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Was getting experience and familiarizing himself with the territory. the actual conductor was in the passenger section at the time of the accident. >> reporter: it's hard to know what exactly all of this means. we are told by ntsb in that same news conference that the engineer is allowed to control the train. but we did also learn that the engineer, the crew, didn't hit the emergency brakes, john. the emergency brakes were automatically activated. we're a little more than 24 hours after this accident, still difficult to know what this means. >> there's also cameras that record inside and outsi...

Number two ranking senate? the democrat speaking right now. they are pushing the vote as late as they can. but in the next few minutes the senate will vet and pass this bill which will be celebrated at the white house at some point tomorrow. in the mean, tonight both black boxes have been recovered are from the deadly train derailment in washington state. three people killed and more than 100 hurt. it was the first new run of this route and a technology called positive train control was not activated on this brand-new passenger rail line. we are learning where the crew was when the train derai...

Breaking developments for us this morning. >> reporter: so many questions in this ongoing investigation but investigators with national transportation safety board focusing on a number of things including speed and the possibility the engineer who was driving the train may have been distracted. they say the emergency brake was automatically engaged, this train was going 50 miles over the speed limit and the engineer was not alone in the locomotive. >> there were two people in the cab, the engineer and the conductor who was getting experienced at familiarizing himself with the territory, the ac...

Force of the deadly force of a train derailment. the ntsb in their news conference saying the lead conductor at the time of the derailment was not in control of the train. he was in the passenger section, not in the cab. an engineer and a conductor trainee were instead in the cab. the engineer is still allowed to operate the train. the engineer though, did not hit the emergency brake. investigators have recovered both of the black boxes in the front and the rear of the train. they also are very curious about looking at the cameras, especially the one inside the cab to see what the engineer and...

But within the next few things of that nature senate will vote and will pass this bill, which will be celebrated at the white house at some point tomorrow. both black boxes have been recovered from the deadly train derailment in washington state. three people were killed and more than 100 hurt when an amtrak went speeding off the rails. it was a first run with a of this route. we're learning where the crew was when the train derailed. kyung lah joins us now. the driver was not at the controls? >> he was in the passenger section of the train. we don't know what car. he was somewhere in the pa...