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Beginning. it started with things like this. surveillance video. if you look at the train, rushing by, up there, you know the length of the locomotive. pick a fixed point. cal cue lay the speed of the train. that told us right away it was going much faster than it should have been going 200 yard short of the crash site. so, why does that matter? in the big equation. bring in a model of the train and talk. a locomotive xiz tremly heavy. 97 metric tons. pushing up toward a quarter million pound. i...

The latest on the deadly amtrak derailment in philadelphia. investigators have recovered the black box from the wreckage. the new york bound train was traveling more than twice the posted speed limit. the engineer brandon bostian of new york has no recollection of the crash. cnns tom forman has more on the investigation. >> reporter: the reason investigators knew they had to look at speed early was things like this. the surveillance video which we have seen. if you look up when the train is rush...

This routine train ride end so violently? >> we look at how the trains speed could have played a role in the crash. >> there is a reason investigators need to look at excessive speed from the beginning. it started with things like this, this surveillance video. if you look at the train rushing by up there and you know the length of the locomotive, you can pick a fixed point and calculate the speed of that train. and that told us right away it was going much faster than it should have been going ...

Yes, you can look at the train cars. they have to look at whether or not they are actually working properly, whether there was something wrong with them along the way, but just as importantly you have to look at the geography where this happened. this turn right in here is going to be something they will scrutinize because often when you have a train track problem its a problem with the tracks, but sometimes its also a combination of the geography of the tracks and the speed of the train. a lot ...

Even more trag whick you think about that passenger who told us how enraged and infuriated he is that when was caused by speed. tonight investigators are looking at the engineers actions. along with the track. to try to understand why this train, which was carrying 238 passengers and five crew members, was traveling so incredibly fast. tom foreman is "outfront" live in the virtual room. tom what have you been able to learn as you piece this together second by second about how exactly this crash ...

Assumptions regarding auto pilot speed. the analysis arrived at a path of flight which was peer reviewed by britains air safety agency. the air accidents investigation branch. before being submitted to malaysian authorities yesterday. >> this is the first time weve ever been asked to try to find something with just a single signal once an hour. really a great tribute to our scientific team they managed to achieve this. in very simple terms, we have used the difference in speech in which the sign...

Assumptions regarding auto pilot speed. the analysis arrived at a path of flight which was peer reviewed by britains air safety agency. the air accidents investigation branch. before being submitted to malaysian authorities yesterday. >> this is the first time weve ever been asked to try to find something with just a single signal once an hour. really a great tribute to our scientific team they managed to achieve this. in very simple terms, we have used the difference in speech in which the sign...

There is debris. people say there is a chance this plane could be somewhere else. motive is outside your purview. nobody knows the motive. how are you able to based on the data that you looked at be so sure? >> well, what we can offer originally on the 11th was a path in which to look to the north and south based on the amount of pings on the satellite. we knew engines were still running. that was a surprise because it was assumed the plane was lost soon after it lost contact. we discovered that...

Hayes". >> you well be surprised and shocked to know i think it is ridiculous. it perfectly illustrates the problem of searching for the center. there is for fixed point in american discourse in the center, and obviously, the center is calculating the distance between two points, and if the right keeps moving in one direction then all you do to find the center is keep chasing it. the revenue on the table, vastly reduced. as you point out, were talking about a small amount of revenue, just betwee...

emily, this hasnt been just a weather vaent. it has been an economic event. businesses havent been able to operate. >> reporter: hi, gary. it has been such a long week for people. when you see trees like this that toppled and the power lines that came down more than a week ago, it set off a chain reaction so big that the experts, the government and even small businesses say they just havent been able to add up the total costs yet. what is clear is that as the power comes back on, peopl...