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Of the car, where i remembered that there was an exit, and when i got there, there were people other passengers already there trying to get the door open. so those doors, if you press on it they slide open. so i'm sure they were having trouble getting it to slide properly. but they were able to push it open enough to start having passengers climb out one by one. >> when you get out of the train, can you -- is there a moment where you were trying to figure out how to get out of the train? >> i was trying to figure out where we were. i didn't know we were in philadelphia. you know i just -- >> w...

Keep crawling okay? get out. >> here. hold on. hold on. here. go, go go go go. >> hours after amtrak train 188 went off the rails, it had already become a political football on capitol hill. by sheer coincidence, the house preparations committee was scheduled to take up a transportation bill today that includes funding for amtrak. >> the budgets that this majority continues to present consistently subsidize more and more special interests what we should have been doing is subsidizing the safety of those passengers on the train yesterday. >> you have no idea. no idea what caused this

Investigators believe, it was going more than twice as fast p 106 miles an hour. now, the engineer slammed on the brakes but it was too late. when the train derailed it had gotten down to 102 miles an hour. and now the question is why was it going so fast? i want to bring in ntsb investigator robert sumwalt. robert, good to see you. >> good morning, jose. >> i want to get to the issue of positive train control in a minute but first i need to ask you about the investigation. what's the main focus today? >> we're doing a lot today jose. we have investigators branched out in all different directi...

It's a similar piece of equipment, but this is the kind that's installed on trains that specific one is the locomotive data reporter that was pulled from amtrak train 188 today. traveling from d.c. to new york at this time last night, when it suddenly derailed and crashed while rounding a curve on its way out of philadelphia. seven people confirmed dead at this point, more than 200 people injured. as to what happened and why. what we've learned substantively about the derailment has largely come from that data recorder. investigators confirming that the recorder indicates in a the train at the...

This track as it winds its way west out of the city along the river here, this is where the tracks make their first big turn. the train tracks continue in this direction. and this thoroughfare of track cuts through -- basically runs right through north philly. we are now here, coming up at the turn where the train derailed. probably what? three miles or so from 30th street station. we're still in the city boundaries of philadelphia. we're still in philly. and you're going to see right here.