and as it was whizzing past my head, even then said to myself, we are going extremely fast. and we were. it wasn't until we actually were rescued that we realized that had been the hair pin curve that caused the crash. >> obviously some of the preliminary accounts we've heard from this engineer. we're not sure what emsince he hasn't made the comments publicly yet. but the train was going 82 miles an hour in a 30-mile-per-hour zone. he initially seemed to say that the brakes were not working although investigators have said the brakes had nothing to do with it. did you notice any attempt to stop the train before you entered that turn and it came off the rails? >> no. i'm a very light sleeper. any time the brakes would go on, even when we were making stops, i would get right awake and i was not awoken until we went off the tracks. at no point did i hear those brakes going on. >> and what do you make of the