the national transportation safety board says preliminary data says the amtrak train that derailed was going 80 miles an hour in a 30-mile-per-hour zone. at least three people were killed as it hit a new bypass just south of seattle. more than 70 were injured when 12 train cars and a locomotive jumped the rail, some cars falling to the road below. immediately after the derailment, the conductor called for help. >> we were coming around the corn eaer and we went on the ground. >> is everybody okay? >> i'm still figuring that out. we got cars everywhere and down on to the highway. >> the ntsb says it's not known what caused the train to derail and it's too early to know why it was going so fast. kenneth craig is in washington with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, ann marie. still a massive scene out here and this is where it all happened. take a look down the interstate here. you can see that crumbled mess of a train that we now know was going 50 miles an hour faster than it should have been. >> investigators trying to figure out what caused the train derailmen

i have confidence in the national transportation safety board that we will get clear answers in time. this is what it is that went wrong that resulted in this. by the way, the pictures you have on screen that i'm looking at from my office in d.c., there is that one car that not only landed on i-5, but landed upside down. this is a nightmare itch image. . >> the sheriff told us a little while ago, they see that one car and we are showing it right now, dangling over interstate 5, but there are three or four more upside down where you can't see them. he said the department trains for these situations, but this is extraordinary. >> this is way, way, way outside the usual bounds even of

the national transportation safety board says the emergency brake was not activated by the train's engineer, it was triggered automatically when the train derailed. the train was going 80 miles per hour in a 30 mile per hour zone at the time of the crash. it went off the rails and on to interstate 5 on monday morning. the engineer of the amtrak train is still hospitalized right now. everything is under scrutiny, including cell phone use. >> it's protocol for us to look at all of the cell phone records of all the crew members whenever there is an accident of this type. >> the crash killed three people and more than 70 others were hurt. >>> there is a new poll shows most san francisco voters want the city to repair roads and strengthen public transportation including b.a.r.t. and muni. they feel companies like uber and lyft should be paying for the repairs. a survey shows 59% of voters support imposing a new tax on ride hailing and food delivery services. >>> a boston arch bishop who resigned amid the sex abuse scandal has died.

today the national transportation safety board plans to interview the crew of amtrak train number 501. the ntsb says the train was traveling 80 miles an hour in a 30-mile-per-hour zone. however, investigators say it's still too early to tell why the train was in this would happen. chris martinez is at the scene of the crash in dupont. >>reporter: crews lifted train cars overnight as they tried to stabilize the scene of monday's deadly derailment. the national transportation safety board says the train's event data recorder indicates the amtrak train was traveling 50 miles over the speed limit when it jumped the tracks. >> the question is why was the train traveling at 80 miles an hour in a 30-mile-per-hour zone? and the answer is it's too early to tell. >>reporter: the train was making its first run on a faster, new route from seattle to portland. but when the train entered a curve over the interstate, one of the engines and 12 cars derailed, slamming into cars and trucks below. >> amtrak 501, emergency. we are on the ground. >> is everybody okay? >> i'm still figuring that out. we go

amtrak management is responding, and we are certain the national transportation safety board from our area will send someone to the area. it was just before 8:00 a.m. when a local train derailed. less than 10 minutes later, cbs news reported 70-75 passengers were on board wh we will continue to follow the story, and we will have more during this newscast and on our wusa 9 mobile app. >>> the soonest they can get me out is the 21st. i will not get to my destination until the 22nd. >> the power is back on at the country's busiest airport, but that does not mean every flight is ready for takeoff. more than 1,000 flights were stranded yesterday at atlanta's airport because of a power outage. it was caused by a fire at an underground electrical facility. they didn't get the power back on until close to midnight, and now things are slowly returning to normal at airports across the country, but as we said, not out of the woods yet. wusa 9's evan koslov went and heard local nightmares. >> reporter: this is the line at the delta location. people have been waiting for quite a here. some folks w

debora hersman is a former chairman of the national transportation safety board. she's now president and c.e.o. of the national safety council. she joins us from chicago tonight. mrs. hersman, first of all, what are investigators looking for now? >> when investigators fir to collect all of the perishable evidence, document the scene, and grab the recorders as quickly as possible and either download them on site or send them back into a lab so they can be read out. >> glor: there's something called a positive train control system. some feel that might have made a difference here. what is that, and what might it have done? >> it's really too early to tell if positive train control could have prevented this derailment, because we don't know what caused the derailment. positive train control is really a back-up to the human being. the engineer and the cab could be distracted, fatigued, or incapacitated. positive train control is g.p.s. technology that knows if trains are going the collide with one another or if trains are speeding over what is permitted in that section

