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Occurrence, it basically goes against their argument that it somehow puts them off the hook. they are going to be found liable in this. i mean, because its a civil standard. but i agree with joey. i think that the projectile issue has more to do with the engineers criminal liability, not the civil case. >> all righty. joey, last word. >> very quickly to mels prior point about the $200 million and people dont think its enough. i think it could be fixed by congress. you could see potentially a fun...

So how could a projectile have led to this. and the working hypothesis still holds true i think that if somebody threw a projectile, other train engineers have said this, if something big and heavy hits the windshield just the noise just the shock and surprise alone can disorient the train engineer. now, this is a train coming out of the north philadelphia station. its about a three-mile stretch to get to the curve where the accident happened. and when 188 came north out of that station the rout...

More than 200 people were injured. friday, the youngest victim 20-year-old justin zemser was laid to rest. the naval academy midshipmen was traveling home on leave. hundreds attended his funeral which include full military honors. the federal railroad administration ordered amtrak to take measures to improve safety on the northeast corridor. joining me from philadelphia msnbc correspondent adam reyes. what are the orders issued by the administration? >> reporter: good morning. three orders. one ...

Seems. this morning, lets talk about the legal angle here. investigators are focusing on what happened in the second leading up to derailment, of course the possibility the train may have been struck by an object before hurdling off the tracks. the fbi is investigating a fist-sized crack on the left side of the windshield. lets talk to cnn legal analyst mel robins and hln legal analyst joey jackson about this. mel, throwing projectiles at trains, apparently, we have been told is common. so much ...

I may have said horn. hes priored to sound his ed torequired to sound his bell as he goed past a station stop. and he did that. he recalled doing that. but he has no recollection of anything past that. >> joining me now from philadelphias amtrak station, adam reese. what more do you know that you can tell us about the ntsbs interview with the engineer brandon bostian? >> reporter: they tell us hes been very cooperative offering up more support. all he remembers as you heard ringing his bell as h...

And i through this. i hope that faith of the families will pull them through too. >> i know in my heart, that chris is doing what he wanted to do. he has always loved flight and loved god and his family. and he was doing what he needed to do be able to help them. and i am so proud of everything that he has done and accomplished. >> now, 300 americans are on the ground in nepal helping with earthquake relief. the number of people killed in both earthquakes has passed 8,400. u.s. officials undersc...

Scenarios of what could happen and then we stipulate whether kind of corrective action or counter measures to be taken against that condition. now, what has happened here, even if we dont get testimony from this engineer, he may not be able to recall due to head injury or something else. the thing is, were still going to have to have some kind of measure if something was thrown in the way of there train. thats what we have to do. >> what do you plane by that, dr. gross? >> well, for example if t...

Expand on this. perhaps there was something else going on in the cab prior to entering this turn. perhaps it was a case of what we see in aviation all the time of a lack of situational awareness, that all of a sudden the pilot or operator in this case does not know where he is in the roof and he may have not he was somewhere else. in any case the interview will be critical today. >> i want to take our viewers inside the engineers car, and i dont know how many viewers know how you accelerate a tr...

Id like to thank the press. >> we just lost our feed there in boston as you can see there. that was dana cohen talking about his daughter, who was injured there. she was among the more than 260 injured when the bomb went off. thanking the first responders. thanking the attorneys as well. again, thats happening in boston. roughly 300 miles away in philadelphia. at any moment now, the national transportation and safety board is expected to give us the final update from philadelphia. were told this...

>> mere seconds into the turn, we could see the train tilting approximately 10 degrees to the right. and then the recording went blank. >> the ntsb still has not interviewed the engineer. 32-year-old brandon bostian whose attorney says he is banged up and has little memory of the accident or why the train was traveling at 106 miles an hour, twice the speed limit. >> i believe as a result of the concussion he has absolutely no recollection whatsoever of the events. im told that his memory is like...