MUST SEE VIDEO: Amtrak derailment investigation in Missouri
(NBC) - The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) sent a 16-member team to Missouri Tuesday to investigate Amtrak's derailment that killed four people due to a collision with a dump truck, NBC's Maggie Vespa has the latest from Mendon, Missouri.
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board remain on scene conducting this investigation this morning, looking at, among other things, video that they believe will come from two frontward facing cameras on board that train they said very well could have captured the moment of the crash.
We also have an updated death and injury count - four people now killed in this crash, 150 sent to the hospital.
This crash happened Monday when the Amtrak train bound from Los Angeles to Chicago, investigators say, hit a dump truck and then derailed.
The NTSB in its press conference calling that crossing "uncontrolled," meaning there were no signals or gates that would prevent a driver from driving onto the tracks, just really a stop sign.
They also slammed the state of Missouri for not making safety improvements at that crossing.
The state had flagged that crossing as needing improvements but had yet to implement them.
At the same time amid all of this tragedy and investigation is stories of heroism emerging.
Two boy scout troops from Wisconsin, it turns out they were on board that train traveling back from a backpacking trip in New Mexico when the train flipped over.
They realized they were okay, so those scouts as young as 14 started helping other passengers, treating the injured, pulling people out of cars telling us they were just following their years of merit badge training.