. >> investigators from the national transportation safety board are on the scene collecting evidence it could be weeks even months for them to say what caused the derail ment. chris martinez, cbs news. >> the images of the train derailment in washington state bring to mind the derailment that happened in philadelphia back in 2015, that derailment happened in port richmond. the national transportation safety board said the train was going too fast, and since then technology called positive train control was installed on all amtrak lines along the northeast corridor. it can slow down or stop a train, if it senses imminent danger. amtrak says washington train lines do not have the technology yet but in the sure if it would make a difference. >> it is too earl to tell if positive train control could have prevented it derailment because we don't know what caused the derailment. >> now, eight people died and more than 200 were hurt in that 2015 derail until the port richmond. >> stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage of the amtrak train derailment in washington state. when we'

>> investigation national transportation safety board say they are talking to witnesses and analyzing speed tracking data wide 12 passenger cars and a locomotive jumped the track. some of those train cars landed on the busy freeway below. you can see, there is to a lot of activity here unseen, and while it will take many months to determine an official cause, no question, does amtrak train was going too fast on its inaugural run between in seattle and portland. train 501 was going 80 miles an hour and a-mile-per-hour zone. 50 over the speed limit when it careened off the overpass. now we are hearing about those first anguished moments from the conductor himself as he radioed for help. >> amtrak 51, emergency, emergency. we are on the ground. we are on the bridge over i5. on the freeway. we need ems, a separate date are already starting to show up. speak out that conductor and for other >> that conductor and for other witnesses. >> today and tomorrow, it will be attempting to interview them we hope that we will get more information about exactly what happened. speak out three of the 85

peter, you are the former managing director of the national transportation safety board. a very, very telling audio from the conductor. >> it is. it indicates that whatever happened, the engine was past the point where things started to go south. the engine was still on the track. he was unaware of how serious the accident was or just beginning to know how serious it was. it was clearly shocked. >> is that extraordinary or unusual that the first car or the engine is still apparently on track, but the cars behind it are dangling off the track and upside down? >> not at all. sometimes the engine is probably 80,000 pounds. it may innish nate a problem with the rail, but it is past it when the rail splits with the following car starts to have problems. or there may have been a problem with the wheels of one of the follow-up cars. i want to play the audio more time and we want to listen carefully and have your thoughts. >> what happened? >> we were coming around the corner to take the bridge over i-5 there and we went on the ground. >> okay. are you -- is everybody okay? >> i'

the national transportation safety board says the train was traveling 80 miles per hour ahead of thehe interstate. where the speed limit drops to 30. at about train approached the overpass where one of the engines and 12 cars derailed. >> it wasn't easy for the firefighters to got through. they were using jaws of life. different forms of saws to be able to get into some of the crushed cars to get access to people and get them out. >> the ntsb will fry to figure out whether something other than speed play aid role in the crash. >> is there any indication there was an object on the tracks prior to the derailment? >> that tree maeremains to be determined. the scene has been preserved looking at it carefully with our rail experts. >> the mayor of the city where that train passed through, minutes before the derailment. raised safety concerns about the new route. carter evans has more on the investigation. >> weave a always felt the rewa wasn't big enough to take on the risk. >> lakewood mayor don andersen feared for years that amtrak's high speed cascades route would lead to disaster. con

right now officials, including the national transportation safety board are out there investigat ing what caused the train to go off the tracks. they're actually in route as we speak. of course we'll let you know what comes out of that investigation. again, as we mentioned six people were killed on board that train and officials say they expect that number to go up even higher. keep in mind now, this is a developing story so keep it right here on fox5 for the very latest on this investigation. kristin leone, fox5 local news. >> there is new information tonight in the january murder of a 66 year old man. he told dy police drug dealers had taken over his apartment. allock you i ol i was found dead after a fire tore through home a after he filed a complaint with the police. now, nearly 11 months later there has been an arrest. paul wagner joins us live with that story. >>reporter: sarah and jim we were aible to see a nine-page court affidavit which lays owlt a very troubling case. mr. i lally met with police the night before he was killed and told them that he had been under siege for t

