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Preliminary indications are that the train was traveling at 80 miles per hour and a 30-mile-per-hour track. the train was a 12 car train, and he had a locomotive both in the front and the back. amtrak estimates that 80 passengers were on the train with three crew into service personnel in the cafe cart. >> jon: joining us now, railroad investigator. we are talking to you 24 hours ago when all we had some of the horrible pictures of those train cars still down on the i five from that overpass. what do we know now? yes, speed was a factor, but is there more to it? >> obviously it looks like the ...

Thank you a lot, john. >> typical day. >> jon: a fox news alert on the deadly amtrak derailment. investigators say the train was traveling more than twice the speed limit when it hit the curve and careened off an overpass, spilling cars on the interstate below. three people are dead. >> all of a sudden, it was crashing, and there it was down. the train went like this. this body lying there. hardly had any close on, it had been ripped off of him. he was obviously dead. >> melissa: wow. >> jon: live near the scene and dupont, washington. delays on the investigation. claudia? >> investigation nat...

The ntsb hopes to have their interviews completed within the next day or so. of course, jake, they're going for want to know everything from how much sleep did they get the night before to how familiar they were with these tracks. >> after the crash yesterday, president trump's first tweet touted the need for his infrastructure plan. he got some heat for that for not immediately recognizing obviously the victims. today we're learning something else that the tweet may not have been factually on target. infrastructure may not have been an issue here. >> right. so there is so much to unpack there...

Themselves. >> jon: let's hear more from the national transportation safety board lead investigator on this case about what they train and engineer were doing. >> the question is, why was the train traveling at 80 miles per hour in a 30-mile-an-hour zone. the answer is, it is too early to tell. we were glad that we are able to get the data from the event data recorder from the rear locomotive. the front locomotive as you can imagine is a bit more difficult to access, and as you pursue that, we'll give you more information about the speed, exact speed of the train and the speed of the track. >>...

Important part of the initial investigation by both ntsb and the federal rarld ilroad administrati administration. >> back with us, mary, i want to ask you in the same context. 78 passengers and five crew members on this train of what was the inaugural run of this service. seattle to portland. if that's routine, is it sufficient? five crew on that train? >> it's probably sufficient depending on the services were for the passengers. given modern trains, less people than that can actually run the train. there were so many things that are automated on modern trains. one of the things they will in...