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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20171219:16:24:00

preliminary indications are that the train was traveling at 80 miles per hour and a 30-mile-per-hour track. the train was a 12 car train, and he had a locomotive both in the front and the back. amtrak estimates that 80 passengers were on the train with three crew into service personnel in the cafe cart. jon: joining us now, railroad investigator. we are talking to you 24 hours ago when all we had some of the horrible pictures of those train cars still down on the i five from that overpass. what do we know now? yes, speed was a factor, but is there more to it? obviously it looks like the engineer may have come upon some of situational awareness, where he lost track of where he was

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20171219:16:06:00

thank you a lot, john. typical day. jon: a fox news alert on the deadly amtrak derailment. investigators say the train was traveling more than twice the speed limit when it hit the curve and careened off an overpass, spilling cars on the interstate below. three people are dead. all of a sudden, it was crashing, and there it was down. the train went like this. this body lying there. hardly had any close on, it had been ripped off of him. he was obviously dead. melissa: wow. jon: live near the scene and dupont, washington. delays on the investigation. claudia? investigation national transportation safety board say they are talking to witnesses and analyzing speed tracking data wide 12 passenger cars and a locomotive jumped the track.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171219:21:32:00

the ntsb hopes to have their interviews completed within the next day or so. of course, jake, they re going for want to know everything from how much sleep did they get the night before to how familiar they were with these tracks. after the crash yesterday, president trump s first tweet touted the need for his infrastructure plan. he got some heat for that for not immediately recognizing obviously the victims. today we re learning something else that the tweet may not have been factually on target. infrastructure may not have been an issue here. right. so there is so much to unpack there. number one, the president still has not unveiled what his infrastructure plan is one year in. it s also at this point we don t know if infrastructure played a role at all. at this point, we know that speed was indeed a factor. whether we can take it a step further to say infrastructure, we just simply don t know. but even if we say, look, ptc, positive train control, that technology that would slo

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171219:21:00:00

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171219:21:00:00
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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20171219:16:27:00

themselves. jon: let s hear more from the national transportation safety board lead investigator on this case about what they train and engineer were doing. the question is, why was the train traveling at 80 miles per hour in a 30-mile-an-hour zone. the answer is, it is too early to tell. we were glad that we are able to get the data from the event data recorder from the rear locomotive. the front locomotive as you can imagine is a bit more difficult to access, and as you pursue that, we ll give you more information about the speed, exact speed of the train and the speed of the track. jon: i am reminded of a terrible amtrak event in philadelphia, where so many people were killed, and eventually it was ruled that the locomotive operator, the engineer lost track of where he was and at least in the early

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