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Senator tom carper who was on that train but got off in wilmington. i'm also grateful for the first responders the fire fighters and rescue crews who have made such progress in dealing with this accident. you raise an important point, and iia. you ask me about the condition of the rail. i ride amtrak back and forth from wilmington to washington virtually every workday, and it is striking to me that right today, earlier today, the house appropriations committee marked up a bill for transportation for this year that cuts $250 million out of amtrak's budget. we have 750,000 people every day that ...

Hard specifics of who do we have and not have or anything like that until we know for sure. >> that is a big issue though. who they have and who they do not have and that everyone is not accounted for. that's a big issue. the mayor says the train's black box like we talk about on planes has been recovered and is going through analysis right now. rene marsh is here to talk more about that and where the investigation is. ntsb when they were up here, they said look, we just got on the scene because they are doing rescue and recovery on there. they have a lot of work ahead of them. where does the ...

Train signals, the operation of the train, the mechanical condition of the train, human performance. we are setting up a multidisciplinary investigation to try and understand the factors that led to this accident. in addition we've brought in experts from the ntsb's office of transportation disaster assistance, who will be assisting those family members who have been affected by this tragedy. we will be holding an organizational meeting at noon today. that is where we establish parties to the investigation and establish our investigative protocols, and i can tell you that the federal railroad ...

With the actual -- we've gone out and examined. we've done a good look over of the scene, but we have not started to very carefully document the wreckage at this point, but we will. >> last question. [ inaudible question ] >> the question is do we have any other factual information from any other recorders at this point about what the train was doing, and the short answer of that is no we do not. we basically, and i want people to try and understand we've just gotten here. you have a lot of questions, we have a lot of questions. we intend to answer many of those questions in the next 24 to 48 ...

Many of them were able to walk out on their own. we know dozens are injured. six critically in the hospital right now. 240 plus people on board but overwhelmingly most of them able to get out. look at these pictures again marci, we're getting. >> unbelievable. you mentioned the ntsb investigators making their way to the scene. they're going to look at the cars themselves that people were able to make their way out and trying to figure out what caused this. they'll look at the tracks and look at the recorder on that train, kind of the equivalent of the black box that would be on a plane to see ...