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Correspondent on the scene for us about 50 miles south of seattle. kyung, the national transportation safety board has recovered the train's data recorders. what are you learning? >> both of the event data recorders in the front and rear of the train. they have recovered both of them, wolf. and they also in this news conference that wrapped up a short time ago, said that the emergency brake was automatically activated, meaning that the crew did not hit the emergency brake. in this early part of the investigation, the ntsb saying they still cannot answer the question of why this happened. crane...

Cnn positive train control, a technology designed to slow down a train that's going too fast, was not activated on the tracks at the time of the crash. the national transportation safety board is launching a full investigation, tonight dispatching a team of 20 investigators to the scene. >> this was called an inaugural run of this service, but we want to check and make sure what that exactly means and find out more information about that specifically. >> reporter: an ntsb official tells cnn the investigation will focus on recovering the train's data recorders to determine the train's speed. th...

Run of this, this service. but we want to check and make sure what that exactly means. >> reporter: an ntsb official tells cnn the investigation will focus on recovering the train's data recorders, to determine the train's speed. they'll also examine the tracks and signals and conduct extensive interviews with the crew and passengers. >> we went down an embankment. we had to kick out the window -- the emergency window. >> reporter: and while no one knows for sure what caused this crash, just two weeks ago, the mayor of lakewood, washington, warned state transportation officials that the tracks...

>> that flight from australia to bali left cabin pressure 30 minutes after taking off. they are reviewing voice is and data recorders and interviewing the crew. >> that was not "the voice" of calm you want. the overhead was okay. but what they were hearing from the flight attendant. >> unimaginable despair in puerto rico. a month nearly after hurricane maria struck, people drinking water. ♪ ♪ you nervous? ♪ ♪

Something from the technology on the bus of what went wrong? >> the great thing about school buses, is that they very often have better technology than we see on anything else on the roadways, not just the event data recorders that can give you speed and braking but also cameras. school buses often have cameras inside the bus internal facing and external facing cameras so they'll be looking for those. >> deborah hersman, thank you so much for all of the information this morning. >> thank you. >> chris. there is just this question that continues to confound. why is donald trump, a man who doe...