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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...

>> a great talent. b.b. king we all loved b.b. king. thats it for me. ill be back 5:00 p.m. eastern in "the situation room." for our international viewers "amanpour" is next. for out viewers in north america, "newsroom" with brooke baldwin starts right now. youre watching cnn. im brooke baldwin. we have to begin in philadelphia where at any time this train driver in this amtrak crash, the engineer will tell investigators exactly what he remembers about the minutes before that derailment. he is...

People are dead and more than 200 others were injured. there have been no charges filed against bostian, and he has agreed to talk to ntsb investigators. one question thats being thrown out there, could amnesia potentially be used as a defense in court? joining me to discuss is cnn legal analyst and senior trial counselor paul callen. its not like hes saying amnesia. weve heard from doctors saying he could regain some of his memory. when would amnesia even been applicable? >> it really would nev...

The locomotive itself. this is the train brake. this controls the brakes on the train itself. the headlight switch is here. and this is the belt switch. then the horn right here. >> okay. now that youve been to through that let me back you up to the first thing i think you pointed out, the accelerator. now that we know this train did accelerate, i want you to show me exactly how one would accelerate a train. were trying to figure out how this could have happened going there this curve. >> so in ...

Back. and he says this engineer always checked out fine. there was nothing that would alarm him about anything when the engineer was behind the train. >> let me ask you some tough questions. ever see him drinking? >> never. >> ever see him too sleepy? >> never. >> texting? >> no. >> phone calls? >> never had his phone out. it didnt matter what the situation was. never had his phone out. >> let me ask you, what do you think happened? >> i -- i honestly dont know. i really believe something happen...

Throttle by actually physically opening it through some motion you could speed up the train. it would take some type of probably conscious movement to do so. especially with this type of throttle. but in general, im not familiar with the type of throttle on that particular locomotive how easy it is to move. but in general, it would not be easy. >> theres also been talk of like a dead man switch. can you explain that to me? >> maam? hello? >> barrett, its brooke. youre on tv. do you hear me? can ...

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Operating the train. you know something, no criminal charges have been lodged in that case because it was apparently a health condition that he was unaware of. so you may see a claim like that in this case as well. >> all right. paul thank you very much. >> thank you. >> some bad weather has forced search crews to abandon recovery efforts at the crash site of that u.s. marine helicopter in nepal. the wreckage was discovered earlier today on a steep slope there in the himalayan mountains just eas...

Lets get back to the coverage of the amtrak train derailment in philadelphia. investigators are focussing right now on the trains speed. 106 miles an hour around a 50 mile per hour curve at the time of the crash. according to the engineers attorney spoke to abc earlier today, the engineer doesnt remember everything about the crash. >> we know the fact that the train was going at an excessive speed, but the reasons why are still to be determined. >> we know the emergency brake was hit, but has yo...

Yesterday, do you think it was human error, mechanical error? are you moving in one direction or the other? >> well, wolf, first of all, were so sad to hear about the eighth victim terribly sad for his family. his or her family i should say. i know theres speculation about who it might be but were thinking of them. and i appreciate the expressions of condolence from across the country for our state and what happened in the last couple of days. number one id say, wolf we dont know for sure obviou...