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Event like this event. so there's no easy answer to it. >> when you look at the crash site itself and you see that all of those cars derailed one of them is just in a ball at this point, where do you start the investigation, is it speed? obviously, they are questioning the conductor at this point, getting information from there, but where do you start? >> well they are going to just start factually, some mentioned they were already on the scene doing a preliminary walk around during the accident site so in their own mind gathering pieces of evidence and questions that they are going to explore...

? all right. i understand we don't have adam as of this moment. we are still trying to get him. as you can imagine, this is a very fluid situation. looking at the video shot earlier, you can see them using flashlights. trying to get inside some of these train cars. and get to people who were trapped inside and we know that because we've spoken to witnesses throughout the evening who have said that there was debris, people that were thrown inside that car, sharp objects. they even had to use rescue crews to use hydraulics to get people out. this happened along very heavily traveled area in the ...

Substantial bit of mass moving down the tracks. the engine alone is around 97 metric ton, pushing up toward 250,000 pounds. at 50 miles an hour what you're going to see with a train like this is a good bit of weight pushing over that way. the same as when you go around a corner in your car, it wants to push your over. but take it to 100 miles an hour and that force gets much, much stronger. maybe not enough to make this locomotive come leaping off the tracks baa what about the rest of the car where the passengers are? you heard that gentleman a moment ago talking about feeling like they were f...

220,000 pounds of weight in order to try and get these trains back out of this mangled condition and away from this area so that they can check more on what's going on. the mayor says this is still a search and recovery effort. to your point, tamron they have not accounted for everyone. they are asking people who have loved ones who might have been on this train, they are giving them a phone number to contact and also saying to people who were on the train would they contact authorities. it's going to make it important, critical for them to try and get an accurate assessment of who was and was...

Accurate account of who was on that train and who wasn't and what condition they might be in. as it was pointed out, sometimes people make reservations for trains but they don't follow through. some people whose names might be on the train manifest may not have made it to that train, so they want an accurate account. again, they said step by step they are going through this information. they hope to provide even more information later on as the day progresses. but the mayor was very specific saying, yes, there are lots of questions, but they are not going to speculate on what the answers are a...