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Train last night. >> let's find out. i'm sure you will update us. once you know we'll know. the train was traveling, we are told by the ntsb 106 miles per hour going into the curve and shouldn't have been going faster than 50 miles per hour. was this a human error, a mechanical error? what are you hearing? >> i don't know that ntsb made that decision. clearly, it was reckless in terms of driving by the engineer. there's no way in the world he should have been going that fast into the curve. i mean most of the time the regional rail i have been on that train a million times coming out of d.c. t...

Emphatically. he said some things we know many things we don't know and they will not speculate or rush to any kind judgment what happened here. they are asking people who may think that they had someone, a loved one, a friend on the train to contact authorities because they are trying to match the amtrak manifest with the names of the people they know and are aware of and are accounted for, but things may not match exactly so that's why they are asking people for their help. as you pointed out leading up to me, they have heavy equipment on site here large cranes that can handle something like...

That as some trains do. so if speeding excessively, to be able to slow it down. so i'm not that familiar with all of the mechanics of this. but an alerter system as i understand it essentially would be a loud enough noise to get the engineer's attention. >> john what will we know tomorrow this time that we don't know now? >> we're going have a better handle on the equipment, because of the work that they did today. so it will be able to tell us -- put more focus on whether it's a mechanical failure or a human being failure. >> well john goglia and kitty higgins, thank you for your time. >> tha...

I'm erin burnett. "outfront" we begin with breaking news. the amtrak train that derailed near philadelphia was speeding big-time. traveling 106 miles an hour at the time of the crash. more than twice the 50-mile-an-hour speed limit. we are also just learning at this moment the engineer's name from three amtrak employees. here's what we can tell you. his name is brandon bostian. drew griffin is going to have much more on the man at the center of this in just a moment. the mayor of philadelphia on cnn calling that engineer reckless saying there's no excuse for the out-of-control speed. we also n...

There should be more specific information about those metrics soon. >> the event recorders themselves can give you information about the speed of the train. any brake applications throttle applications that the engineer could have made horn bell. it can give us a lot. that will be key to this investigation. a good download of those data will be done this afternoon, i think. we hope to be able to provide you with information. the engineer driving train 188 was hurt but the mayor says if he hasn't already spoken to investigators about what he saw and what he did, that was expected to happen an...