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>> so take me through the basics of how safety works in terms of speed. the train is going to slow down coming into the station. one of the things i was noting was whether you go slower when you're in a city, right? if you're on a part of track that's running through a crowded residential neighborhood than if you're sort of out in the middle of nowhere and on a big straightaway. >> yeah, it can change based on some of those factors. a lot of it has to do with track geometry, whether or not there's a curve, whether the curve is super elevated, whether or not there's crossings in the area, there...

Servants and agencies, local, state and federal working in partnership. we have all the resources we need, but we're going to continue the search and rescue. we can be sure that we have accounted for every person we think may have been on that train. >> in terms of why this happened? do we know if the locomotive engineer who's driving the train, do we know if he has spoken with investigators, if investigators have had the access to him that they want to have to him -- do we know -- he's got a key role in explaining what happened here, do we know what position he's at with regard to the investi...

Crash and later released from the hospital. the ntsb has not yet interviewed the engineer. we now have some idea what happened, we still don't know why. joining me now, nbc news correspondent tom costello. tom, the engineer has been identified, what do we know about him? >> 32 years old, he's been an engineer for five years with amtrak, and we would expect that if this investigation is going down two different tracks he is -- he could potentially be facing serious questions from the ntsb but also potentially from police. so these are very serious -- this is a very serious set of circumstances ...

Here we go. it is at this crucial juncture here that the train -- you can see just how sharp that bend is. i mean, that is essentially just a right angle left turn there for that train. as close to a right angle as you can get. you can see the way in which it snaked the front literally at the highest rate of speed come off the track. you see the debris right there. wow! you can see the debris at the impact point at which the train jumps the rails. and this just glittering debris that's smashed by the force of the impact into just a rugged area of ground there, off the track in between two line...

More special interests. what we should have been doing is subsidizing the safety of those passengers on that amtrak train yesterday. >> you have no idea no idea what caused this accident. and to use that as a mines of supporting the last amendment. support it if you want to. >> that's appropriations committee marking up a transportation bill that cut amtrak today. we're back live from philadelphia. here with me now, ed rendell, former pennsylvania governor, philadelphia mayor, and co chair for a group call eded -- this is something that's near and dear to your heart. you've been going around t...