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Has been sentenced to death for his role in the prison break. his name with 100 other defendants will be passed along to the highest authority for confirmation of the death sentence on june 2nd. morsi was egypts first democratically elected president. well have more and a live report from cairo at the top of the hour. and were following new developments into this weeks deadly amtrak derailment. the fbi has been called in to help investigate the derailment of amtrak train 188. and the ntsb now ...

And can they really derail a train? >> this seems to be if all this is correct, it seems to be a piece of the puzzle we have been missing. we have an engineer that people reported as conscientious, wasnt on a cell phone, wasnt on drugs, no indication he was sleepy. somehow we know he had to put the train into that speed. trains dont run away like in the old-fashioned movies. he had to move the tloten intohrottle into that speed and he had to have his foot on the dead-man switch. and then he thre...

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>> reporter: now before the septa train passenger madison calver witnessed a southbound amtrak 723 train. >> working on my laptop following um with e-mails. all of a sudden a crash didnt see what happened everything was destroyed, enough so that the damage was -- [ inaudible ]. >> reporter: the new revelation brings on a whole new set of questions. also including, what exactly were these objects if they were even thrown or shot. the other thing, could a flying object maybe have interfered with t...

This trant, which then distracted the engineer? >> yeah. it was a new train. the train had only been in service for just over a year. >> yep. >> so we are looking at the mechanical aspects of this and certainly with the cameraened a the black box on the train, we expect to have a full investigation-of-this. you know such a horrific accident. you know people are going to demand answers. the family members that lost loved ones are going to demand answers, and we need to make sure this full investi...

Trainmen earlier today. he talked about the fact that bostian had only an hour of rest in between train trips and most of which was probably taken up by switching trains filling out paperwork and doing equipment checks is that a real problem? well ordinarily i would say yes, you need to get significant rest for any mode of transportation its hugely important. but here from we from the radio transmission he had his cell phone off. its clear that he was awake and alert. he hadnt fallen asleep on t...

That engineer according to the dispatcher that his windshield had been hit by some sort of projectile. she said following that she heard from brandon bostian, the amtrak 188 engineer and he said that his train had also been hit. now authorities say they are following up. they plan on interviewing the septa engineer as well. meanwhile, deepening the mystery, were hearing from passengers of a third train that was in the area around the same time. an amtrak acela train. we heard from one passenger ...

Its an electric motor, actually, to thrust forward. electric motors are extremely responsive. its not like a diesel engine in a car. this is immediately responsive, applying that much force to the train. accelerating from 70 to 100 miles an hour, those algebra problems we used to do in the day, how fast does it take a train to get to this point from this point, when you have that type of power, it happens very initially to go 30 miles an hour once that inertia is in play. >> this morning, we spo...

The engineer said what you just heard from the ntsb folks. that some kind of a conversation was going on and the engineer said that he thought that his train had been hit by a rock or shot at and he saw some damage to the windshield. the engineer of the amtrak train 188 responded saying something similar had happened to him as well. ntsb says they will bring in the fbi to examine that front of the engine to see if there is any kind of damage to it consistent to a rock damage or any kind of shot ...

>> chris, its not functioning because they dont have the technology in place. >> i know. im not saying why its not functioning, im saying its not functioning and if it were this would be avoided. why wont you accept that? >> chris, this has nothing to do with money. >> i never said it did. im trying to get past the politics of it. >> you kept referring to the speakers statement. >> because he said its a stupid question. and you wont say whether or not its a stupid question because you want to ta...