the national transportation safety board helps keep all of us safe. and when a terrible crash happens, we watch on television or read about the crash and wonder what happened, but it's the national transportation safety board that steps in during those first moments. they get in, preserve evidence to sift through the debris and then to figure out what went wrong. and they play a difficult role. they must put aside all differences between jurisdictions, politics and partisanship just to get the job done. and in the last month alone the board has launched investigations into a ship collision in texas a plane veering off the run way in new york two terrible and fatal train crashes in new york and california and a tragic incident right here in d.c. where smoke filled one of the metro tunnels and resulted in a passenger dying. they're also helping with an oil train derailment in west virginia and one in illinois that sparked fires and an evacuation. and their work plays a critical role in guiding our decisions about safety and their recommendations have inf

want to bring back peter goelz, former managing director of the national transportation safety board. this is the cockpit of this plane. walk us through, for example, how a pilot or co-pilot in this particular case would actually go ahead and lock that door and prevent anyone from coming back in. >> let's take a look at the door lock system. here it is. it has three positions, normal unlock and lock. in the unlocked position the door is open it can be accessed. it would be in the unlocked position at the gate prior to taxi way. the normal position the door is locked. it can only be accessed from the outside by the numeric keypad which the flight crew has the code they can enter the cockpit if allowed by the cabin crew inside. >> what happens if the pilot or co-pilot in this case puts it on lock as opposed to normal or unlock? >> once it's in lock you are

one way to tell if you go to the national transportation safety board database of accident investigations. i won't say it's common but it is not rare that when they do the toxicology screens on pilots in accidents they often find

those among the issues we take up with the former vice chairman of the national transportation safety board. also the middle east in widening conflict. saudi arabia and egypt backed by other gulf states carrying out airstrikes against iranian backed shia rebels who ousted the president of yemen. and in iraq, president obama as ordered us fighter jets to carry out airstrikes in support of iran in the battle for tikrit. president obama has yet to explain his contradictory foreign policy decisions or his strategy. critics fear he's prepared to accept far too little in order to claim a nuclear deal that will give iran far too much. we take up the obama middle east policy and the escalating conflicts there with fox news military analyst major general bob scales. and richard you grenel. clifford and judith miller. we begin with the crash of the germanwings flight. investigators are searching the apartment of the copilot andreas lubitz. searching as well the home of his parents. the 28-year-old copilot joined germanwings directly after he completed training in 2013. he had logged relatively few fl

we have a formal officials with the national transportation safety board and a former mechanic. the ntsb will take a year or so to figure out what caused this thing. but bad weather has to be at the top of the list? >> the weather is going to have a role but there is a reason why the airplane went off to the left. he landed properly and went down the runway and then had a problem and went off to the left. so wherever he started to go off to the left is going to be the focus today i am sure. >> does that suggest to you a problem with the brakes? >> it could be a problem with the brakes or there could have been wind moving him and the soil was soft enough to pull him around. but something pulled him around and that is what the focus is going to be on the airport today. >> we know that the ultimate decision on whether to land or go around or go to another airport is left up to the pilot. but who decides how and when to close an airport? >> the airport authority controls the airport. and as somebody previously just mentioned there is a committee of the airlines that work over the dat

. >> reporter: we saw mark in the front row in the hearing room of the national transportation safety board today as the agency discussed whether new safety rules or recommendations should be issued to reduce the risk of train track trespassers. the agency says it's seen our recent news4 i-team investigation into local track trespassers as it prepared for today's hearing, an investigation that showed more than 100 people hurt or killed while walking along tracks in the d.c. area in the past three years. and also showed local hotspots for trespassers. north of the mark station in riverdale. along rhode island 1/2 hyattsville. and here on the tracks along route 1 in beltsville where i-team cameras saw a parade of trespassers. you saw the images of people crossing one after another in beltsville. what does the ntsb recommend about that? >> i think if anything were to come out of this forum it's just that -- we want people to understand that railroad tracks they're not playgrounds, they should not be used as a short cut. >> reporter: the agency today said government investigators report there's

