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North Philly / Amtrak / Brandon Bostian / NTSB #1175850

NBC Evening News for Tuesday, May 17, 2016
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Tonight disturbing new details on the news we first told you about here last night a little more than a year since that deadly Amtrak disaster outside of Philadelphia. The NTSB today issued a final judgment on the cause. Much like distractions on the road investigators say the train's engineer was also distracted by radio traffic and the automatic braking technology that could have prevented the accident is still not in place on 80 percent of the nation's passenger tracks. Here's NBC Tom Costell...
Reporter(s):
Tom Costello
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00:02:05

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