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Seven people were killed and more than 200 injured when amtrak train 188 derailed here tuesday night and investigators have since converged on the crash site, ntsb says the train was traveling at 106 miles an hour coming in a very sharp curve in the tracks. They say trains engineer applied the emergency brake moments before the derailment but that slowed the train slightly to 102 miles an hour. The limit is just 50. Now, the trains black box and front mounted camera have been recovered. Investigators hope those provide vital clues. They say automatic braking technology called positive train co...

Transportation safety board said the train had been accelerating for about a minute before it reached 106mph, more than twice the speed limit and derailed on a curve. Kris van cleave in philadelphia begins our coverage. Reporter with repair efforts under way amtraks president and c. E. O. , joseph boardman, took us to the tracks near the crash site. When you got the news the train was going that fast when it hit this curve sir what went through your mind . Its kind of a sickening feeling. There was a heartbreaking situation when you looked at the video that you saw out here. We certainly were ...

The speed limit. According to the engineers attorney Brandon Bostian has no recollection of the disaster. Seven confirmed dead. Authorities have not yet accounted for even. Trying and coming up empty, you dont do it. In nepal, the search is still going on for a u. S. Helicopter missing for two days. On board were six marines. A tornado in guthrie. In texas, causing widespread flooding. Picking up every eggthing. Still dealing with questions from iraq. Not only would i not have been in favor of it. President bush would not have been in favor of it. Police taking down a suspect on rampage with a...

Accident the black box says the train was speeding and the engineer put the train into a full emergency braking mode but it was too little too late. 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. The ntsb knows the train was moving more than 50 Miles Per Hour over the posted stead limit but does not at this point know why. Our mission was to find out not only what happened and why it happened so we can prevent it from happening again. That is really what we ...

Investigator had to say less than an hour ago about the high rate of speed. Moments before the derailment derailment the train was placed into engineer induced braking. And this means that the engineer applied full emergency, full emergency brake application. Maximum authorized speed through this curve was 50 Miles Per Hour. We have crews all over this story covering every angle. We want to toss it over to nbc 10s Randy Gyllenhaal with more on the investigation. Randy . Reporter and when the ntsb had the News Conference an hour or so ago, they mentioned the effort to preserve perishable eviden...