and how was it that the crew was able to make it off the boat bu? all these questions remain unanswered at the passengers were not? all these questiremain unanswered at this point but such a tremendous loss of life the ntsb team is sending 16 he investigation. gadi, thank you. to the other major headline tonight. hurricane dorian still people to help with this investigation. gadi, thank you to the other major headline tonight. hurricane dorian still an extremely dangerous category 4 storm battering the bahamas and posing a powerful threat to the southeastern u.s our team is in place in the storm zone, but first al roker with the new track. al, all eyes are on this storm tonight. what are you seeing? kate, dorian continues to come is here with the new track al, all eyes are on this storm tonight. what are you seeing? kate, dorian continues to come down. right now it s stationary with 145-mile-per-hour winds, hurricane warnings stretching from north palm beach to the georgia
transportation safety board. ntsb team arrived this morning to begin our investigation of this crash in schoharie, new york. before i go any further, i would like to express our condolences to all of those who have been affected by the tragedy. our thoughts and prayers go out to them. the ntsb is an independent federal agency to investigate transportation accidents, determine the probable cause and issue safety recommending as to prevent the reoccurrence of the crashes. the investigator in charge leading the investigation will be pete who has over three decades of investigative experience. he is leading a multidisciplinary team with experts in a number of areas,
the accident in washington state and then we ll take your questions. . hello. i am bella dinzar board member of the national transportation safety board. the ntsb is launching a go team to dupont, washington, to investigate the derailment of amtrak train number 501 which occurred this morning. before i continue we would like to express our deepest condolences to family and friends and all of those affected by this tragic accident. the ntsb team will be led by ted terpin who will serve as investigator in charge. he is accompanied by ntsb staff with expertise in the following areas, operations, mechanical, track, signals, human performance and survival factors. also accompanying the team are members of the ntsb s office of
shoulders, all kinds of fractures. it was, it was there was nothing i could do to help. i had nothing except to talk to the people and try to help them. no word yet on what caused the crash. investigators from amtrak are on the scene. ntsb team will be there in the coming hours. the fbi is investigating. officials say it does not look like an act of terror. pennsylvania s governor also viltz visited the crash site. the human tragedy. the devastation. i, i can t imagine. we stand ready to help in whatever way we can. we are in support of what the city and amtrak are doing. breaking news also out of pakistan where police say six gunmen have killed 42 people in an attack on ape b bus. it happened in karachi. a hospital spokesperson says the bus was driven into the parking lot with bullet holds on the
best access to the information, they re working with the ntsb, working with boeing, with rolls royce, so they have access to all the facts, and i can t see why they withhold this keep of information. jim, i ll come to you in a minute because i know you spent a lot of time in china. we ll get to that satellite imagery in a moment. but tom, staying with you, what is the biggest, most significant known fact thus far? the biggest significant known fact is the last transponder hit on the aircraft. after the transponder quits, now we re with primary data, and it s a lot more difficult to find an airplane with just a blip on a radar screen because there s so many. it could be birds or anything else. it takes a lot of time to put all of this data together. the ntsb team s been on site for 2 1/2, 3 days. there s a lot of data to work with and it s going to take time to go through it all. so, conflicting information as far as whether or not this plane was in the air for four hours or not a