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The train that will have captured the speed and the signalling and what transpired to set this off. >> to that point, there is often breaking news after a tragic derailment. you get conflicting reports. there will be reports in the media and from eyewitnesss who may be in a different position. there is zero doubt in your mind that the instrumentation exists that once they get to the train and grab the black boxes and the like, they will be able to put the pieces together about the speed and the ...

Joining me jeffrey toobin and david sousie and a ntsb train member. and now we know it was going through the turn and there are questioning and what are the factors that you as an investigator would want to look at right now? >> well, you know, 11 or 12 minutes out of the station to be going that fast, i would want to know and the recorder should tell us that, just what the throttle settings were. did he go full throttle when he left the station? how did we get that fast in a short period of tim...

Throttle settings that he set when he left the station. and whether or not he tried to apply other brake, the regular braking system before he hit the emergency brake. >> kitty how long will it take to move the debris? >> well i think theyll be working as quickly as they can. i think its important to note that the ntsb has released the track back to amtrak which means that they can now start to remove the debris. theyre clearly still looking, want to make sure there are no other victims that hav...

Youre making a bit of progress. one thing you told us youre concentrating on is you discovered a fracture on one part of the rail, involving one of the trains. the one that derailed yesterday. jumped the track. what are you looking for? >> well, were really trying to understand whether that was the cause of the accident or whether that was caused by the accident. so, well be sending a piece of rail into washington, d.c., to the labs for them to investigate that. >> how will you try to determine ...

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