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The derailment of train 188. a new laufrt has been filed. emilio phone secco, a conductor on the train filed a lawsuit, alleging negligence on the operation of the train. he suffered several injuries, including head trauma. meanwhile, for the first time since the derailment service between new york city and philadelphia is back up and running. people say despite what happened, they are confident in amtraks ability to keep them safe. i dont mind you know, getting back on the train. i think they h...

It. developing for the first time in a week amtrak rail service is running between philadelphia and new york and a little over an hour ago amtraks northeast regional train safely arrived at new yorks penn station about 30 minutes behind schedule. the train departed philadelphias 30th street station after 6:00. about three dozen passengers made the trip. >> no problem as far as safety is concerned. im sure theyve done all the right work and have installed all the right equipment. >> im okay with ...

Train. that in and of itself, you know, most people would think would not cause a derailment but what if it so stunned the driver, he lost situational awareness, he had only been on this stretch of track for three weeks, and he was at a point where he was supposed to start slowing down not speeding up. there are a whole host of issues and questions nobody has the answers, and they are just today, the fbi just today looking at the smashed glass to see whether in fact that was caused by something ...

Fbi forensics team to help determine what happened here. you see in the red circle here that white impact mark? well the head of the ntsb believes that that mark came from a projectile that hit the train before the derailment. and now look at this. it may be one of three trains that was struck on tuesday night. erin mclaughlin is following the investigation live from philadelphia. what have you learned this morning, erin? >> well in addition to the windshield you were just describing there, inve...

Treated for that after the accident was he hit by a projectile and incapacitated just as the train was speeding up? this morning new questions about the chain of events tuesday night. minutes before amtrak train 188s derailment, a pennsylvania regional septa train reported it had been hit by a rock or shot at damaging the front windshield. on friday the ntsb said it had also found something unusual on the windshield of the derailed amtrak train. >> we have seen damage to the left-hand lower port...

In the same area causing window damage. the engineer of the derailed amtrak train saying he still cannot remember anything in the minutes before the crash. brian yennous has more in philadelphia. >> reporter: hi julie. exactly right. the fbi had a presence here on the crash site from the very beginning but the ntsb asked them to analyze the lower left portion of the windfield for amtrak train 188, particularly a circular break that could have resulted from someone throwing or shooting something ...

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They dont know what causesed the train to accelerate and double the speet limitd limit minutes before the crash and speaking of rail equipment, the federal railroad association today ordering amtrak to really heighten all of their safety in the northeast corridor. their busiest section in the country. theyve ordered amtrak to ensure automatic speed control systems, those technology that automatically stop as train from speeding on curves be installed on all northbound trains. the sad irony here ...

Were hearing from passengers from a third train in that area around that night, we spoke to passenger kam desai who was on board an amtrak acela train. she said prior to the 188 derailment, about 15 minutes beforehand, he said his train was hit by some sort of a projectile. it struck the window right in front of him and he said he was terrify. >> i think all of us were definitely alarmed. we definitely never heard that loud of a sound before on the train. we take the train pretty often between d...

Similar type accident and they should have had positive train control there at that time. they do now. we cant continue to wait until theres an accident before we put the mandates that congress has put in place. >> what more do you know about the amtrak engineer? he apparently has been extremely cooperative, he has smichted blood submitted blood test answering as many questions as he possibly can. unfortunately, he just doesnt remember the actual accident. he doesnt remember taking the train up ...