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Welcome back, everybody. you're watching cnn's special coverage of the amtrak train derailment early indications are the train was traveling too fast when it went off the rails killing seven people. >> what they don't know is whether it was human error or mechanical problems. jason carol reports from philadelphia. >> the mangles wreckage of train 188 is still on the track. date recording from the train's first car has revealed the train wag traveling at least as fast as it should have been. 106 miles per hour. as it entered the corner where it derailed late tuesday. >> just moments before the ...

Ground? >> well wolf i can tell you, this is still a recovery operation. when that engineer stepped on the brakes this train was already going at 106 miles per hour. that's more than double the speed limit in this area. that is the headline coming from the ntsb. now, a full-blown investigation is under way to figure out why the train was going so dangerously fast. investigators believe the train was traveling over 100 miles per hour as it approached a curve with a 50-mile-per-hour speed limit. several train cars jumped the tracks. >> the train was placed in engineer induced braking. that means...