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With new details is anna kooiman. anna, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. ntsb is on the scene, investigators around me actually at the moment. they say they'll be here for up to ten days. we should find out soon because they have recovered the black box which tells the speed of the train. did the conductor actually try to hit the brakes? we will find that information out. also at the center of the investigation is the bend in the tracks. the speed limit is 30 miles an hour for that area but just before it, it was 70 miles an hour. >> we don't know what the train speed was. we wi...

>> the brake pressure went to zero five seconds prior to the stop -- to the complete stop of the locomotive. the brakes are held off by pressure. so at 120 psi, the brakes are held off. when the pressure diminishes, particularly when it goes to zero, full braking application happens. >> do you think the application occurred before the train derailed or after the train derailed? >> don't know that at this point. >> so from the mechanics of this, could you explain to us how it works with the engines at the back and the engineer might be at a -- i guess at the front of the train? how does he oper...

Anything they need. when they are finished with their investigation we will proceed accordingly. thank you. >> the name of the operator? >> governor --. >> governor --. >> the questions are still being shouted at the news conference with governor cuomo. did i hear another question? >> the curve speed limit is 30 miles per hour at that curve. there is a 70 miles per hour zone just ahead of it, a 75 zone ahead of that. we do not know what the train speed was. we will learn that from the vehicle event recorders. incidentally, we have recovered the event roared off the cab car and downloaded the d...

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