peter goelz is with me here in washington the former director of the national transportation safety boardd ntsb, other u.s. experts this helping the french try to determine what's included on those two black boxes? >> it depends ow damaged they are and whether the u.s. has any particular expertise. but the french are fully capable. they have a very advanced laboratory there, the germans have one as well. i think the french will keep this close to home and they will be fully capable of downloading. >> i know the airbus is a european consortium. the jets i believe, rolls royce jet, maybe boeing jets. what about the black boxes, who manufactures those? >> those are manufactured in the u.s. >> you would think they would want the best u.s. minds to help them in a complicated situation like this. >> right. and the u.s. has offered that. they've offered their expertise. if the french take it i wouldn't be surprised. but we have a good working relationship between the big four or five investigative agencies. they share information, they share expertise. they do cross-training. so it's a good work

the national transportation safety board is investigating. >> vanessa: temperatures were war for us today to the high pressures throughout the region and clear skies. clear skies right now which will help draw down the temperature overnight. the temperatures will drop into the 40's and '50's overnight. some places could even drop into the upper 30's. saturday looks good also by the daytime will be in the mid the upper 60s. in the inland areas temperatures will be in the mid-70s. by 6:00 p.m. temperatures will drop to the low to mid '60's. it will be a nice weekend. don't forget to set your clocks forward one hour. >> pam: president barack obama and several other dignitaries will visit selma, alabama this weekend to mark the 50th anniversary of civil rights' demonstrators march across the state to montgomery. victor blackwell has more on the turning point in american history. >> reporter: it was supposed to be a non-violent march for voting rights. but it became one of the most violent days of the civil rights movement. march 7, 1965, alabama. 600 demonstrators set off to march 54 miles fr

. >> joining us is jim hall, the former chairman of the national transportation safety board. thank you for being with us tonight. >> glad to be with you, rachel. >> i guess i would just ask basically your reaction to these latest reported details from "the new york times," and what captain tilmon just said there, in terms of what that might indicate of what happened in this crash. >> well, rachel, if the information is correct, it's most unfortunate. we had a situation while i was chairman of the ntsb which it was the opinion of the national transportation safety board that the co-pilot had put the airplane in a dive to crash it after the captain left the flight deck. it was for that reason we made a recommendation for cameras in the cockpit. it just makes no common sense, in this age of terrorism, that we have cameras at 7-eleven, and we don't have cameras in cockpits to answer questions like this. we can't continue to have unanswered aviation accidents, and not expect an impact on travel that links all of our world. >> mr. hall, imagining a scenario in which there was no hom

. >> reporter: the national transportation safety board will investigate the crash and has expressedief there were no fatalities. >> anytime a human being can survive an accident is a good day. >> reporter: ford managed to avoid homes in the area on the way down but hit a tree. sully sullenberger has flown with ford in the past. >> i'm sure he has flown out of that particular airport many times and he knows where the open areas are. i think it was a golf course in this case. and so he would have had that already in mind. >> reporter: emergency crews carried ford off the course on a stretcher and rushed him to a nearby hospital. a few hours later his son said, dad is okay, battered but okay. danielle nottingham, cbs news venice, california. >> this isn't ford's first crash as a pilot. in 1999 he crashed a helicopter but wasn't hurt. >>> new york's laguardia airport has reopened the runway where a delta plane crashed yesterday during snowy weather. the flight with 132 people on board came to a stop with the plane's nose dangling over the waters off flushing bay. big cranes moved the da

the national transportation safety board finished its investigation into a plane crash involving actor harrison ford. the movie star's vintage airplane had engine troubles soon after takeoff yesterday in venice california. ford made an emergency call to the flight tower but could not get back to the airport in time. he crashed on a nearby golf course. ntsb and aviation officials say he is lucky to be alive. >> harrison ford is a terrific pilot. if your airplane fails you which it sounds like it happened, there's not much that you can do. >> ford is in the hospital reco injuries. the ntsb says the crash investigation could take months to complete but the wreckage has been removed. >> an investigation at laguardia airport reopened this morning. six people were injured. all lanes of interstate 66 are back open after a tractor-trailer flipped off the road this morning. this happened in the eastbound lanes at the faquier and prince william county line. news chopper 7 overhead as it laid in the grass on the road. no word on the condition of the driver tonight. >> time for a check on the traf

