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Country doing enough to keep them maintained and it seems as though theres not a lot of infrastructure investment in new rails. >> thats certainly on dedicated right-of-way. most of our passenger rail travels on the freight rail system and the freight rail continues to upgrade their systems at capacity but certainly here where we have the northeast corridor weve just recently passed the passenger rail reauthorization bill. we want to make sure that the process on the northeast corridor actually ...

Investigators on the ground here already, including experts in examining the tracks, the signals, the operations of the train the mechanicals of the train. and human performance and they will begin gathering evidence and documenting what they can. but as you also heard, theyre still in a search-and-recovery operation at the accident scene which is behind us. so, there are people that they arent necessarily sure have been accounted for which is pretty remarkable but maybe not so much when you loo...

>> we have a multidisciplinary team that will be covering a number of issues looking at the track the trains signals, operation of the train, mechanical conditions of the train, human performance, setting up a multidisciplinary investigation to understand the factors that led to this accident. john: heavy equipment is on the scene where all seven cars left the tracks and the wreckage is a twisted mass with one cause of the main goal. the accident plunged passengers into darkness and chaos. inves...

Perfect as possible to know exactly how many of these people on the manifest were on that train, how many are in the hospital, and they are asking people who survived it who left on their own to call that number, that 1-800-523-9101 number to call that number just to check in and say i was on that train and i got out on my own, as well as family members of folks that are still missing at this hour. rehema, one more thing before i let you go also the mayor of philadelphia also mentioning that the...

Train signals, the operation of the train, the mechanical condition of the train, human performance. we are setting up a multidisciplinary investigation to try and understand the factors that led to this accident. in addition weve brought in experts from the ntsbs office of transportation disaster assistance, who will be assisting those family members who have been affected by this tragedy. we will be holding an organizational meeting at noon today. that is where we establish parties to the inve...

That. again, please share information with us so we can do our job making sure everybodys accounted for. thanks. >> thank you, sam. board member will now speak on behalf of ntsb. board member? >> mayor nutter thank you very much. my name is robert sumwalt, and as mayor nutter said im a board member with the national transportation safety board, and we have had investigators arriving on scene between 4:00 and 5:00 this morning, and weve continued to be arriving from washington throughout the morn...

See how new york can give your business the opportunity to grow at ny.gov/business weve brought a multidisciplinary team in here that will be covering a number of issues. were looking at the track, the train signals, the operation of the train, the mechanical condition of the trains human performance. we are setting up a multidisciplinary investigation to try and understand the factors that led to this accident. >> i want to take you live now to capitol hill where lawmakers are expected to shi...

When you look at just how horrific and mangled that metals is to try to figure out how this happened wolf. >> have they been able to speak with the conductor, kate? >> thats a big question. the mayor said -- a im hoping to get an update on that as well at the 2:00 briefing. the mayor said the conductor, the engineer, was somewhat injured and was going to speak or has spoken with police investigators. thats clearly a big question and will be a big focus of the investigation, what the conductor kn...

Correct, but the first thing theyre going to look at is how fast was this train going for the track it was on. >> if it was going too fast around that curve, is that a human error, conductor, the engineer or some other problem potentially? >> it could be any number of things, but you start with human performance. was the conductor, was the engineer operating the train appropriately leading up to the turn was he applying the brakes ape lately was there any kind of failure in the braking system th...

You can think of out here now trying to lend a hand to figure out what happened and to make sure they have everyone accounted for that was on that train. >> so true. the ntsb is there on the scene. they are working that scene and just a short time ago we heard from an ntsb board member. he explained exactly just what theyll be doing. lets listen to what he said. >> were looking at the track and the train signals and the operation of the train and mechanical condition of the train, human performa...