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Radio transmissions from the night and found nothing to suggest that. new information from the trains black box. evidence suggests that he manually pushed the throttle forward manually, that could have caused the deadly acceleration. >> lets discuss all of this with miles obrian, cnns transportation analyst. david susy is also with us. david, i want to talk about this notion of a projectile hitting the trains windshield. there were reports that there were other trains in the area that were hit b...

If we had another catastrophic incident no money in the pot to distribute to these victims. however, i agree, eric. its a difficult situation because these are peoples lives and this is medical treatment that may be required for the rest of their life and some of these victims may not get their just compensation due to this law. >> eric misty says uninsurible potentially. doesnt the government pay? isnt whos responsible? doesnt amtrak carry insurance? what happens? >> well amtrak is a quasi gove...

Angle, and it blurs out backgrounds and really focuses your attention on particular scenes and people within those scenes. >> theres sort of two ways people make these tilt shift images. on one hand, people use actual tilt shift lenses sometimes. but then people started figuring out ways to do it in post production. >> the thing that makes it feel like toys, its a combination of two things, really. the first thing is when you see the focus is falling off, that immediately cues you to think that ...

Saying if something came through the windshield or something else happened to affect the engineer, could he physically have -- its something he doesnt remember -- could he physically have, essentially, fallen on the throttle? could that have resulted in some way, either by hitting something mechanically on the trail or affecting the engineer somehow in the train cab could that have resulted in that otherwise unexplained rapid acceleration? amazing. well keep you posted. well be right back. anyon...

Speed and you get something is that start elhe willles you, if youre startled moment tearily is that enough to cause an accident like this or does it have to be a disastrous kind of startling?that enough to cause an accident like this or does it have to be a disastrous kind of startling? sgl lets me walk you through this. that track in the area were describing, normally for that kind of equipment, would require acceleration from 60 miles an hour through north philadelphia there is a 65-mile-an...

Of impact. >> fritz edler, former amtrak engineer, thanks for helping us understand these logistics. its a scary story and a scary prospect, but thanks for helping us to understand it tonight. obviously, the ntsb -- the implication of what the ntsb is saying, if something came through the windshield or something else happened to affect the engineer, could he physically have -- its something he doesnt remember -- could he physically have, essentially, fallen on the throttle? could that have resul...

32-year-old train engineer brandon bostian theyll ask him to explain what happened to the best of his recollection. his lawyer saying hes having trouble remembering the crash due to a concussion sustained from that accident. he says though that it is possible that his memory will return once this concussion subsides. ntsb say they now believe that just about a minute before the crash, the train was actually accelerating. that bostian applied an emergency break as the train was beginning to enter...

Listed on there. so we can see what speeds were at various points as this train approaches the curve. >> i think it shows speeds in the 70s and 80s and gradually up to the 106 that you determined up to oo minute before the crash. thats a pretty fast excelerationexcel acceleration into a curve? >> well it shouldnt have been going any faster than 50 miles per hour into the curve. >> and in the straight aways? >> over 100 miles an hour. >> thats really at the top of the speed 2 should haveit should...

Passengers or damage the equipment. >> oh wow. so its a couple steps just to do that one thing. let me ask you, since were looking at a much older train, how similar would the throttle essentially, the function of the throttle, the back and the forth, accelerating, decelerate decelerating would that be the same as this 2014 amtrak model were talking about? >> the throttle has the same basic function on both locomotives. its just for controlling your acceleration. but this again, is a different l...

News conference in nepal. developing now, federal safety investigators could talk to the aengengineer of the amtrak train. an eighth person was killed in the crash. 200 injured theyre focusing on the trains sudden acceleration a minute before the derailment tuesday night. police want to check brandon bostians cell phone to make sure he wasnt texting. were also hearing from friends of bostian. >> i was shocked considering what kind of person he is and what kind of love -- he wasnt just doing th...