. >> investigators from the national transportation safety board are now on the scene of this accidentnswer to that all important question, what caused this on a newly rebuilt set of tracks meant for higher-speed operation? was it a problem with the train? the tracks? or perhaps operator error? it could take weeks to get an answer. >>> the lights are back on and planes are back in the sky after sunday's massive blackout. it caused flight cancellations from paris to oregon and thousand of air travelers are still trying to got to their destinations. chris van clea kris van cleave is there. [ applause ] even with the light back on were canceled and the lines stretched as far as you could see. >> again, apologize for inconvenience. >> yesterday passengers roamed the busiest airport in the dark. others stuck on the tram some slept on baggage belts. more than 1,000 flights canceled. >> this is absurd. people are sleeping on the floor like homeless people. it is just like i have never seen anything like this at all. >> this morning, delta was handing out donuts which came as little comfort to

i want to bring in the former chairman of the national transportation safety board and now the president of the national safety council. thanks very much for taking the time. we're very happy to have you here. listen, i know it's early. there are certainly no final answers to all of these questions, but you look at the scene of the crash, it happened on a curve. a witness speaking to cnn said the train was going faster than traffic on the highway just prior to the crash and other experts on air have noticed how the cars were littered across a wide area. in your experience, does this look like a case of excessive speed? >> well, i think it's too early to tell just from looking at pictures, but the best piece of evidence they're going to get is the black box or the recorder on the train that will tell them how fast this train was going, what the throttle position was, if the brakes were applied. they need that corroborating evidence to be able to talk to the operator if possible to know exactly what happened. >> this has been referred to in shorthand has high speed rail. but it's not reall

the team from the national transportation safety board arrived last night.ng a news conference at this hour and one thing is perfectly clear. the train's bead will be major focus. >> preliminary indications are that the train was traveling at 80 miles per hour and a 30-mile-per-hour track. >> the event data recorder is starting to provide the first clues as to what possibly caused amtrak train 500 want to go off the tracks. as the cars are removed, investigators are looking into factors, including why the train was going more than double the speed limit for the area. >> they are looking in operations, the track, the mechanics. survival factors, human performance. >> the team will interview the engineer, conductor and crew members on the trip from seattl seattle. >> the train to portland was the inaugural day. they were on the bypass tracks from where they used to go around the water. >> washington state d.o.t. received grants to modify the tracks for passenger use that rerouted trains to an inland route along i-5. amtrak confirms the train wasn't using posit

national transportation safety board do to have a 2:30:00 p.m.n news conference regarding the catastrophe that played out on interstate five as an amtrak train went off the track and onto the interstate. the governor now declaring a state of emergency, we know other trains along this line and a nearby lines have been shut down and canceled for today. this has been a widening situation in terms of people it impacts, people have been told to stay off the roads because they have all they can deal with with the situation here, they set up a situation where they've been taking people out by transport buses and nearby hospitals have taken upwards of 70 people. then the fatalities. the widening effects on traffic, all of them again, thank you very much for your expertise. a civil engineer has been telling us that this is going to be looked at at a higher level if you will, the white house, the trump administration has been looking at infrastructure. that civil engineer who has joined us twice this hour, oliver mcgee has pointed out that this was a histo

overnight the national safety transportation board confirmed the train was traveling 80-mile-per-hour in a 30-mile-per-hour zone. at least three people were killed when the derailment happened. amtrak says 80 passengers and five crew members on board at the time. according to washington state police, 72 people were taken to local hospitals. >> everything was fine and suddenly, you know, just out of the clear blue, there was no warning of any kind. it was just total shock. i thought initially it was an explosion. a lot of yelling and skraem icr i was probably one of the first few guys out of the train and a lot of people were stuck in the train. so they were running in, and, you know, trying to get them t out. >> amtrak saying the train was not using the technology positive train control that can be used to prevent derailments. >> bring in scott live. good to talk to you this morning. what more are we learning about the cause of this crash, why it was traveling at 80-mile-per-hour when it should have been going 30. >> well, that's the big question, yasmin. it's something the national t

