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Thank you, sir. its an important detail because they need to get answers from this engineer. next were going to talk about that issue. could criminal charges be brought against the engineer. and could existing technology have prevented this train from speeding up so fast the 70 to 1000 in just a minute. a special outfront report from inside the engineers cabin. the patriots deflate gate is about losing weight not footballs apparently were for real. i am totally blind. i lost my sight in afghan...

Accident in northwestern spain. the engineer was talking on the phone when he drove his train around a curve at 95 miles per hour reaching twice the speed limit before it derailed killing 79 people. he survived and was charged with 79 counts of reckless homicide. >> now the head of the ntsb says hes going to be obtaining the engineers cell phone records. he is looking for any distractions that could have occurred in that locomotive cab and whether the engineer suffered from any medical crisis. >...

24 section this section of the track may have been able to prevent the crash completely. new video has emerged of the moment of impact which the witness says lit up the entire sky. the number of injured has risen to more than 200 of the 243 people on board. and nbc news has confirmed this man, brandon bostian the engineer, police say he briefly spoke with them and gave him a blood sample. hes also handed over a cell phone and had this to say about what his client remembers about the crash. >> he...

Hours, when afghan special forces killed the three armed attackers and rescued 50 people. more now on our top story. the deadly train derailment in philadelphia. investigators say they are in the process of getting a search warrant for the engineers phone record. to see if he was distracted at the time of that crash. theyre trying to figure out why the train was going more than 100 miles per hour. 160 kilometers per hour when it left the tracks. >> lets bring back cnns samuel burke. we speck t...

Of the incident or anything unusual. the next thing he recalls is being thrown around coming to finding his bag, getting his cell phone and dialing 911. >> reporter: all right. again, over my shoulder you can see that this is the track where this all happened. investigators from the very beginning, they suspected speed simply because of the angles and the way the wreckage was left on the tracks. also, the extent of the damage. still, there are so many other questions. we know this train was goin...

That the engineer missed something or operator error. help us understand what these other possibilities are. how can the engineer not be in some way responsible. >> i believe he is responsible. theres certainly a small possibility of a mechanical problem. when youve got a train going twice the maximum speed of 50 miles an hour, to me its a no-brainer. its intuitively obvious to the casual investigator the train was going way too fast. generally speaking thats going to be an engineer operating fa...

Actually automate -- make it impossible to go above the speed into a turn. >> yeah. it takes a bit of that human element away. now what happens is the engineer will get a signal to reduce his speed. if the engineer doesnt take some type of affirmative action to do that to get into compliance, the signal system will essentially stop the train. >> and we have -- that technology exists? >> its out there, its developing and evolving, and its out there, and were still looking at it, and railroads are...

And whatever speed it was going at, pushed it out. pushed it up. and -- we just flew, almost felt like flying. it wasnt the right kind of flying. >> just one of the many stories from the passengers who survived this rail crash. investigators even at this hour appear to be on the scene. you can see this is the live image there. investigators continue to focus on speed in the crash. left seven dead. injured more than 200. traveling at twice the speed limit. 50 miles. 80 kilometers. rounded a bend ...

Information. clearly something happened something went wrong in that engine compartment with the engineer. and because of the expertise of the ntsb and the quality of their investigatory ri process, obviously were all hopeful that well get answers to those questions. the 106 miles an hour now what youre sharing or what they shared earlier, the speeding up of the train going into the curve, we know the straightaway was even rated at 80 miles an hour. so the train was already going too fast on the...

Thats fundamental and having a huge impact on how they are trying to tackle this problem. more female police officers are being brought in. >> should change how we track them, look at them and stop them from being recruited in the first place. thank you so much. speculation flies in amtrak train crash. we leader from one of the lead investigators quickly, dont jump to conclusions too soon. this as the engineers attorney says his client doesnt remember a thing. later the trouble with being je...