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Applying the brakes very late in the game, that seems to be a recipe for danger. >> no question about it. trains dont stop very quickly. you put the brakes on now and you stop quite a distance down the track. so putting the brakes on that late brake application coming six seconds or five seconds prior to the locomotive coming to a stop, thats way too late. so now the focus is going to be on what the operator was doing, was he on his cell phone, which we find often to be a factor in these types o...

>> by the time i looked up it was completely going off its track and there was the rubble flying at my face. >> reporter: only 1700 feet away from a previous july derailment where ten garbage freight cars flipped on their sides. >> we dont know what the train speed was. we will learn that from the vehicle event recorders. >> reporter: this is the second passenger train derailment in six months for metro north. in may, an eastbound train derailed in bridgeport, connecticut, and was hit by a westb...

Anything they need. when they are finished with their investigation we will proceed accordingly. thank you. >> the name of the operator? >> governor --. >> governor --. >> the questions are still being shouted at the news conference with governor cuomo. did i hear another question? >> the curve speed limit is 30 miles per hour at that curve. there is a 70 miles per hour zone just ahead of it, a 75 zone ahead of that. we do not know what the train speed was. we will learn that from the vehicle ev...

Alive and well in the hospital, but is expected to survive and be fine. i take it a big piece of this investigation and one big help to it will be the fact that so many survivors are there to give their account of what actually happened. >> absolutely. yeah, that is just as important as the evidence that theyre going to be able to collect there at the scene, is just what did people see, what did people hear, what did people feel. again, any little piece of information helps them piece together t...

Theyre going to be in gathering what they called perishable evidence. >> right. so tyrese said the ntsb got there about 12:30 this afternoon and this they are really in a race against time because they want to collect as much evidence before the sun goes down, which we just saw there, it is pretty dark already. heres what theyre going to be focusing on. they have teams that are broken off into different groups. they specialize in different things. you listed some of them, the track team, which w...

The collision that happened on friday night. they are paying attention to one thing that they found but theyre not saying that this is the cause. they located a fracture on one of the rails of the eastbound train. that was the one that was heading from new york to new haven and is the one that derailed and then another train smacked into it that was going in the opposite direction. >> it is of substantial interest to us. well be sending a portion of that track back to the laboratory in washingto...

70 people went to hospital. some are hurt badly. susan candiotti in bridgeport for us. officials released new information. what are they saying? >> reporter: the national transportation safety board just wrapping up its news conference. said it absolutely has not decided. its so early. what could have possibly caused the crash. they did indicate they are focusing on one possibility. that is they found a small fracture in one of the railses involving the eastbound train. thats the one headed from...

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