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& that is more on the way and including tracks and signals and operations and human performance. and our purpose for being here on-site is to collect the perishable evidence and the information that goes away with the passage of time. well start collecting information and what was the train speed and speed limit on the curve and that is part of our investigation. that is to carefully document that. there is an intense focus on gathering patient data and more than 288 of the patients were treated...

About the reports saying that the train was traveling at a very high speed at that curve. it sounds like you didnt notice before it happen. did it feel like the train was traveling at a high speed >> i cant comment on the speed. that was nothing i never noticed. train travel fast and i was not paying attention. if that train was going 100 miles per hour on a curve amtrak has a lot of explaining to do. >> before i let you go. again your experience when you leave the train car. weve had questions ...

National transportation train and rapid investigator. what is job one with, russell? >> preserve the evidence at the wreck site and anything that is perishable and gather all of the facts they can related to the different areas of the investigation. >> we have heard reports from outlets like the wall street journal who say the train was doing more than 100 miles per hour on a curve where design speed indicates 50 miles per hour should be the maximum speed. if that is true it is going to be a maj...

Made that curve safely. >> i mentioned a similar accident to our viewers a short time ago. there was an accident and i believe we have the video. and an accident on metro north tracks that are amtrak tracks north of manhattan a year and half oochlth and metro north commuter train missed a curv e and turned out that the engineer was taking the curve three times the posted speed and he was going much faster than that. >> is that the kind of thing we might be looking at here? >> positive train cont...

And some people are missing the train and not on the passenger list. they are not sure that everyone who got on the train is accounted for. the fire truck rolls out near the accident scene, jon. breaking news is that we have apparently 7th death to report. and now word from the wall street that the train may have been going more than 100 miles per hour when it crashed last night. >> memories of the metro north train that went off of a curve when the engineer took it too fast. >> our next guest w...