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ByMichaelBalsamoand Michael R. Sisak The Associated Press HOBOKEN, N.J. Federal in- vestigators trying to figure out the cause of the deadly rail crash at the Hoboken station hoped to question the engineer and lift clues Friday from the train's black box recorders, though one of the devices was prov- ing difficult to extract from the wreckage. The recorders contain information on speed, braking and other condi- tions that could help in- vestigators determine why the NJ Transit commuter train smashed through a steel-and-concrete barrier and hurtled into the sta- tion waiting area Thursday morning. One person was killed and more than 100 others were injured. National Transportation Safety Board investigators aimed to speak to engineer Thomas Gallagher, 48, on Friday. State officials said he was cooperating. Gallagher, a NJ Tran- sit engineer for about 18 years, was pulled from the wreckage, treated at a hos- pital and released. Investigators were also examining the event re- corder taken from the lo- comotive at the rear of the train, NTSB Vice Chairman T. Bella Dinh-Zarr said. But it was proving diffi- cult to extract a recorder from the forward-facing camera in the train's man- gled first car. Authorities used heavy equipment to try to pull a collapsed sec- tion of the waiting area roof off the car and get to the recorder, whose foot- age should show what was ahead of the train before it crashed. "The one thing we know for sure is that the train came into the station too fast. Why that is, we don't know," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said. "Was it error by the en- gineer? Did he have some type of medical emergency or circumstance that ren- dered him unable to con- trol the train? Was there some equipment failure that didn't allow him to slow down?" Some witnesses said they didn't hear or feel the brakes being applied. Au- thorities would not esti- mate how fast the train was going before it hit the bum- per at the end of its track. But the speed limit into the station is 10 mph. Bumpers are meant mainly to denote the end of a track, not to stop a fast- moving train, said David B. Clarke, who runs the Cen- ter for Transportation Re- search at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Some bumpers are de- signed to absorb the im- pact if a slow-moving car gets loose, but the maxi- mum speed one can han- dle can be as low as 5 mph in some cases, he said. Trains are supposed to stop well clear of bumpers, Clarke said. Falling debris from the crash killed 34-year-old Fa- biola Bittar de Kroon, who had just dropped her tod- dler daughter off at day care before rushing to catch a train. Sixteen of the injured remained hospitalized, two in intensive care. More than 100,000 peo- ple use NJ Transit to com- mute from New Jersey to New York City each day. The NJ Transit portion of the Hoboken station remained closed Friday, slowing the morning commute. The wreck has raised questions of whether tech- nology called positive train control would have made a difference if NJ Transit had installed it. The GPS- based system is designed to prevent accidents by auto- matically slowing or stop- ping trains that are going too fast. Railroads are under gov- ernment orders to install positive train control by the end of 2018. NEW JERSEY Investigators want to question engineer in train crash THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Wreckage of the train is seen at the Hoboken, N.J., rail station on Thursday. By Josh Lederman and Steve Peoples The Associated Press GRANDRAPIDS,MICH. Don- ald Trump shamed a former beauty pageant winner Fri- day for her sexual history and encouraged presiden- tial voters to check out what he called her "sex tape," in an early-morning tweet- storm that dragged him further away from his cam- paign's efforts to broaden his appeal to women. A day after he injected former President Bill Clin- ton's infidelities into the campaign, Trump accused Hillary Clinton's campaign of helping 1996 Miss Uni- verse winner Alicia Mach- ado get U.S. citizenship, but offered no proof. He said Machado had a "terrible" past that a "duped" Clinton had overlooked before hold- ing her up "as an 'angel" in the first presidential debate. "Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?" read a missive from Trump posted on his verified Twit- ter account at 5:30 a.m. "This is ... unhinged. Even for Trump," Clinton retorted in a tweet of her own. And Machado took to her Facebook page to say Trump's tweets were part of a pattern of "demoraliz- ing women." "These attacks are cheap lies with bad intentions," Machado said. But Trump appeared un- daunted, even as his broad- side against Machado rico- cheted across the campaign, and Democrats seized it to criticize him all the more. His campaign described the hullabaloo as evidence of collusion between biased news outlets and Clinton's campaign, calling it "the single biggest coordinated media attack in history." And nearly 12 hours af- ter he shook up Twitter pre-dawn, Trump returned with a new tweet invoking Clinton's famous ad from her 2008 campaign por- traying her as the best can- didate to pick up an urgent call at the White House at 3 a.m. "For those few people knocking me for tweeting at three o'clock in the morn- ing, at least you know I will be there, awake, to answer the call!" Trump wrote. Machado, the Venezuela- born actress, has been cen- ter stage in the campaign since Clinton noted in Mon- day's debate that Trump had mocked her publicly for gaining weight after she won Miss Universe, a pageant then owned by the businessman. If that was a trap laid by Clinton, the ir- repressible Trump dug him- self deeper the next day by saying Machado's "mas- sive" weight gain had been "a real problem." His latest taunt appeared to refer to footage from a Spanish reality show in 2005 in which Machado was a contestant and ap- peared on camera in bed with a male contestant. The images are grainy and do not include nudity, though Machado later acknowl- edged in the Hispanic me- dia that she was having sex in the video. Clinton's campaign has released videos featur- ing Machado and has ar- ranged for reporters to in- terview her in an effort to use Trump's comments against him just as early voting in critical states gets underway. Her spokes- man said she called Mach- ado Friday to thank her for her courage. Clinton didn't mention the dust-up midday as she campaigned in Florida, but in her initial reaction Twit- ter, she asked what kind of a man "stays up all night to smear a woman with lies and conspiracy theories?" 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