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They were on the ground about 4:00 or 5:00 a.m. this morning, 12 hours later they were putting out some very important factual information as a result of getting information from their event recorders or the black box. what was the speed of the train? what was the rating for speed at that curve. and talking about the ptc system and the like. that information came out pretty quickly, but the ntsb personnel indicated, and the board member on the ground theyll have a series of releases of informati...

So folks were injured in a tragic and traumatic incident here in the city of philadelphia and this train wreck. and then get answers to these families. >> now the engineers lawyer actually is now saying his client -- i know hes going to be interviewed. his client doesnt remember hitting the emergency brake. seems to be saying i dont remember what happened. the ntsb have a black box for trains. the takeaway is going to be he doesnt remember whether he does or doesnt is not the point. do you think...

What was his work schedule before this event? had he been working a lot of hours that would have made him fatigued? was he struggling with the train, trying to figure out why it was accelerating? because maybe it wasnt an input from him that was causing the train to accelerate. so there is a lot of questions. >> i hear you say, mr. goglia if he is going to talk to us. are you suggesting he may not talk to you? >> well weve heard today that he has already hired lawyers. so the indication were tha...

That -- that this train as it was approaching this curve, we are told that is when things went terribly wrong here. as far as how fast this train was going -- and what the speed limit was -- at that very section. that remains to be seen. of course, investigators will have that information. theyll know exactly how fast this train is going. when they, when they retrieved those, event recorders. its very similar to what you see on aircraft, like the black boxes. that record, what was going on with ...

Camera on the front of the train as well. that hopefully will give them a clearer picture as to how this happened. >> thats one of the most fascinating issues is that they mentioned the event recorders, one of them, they talked about being this camera and whether they release it publicly or not. hopefully provide help to them. we were both watching as the mayor gathered with so many different agencies that are involved and it was interesting, not only with the mayor saying its amazing how much w...

Theyre looking at, you know where the curve was, trying to determine the point at which the train actually went off the tracks. so that responsibility is actually left to local law enforcement in this particular case. its not a matter of ntsb not talking to this particular individual. its not in their protocol at this moment. thats left to the local authorities. this gentleman is going to hurt himself if i dont -- >> i wonder if you could -- >> name and location. >> abc tv in new york. do you ha...

Tracks these will be things investigators are going to look for. they will look for critical event recorders. that will tell them how fast the train was going, and did anybody press the brakes, and when did they step on the brakes. those are all little pieces of information that will form this big picture as they try to figure out what went wrong. we know as sarah said as this train, according to passengers onboard, people said they felt the train slow down and get rocky and thats when we know s...

Your hand, state your name and affiliation, once we call on you, that will make it a little more organized. the question is, what can we get from those event recorders? we can get a lot of information. my understanding people already recovered those. they will be read out. we have a forward-facing video camera in the head and the locomotive the front end of the train. well be looking at that. the recorders themselves can give you information about the speed of the train, any brake applications, ...

Preliminary information about that. no. our purpose for being here on site is to collect the perishable evidence. the information that will go away with passage of time. so were going to go and very methodically start collecting information and what was the train speed and speed limit on that curve? thats part of our investigation is to very carefully document that. >> reporter: what will the black box give you? what information will you have when you get -- >> heres what we do. its the mayors p...

Commercial and residential area and thats relevant, right? >> absolutely. as you mentioned it can go up to 100, 110 miles per hour. but when youre coming through an area like this its residential mixed with commercial youre going to have a speed limit that is well below 100 miles per hour. >> and they werent at a dead run either, right? i mean they hadnt left the station that long ago in terms of building up speed. that will be relevant also right? >> right. that will also be relevant. and whats...