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Lot of populated areas, including his city. this is not a populated area. this is an area that is south of lewis mccord. it is rustic. you have off to the right-hand side, a golf course, and to the left, you have the base. the train tracks paralleled the freeway, and then there is a sharp turn that goes over the top of the freeway, and that is exactly where this train left its tracks. and it ntsb will try to get to the bottom of it. their team starts getting out here tonight in late tomorrow. >>...

Monitoring in d.c. gary tenney is there. >> one of the first questions with the ntsb will answer them in a on scene this afternoon, if this is the result of human or mechanical error appeared to do this, ntsbs go team includes experts across the field, train operation, track engineers human performance as well as damage assessment. they look from anywhere from the schedule the last few days and the condition of the track. as well as the engine, most amtrak commuter trains, they do have black box...

A lot less capacity on this train this morning as it dumped the track. the ntsb will be out this afternoon. they will have members of the go team here late this afternoon, and more arriving from washington, d.c., tonight. to go over all of this. this is a major thoroughfare. interstate 5 going from canada all the way down to the mexican border. 60,000 vehicles per day passed through here. this highway being closed down is a major inconvenience for everybody in this region, but right now, the obv...

There. >> this was amtrak 501, electron 6:10, but the time it got to the new station in tacoma, washington, with its last stop before the accident, it was running 30 minutes late. that will have caused the interest to those ntsb investigators, who are on their way there now. we know that about 10 minutes after it left tacoma, that is when it left the track. it was according to website the speeds at 81.1 miles per hour. according to the washington state department of transport, the speed limit on...

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