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Morning. the ntsb investigators have recovered on so-called event recorders from a metro north commute train. that may help determine the cause of the deadly derailment in new york city. four passengers were killed. 67 others were injured when that train jumped the tracks just outside of a station in the bronx. this morning, metro north is beginning the process of getting those train cars upright. cnn's alexander field is live for us at the accident scene in the bronx. what can you tell us? >> reporter: the cranes are in place and crews are in place. they had to wait for the okay from the nt...

Thanks so much for joining me. ntsb investigators will be looking into whether speed and brakes played a role in a deadly train derailment. they tweeted out this picture of them recovering an event recorder. it will go a long way in helping them determine why a north metro commuter train jumped the tracks killing four and critically injuring 11 people yesterday. cnn's rene marsh is in washington this morning. what's the latest with the event recorders? >> we just got off the phone with the ntsb. they tell us they have recovered two event recorders. one in the front of the car of the train and ...

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...

Air-drop orders at your door using drones? what could go wrong? experts tell us, a lot. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." federal authorities now confirm that a new york commuter train was going way too fast just before it hurdled arou hur around the curve. it was barreling down the track at 82 miles an hour into a 30-mile-an-hour curve. the question now -- was human error or mechanical problem to blame? with the crash that killed four people and injured dozens. cnn's rene marsh is following the story. what's the latest? >> we now know the ntsb have already started interviewi...

Two event recorders, one in the back of the train, the other in the front of the train. the data from those recorders is being downloaded. it should give investigators a very clear picture of what the train's speed, what its velocity was and how the brake system might have been functioning. >> alexandra field, thanks so much, reporting from the bronx. all right. let's take you to london now as the trial resumed today for two men an us coos of first of all slamming their car into a british soldier and then getting out and hacking him to death. >> jurors today saw this video of one of the defe...