good friday morning to you all. i m t.j. holmes. i m marci gonzales. in for reena ninan. here s some of the top headlines we re following this morning on world news now. tragedy on the tracks. investigators saying the train sped up for a full minute before the crash. now blamed for eight deaths. the engineer expected to be questioned within the next few days. full coverage coming up. a newly released audio recording seems to be the voice of the leader of isis and it casts doubt now on just how severely injured he was in an air strike earlier this year. there had been reports an attack left him incapacitated. a mystery for washington, d.c. firefighters battling a fire at a mansion. they found the bodies of three adults and a child inside the house not far from the vice president s home. police say the fire is extremely suspicious. and california state senators
spinal injuries. his attorney says amtrak is to blame whether it was operator error or mechanical failure. he s seeking at least $150,000. a california man is facing charges for flying a small drone near the white house. drones not allowed anywhere in the nation s capitol. it s a no drone zone and the incident comes after a series of security concerns there. abc s pierre thomas with this story. the threat of another drone flying onto the white house grounds led to a massive response from authorities. including hazmat teams and a lockdown at the nation s most famous address. the drone was flying here in lafayette park about 100 feet in the air. the secret service detained the man flying it. they say it never made it over the white house fence. they chased him. it was a dog that kind of put him down. then they put him in handcuffs. a short time later authorities discovered this tiny drone about a foot long equipped with a camera sand controlled by a tablet.
we feel that had such a system been installed in this section of track, this accident would not have occurred. congress mandated that the system be installed throughout the nation s railroad system by the end of 2015 after a commuter train in 2008 collided with a freight train just outside of los angeles killing 25 people. and only a fraction of the nation s rail lines have it. but trains here in los angeles do. we accelerate the train in a simulator to over 90 miles an hour. it doesn t just slow you down, it stops you. if the engineer was incapacitated slowing it down doesn t do any good. you have to stop. this train has positive train control but most in the country do not. the deadline to install the system nationwide is at the end of this year but the industry says that deadline is impossible to meet. matt gutman, abc news, los angeles. arson investigators in washington, d.c. having a mystery on their hands. firefighters called to a blaze at a multi million dollar home. t
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his attorney says amtrak is to blame whether it was operator error or mechanical failure. he s seeking at least $150,000. a california man is facing charges for flying a small drone near the white house. drones not allowed anywhere in the nation s capital. it s a no drone zone and the incident comes after a series of security concerns there. abc s pierre thomas with this story. the threat of another drone flying onto the white house grounds led to a massive response from authorities. including hazmat teams and a lockdown at the nation s most famous address. the drone was flying here in lafayette park about 100 feet in the air. the secret service detained the man flying it. they say it never made it over the white house fence. they chased him. it was a dog that kind of put him down. then they put him in handcuffs. a short time later authorities discovered this tiny drone about a foot long equipped with a camera sand controlled by a tablet. but small or not, the secret service an