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Have any recollection of anything past north philadelphia. >> reporter: bostian also said he was not sick or tired. its still not clear why the train kept speeding up. 16 seconds before the crash 100 miles per hour. then 106 when bostian slammed on the emergency brakes. one of bostians close friends said he was watching coverage and then called bostian and spoke to him from the e.r. >> he was in shock and didnt understand. his memory was very fuzzy. he had a hard time remembering things. >> repo...

>> reporter: right now, amtrak 188, there is no evidence that anything hit that windshield. the driver sits on the right side. the damage is in the lower left side of the front windshield. that is going to be looked at by the fbi, their criminal analysis to basically determine what could have struck there. was it a rock was it a bullet consistent with anything else or consistent with the fact this was involved with a crash. but again, the information they are getting, it is kind of convoluted ab...

Radio, the crew of the train, they all have a radio and a radio she was overhearing her engineer and the engineer of the septa train, the commuter train here talking about projectiled. the ntsb just a little while ago said they made arrange. s will talk with the septa engineer and so youll have one of the participants speaking about what the conversation was. because as weve been reporting, the engineer of the amtrak train still cant recall anything including recalling any kind of conversation h...

Connected, but after the ntsb received this new information just yesterday from this assistant conductor who said that she thought that she heard the engineer of amtrak 188 say that the train had been truck as well and now the investigateors are taking a closer look at the windshield of the train, and specifically a circular shatter pattern on the lower left-hand side of the windshield and the fbi has been called in to do forensic analysis. this is all going to matter, because ntsb wants to know...

Recorders as well as amizing the brakes to determine if there are any mechanical failures that are also contributing to this, poppy. >> and why is it that all trains, all of these routes do not have that mandated technology that is in some places a ptc, to slow them down if they are going 106 miles an hour into a curve, and it seems in air travel that would be mandatory for any airplane that you get on to have a safety precaution like that, and why not all of these trains? >> well, we know that ...

This happened and that this engineer was put into a situation where he was out of control, lets say, or out of control of the train and unconscious perhaps for a very brief period of time. and this engine is a very powerful high horsepower locomotive designed to accelerate passenger trains very quickly. so it may seem difficult for people to comprehend that this could happen so quickly but if he was unconscious even a minute this locomotive could have accelerated the train to a speed of 100 plus...

Washington. the ntsb the reconstructing the train as part of their investigation. in addition, amtrak is hoping they can get service back up and running between philly and new york on tuesday. alex, back to you. >> tom, what is your read on the ntsbs report of their talk with the trains engineer? because didnt they say he was very cooperative? >> reporter: very cooperative and offered to come back. he was sitting with his attorney, and thats very common in these incidents. he also turned over hi...

Amtrak beef up technology by installing circuits to control speeds along the northeast corridor. trains must be equipped with a safety feature that automatically applies the brakes when a train is exceeding certain speeds. we know this train was going 106 miles per hour at that turn. ntsb investigators believe the safety features would have prevented the crash on tuesday. the ceo of amtrak also saying they would. a short time ago amtrak issued this response. amtraks overarching goal is to provid...

Public trial, i can understand that the. and the one hostage he might have had the closest relationship with is kayla mueller the last one who was killed in the rather tragic circumstances months ago, so i am waiting to see how the story evolved in the next several days. >> but if it is indeed the fact that the u.s. government was saying no casualties and no army forces wounded then it is really textbook operations. >> delta force knows what they are doing, and they can maneuver inside of syria ...

Train and the other was the southbound train. one was hit by a rock like a passenger side window. the septa has damage to the front windshield and all within 15 minutes you have the crash of amtrak 188, all in the same area about the same time and so it raises some interesting timing situation going on. >> and we know that the near did meet with the ntsb today. do we know what was said and what the latest is? >> this is what is so frustrating and again the ntsb said we need inner facing cameras ...