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You've seen what could be the reason why this happened. robert, thanks again. i want to turn to frances rivera the results of our pulse question about train safety what are people saying? >> we're asking do you think trains should be required to have seat belts. let's take a look at our score board so far, how you respond. nos have dropped about little over ten points since we last checked in over an hour ago. 48% say yes. now we're seeing a pretty even split or getting closer to that. take a look at how you're voting in the last couple of minutes here in real time when we asked, the zigzag th...

Train speed, images from a video camera on the engine and log of when the train's operator used tools like the brake and throttle and horn. we're waiting for the mayor of philadelphia to give us an update again at 2:15. adam experts we've been talking to say analogies like crack the whip or something like that if you're on an ice rink with your friends and you're going around the turns, that this train car resembles something like that because of the high rate of speed and inertia. >> reporter: the wreckage and twisted metal that you see there, it just had to have been going too fast. now you ...

Left-hand side of the train so i -- everyone on that side just flew over. i frankly lan on my head. i mean head first into the other. >> harrowing stories. msnbc's adam reese joins me live from the scene. these stories are just incredible. >> reporter: 16 hours after the derailment, it's amazing that so many people were able to make it out of the mangled wreckage. this is a story of survival and also an investigation. the black boxes are in delaware at amtrak headquarters. that will give them a wealth of information, speed throttle braking. nbc news has learned that the train may have been goi...

Are cross-referencing the manifest. maybe there were some people who didn't show up for the train ride. maybe there were some people who walked away from the accident, dazed and confused. maybe people left the hospital. here's mayor nutter earlier this afternoon. >> we have not completely matched the manifest that we received from amtrak with the patient or hospital information that hospitals assigned personnel to our emergency operation center tonight. that is a very tedious process dealing with individuals, many of whom obviously we have no idea who they are. >> now the conductor was injured...

Faster than it should have as it approached that turn. now this is a continuing investigation. it's also a search for possible people unaccounted for. the ntsb has the black box. that will provide them with a wealth of information, speed, we'll get more analysis fl how fast the train was going, the track conditions and the throttle and braking. they also want to know in terms of the search for possible people that might be either still there or unaccounted for, maybe somebody went to the hospital didn't speak to officials, maybe someone didn't even get on the train or maybe someone walked away...