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Looking at the location to see speed. they'll be looking at speed. they'll be looking at where the brakes apply. they'll be talking to the conductor to see if he was in any way losing his sense as we saw in previous train crashes in new york. they say that these tracks will not be opened any time before the end of the week. jose? >> adam riess, thank you so much. i want to turn now to nbc's stephanie goss at temple university hospital. stephanie, good morning. >> good morning. you look at that crash scene and all seven of those cars off the tracks and you think about -- sorry, there's a train ...

Speed of the train, the throttle position, the braking. all of those things are very important. as this train was coming around a curve at the time that it derail derailed, or that is what we're led to believe. so much is going on. we're trying to figure out that in addition to making certain all the passengers who were on board this train, amtrak 188, that all of them got out or have been accounted for. jose? >> nbc's rehema ellis, thank you so much. i want to turn to msnbc's adam riess at the media staging area. adam, good morning, what's the latest from your perspective? >> good morning, jo...

The question is, did anybody not get out? is anybody underneath those train cars? they've had dogs coming in today, cadaver dogs already looking and trying to pick up any hint of any individual who might still be in that wreckage. now, fire rescue, as you know, went meticulously through the wreckage last night. so the real concern is is anybody underneath. they'll right the trains and looking if victims and then candidly they'll begin their investigation. this will take some time as you would expect because they have to go through all of the telemetry on board the black boxes on the train, the...

We have a forward-facing video camera that's in the head end of the locomotive the front end of the train, so we'll be looking at that. the event recorders themselves can give you information about the speed of the train, throttle applications that the engineer could have made horn bell it can give us a lot. so that will be key to this information, is a good download of those data which is being conducted, will be done this afternoon, i think, so we hope to be able to provide you with information as we get it. >> two last questions. yes? >> any information about the people who have died ages h...

Happening again. they also want to talk to eyewitnesss as soon as possible because investigators say it's important to get a fresh account of eyewitnesss as soon as they can before they get tainted by other people's impressions. other thing they are going to try and do jose is find out what the speed of this train was at that time the throttle position, the braking position and all of those things will have an impact in helping them come to a conclusion about not only what happened here but why it happened. jose? >> rehema ellis, thank you so much. i want to go to adam marreese at the media st...