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Preliminary information about that. no. our purpose for being here on site is to collect the perishable evidence. the information that will go away with passage of time. so we're going to go and very methodically start collecting information and what was the train speed and speed limit on that curve? that's part of our investigation is to very carefully document that. >> reporter: what will the black box give you? what information will you have when you get -- >> here's what we do. it's the mayor's press conference. if you will when you have a question raise your hand and state your name and a...

>> mr. sumwalt from the ntsb is there anything you can give us preliminary investigation, preliminarily could have gone wrong? was there a problem going into that curve? >> thank you. the question is do we have any preliminary information about how that curve -- no. just as we have said, we're just getting here. our purpose for being here, on site is to collect perishable evidence that information that will go away with passage of time. we'll very methodically collect information. what was the train speed? what was the speed limit on that curve? that is part of our investigation to very carefu...

Getting here but our purpose for being here on site is to collect the perishable evidence the information that will go away with the passage of time. so we're going to go and very methodically start collecting information, what was the train speed, what was the speed limit on that curve, that's part of our investigation, is to very carefully document that. [ inaudible question ] >> why don't we do it this way, if you will when you have a question state your name and affiliation and we'll call on you, that will make it a little more organized. the question is what can we get from those event re...

And this means that the engineer applied 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't just press a button and it spits out a speed. w...

Days. they're investigating speed and human error as possibilities. speed is being looked into. there is a sharp curve in the tracks and just before the area that was 30 miles an hour, the zone where the incident happened, it was 70 miles an hour. there was a sharp dropoff. take a listen. >> we don't know what the train speed was. we will learn that from the vehicle event recorders. incidentally, we have recovered the event recorder off the cab car. we have downloaded the data off the locomotive. we've not had a chance to analyze it or verify it at this point. >> reporter: we're getting a look...