the national transportation safety board is trying to figure out if that had to do with the crash. >>> and the untilsub considering reopening the investigation into the plane crash that killed body holly. a retired pilot petitions them to take a second look that case. they are considering the -- at the case. they are considering reowning the -- reopening the case. buddy holly, ritchie valens and j.p. richardson, known as the big bopper were all killed. the day that music died. >>> microsoft co-founder discovered a famous world war ii battleship. they have been looking looking for the ship for 8 years. it sank in october of 1944. the ship lost half of its crew members. experts are eager to study the images to confirm the identity. >>> police are revealing more about a gold heist this weekend. two guards were driving a tractor-trailer when they were robbed. police shared pictures of the suspects who are still on the run along with the $4 million worth of gold they stole. >>> still ahead on wusa 9 news, neighbors gets into a heated argument when one of them were just trying to help out.

the national transportation safety board plans to retrieve the flight data and cockpit voice recorders document damage to the air post. the landing is raising questions about when airports should close runways due snow and ice much the port authority director says the runway has been plowed minutes before and two other pilots reported in good braking condition. >>> the fbi and department of homeland security are issuing new warnings to law enforcement about americans wanting to fight with isis. this comes as a new report shows that isis has significantly increased its recruiting in countries like morocco and tunisia. leland vittert is in washington with more tonight. >> reporter: ominous new warning from the intelligence community raising new concerns about an up tick in isis recruit many efforts aimed at young americans and other westerners. >> obviously the terrorist groups and organizations are using 21st century communication techniques for what are really medieval tactics. >> reporter: authorities say they're not able to find a clear pattern for why americans are being inspired to

tonight air canada says it's fully cooperating with the national transportation safety board to find out what went wrong. >>> amid the worsening crisis in yemen, the arab leaders agreed to combined military force. the goal is to counter islamic extremism in the region. many think it's designed to send a message to washington. nbc's chief on for correspondent richard has our report. >> reporter: the arab world, which for decades has relied on the u.s. military for its defense is going its own way. the breaking point was yemen where saudi arabia launched more air strikes against rebels who are pushing close to the saudi border. on "meet the press," it was discussed how far the saudi kingdom was willing to go. >> reporter: we would you send ground troops in? >> we haven't made the decision to send ground troops so far. we have a plan in motion. we're executing this plan. >> reporter: that plan also appears to be a proxy war with iran. the rebels in yemen are backed by iran and today at a summit, in egypt leaders announced the creation of a combined arab army of 40,000 troops and decided

the senate confirmed a knew chairman for the national transportation safety board. .. >> the promotion of the drug starts seven to 10 years before a drug comes on the market and while it's illegal for a company to market a drug before it's been approved by the fda it's not illegal to market a disease so drug companies have sometimes invented diseases or exaggerated the importance of a certain condition or exaggerated the importance of a particular mechanism of a drug for example and then blanketed medical journals and medical meetings and other venues with these messages that are meant to prepare the minds of clinicians to accept a particular drug and also to prepare the minds of consumers to accept a particular condition. >> martin o'malley spoke at the brookings institution yesterday brookings institution yesterday about how to use statistics to make decisions and measure government performance while he was governor of maryland and before that as mayor of baltimore. he is considering seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2016. the former governor was asked about hillary

the faa and the national transportation safety board are looking into the cause of the crash. the piper pa went down just minutes afterward. >>> skies are clear right now and we're getting a cold start this morning. temperatures have dropped into the 30s and 40s. and they are still falling at this hour. the a wide view from center city. 44 degrees here at nbc 10. temperatures are in the 40s, but much of the area is in the 30s. yesterday we broke out with sunshine. the same thing, temperatures are falling at 4:20 in the morning. and waiting for the next round of cloud cover, just off to the northwest. this is producing rain and snow. and it is moving our way. but the first showers could be here later this morning. at 11:00, rainfall with temperatures in the upper 30s. but as the day goes on temperatures will be climbing for philadelphia trenton pottstown, you may see a mix of rain and snow with a temperature of 40 degrees and above freezing for the pocano mountains. accumulation does not look likely. at 8:00 they finally taper off by 11:00 with the last few rain drops around. t