national transportation safety board says the data recorder fr the train was traveling more than 50 miles above the speed limit when it derailed traveling 80 miles an hour. and amtrak said positive train control and that can speed or slow down the train cause not in use. >> here in the district tonight there are big questions about whether a safety system mandated by congress could have prevented the tragic crash. nearly a decade ago congress moved taken to stall the system and that is called positive train control and years after its approval that system sill still is not in place. for more on this bring in "fox5" tom fitzgerald. tell us why this is important. >> tony, it is very impo important. when it is installed positive train control can install a train going way too fast and risk derailment. congress redid the same in 2 2008 and it's not rolled out. the chair tells n it sb wants it in place but for now it. >> we recommended both to the fra and different train companies such as amtrak took have positive train control. this -- it was required to start implementation and congress dela

national transportation safety board will look for an official cause. that could take months. >>> this is the deadliest amtrak crash since eight people were killed and 200 00 others injured in may oh 2018. the train traveling twice the speed limit in philadelphia when it entered a sharp curve and jumped the track. the n.t.s.b. said the accident could have been prevented had amtrak installed positive train control technology that would have slowed the train down. >>> atlanta's international airport is struggling to return to normal today. the lines are long after a power outage brought the operation to a stand still for much of yesterday. they didn't get the pow -- did get the power back before midnight bu thousands of people were stranded. >> we were literally carrying old people up and down the escalators. my heart was racing because i was scared for these people's lives. >> i was on the tarmac for six hours. i had my 5-month-old with me. i was trying to get to fort myers but the flights were canceled. >> georgia power believes an underground fire took

original resolution that was passed and there were a couple updates and the most notable the national transportation board came out with a study that really sum enter theed correlation between speed and fatalities, traffic fatalities and also recommended that all states removed barriers of having for automated and this was a really necessary tool to achieve our vision zero goals. i'm happy to answer questions but our vision zero team is on vacation for the holidays but i can try to answer questions or get back to you with information thank you. >> thank you. >> if not the resolution -- a motion before us. >> i want to make one comment in the last year i've noticed on the buses the adds about speed and the vision zero desk i find them effective. i slowed down and people around me are slowing down so i wholeheartedly support any campaign to get us there, thank you, very much. >> yes, please, commissioner. >> hi, how are you. >> quick question about a a assemblyman chew, it creates a pilot program for those two jurisdictions san jose and san francisco that with the intention of it bringing results that would

i want to bring in bella dinzar, a member of the national transportation safety board. bella, we know the engineer survived. have you spoken to him or anyone from the crew? >> we have not. we hope to in the next day or two. unfortunately, all of the crew was hospitalized. so we want to make sure that they feel well enough to be interviewed. >> how about the black boxes? have they been recovered? >> we have recovered one black box from the rear locomotive. there are two, one in the front and one in the rear. and that's where we're able to get the information that the train was traveling at 80 miles per hour. >> i know you said you didn't speak to the crew, but have you heard of any reported signals that could have been a warning? >> that's one of the things we're going to be looking at. we're going to look at all of the signals as well as the track, as well as the mechanics. and human factors. that's part of interviewing the crew as well as looking at all the operations bulletins and some of the records to find out what exactly was the speed environment and the requireme

the ntsb, that's the national transportation safety board, is sending 20 investigators to this scene of this deadly high-speed amtrak train derailment in washington state. investigators say the train somehow jumped the track during the peak rush hour this morning and this is south of tacoma, washington. you can imagine the train and all of the cars under the underpass during this busy rush hour morning and as you can see, some of these train cars toppling down below on i-5, others dangling off this overpass. multiple fatalities and specific numbers. we don't have those yet and we don't have specifics as far as injured, but we can tell you that those killed were all on the train which was on its inaugural run from seattle to portland. 77 victims, by the way, that is 77 out of 78 who were on the train have been taken to hospitals. there were five crew members onboard, as well and authorities have released this radio transmission of the moment the train's conductor called 911. >> amtrak 501. emergency. emergency. emergency. we are on the ground. >> okay. >> we are on the bridge over i-5

