This is Aljazeera America. Good morning. Live from new york city, im randall pinkston. We have new details this morning in the derailment of an amtrak train near philadelphia. Attention is focused on the speed of the trained and engineer driving it when it careened off the tracks. At least seven died. Investigators determined the train was moving too fast, almost twice the speed limit when it hid that dangerous curve. The train was traveling at approximately 106 miles per hour. Three seconds later when the data to the recorders terminated, the train speed was 102 miles per hour. Investigators still dont know why the train was going that fast. The engineer who was at the controls declined to speak to the ntsb but spoke briefly to police. He has given a blood sample and turned over his cell phone. He remembers going through that area generally. Has absolutely no rex recollection of the. Or anything unusual. The ntsb will examine the crews movements in the 24 hours prior to the crash to s
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Come within seconds of gettg killed on the caltrain live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. What a close call. Check this out. Tonight we see a guy come within seconds of getting killed on a caltrain tracks. Andria borba has the video. You got to wonder what was this guy thinking. At the redwood train passes and the reporter clearly this guy was thinking waiting another five seconds to cross those tracks would have just about killed him when, in fact, not waiting nearly did. Ile someone stes one of their ni this is what the luckiest man in redwood city looks like. Caltrain released this Surveillance Video of a near miss at the redwood city station. One train passes and then about a minute into the video with the guard arms down and with the express train bell barreling ever closer a group scampers across the tracks and then one more guy makes a run for it. Feet, possibly inches from death. In a release on their blog caltrain says incidents like these throw the whole syst