Amazing happened. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. A search that extends as far away as mexico for those escaped killers from new york is right now refocusing much closer to the scene of their prison breakout. After four days on the lam, a possible sighting and a fresh scent picked up by tracker dogs as an army of cops descending on the woods surrounding a tiny hamlet just 40 miles from the prison. With police on what could be a warm trail, theres that other mystery to be solved, who may have helped them stage their daring escape . In a moment an interview you wont see anywhere else with a man whose mom, a prison employee, has become a person of interest. But first the search. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer is in willsboro, new york. Reporter tonight the mass mobilization. A flood of highly trained, heavily armed officers closing in on new leads. Prison break suspects dav
Locomotive it would have been prevented. Also if there had been the positive Train Control Technology on the train, this accident would have been prevented. Prevention is important. Whatever caused this accident, we know and it doesnt take a road scholar to know what would have prevented this accident, and thats whats important to me. Exactly, and thats whats important to all of us quite honestly, to learn that this technology was available, and then soon after the crash itself, we immediately saw changes in that area to prevent another situation like it. Is the headline however, as you pointed out, the cause or what happened with this engineer is still significant to the investigation. Thats correct. Thats the primary function of the National Transportation safety board to find out the cause and to make recommendations. But those recommendations, in my view should include two persons in the locomotive and positive train control. Well you know there were reports early on that it was be