oh >>> the national transportation safety board tonight is investigating this crash of an amtrak commuter train into a tractor trailer in north carolina sending a train car toppling over. at least 55 passengers suffered minor injuries. the truck had gotten stuck trying to cross the stuck. the train was going from rawley to new york city. it's the latest crash involving a train and a vehicle. a commuter train in new york smashed through an s.u.v. killing six. three weeks later a metrolinked train hit an abandoned pick up truck. one died, 30 injured. >> an 80 month old girl has been rescued after spending 14 hours trapped no a carr seat in a fridge it utah river. she is in stable but critical river. the mother hit a barrier driving off the bridge. the 25-year-old died. a fisherman spotted the crash and called 911 in time to save the 18 month old. >> i grabbed the baby out of the car seat. i could tell there was life in her, i could see her life open. it was an impact that you are able to save a life and help someone, help someone out and - yes, it makes you feel great. >> officials say the

and the national transportation safety board didn't have to do anything because the cops were there. the regulatory agency is there to enforce regulations. >> at the time of filming, the home had not been fined for the abuse erytha mayberry suffered. >> are you surprised that the state agencies haven't been more supportive? >> definitely. oh yes. >> they don't want it investigated. they don't want people to know how bad the nursing homes in the state of oklahoma are. >> and if you're not watching them, if there's no oversight, they can basically just run wild. and that's exactly what's happening. >> but, i mean what are you looking at? a couple of bad apples? a couple bad nurses? bledsoe: uh, no. this is an industry wide trend. you have minimally trained staff, that's under staffed, under equipped, to deal with all the different needs that this population has. >> it's easy to blame individual staff members as perpetrators of abuse. but how do management decisions affect staff quality? >> it's low pay. you have probably better benefits, better pay, working in a fast-food restaurant, t

we know the national transportation safety board already announced it's sending investigators to la guardiappened. let's discuss what happened with our safety analyst david soucie joining us on the phone. don't the air traffic controllers know the runway is icy and it's not a good time to happened david? >> they're supposed to know that. that's going to about the first thing that the faa looks at. the ntsb will look at the approximate cause which is the last thing that would have prevented it which is going to fall onto the pilots. the faa is going to be looking at this because if that port authority had made the -- had reported the conditions improperly to the air traffic controllers and those air traffic controllers said it's safe to fly, there's going to be an incredible investigation and this is not the way to run an airport. >> how common is something like this, a plane lands, it's snowing. we know it's icy. it lands at 11:05 a.m. how common is it that they obviously misjudged the conditions on the runway? >> it's not very common at all. there's a lot of technology involved. there's ro

this is weather we can normally operate in very safely and the national transportation safety board will have to look into what happened to this particular flight to have it get off the side of the runway. >> and the port authority is the main responder but the -- you can see the fire truck there, the fire department is there assisting but as we understand it, tom costello, if you're still there, there was no leakage of fuel that we know of. >> there was some reporting of a fuel leaking -- yes, there was report of a fuel leak but it's not clear -- >> thanks for correcting me. >> that's all right. the reason i'm hesitating is because there were some tweets suggesting that the pilot had reported prior to the landing that he was leaking fuel. now, i got to tell you, i'm really skeptical about that. we'll how that plays out but we do understand there may have been fuel leaking after the incident which would not be unexpected given the fact that the plane as you can see -- you've got people coming off the end -- first of all, it's experienced a very physically stressful event for the aircraft

the national transportation safety board is now heading the investigation. >>> a rare outbreak in wine country, health officials in napa are trying to track down anyone who might have been exposed to the highly contagious liver disease, hepatitis a. "today in the bay's" bob redell is live in front of a well-known napa hotel. bob, so far we know of at least five confirmed cases but we're still in the incubation period, right? >> reporter: correct. that's why the napa county health department is issuing a warning to anyone who dined at the la toque restaurant in napa between february 9th and february 25th. that's the time when two employees inside the restaurant had been infected with hepatitis a, which is a very contagious liver disease. now is the time for anyone who contracted or starts to show symptoms like abdominal pain, nausea or jaundice. >> weigh wanted to be sure meem who might have been served food by one or the other of the individuals during the time they might have been shedding virus are aware there's a potential risk. it's a very low risk but we felt it was important for

