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Tonight, the ceremonial swearing in of Justice Brett kavanaugh well carry it live here on fox news. 7 00 eastern time. 6 00 central. Your world with neil cavuto is coming up right now. Neil you are looking live at latham, new york. A little more than two miles north of manhattan where we are trying to come to grips how it was 20 people were killed in a limo accident including two pedestrians. This is the deadliest transportation disaster to hit the United States in nine years. Normally when you look at casualties, of that degree you are thinking of plane crash. It is the worst accident we have...

February of 2009. so, it's definitely something that we're very interested in. and we will follow up and complete recommendations that hopefully will improve the safety of this industry. mr. costello? >> mr. sum walt. do you have any indication whether that vehicle had the so-called black box that a modern vehicle would have or was it too old? >> pete, what does this vehicle have in terms of black boxes? pete was talking earlier today. i will let you make an answer on that. >> that's an area that's still being addressed. we do know and that was reported earlier by the major, the one component ...

We spoke earlier with robert sumwalt, the ntsb official leading the investigation. >> mr. sum walt has the fbi determined whether a projectile a rock bullet struck the windshield of this engine and whether that played any role in the derailment? >> well yeah we were going to meet with the fbi tomorrow and have them examine the locomotive. >> you won't know for some period of time? >> that's exactly right. >> reportedly it's not unusual for trains -- i didn't realize this to be struck by objects, obviously not usually a bullet but rocks and boulders and things like that engineers call it gettin...

That he was impaired in any way, that he was using his cell phone, is that all true? that's what his lawyer says. >> as we do with all transportation actions, we have solicited or subpoenaed his cell phone records, drug and alcohol testing done as a matter of routine. we sent those results off, those tests off. so that's what we do for all investigations. >> mr. sumwalt thanks for coming in early in the investigation. we'll be following it sir. >> thank you for following it chris. >> we will continue our talk about amtrak with the panel. amtrak train 188 had barely left the tracks when republi...