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Happen. but people were really good last night. >> how did you actually physically get out of the train? >> so we were the final car. within a few minutes, there was a police officer that somehow made his way on board and helped open the back door which was stuck and there were people from the neighborhood nearby who rushed to the scene and were helping people get out the back of the car. i had actually lost my shoes at some point. we were pulled off the train and standing off to the side. we could see the carnage in front of us which was just train cars and metal everywhere. and then official...

& that is more on the way and including tracks and signals and operations and human performance. and our purpose for being here on-site is to collect the perishable evidence and the information that goes away with the passage of time. we'll start collecting information and what was the train speed and speed limit on the curve and that is part of our investigation. that is to carefully document that. there is an intense focus on gathering patient data and more than 288 of the patients were treated for injuries in area helps. some are badly hurt and unable to identify themselves. officials say t...

Into engineer-induced braking and this means that the engineer applied full emergency -- a full emergency brake application. maximum authorized speed through this curve was 50 miles per hour. when the engineer induced brake application was applied, the train was traveling at approximately 106 miles per hour. three seconds later, when the data to the recorders terminated the train speed was 102 miles per hour. i will indicate that these are preliminary figures of speed subject to further validation but we're pretty close on that. that's our first look at it. it's a pretty complex thing. you don...

Tracks, seven i think cars were lifted off the track itself. power lines were pulled down. i mean the velocity that it must have been at and sort of the lack of obvious control. i mean, tell us a little bit about when you hear that account, what you think transpired. >> well again, we need to make sure we have all the information, which we will be getting as the investigation proceeds. but it seems to me it's the laws of physics. the train speed as reported was at 100 miles an hour. supposed to be 50 miles an hour. when you exit a curve off a highway, they tell you to slow down for that very r...

>> thank you very much drew griffin. new details on the investigation right now. jason carroll is also "outfront" from philadelphia with a look at exactly how this happened. what happened when it happened what investigators are looking at right now. >> reporter: the mangled wreckage of the amtrak train 188 strewn on the tracks. the event date recorder recovered from the train's first car has already revealed the train was traveling at least twice as fast as it should have been. 106 miles per hour as it entered the corner where it derailed late tuesday. >> just moments before the derailment t...