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The train that will have captured the speed and the signalling and what transpired to set this off. >> to that point, there is often breaking news after a tragic derailment. you get conflicting reports. there will be reports in the media and from eyewitnesss who may be in a different position. there is zero doubt in your mind that the instrumentation exists that once they get to the train and grab the black boxes and the like, they will be able to put the pieces together about the speed and the other big questions quickly. >> absolutely. the speed certainly and whether there was anything on th...

Joining me jeffrey toobin and david sousie and a ntsb train member. and now we know it was going through the turn and there are questioning and what are the factors that you as an investigator would want to look at right now? >> well, you know, 11 or 12 minutes out of the station to be going that fast, i would want to know and the recorder should tell us that, just what the throttle settings were. did he go full throttle when he left the station? how did we get that fast in a short period of time. there are people that have started to look at the performance of the locomotive which we publishe...

Throttle settings that he set when he left the station. and whether or not he tried to apply other brake, the regular braking system before he hit the emergency brake. >> kitty how long will it take to move the debris? >> well i think they'll be working as quickly as they can. i think it's important to note that the ntsb has released the track back to amtrak which means that they can now start to remove the debris. they're clearly still looking, want to make sure there are no other victims that have not been accounted for there are still a couple people who are missing, apparently. so they wil...

You're making a bit of progress. one thing you told us you're concentrating on is you discovered a fracture on one part of the rail, involving one of the trains. the one that derailed yesterday. jumped the track. what are you looking for? >> well, we're really trying to understand whether that was the cause of the accident or whether that was caused by the accident. so, we'll be sending a piece of rail into washington, d.c., to the labs for them to investigate that. >> how will you try to determine whether it happened before or caused the accident or happened before? >> we're looking to see to...

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