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Getting here but our purpose for being here on site is to collect the perishable evidence the information that will go away with the passage of time. so were going to go and very methodically start collecting information, what was the train speed, what was the speed limit on that curve, thats part of our investigation, is to very carefully document that. [ inaudible question ] >> why dont we do it this way, if you will when you have a question state your name and affiliation and well call on you...

>> reporter: well jake while i talk to you, it is still a search operation here. but meantime theres a full-blown investigation under way. as you mentioned, we now know that train was going in excess of 100 miles per hour as it approached a curve that had a speed limit of 50 miles per hour. the reason why investigators know this they are looking at how the wreckage is laid out at the site, looking at the angles. theyre also looking at the sort of damage to the train cars. and we also know they h...

Hes back. a railroad reconstruction expert. from what you have seen so far how do you suppose this accident happened? >> well we cant really draw any conclusions from what we have at present. i can tell you that the investigation in general is going to look at a number of functional areas. thats going to be human factors, track signal and possible equipment issues. a number of event recorders that are present on a train are going to be downloaded and analyzed. and in particular if we may have ha...

Days. theyre investigating speed and human error as possibilities. speed is being looked into. there is a sharp curve in the tracks and just before the area that was 30 miles an hour, the zone where the incident happened, it was 70 miles an hour. there was a sharp dropoff. take a listen. >> we dont know what the train speed was. we will learn that from the vehicle event recorders. incidentally, we have recovered the event recorder off the cab car. we have downloaded the data off the locomotive. ...

Actually located two event recorders. one was in the locomotive in the back of the train. the other was in the trains front car. the information recorded will give investigators an idea of the trainss speed, its velocity and how the brake system was working. carol? >> alexandria field, reporting live from the bronx. thank you. new details about the fiery car crash that killed "fast and furious" actor paul walker over the weekend. california police say speed was a factor in saturdays accident. ...

Morning. the ntsb investigators have recovered on so-called event recorders from a metro north commute train. that may help determine the cause of the deadly derailment in new york city. four passengers were killed. 67 others were injured when that train jumped the tracks just outside of a station in the bronx. this morning, metro north is beginning the process of getting those train cars upright. cnns alexander field is live for us at the accident scene in the bronx. what can you tell us? >> ...

Thanks so much for joining me. ntsb investigators will be looking into whether speed and brakes played a role in a deadly train derailment. they tweeted out this picture of them recovering an event recorder. it will go a long way in helping them determine why a north metro commuter train jumped the tracks killing four and critically injuring 11 people yesterday. cnns rene marsh is in washington this morning. whats the latest with the event recorders? >> we just got off the phone with the ntsb. t...

With new details is anna kooiman. anna, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. ntsb is on the scene, investigators around me actually at the moment. they say theyll be here for up to ten days. we should find out soon because they have recovered the black box which tells the speed of the train. did the conductor actually try to hit the brakes? we will find that information out. also at the center of the investigation is the bend in the tracks. the speed limit is 30 miles an hour for that...

Air-drop orders at your door using drones? what could go wrong? experts tell us, a lot. im wolf blitzer, youre in "the situation room." federal authorities now confirm that a new york commuter train was going way too fast just before it hurdled arou hur around the curve. it was barreling down the track at 82 miles an hour into a 30-mile-an-hour curve. the question now -- was human error or mechanical problem to blame? with the crash that killed four people and injured dozens. cnns rene marsh i...

Two event recorders, one in the back of the train, the other in the front of the train. the data from those recorders is being downloaded. it should give investigators a very clear picture of what the trains speed, what its velocity was and how the brake system might have been functioning. >> alexandra field, thanks so much, reporting from the bronx. all right. lets take you to london now as the trial resumed today for two men an us coos of first of all slamming their car into a british soldie...