll here to eight. that body was found this morning by a cadaver dog. the fire department doing that. 43 people still in the hospital. amtrak service may actually be able to get back up and running by tuesday. still though, the big question, and that is, how did this happen, and the engineer s role or perhaps the train s role. was it mechanical? the engineer? these things are still up in the air. i want to bring you david susi, the former faa inspector, as well as richard biel, railroad safety expert, and joe branch, who s the former amtrak spokesperson and the author of end of the line. richard, if i can start with you, heard the whole news conference, what stood out to you? the rhetoric was nonstop, he sat there for almost 40 minutes and said absolutely nothing. but do we have anything more towards how this awful tragedy
happened? nothing? nothing. and in terms of, you know, joe branch, let me get you in on this, there s been criticism about the engineer, and with the benefit of the doubt, nobody knows anything yet. the black boxes haven t been made public, the events recorders have not been made public, your read on what s happening right now with his cooperation or lack thereof or all of these other stories with regard to the engineer s role. i m really unable to describe the engineer s role. i ve been an amtrak spokesman during these kinds of things many, many years ago. anything i d say, it would be speculation. i m going to pass, i have to. there s been criticism of him made reckless, the mayor addressing it in front of the reporters right then and there. all i can say is positive train control, had it been in effect, this accident would have been avoided. in the 1990s, i was a railroad