. >>> and the national transportation safety board will meet today to talk about the number of pedestrians hit and killed on railroad tracks every year. 945 people were hit on train tracks last year. that's about two to three people every day. it's a big jump from the year before. today's forum will include speakers who were seriously injured by trains. >>> a man convicted of a 1989 philadelphia murder is set to be executed in may. the state correction secretary signed a notice of execution yesterday for anthony reid but whether that execution will actually happen is up in the air because governor tom wolf issued a moratorium on the death penalty in pennsylvania. wolf's office says the governor could issue a reprieve to reid once he's exhausted all other options. >>> utah is now the only state in the country to allow a firing squad to execute prisoners. utah's governor signed that bill into law making it official. the governor at mitts the method is gruesome but gives the state a fall-back option in case no lethal injection drugs are possible. >>> 31 degrees outside. the pennsylvania state

the national transportation safety board is looking into the cause of the crash according to the local police department. the piper pa-28 went down moments after taking off from brandywine airport in west goshen township. both the passenger and pie lotlot died. >>> we have the latest in the investigation against joe paterno and the ncaa. a judge ruled that paterno's estate cannot sue from breach of contract for the ncaa's actions in response to the jerry sandusky scandal. the judge said this lawsuit repeated the breach of contract claims it had previously dismissed. despite the ruling, other aspects of the lawsuit will continue to move forward. >>> and prosecutors may be moving closer now to filing criminal charges against the florida eye doctor and new jersey senator bob menendez. a federal investigation has centered on whether that senator abused his office by taking action to benefit the doctor in exchange prosecutors say menendez accepted bribes from salman menjin. he denies any wrongdoing. >>> and the world meeting families visit is in september and now a local high school is join

. >> reporter: and we're told that investigators with the national transportation safety board will beon into figuring out what caused this plane to come down. we're outside of the brandywine airport in west chester matt rivers cbs3 ooh were the news. >>> stay with "eyewitness news" for the latest developments on this deadly crash. we will have the latest for you on air and on our website cbsphilly.com. >>> also breaking news out of bucks county right now route 1 northbound south of route 40 is closed because of a crash involveing a police car in falls township. this is a live look here at a very active scene. police say an officer was carrying out a traffic stop at the time when a third vehicle caused the accident. no word yet on any injuries. we are working to gather more details on this breaking news. we'll bring you the updates as we get them throughout this newscast and also online cbs phil p.m..com. torments night we're learning more about the off duty police officer shot and killed in glenn olden. a delaware county official tells "eyewitness news" the victim is 26-year-old mark

. >> reporter: and the national transportation safety board is asking anyone with video of the crash to submit it. it will likely take investigators about a year to finalize their report. we are live outside ucla medical center, jeff nguyen, kpix 5. >>> the latest jobs report showed strong growth for the economy. the u.s. added 295,000 jobs in february bringing the unemployment rate down to 5.5%. california also did well adding 67,000 new jobs last month. the new state unemployment rate dipped to 6.9%. but wall street really didn't like that positive jobs report. it was red across the board. investors reacting to the strong economic news because it does mean the fed could raise interest rates this summer. >>> i tripped on my shoelace and i hit the faucet pipe. >> a first grader takes a tumble but this needed more than just a band-aid. the freak fall and the decision her parents made just in time. >> sick of the debate over this dress. that's a question, are you sick of the debate over that dress?! tonight it's seen in a whole new light. the powerful message that everyone can agree on

. >>> the national transportation safety board is set to convene a special hearing into the high number of pedestrians who are killed on railroad tracks each year. they include kids walking home from school, people walking to work and even a film crew shooting a movie on the tracks, a tragedy caught on camera. nbc's tom costello reports. >> reporter: in georgia the chilling final moments of a film crew trespassing on a trestle seconds before a freight train plowed through killing 27-year-old sarah jones. >> what's going on? >> well, someone got hit by a train. >> reporter: the film's director randall miller now sentenced to ten years for involuntary manslaughter. in indiana 13-year-old jeffrey billinger killed after taking a shortcut from school across nearby tracks. also in indiana a close call for these two women who somehow survived being run over by a train. the ntsb says train accidents involving pedestrians jumped sharply last year with 945 people struck by trains, two to three every day, and more than 500 killed. >> beautiful girl. talented. smart. my guess is she froze. >> repor

