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Following pete buttigieg. this is specific timing of a stop for buttigieg, right? reporter: yeah, he s starting a two-day swing, seven stops across western iowa. hal hallie, this is the first stop, in a town of 5400, he s got four stops on the day. to know, you look at the entire field. everybody is all in on iowa because they need to leave iowa with relevancy. the one candidate, though, who has to look beyond is pete buttigieg. talking to the campaign this morning there s a realization that pete buttigieg has established himself as a front-runner here in iowa. at the same time, when you look at polling particularly in places like south carolina, common communities of color, he has quite dismal numbers. there was a poll out of south carolina last week that showed him at zero percent support among black voters. this sunday, he ll be heading to north carolina he ll be ....
The ntsb has a go-team on the ground. they just spoke in the last half hour. take a listen. we re going to look at all of the signals, tracks, mechanics. there are many factors and human factor. that s part of the interviewing. as well as looking at the operations bulletins and some of the records to find out what exactly was the speed environment. and the requirements for this area. reporter: there s been a lot of talk about that positive access control system that would have automatically stopped this train here. that was not implemented at the time. we re told that it was likely going to be put in place next year on this particular track. right now, you can see that work is underway to remove the cars from this stretch of southbound i-5, that is going to be a massive process. cranes have been brought in and semi trucks to remove those cars. this is a major artery between seattle and portland. right now, it s completely shut down and they re working to ....
Thanks to a young computer programmer who flipped the kill switch. with that said, hallie, bossert said the attacks from north korea continue to do this, take a look. we applaud our corporate partners, microsoft specifically for acting on their own initiative last week to disrupt the activities of north korean hackers. microsoft acted before the attack in ways to spare many u.s. targets. last week, microsoft and facebook and other major tech companies acted to disable a number of north korean cyberexploits and disrupt their operations as the north koreans were still infecting computers across the globe. reporter: the big question now is what is the consequence for north korea. the white house won t go as far at this point to say additional sanctions will come from this. at this point, they want the private sector to work with the u.s. to step up the attacks. geoff bennett there at the white house. peter alexanderson pressing tom ....
Limit is 30 miles an hour. some cars through offer t the r. three people were killed. dozens are hurt. including those in serious condition. i want to go to blake, in due pon point, washington. what are you here from investigators and when is the next update? reporter: well, the information from that black box is very revealing, hal hallie, is the speed the train was supposed to go but not on this stretch of track. on this stretch of track, it was supposed to slow down to 30. that did not happen. we now know because of the black box recovered that speed is a factor in the crash. was it is only factor? that, we don t know. investigators are still working to determine if anything was on the tracks that the train hit or some mechanical malfunction. ....
And, again, this a very firm and strong message that congress is sending to russia, that that type of behavior won t be tolerated. hal hallie? kristen, i ll see you over in the office in just a bit. also watch new developments coming out of the justice department today. one of the folks joining us on set charlie is breaking news that the department is putting a new initiative into motion. targeting affirmative action in college admissions. so, when asked about this report a doj spokesperson tells nbc news they do not confirm or deny any ongoing investigation and that the internal announcement cited by the times is not a new policy or program announcement. tom dupree joins the panel to discuss. charlie is back with us along with jill. charlie, we have to go to you first. your scoop, your story. walk us through the nuts and bolts of what this means and what this does. sure. what s happening here is that the justice department s civil rights division is asking ....