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Threw the emergency brake full force, all the way down. what would we feel like if we did that right here at 70 miles per hour. >> well i will show you. >> so thats full force on the brakes at just 60 miles per hour and were still going. >> yeah. yeah you cant apply the brakes any harder than that. >> it still doesnt stop automatically, still takes times no matter what speed. >> a fully loaded 48freight train. >> lets take it around the bend as fast as you can go and you are saying this train th...

I suspect folks will gradually recover, and you get better from broken bones, and i dont think there will be lasting affects, because most were broken bones. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]? >> the question is do we have any remaining unidentified people? and the answer is no. all the folks here are ones that we know. and their families know they are here and the various countries know they are here. >> we are going to step away but its a relief that doctors know who everybody is in the hospital so f...

The train. >> according to the railroad administration on average there have been 31 amtrak train derailments a year of varying degrees since 2006. so far there have been nine this year prior to the most recent incident. while amtrak owns and operates about 80% of the 457 miles of track between washington and boston called the northeast corridor some of the most recent fatal crashes have involved commuter trains operated by others. in february just north of new york city a metro north commuter t...

On the emergency brakes. the engineer is not talking to investigators but he has talked to his lawyer who says bostian does not remember what happened. >> as a result of the concussion he has no recollection whatsoever of the events and i am told his memory is likely to return as the concussion symptoms subside. he remembers come into the curve, and he remembers attempting to reduce speed thereafter he was knocked out and thrown around like all the other passengers in the train. >> what is it li...

You listen to the statements what his lawyer made his client remembers applying the brakes and nothing after that and we know what happened it derailed and it was a catastrophe, and the lawyer said he remembers the important pieces of information we want to know about. >> as you are investigating a crash like this you are not getting any cooperation from the engineer but you know the train was traveling at about 106 miles per hour when it approached the curve, so from what you can ascertain from...

Of passengers still unaccounted for, and that number might be as many as 12 people that are still missing. we now noah hmong those miss something a 45-year-old father gildersleeve an executive traveling on the train from baltimore and his family is still looking for him this morning. and there is a pass that allows them to get on the train easily and it might not get punched they are actually on the train until well into the trip, and thats what happened likely in the case of rachel jacobs and s...

It has been resisted by unions and by the engineers. they dont want to have a camera looking at you, but from a safety perspective, its important to have them here. >> peter i will put you on the spot. i keep hearing how ghoulish it is to bring up funding for amtraks infrastructure and i ride an amtrak train every weekend because my husband lives in boston, and last weekend the engine stopped working and power on the train went out and it took them 45 minutes to fix it and the heating and coolin...

Passengers along the northeast corridor between washington and boston it has become one of the busiest, most complex technically advanced rail systems in the world. engineering professor george bible says while traveling by train is largely safe passengers should be more concerned about the state of the tracks than speeding engineers. >> most derailments are caused by equipment error, rail problems are a common one. rails can fracture from metal fatigue or move around and shift or anything else ...

Reduce speed thereafter he was knocked out and thrown around like all the other passengers in that train. >> reporter: his lawyer robert goggin bostain provided a blood sample and authorities are trying to get a warrant to look at his phone records thinking he could have been distracted at the time of the crash, and goggin says his client was not taking medication and no explanation for why this might have happened. >> eric mclaughlin, thank you so much. lets talk more about this with peter goel...

Train, he doesnt remember a thing but he has been released from the hospital, right? >> reporter: thats right, carol. authorities say they hope that bostain will be able to provide them with clues, and his lawyer says he doesnt remember everything that happened that fateful evening. take a look at what his lawyer had to say to abcs "good morning america." >> he has no recollection of the events and i am told his memory is likely to return as the concussion symptoms subside. >> he spent six hours...