. >> reporter: the national transportation safety board will stinvee igatthe crash and has expressed relief there were no fatalities. >> this pilot is an experienced pilot. >> reporter: he managed to avoid homes in the area, but did clip a tree. cbs news aviation consultant sully sullenberger has flown with him in the past. >> i'm sure flown out of there many times in the past, and he would have had that in mind that there was a golf course and he took advantage of it. >> reporter: he was rushed to a nearby hospital on a stretcher. a few hours later his son tweeted "dad is okay, battered but okay, he is every bit the man you would think he is." danielle nottingham. >> he is an experienced pilot. back in 1999 he crash landed his helicopter and he was not hurt. >>> we may not crack the freezing mark today, but the weekend looks a little warmer. allyson rae has the numbers you need to know coming up next. >> absolutely. i think everyone will raise their hand to in one year 5.6 million hospital workers helped perform 26.6 million surgeries deliver 3.7 million babies and treat 133 million

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so the recommendation was to work with the national transportation safety board board who has made some recommendations requiring all new trucks to have side guards on the side of the trucks so pedestrians and bicyclists are not dragged under the truck and driven over which is a big problem and in in the uk they are requiring all trucks to have that and they have seen a 50 a 50 percent reduction in fatalities between large vehicles and road users. moving forward to the actual item and i want to recognize hank wilson in our agency has actually been leading the creation of this with the work of zack and hank was going to be here and give this but his wife had a baby 3 weeks early so i'm filling in for the rest of this presentation and my apologies if if i rely heavily on notes so starting in september we had a smaller working group come together to start looking at the creation of training standards and curriculum and they met 4 times and we sent out a survey and got input from people who drive large vehicles and trucks and what we really wanted to do was avoid acting as experts in someth

hart of colorado to be chairman of the national transportation safety board are there any senators wishing to change their vote? hearing none the vote is 97 in favor, zero opposed. the confirmation is -- the nomination is approved. the question now occurs on the dinh-zarr nomination. until there is no further days debate all those in favor say aye. opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table. the president will be immediately notified of the senate's actions and the senate will resume legislative session. the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i send a cloture to the desk for the committee-reported amendment. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close on the committee-reported substitute amendment to s. 178, a bill to provide justice for the victims of trafficking signed by 17

situation while i was chairman of the ntsb of egypt air of which it was the opinion of the national transportation safety board that the co-pilot had put the airplane in a dive to crash it after the captain left the flight deck. it was for that reason we made a recommendation for cameras in the cockpit. it just makes no common sense, in this age of terrorism, that we have cameras at 7-eleven, and we don't have cameras in the cockpit to answer questions like this. we can't continue to have unanswered aviation accidents, and not expect an impact on travel that links all of our world. >> mr. hall, imagining a scenario in which there was no homicidal or terroristist intent. imagine a scenario in which one of the pilots left for an innocuous reason to use the bathroom, and no one was asked to sit in so the other co-pilot or pilot was in the cockpit alone at that time. let's say that pilot had an aneurysm, passed out for some reason, had a heart attack, the way you understand the controls of this type of aircraft and the way we -- we seem to indicate that this plane crashed, could this plane crash this way without s

the national transportation safety board is still trying to figure out why mccall crashed. back to you. >> all right. thanks. >>> some people were surprised to hear a pilot that young was flying by himself. i made some calls to find out the rules. we heard that a licensed pilot told me there is no faa requirement on how many hours of instruction you need before flying solo. it can be 10 20 30 hours. the pilot does have to be 16 years old. and he needs a valid fax certificate. and the instructor has to sign off. we'll be following that story online. look for any new developments tomorrow morning on news4 today. >>> just into our newsroom firefighters are working on a very smoky scene in bowie. it is on croft court. we're told every one made it out okay. one firefighter has been hurt. he had to be taken to the hospital to be checked out. the fire started in the garage. that's taxed to the house. right now they're checking to see if the damage spread to the actual home. >>> new at 11:00, a woman is dead after three vehicles collided in fairfax county. the accident happened in

