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Believe a train would pass over 71 miles per hour past so many home and businesses but we're told the train was rocketing around the curve. train 188 traveling in triple digits. there's more. they declined to give investigators a statement today, so we don't know if this person has a lead foot or if something was mechanically wrong with the train. that's something we may get after they get through looking at data recorders and cameras that were on board. they have already revealed what they call positive train control was not in use. hundreds are injured and recovering. seven are dead their fa...

Cranes have now been brought in as authorities try to determine if anymore people are under that wreckage. we know at least six people were killed and more than 200 people were treated at local hospitals. officials say 243 people were onboard the train headed from washington to new york. ntsb investigators on the scene now and the train's data recorders or black boxes as we know them have been recovered. joining us now from a helicopter over the scene, nbc's tom costello. from your vantage point, what can you tell us regarding -- >> reporter: yeah, good day, we are 2,000 feet above this train ...

Out of philadelphia. here's the very latest for you. philadelphia mayor michael nutter is expected to give another update this one coming at 2:15 p.m. we'll spring that to you live when it happens. the new death toll seven people are confirmed dead. more than 200 people have been treated for injuries sustained in this derailment. investigators from the ntsb they have arrived on scene, an they have recovered the train's data recorders. the accident has caused amtrak to shut down therunning. vice president joe biden himself and avid amtrak rider released this statement reading in part "quote the...

We were all exchanging trying to get out of there. >> those were the lucky ones. the crash tearing all seven flying off the tracks two left standing upright. one nearly flipping totally upside down. investigators now also analyzing the data recorders for clues about what went so wrong. peter doocy live for us in philadelphia. >> reporter: these commuter train tracks have speed limits. the speed limit on the rails behind me is 50 miles per hour. the latest information we have from data that the "wall street journal" gathered is that train number 188 that derailed was traveling twice that fast g...

Go. this was a missing piece to the puzzle. here we can see that the alarms were of course sounding in the cockpit as heard through the cockpit voice recorder and we can verify that from the flight data recorder by virtue of the attitude of the airplane and the control systems to see that he heard it he knew what was going on and he just drove this plane into the ground intentionally. >> having done work like this hundreds if not thousands of times really who what are the next steps for investigators now that they have both data recorders in their possession paul? >> well this is relatively ea...