union off the case. let s head to nic robertson in new york. reporter: good morning. that union has been kicked off. they have been told that they have shared that information, made their own interpretation of the interviews that have been given and that means that they won t be part of this ongoing investigation into the train accident here. what we re learning from the engineer s lawyer is that he says that this was purely an september, that his client had had a good night s sleep the night before. we had a major train wreck, five cars on its side. reporter: we re hearing for the first time from the firefighters as they arrived on the scene of sunday s deadly train derailment thin the bronx. this morning new details about the man at the controls. the train s engineer, william billy rockefeller. his union representative saying he was nodding off and caught
some of them severely when the commuter train entered a sharp turn going 82 miles an hour in a 30-mile-per-hour zone. nic robson is at the crash site with the latest. reporter: human error, william billy rockefeller s daze, increasingly the probable cause. his union representative saying he was nodding off and caught himself too late. he is extremely distraught over it. and he feel for the families. i don t believe that in my opinion, anybody could ever make billy feel worse than he is making himself feel today. so billy feel terrible. whether it was his fault or not his fault. having eliminated a number of possible causes including signal failure, the focus of the investigation increasingly falling upon william rockefeller jr., the train s engineer. the operations group
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restorative sleep. reporter: they say the eng e engineer is cooperating. he s a strong man and it takes a strong man to come down and be honest, and that s what billy is doing. reporter: on the question of the brakes, rockefeller claimed they didn t work at the time of the crash. we ve determined that the metro north mechanical department performed a proper brake test prior to the accident train leaving the station, and there were no alom knees noted. based on this data, there is no indication the brake systems were not functioning properly. reporter: the facts, 82 miles per hour on a 30 per mile hour curve, the apart braking came to relsz disturbing. the numbers are disturbing. the question is why they were so high. what is known, rockefeller passed a breathalyzer and had not been using his cell phone in
reporter: the union, the association of commuter rail employees turned up representative showed up after the ntsb press conference, discussed details about what the train driver, train engineer had said and the ntsb says this is breaking the confidentiality agreement, this is one of the unions working with them on this investigation and that breaking this confidentiality means they will have to be excluded from this investigation. we heard from the lawyer as well. who says his says that the engineer had a good night s sleep before the accident. we got a page entrain wreck, five cars on its side. reporter: we re hear for the first time from the firefighter as they arrived on the scene of the deadly train derailment in the bronx. this morning, new detalls about the man at the controls. the train s engineer, william, billy rockefeller, his union