. >> reporter: the national transportation safety board will investigate this crash and has expressed relief there were no fatalities. >> any time a human being is involved in an accident, whether it's a car, jet, airplane, or otherwise, and survives, is a good day. >> reporter: after the accident, celebrities including william shatner took to twitter to wish the actor well. referring to a recent accident while working on the latest installment of a "star wars" film, he said harrison had a door fall on him and he continued filming. he's tough. ford's son tweeted, he is every bit the man you would think he is. he is an incredibly strong man. >> that was danielle nottingham >>> this morning investigators are trying to determine what caused a freight train loaded with crude oil to derail and burst into flames. the accident happened thursday in a rural part of illinois in galena. no one was hurt. flames could be seen miles away. the fire sent thick black smoke into the sky. officials say six of the train's 103 oil cars left the tracks. it was transporting crude from the bakken oil patch.

the crash is currently listed as pilot error, but a des moines newspaper reports the national transportation safety boards considering a new investigation after receiving a letter outlining other factors that should be considered in the case. it could take weeks for the board to decide whether it will reinvestigate that crash that became known as "the day the music died." >>> it is now 4:55. a southern california man accused of trying to join isis, the trip authorities say he tried to take that led to his arrest. >>> and a potential plan to move the raiders down south is moving forward. the big step supporters took this week that could make a new stadium a reality. >>reporter: happy thursday, everybody. there is light at the end of the tunnel and traffic looking really good at this hour. coming up we'll take a look at your traffic along the east shore freeway as well as other parts of the east bay when we come back. >>> clear skies, full moon, easy to see, a lot of 40s here this morning, especially on this panel that you're going to see right now. although stanford checks in at 39, i saw seven readings i

. >>> john is a former long-time member of the national transportation safety board. he joins us from newton, massachusetts, john, it's good to have you with us. the main question this raises is whether the pilot intentionally crashed the plane. >> that's correct. you know, let's not forget that we don't have solid evidence that this is an accurate statement. but assuming that it is accurate it doesn't shed any real new light on the possibilities that we have to explore. the investigators will treat this just like they treat all of the other evidence that they uncover. and run it to ground. i mean, run it right down until they can prove it or disproven. i think it's encouraging. >> right, assuming these reports are right. if the pilot didn't do this intentionally, could this have been a health problem? is it likely to have been that? the plane had a fairly even did descents, didn't go off course could it happen accidentally if the pilot had a heart attack and slummed over? >> there is a slight possibility that it could have been a massive heart attack while he had his

the national transportation safety board is on scene investigating. versus giet gator is securing the flight recorders and documenting the scene. large heavy cranes arrived to remove the plane from the embankment from where it came to rest. it's been removed to a hangar. bill: the jobs number for the move february is out. 295,000 jobs added last month. the unemployment rate dipping to 5.5%. real unemployment rate which includes people who stopped looking for work still hanging around 11%. stuart varney looking at the numbers deeper. >> reporter: it's a solid report. not a strong recovery like previous recoveries. but 295,000 jobs is a solid number. the real unemployment rate went down to 11%. you and i do this every month. dig beneath the headlines and you have a slightly different picture. the unemployment rate went down to 5.5%. why did that happen? because 178,000 people dropped out of the workforce. it equals a lower unemployment rate. that's the labor participation rate. no change there. so millions of people are still not in the workforce. one l

on skype debra hersman, president and ceo of the national safety council, the former chair of the national transportation safety board, and bob hagel, who has covered aviation for nbc news for 25 years. thank you all for being here. bob, let me go to you first. you have reported on a lot of airline disasters. what similar are there to other crashes in this? >> immediately i think of flights where there's been some problem at full altitude like this one. that is so unusual, as you said but air france just a few years ago over the atlantic when it was a failure of the navigation equipment. twa 800 over long island. that was at 10,000 feet so pretty well up there when the center fuel tank exploded. there was a decompression of the private jet carrying the golfer payne stewart a number ofiers where everybody passed out and the plane flew over hat of the understand before it but in this case there's no evidence of anything like that but we're pretty early into it. i think what is important here is getting the recorders. they've got one and probably will find the other one, and then we should have some answers pretty quick