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We have a rare road reconstruction person with us shortly. Lets start with chris cuomo. Reporter a new york city bound amtrak train headed to washington, d. C. Derailing rolling on its side on the tracks outside of philadelphia. Seven cars in disarray twisted and torn like tinfoil. Its a disastrous mess. Never seen anything like this in my life. Reporter at least six lost their lives. Over 100 hospitalized edhospitalized. Chairs and bags go flying in the air. A huge red suitcase came flying at m...

Missing, it very well could get worse. And the world lead falling asleep on the job should probably earn you a demerit at work. But when your boss is kim jongun, you apparently get a bizarre death sentence instead. A startling report says north koreas dear leader had one of his top officials executed in public. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Tragt straight to the breaking news this hour we know at least seven people are dead and more remain missing after an amtrak...

A railroad accident deconstructionist details what goes into an inspection following the derailment in Pueblo County

Less than one year after the final branch of the much-heralded Green Line extension opened for business, the MBTA said a problem with the tracks has reduced train speeds to just 3 miles per hour along some stretches.

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Leave the scene. ntsb will begin by mapping the scene usually with a 3-d scanner to produce a complete 3-d representation of the wreckage as it currently exists. then you have a number of functional teams from fra that will each begin to do their own work in unison. you have human factors group. you have a track group. you have a signal group. you also have an equipment group. they will all begin doing their own thing in unison to try and rule in or rule out certain potential aspects of causatio...

Much faster. and watch how the passenger cars pull off. this is why it was easy for people to talk about speed early on. this accident fit the pattern. we have a whole investigation to complete. but right now, thats why speed keeps coming to the forefront. >> tom foreman, thank you so much. joining me now is robert halstead along with bob francis. thank you both for joining us. mr. francis, let me start with you. the ntsb now saying that this train according to initial data analysis was going in...

Getting daylight here they start to maybe be able to reconstruct what happened here how long does it take to get some solid answers? >> its going to be at least one day. its going to be 24 hour basis until the wreckage is cleaned up. its going to be 24 hours before we have a good solid handle of what the cause may have been. >> and in your years of working with train stents how does this compare? >> doesnt look good from what ive seen on camera thus far. very interesting to see what the casualty...

Of track experts, signal experts, equipment experts, and human factors people. one of the big things, of course is being downloaded the back quarters. that will give us a good handle on human factors. and signal compliance. then theyre going to work backward and try to find the first point at which a car derailed. point of derailment. and inspect the track from that point several hundred feet prior to it to see if any track causes may have been contributors. theyll look at track, theyre going to...