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Projectile went through the windshield that night. engineers call this getting rocked. it happens so often along the northeast corridor that they actually protect themselves with grills in the front windshield so they dont get hit with projectile projectiles. the federal railroad administration ordering amtrak over the weekend to make changes. going into that turn only 45 miles per hour and also post signs along the route for speed limits. and finally, mayor nutter yesterday holding an emotional...

Signage with the speed limits for the engineers. amtrak has suggested on its website they said it has been 28 years since a fatality due to a derailment. they said the number of derailments has gone down from 80 to 28 annually since 2000 and emphasized they will be ensuring that they put in that next generation automatic train control system called positive train control on all their railroads by the end of the year as mandated by congress. the ntsbs lead investigator robert sumwald said they wi...

All right. so amtrak has been told to beef up some of its safety requirements including speed limits on northbound trains through that area. so mary, to you first, explain what is being required and how would that happen now? >> well in many ways whats being required is what has been required by legislation all along, and amtrak has been working on getting in place this system called positive train control. and they have committed to have it in place by the end of the year and they have it on ma...

Care of in the er. >> have you ever seen him drinking? >> never. >> ever seen him too sleepy? texting, phone calls? >> no. >> never had his phone out. didnt matter what the situation was out. never had his phone out. >> let me ask you, what do you think happened? >> i honestly dont know. i believe something happened prior to -- to him getting to that curve. we all know what the speed limits are. it is not a mystery to us. again i have went up and done these rails with brandon hundreds of times. ...

This point. >> hopefully in the next few days. and memory loss is not unusual but it does usually come back. so, we think even if he doesnt remember going into the event, just having the opportunity to talk to him about how he approached his job, his level of professionalism, his fatigue levels things like that are all going to be helpful regardless of how we cut it. >> you mentioned that the train went from 70 mile-per-hour to over 100 mile-per-hour seconds before the crash. >> certainly thats ...

Route with brandon bostian. and xavier was fired last year involving ab sentee issues involving his family but when he was asked by any problems involving brandon, this is what he had to say. >> ever see him drinking too sleeping. >> no. >> texting, phone calls? >> no. >> never had his phone out. no matter what the situation. >> let me ask you a question. what do you think happened? >> i dont know. i think something happened prior to him getting to that curve. we all know what the speed limits a...

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...

>> no. >> phone calls? >> he never had his phone out it didnt matter what the situation. i really believe something happened prier to him getting to that curve. we all know what the speed limits are and its not a mystery to us and again, ive went up and down these rails with him hundreds of times. >> what i dont understand is how can this guy that youve travelled with many many times have gone into that situation so hot. >> again, and thats the million dollar question. >> the million dollar ques...

Couple of times and they told us that they will recover it somehow but after that we had air condition and that was it. >> listen you are european and i know there are issues in this country when it comes to funding our rail system here. in europe theyre high speed trains all over very well funded. what do you think of the difference here? >> it was first time to using amtrak you know. i used in france and i dont know about the speed limits,ia know. but today, i heard also that it happens in a p...

Like, you know, hydrogen powered cars and jet packs and futuristically hypermodern stuff, just some basic systematic safety upgrades that would take advantage of the fact that we are now a society that has things like computing machines and gps. this is not the most high-tech stuff. what they mandated for the u.s. rail system is something called positive train control. a very basic avoidance system that reduces stupid operator error or a train conductor having a heart attack at the engine. it re...