joining us now on the phone is russ quinby, former national transportation safety board investigator. boy we are looking at just an image of that pileup of train cars. what do you think caused this what goes through your mind? >> well, when you look at the video of the wreckage and the way its distributed, first let me say, this looks like a push/ pull operation where you had a locomotive unit on both ends of the train. in between you had this unique and i say relatively speaking unique equipment that's tilt type of equipment designed to basically keep the passengers level when you go through curves if you look at the top right where you see the ground alongside interstate 5, that looks like the lead locomotive. if you track the curve it looks like it derailed straight off the curve and to the outside of the curve and that would indicate high speed. excessive speed. this curve was a 30-mile an hour curve although the general track in the area was rated for 79 miles an hour and the other thing is that the track is relatively undisturbed. in fact if you look at it, you don't see the tra

the national transportation safety board is on the scene trying to figure out why this train derailed and how fast it was going when it left the tracks. still many questions for investigators. clayton sandell, abc news, dupont, washington. >> and interstate 5 will be closed for this morning's commute. >> train cars are still hanging off the overpass and diesel fuel is leaking from the train. marci gonzalez is live on the scene there in dupont, washington. and joins us now. marci, i know it's been several hours since the accident took place, but have emergency crews accounted for everyone there? >> reporter: you mentioned you can still see the train behind me. they have managed to secure it. state police say emergency responders have now gone through all of those rail cars. they've not found anymore victims. sohe >> i know the ntsb is on the scene now, what will they be looking at in the beginning part of this investigation? >> reporter: they have a lot of questions. one of the main ones, of course, is speed. how fast was this train going when it derailed? we know that the speed limit

the national transportation safety board is sending a team to investigate. we're also following president trump's unveiling of his administration's national security strategy and a discrepancy between the document and the president's speech. let's dig deeper with our correspondents and our specialists. john kirby, let me start with you. because in the document itself, 55 pages, this lengthy document, very detailed, very carefully written, it has this line. russia uses information operations as part of its offensive cyber efforts to influence public opinion across the globe. its influence campaigns blend covert intelligence operations and false online personas with state-funded media, third-party intermediaries, and paid social media users or trolls. when the president spoke over at the reagan building here in washington, did you hear anything at all similar to that? >> no, not at all. and look, the devil's advocate in me would say as a former speechwriter, it's a 30-minute speech, it's a 55-page document, you're not going to be able to get everything in ther

we also know from the national transportation safety board they have yet to interview the engineer. what they want to find out was there any human error involved, was it a mechanical error? they plan on doing that interview with the engineer within the next day or so. they are going to look at everything, as you plight expect, they will look to check his or her blood alcohol, check to see if they were distracted by their phones, all of those situations and things that could play into what happened here. this tragedy here, they're going to be investigating that. it will be about seven to ten days before the ntsb is done with this investigation. >> stephanie, we are just starting now your a he hearing from some of the survivors, you had so many people on this train commuting to and from work, what they thought was a typical monday morning commute. what are they saying? >> right. think about people just excited, remember this was the maiden voyage of the new amtrak service between portland and seattle, right. one couple who survived telling one of our affiliates, beverly and charlie, t

the national transportation safety board is launching a full investigation, tonight dispatching a team of 20 investigators to the scene. >> this was called an inaugural run of this service, but we want to check and make sure what that exactly means and find out more information about that specifically. >> reporter: an ntsb official tells cnn the investigation will focus on recovering the train's data recorders to determine the train's speed. they'll also examine the tracks and signals and conduct extensive interviews with the crew and passengers. >> we went down an embankment. we had to kick out the window, the emergency window. >> reporter: the last major amtrak crash was just 2 1/2 years ago in philadelphia when amtrak 188 from washington, d.c. to new york city derailed, killing eight and sending more than 200 others to the hospital. in that crash, the train's data recorder revealed it was traveling at 106 miles per hour around a sharp curve that had a speed limit of 50. all right. so no doubt, wolf, they will be looking at speed as well in this investigation. we know that along the

james )new information about the amtrak train that derailed in washington state.the national transportation safety board says ... the train was going 80 miles per hour ... in a 30 mile per hour zone.the train was supposed to slow down ... before turning the curve where it ran off the tracks.officials are still investigating what exactly caused the crash. ( james ) at least three people died in the accident. ( james ) back here in the bay area ... thousands of people ride amtrak trains everyday. many use it to commute to work ... and others use it to travel across the country. we spoke to riders at the amtrak station in emeryville ... and they say despite the derailment in washington state ...they still feel safe riding the amtrak. ( james ) the derailment did not h