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>> technicians installing speed controls on that curved section of the track. >> possibility shortly before it derailed, the train hit by an unknown object. >> we will look at everything at this point. >> the city of ramadi falls to isis. >> this is a disaster. >> raid by american special ops in syria. >> was the intelligence value worth this risk. >> he told him he had managed to hack into aircraft while he was on board. >> i know this can still be breached. >> at least nine are dead and 20 mor...

And provide technical expertise to help us resolve and figure out what was the particular damage pattern on one of the windshield. but we are investigating it at this point. and weve just asked them to come in and help us out on identifying that fracture pattern. >> tom costello is outside the 30th street station in philadelphia. tom, it does seem as if ntsb is trying to tap the brakes on this growing story that maybe some outside sbitd or force caused this accident. >> reporter: heres why they ...

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...

>> the train went by, no big deal. when the crash happened and it was coupled with the conductors explaining that that had been a derailment, at that point everyone was surprised and went for their cell phones, trying find out what was going on. >> reporter: before that septa train, there was a third train hit by an object. plaidson calvert was a pentagon on the 273 train and he says he heard and saw something hit the left passenger side of his car. >> i was working on my laptop, following up wi...

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Miles per hour and 12 seconds later the train hit 90 miles per hour and 15 seconds after that it topped 100 miles per hour. thats when the engineer bostian, slammed on the brakes. what could it mean? with me now, peter goelz. based on what we know and your experience at the ntsb what could the sudden acceleration mean? >> thats why the interview with the engineer will be so quickly. its not a cross-examination, and its not a adversarial situation. the ntsb doesnt work like that. they will ask, w...

He remembers trying to reduce speed before he was knocked down. the tragedy is raising new questions about safety. peter alexander has more from philadelphia. >> reporter: an urgent question is the safety of americas rails still on track? while plane crashes dropped to lowest levels since 60s you are six times less likely of a plane crash than train crash. roughly 100 every month. on a passenger train you put your safety in the hands of an engineer. the man driving the train tuesday night brando...

Crash. he says he did not have any drugs or alcohol in his system. he says he has no recollection of what happened. that he suffered a head injury at the time. clearly right now what we know is this engineer slammed on the brakes just as the train hit 106 miles per hour. . this morning engineer brandon bostian is at the center of the investigation. the 32 years old an amtrak engineer for five years, he was injured in the accident but was released from the hospital. late wednesday, police said bo...

Just ripped them off of the railroad ties and bent the entire rail. we talked about this being a junction. you see a freight train car right there. does not appear that this train hit any of the other vehicles that are out here in this area but i was just looking at a google map of this entire area because its very dark up here. you cant really see too much from this vantage point, which is why they had a lot of the police helicopters and the lights out here but you can see that the tracks do di...

Analyzed. let us please not try to speculate on what you could find out in fact in a couple of days. i understand the need for you to get out information, but let us not have our need to get out information overwhelm our good common sense to have accurate information out in the marketplace. lets not speculate. i heard a voice over here. >> what about reports this train hit a foreign object? >> i dont have complete certainty about two trains. im aware of a report about one train that has nothing ...