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Go forward. >> in that moment when youre having a problem with one engine, is it difficult to figure out which engine it is? >> it can be and thats when you have to really rely on the instruments. you really have to look at what is going on. there have been situations -- for example, one of the crashes that i mentioned, the prior dozen or so crashes, the passengers and the flight attendants were trying to tell the pilot that they had the wrong engine, that the wrong one was shut down. so it come...

The atlantic hurricane season begins today. scientists hope to one day better forecast our storms. how a new simulator could help researchers figure out what it takes to turn a tropical storm into a cat 5 hurricane. plus were going to have this. >> it is really a taste of the old west coming back in here. >> like a scene out of an old western movie except this is no film. and these cattle arent walking through a ranch. how the record rains in texas prompted something an old-fashioned cattle dr...

Lawsuit with walmart over that horrendous crash. first day of the atlantic hurricane season brings with it the second named storm. it is expected to reach hurricane strength tomorrow. but now researchers are using a hurricane simulator tank to figure out why one tropical storm stops developing at a cat 1 while another grows into a monstrous cat 5. our own phil keating got to see that simulator firsthand. phil what was it like? >> reporter: oh, its pretty loud for one. thats what happens when y...

>> how many hours did you have to practice? >> translator: we trained for the docking for two years. two years. >> cnn obtained this exclusive footage of their rigorous training. thousands of hours of simulations honed technique. so its perfect in space. physical, psychological and team testing always on the go. and it seems like you have to be a certain height. you have to be -- have a degree. you need to pass all these physical psychological team tests. do you have to be super human to be an a...

Exaggeration? >> well, i dont know necessarily its an exaggeration in the fact that he tried it. again, the affidavit states that the seats that he was sitting in, the ife, or the in-flight entertainment box was tampered with however what he was actually able to do, i dont know if he actually did on the flight himself. now, he did come back a couple weeks ago and say that he didnt do this in a real plane but he was able to do it in a simulator, so i think theres a lot of wishy washy language goi...

Program, and then you look at how passenger rail has been starved for investment for three decades, there shouldnt be any wonder why it takes time to install these kind of safety measures. >> youre a man who would know sir. john robert smith, former amtrak board chairman chairman of transportation for america, thank you so much sir. i appreciate your time today. >> thank you, brooke. >> thank you. next it is becoming a key question here in this train derailment with safety technology as we wer...

>> mandated it until the end of the year. and some are pushing for the extension of it until 2020. >> there are various dates passing out there. 2017, 18, 2020. a couple of bits out there. >> it will be interesting to see if the accidents this year and in previous take part in that. >> anderson thank you so much. >> what it is like going at a -- on a train going at that speed and what it feels like well take you into a simulator. strong can take you... all the way to the summit. oh my! so cool! ...

So what are people doing? well they have to take buses. they have to take a car. or they have to take a plane if they want to get to those locations. brooke that can be a lot more expensive than the amtrak train. brooke? >> right. and mystery, too, is how much longer before everything goes back to normal. jean casarez at penn station, thank you very much. they dont know and perhaps wont know for some time. also a key question from this entire train derailment is this. would safety technology hav...

We were only going 72.5, so it -- yeah you add 30 more miles an hour to that there is a lot of force there. people will be thrown around. >> and randy joins us from outside the simulator. he said it takes about a mile to stop after the engineer applied the brakes and so did the engineer think he didnt have a chance to make an impact any lessening of the speed before the impact? >> reporter: absolutely, aerpd. he doesnt think he had a chance. you need about a mile for that train to slow down and ...

Engineering and mathematics. his friend mark bell said if theres anyone that can get this crew safely on the ground its captain nor greene. >> hes great guy with a lot of passion, everything hes done. he was doing what he loved most pilot for the marines. say a prayer right now to hope everybody is okay. its hard. if anybody can do a helicopter. >> nor grens father said he landed april 25th his son sent his mother flowers from nepal on mothers day. still oncome deadly train crash and cold real...