per hour. we have done a lot of calculation on this this morning, and based on these images, not as good as what investigators have, it looks like this train was at this point traveling considerably faster than that. perhaps 20 miles per hour or more faster than this. this is not conclusive. it s not it is scientific in the sense we re doing the math, but we don t have all the evidence they have. this is the reason they re looking so much at this question of speed, because if you think about a train traveling that much faster, of course it brings up memories of this crash, the one that happened in spain, where it was supposed to be doing 50 miles an hour and this train was doing 100 miles and produced this horrific crash which killed dozens and dozens of people. that s why speed is such an issue and being looked at so closely. right. of course and those black boxes and the information that should be be yielded from those event recorders, just coming in. we were are told earlier, to
tracks these will be things investigators are going to look for. they will look for critical event recorders. that will tell them how fast the train was going, and did anybody press the brakes, and when did they step on the brakes. those are all little pieces of information that will form this big picture as they try to figure out what went wrong. we know as sarah said as this train, according to passengers onboard, people said they felt the train slow down and get rocky and that s when we know some of the cars jumped the tracks carol. i know the fbi was sent to the scene, so i want to get that out of the way right now, investigators don t believe this was sabotage of any kind correct? reporter: at this point they are not saying that you are right. the fbi deployed here but there is no indication that there is any connection to terrorism at this point, and there are multiple investigations not only the fbi but the federal
your hand, state your name and affiliation, once we call on you, that will make it a little more organized. the question is, what can we get from those event recorders? we can get a lot of information. my understanding people already recovered those. they will be read out. we have a forward-facing video camera in the head and the locomotive the front end of the train. we ll be looking at that. the recorders themselves can give you information about the speed of the train, any brake applications, any throttle applications the engineer could have made. it will give us a lot. that will be key for this investigation, a good download of that data which is being conducted, will be done this afternoon. we hope to be able to provide you with information as we get it. two last questions, yes. can you give us any information about the people who died age ranges?
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 affiliation once we call on you. that will make it more organized. the question is what can we get from those event recorders and we can get a lot of information and it s my understanding that we already recovered those and they will be read out.
commercial and residential area and that s relevant, right? absolutely. as you mentioned it can go up to 100, 110 miles per hour. but when you re coming through an area like this it s residential mixed with commercial you re going to have a speed limit that is well below 100 miles per hour. and they weren t at a dead run either, right? i mean they hadn t left the station that long ago in terms of building up speed. that will be relevant also right? right. that will also be relevant. and what s going to be key when these investigators are able to pull out those event recorders, very similar to what we talk about the black boxes. on airplanes. exactly. it will be able to tell how fast was this train traveling, were brakes applied, at what point were the brakes applied, all that kind of detail will be on the event recorders. they weren t positive but early assessment was they had the conductor, the motor men, the driver there to be able to do those interviews. now, 1943 one of