Train Tilting News Today

big day, unexpected and significant? >> absolutely. cassidy hutchinson has long been considered one of the most consequential witnesses for the january 6th committee due to her approximatety to trump many chief of staff mark meadows and therefore to critical events and conversations surrounding january 6. now, the committee has not released the topic of todays hearing, but the rush to get the hearing happening today shows just how important they believe this testimony could be. her tes...

And either the train hit something. i honestly just thought it was going to be a delay. but then we started feeling the train tilting over to the right. thats when it kind of went into my mind, this is life or death. this is very serious. this is the first time for any of us on a train too. it was incredible. >> yeah. >> did you see the dump truck ahead of time? >> i was looking out to the right. i was on the right side of the train. i saw a cloud of dust. and i was -- you know, we were perpendi...

>> mere seconds into the turn, we could see the train tilting approximately 10 degrees to the right. and then the recording went blank. >> the ntsb still has not interviewed the engineer. 32-year-old brandon bostian whose attorney says he is banged up and has little memory of the accident or why the train was traveling at 106 miles an hour, twice the speed limit. >> i believe as a result of the concussion he has absolutely no recollection whatsoever of the events. im told that his memory is like...

Have all that information they will share that with us at this press briefing. this is critical for investigators, because for the first time they are getting a face-to-face with amtraks crew. its a critical point in the investigation. brandon bostian telling the ntsb his account of tuesdays deadly derailment. the ntsb says the train accelerating approaching a sharp curve in the track. data from the trains video camera shows 65 seconds before the crash, the train was moving at 70 miles per hour....

Deadly derailment. >> she said she heard the engineer talking to a septa engineer. she recalled that the septa engineer had reported to the train dispatcher that he had either been hit by a rock or shot at. she also believed that she heard her engineer say something about his train being struck by something. >> the ntsb says the train accelerated as it approached a sharp curve in the track. data from the trains video camera shows 65 seconds before the crash, the train was moving at 70 miles per ...

Abcs karen travers begins our coverage from philadelphia. good morning to you, karen. >> good morning, t.j. brandon bostians attorney tells us his client has been fully cooperating with the police and yesterday investigators said they will speak to him at some point over the next couple of days. they say this is not necessarily an interrogation. they want to give him a blank piece of paper and basically say tell us what happened. amtrak train 188 accelerated over the final minute before it derai...

>> yeah. people were helping one another. definitely. anyone that could help was helping. >> this particular accident occurred at an amtrak curve. did you feel the train tilting to one side before it derailed? did it feel like you were going extraordinarily fast or about right for the road? >> obviously, it all happened so fast. but i mean you could feel we were going on a curve. it didnt feel like we were going extremely fast. it felt like we were going at a normal speed. but like i said the tr...