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Following live. what do we know? >> reporter: good morning. there are a lot of unanswered questions. it is less than 24 hours since the wreck and kept as a distance but you can see a big cloud of dust and heavy machinery where the train wreckage is. they're starting to clean up a little bit. still unanswered questions. three people killed in the crash. dozened injured. among the three dead two on the train and the third was the driver of the dump truck. it happened around 12:30 yesterday. close to a dozen cars. hundreds of people on board coming from california to chicago. and once it crashed ...

The philadelphia inquirer report, i think at the sheer number of passengers that remain unaccounted for. i expected one or two, but the philly inquirer says it's a dozen. >> reporter: yeah. and i think again, we're going to have to wait to hear more from authorities about that. we know that they have had this very active search that has been expanding in the recent days. they have people out looking for potential passengers, possibly they say, thrown from the train wreckage itself. it's also possible that some of the people unaccounted for could have actually just not simply boarded the train ...

>> yeah. ede, thank you. >> thank you. >> there are amazing stories, really survival stories that are just unbelievable. but what was the cause? and are we as safe on trains as we think we are? and joining us is author of the warnings doctor. when you see this train wreckage as we look at these live pictures right now, they're removing a lot of it what does that tell you? >> first of all, don, we know this was a perfect storm of an ant quated instrustructure and we have a possibility of human error and we don't have the technology installed -- if you think about it over 100 years ago, they had...

Richmond area outside philadelphia to find everything they can in this mangled mess of train wreckage. it is a shock that the death toll is not ten times as high as it is right now. as we said ntsb investigators are going to be on the scene this morning. they're going to be searching for clues on what caused this. speed will be an obvious concern. and this curve that we'll be talking about this morning where the train derailed it has a history. in 1943 79 people died when a train derailed here. it's one of the deadliest crashes in history. cnn's sarah sidner is very close to the crash site. sh...