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Barreling towards a 50 mile-an-hour curve addt more than 100 miles per hour more questions asked about the man at the wheel. the engineer. he show have a really good idea what happened even though his lawyer claims he does not remember the crash at all. cnns drew griffin is in philadelphia now digging deeper on that part of the story. drew the engineer has not yet spoken to investigators. >> reporter: that right, jake and until he does because he was the sole drive every of this train were feder...

Understand, it is able to slow the train down automatically without the engineer involved so if the system senses you are going too fast, you are coming around this turn at 100 miles per hour and long before two seconds ago, you could slow down and if this was in place, this accident wouldnt have happened. >> and it is supposed to be in mace by the end of the year and now there is talk in congress i understand based on pressure from a number of groups to extend the deadline on that, some as far ...

Pezzed to dying unnecessarily in a train wreck. >> reporter: as the the investigation into the crash continues, friend and family of the victims remember those who will never be seen again. like the 20-year-old naval midshipman simply on his way hope. >> this tragedy has shocked us aall in the worst way. we wish to spend this time grieving with our close family and friend. >> reporter: you hear the may yours criticisms of the engineers actions. after he said that an ntsb spokesman said the may y...

Breaking news of the amtrak crash. few more details to update you. an eighth person has now been discovered and that brings the death toll here to eight. that body was found this morning by a cadaver dog. the fire department doing that. 43 people still in the hospital. amtrak service may actually be able to get back up and running by tuesday. still though, the big question, and that is, how did this happen, and the engineers role or perhaps the trains role. was it mechanical? the engineer? these...

Miles per hour. yesterday, the engineer said he couldnt remember how fast the train was going, according to a source. today, hes staying tight lipped. federal investigators hope this man, brandon bostian may know why an amtrak train jumped the track causing a deadly crash. >> it was probably a few seconds. you could see it pounding. when i was pounding in the back of my head, i was like, maybe this is. in the moment that, like, we -- it was like im alive. >> it appears speed is a factor. prelimi...

Police in new york say they were forced to shoot a man who lunged at an officer with a hamner his hand. you see two uniformed officers approaching 30-year-old david barrel before he began swinging a hammer at a female officer striking her as she backs away. per partner fires four shots hitting the man in the arm. nypd says barrel has a history of mental illness and is believed to have attacked four other people in the city with a hammer. incidents like that remind us how dangerous it can be fo...

Tangel, a "wall street journal" reporter who was part of the team that first broke the story today about the trains speed before the ntsb confirmed that. ayman, what is the situation at the crash site tonight? >> well, investigators are still going through the timeline. that is the word were hearing over and over again. it is all about timing, when the train left the station and as a result of that, the ntsb says that they have, at least on-site here, returned the tracks to amtrak, meaning they ...

That that would rectified or prevented, rectified the problem or prevented this tragedy. but i think the separate in part from this incident we should i think we should do everything we can to provide more funding for amtrak than has been provided at least the last couple of years. >> senator bob casey of pennsylvania thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks wolf. coming up the engineer of that train says he has absolute floi memory of the crash or what caused it. that according to to the en...

Traveling at 106 miles an hour twice the appropriate speed entering the sharp turn. >> he was already in the curve at that point. youre supposed to enter the curve at 50 miles an hour. >> bostian spoke to philadelphia police the night of the crash. and according to a law enforcement source told them he couldnt recall his speed. his lawyer says he doesnt even remember the crash itself. >> he remembers going through that area generally. has absolutely no recollection of the incident or anything un...

These investigators are going to be combing through over the next 4 hours. >> and obviously, after every train crash, theres a talk about positive train control that would have prevented this accident from happening. give us a sense of what exactly it is and how it works. >> well, in the northeast corridor, these trains that go-between cities like washington, d.c. and new york, as was the case, was supposed to be the case with this train, this type of system is already in place. its automated sp...