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In the ring with a former champion but its 2016 contender jeb bush thats taking hits. Lets talk live in the cnn newsroom. S. Marines missing on an aid mission in the nepalese mountains. The u. S. Military confirming the chopper has been found and its likely that everyone onboard was killed. Because of the nature of the wreckage its unlikely that there are any survivors at this time. Our prayers are with the marines and the nepalese soldiers and their families. We all mourn this tragic loss of life. The wreckage of that marine chopper was discovered on a steep slope of the mountains east of kathmandu. The marines were out delivering supplies to victims of nepals two massive earthquake. Will ripley is in kathmandu with more. Hi will. Reporter hi carol. Within the last hour we got new information from the nepali military about how this helicopter was located. According to the nepali authorities it was locals on the ground in this area who spotted the wreckage and alerted the army they should probably get in the air and take a look. They launched the helicopters and you heard the u. S. General there in his press conference talk about the fact that napali helicopters spotted the wreckage and sent in teams on the ground and thats when they were able to verify it was the u. S. Marine huey helicopter and they did find three bodies that are partially burned. They are still combing the crash site or at least thats the plan to resume tomorrow. Treacherous weather forced them to stop those operations for the day. Keep in mind youre at a very high altitude. 11,200 feet. Subzero temperatures. Very unpredictable weather conditions. Its dangerous for men on the ground and also for those crews in the air. This is one of the most dangerous places in the world to fly and the general there saying he wants to make sure that there are no other lives lost as they try to investigate this crash and bring back those crew members and also try to figure out exactly what happened carol. All right. Will ripley reporting live from kathmandu this morning. In philadelphia new details are emerging and they just add to the mystery of why an amtrak train went off the tracks. At the time the train should have been slowing down it was speeding up to more than double the speed limit in that stretch of tracks. Cnns Erin Mclaughlin is in philadelphia with more for you. Good morning. Reporter good morning, carol. The ntsb investigators say that when they sit down with 32yearold train engineer Brandon Bostian theyll ask him to explain what happened to the best of his recollection. His lawyer saying hes having trouble remembering the crash due to a concussion sustained from that accident. He says though that it is possible that his memory will return once this concussion subsides. Ntsb say they now believe that just about a minute before the crash, the train was actually accelerating. That bostian applied an emergency break as the train was beginning to enter the curve but it was too late. Seconds later the train crashed. That based on Detailed Analysis of video captured at the front of the train. What the footage doesnt tell them is reasons for that acceleration. Thats why they want to talk to bostian and they believe theyll do that in the next couple days. Carol . In the meantime erin friends of this engineer are rushing forward to defend him, right . Reporter yeah. The friends are speaking out in his defense. James ware says he was safety conscious and took his job very seriously. He does not believe that hes at fault. He says he spoke with the engineer following the crash. Take a listen. Hes very distraught. Hes very upset. Hes very sorry. I dont think theres any foul play or anything like that. He was never one to do drugs. Theres got to be something else. In fact when we were driving, he would never go above 5 miles an hour in the car. When i did when i was driving, he would fuss at me. Reporter bostian does seem to be someone who was concerned with safety and blog posts believed to be by bostian he starts talking about the need for greater Safety Systems on trains. Ironically advocating for the very same system that ntsb official say could have prevented this tragedy. Carol . All right. Erin mclaughlin reporting live from philadelphia. Thank you so much. In the meantime an amtrak employee is the first person to file suit against amtrak. Bruce phillips is a dispatcher for the train service. He was seated at the back of the train when it crashed. He suffered head injuries and now accuses amtrak of negligence. Last hour i spoke to his attorneys. He and others were ejected from the seat and literally they were like rag dolls made out of pingpong material being thrown about the car. They hit the ceiling, luggage racks, the seats. When it finally came to a stop there was just panic and just a horrible things that everybody saw in that train including our client. All right. Lets talk more about this with transportation accident attorney david cook. Im also joined by john a former board member of the ntsb. Thanks to both of you for joining me this morning. I appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Thanks for being here. John i want to start with you. Brandon bostian will now talk to ntsb investigators. What kind of questions will they ask . What will the setting be like . The setting will be as neutral as possible. The questions that will be asked will be questions weve been talking about for days. Just what did he do from the time he left the station . If he can remember that would be very helpful. The process that ntsb uses is verified. Theyll go over details, if they give up details theyll look for physical evidence to substantiate what he may be saying. Will his attorney be with him . I would assume his attorney would be with him. Hes been with him from the beginning and will continue to be with him. How freely will this engineer be able to speak . Not as freely as investigators would like. And from the very beginning by making the determination that hes not ready to speak, and now he is ready to speak but what might he really remember . Or what might he not disclose that we might otherwise like to hear . Questions that really cant be answered at this point. Doctors have commented on whether or not his concussion may have affected his memory. Those are all questions as to whether or not there was negligent error that happened in that first car where the train was operated and where the engineer was situated. It appears the answer to that is obviously yes. How did it occur and what were factors that went into occurrence and leading this train at 106 miles an hour to leave the tracks. Theres some strange information coming forward along those lines. I want to pose this to you, john. So 65 seconds before the trains black box recording ends the train was traveling at 70 miles an hour. I have to read it because i dont have it in my memory. 65 seconds before the trains black box recording ends the train was traveling at 70 Miles Per Hour. Then it sped up. At 43 seconds before the recording ends the train was up to 80 miles an hour. 12 seconds later it hit 90 miles an hour and 15 seconds after that it topped 100 Miles Per Hour and thats when this engineer Brandon Bostian slammed on the brakes. What do you make of that . There are two possible scenarios. One, he manipulated the controls to speed the train up and the other is some sort of a mechanical electronical alal failure that caused the train to speed up. He may not have felt it. He may have been distracted with something in the locomotive. We havent talked about his cell phone. Was he on the cell phone or not . He turned over his cell phone and his lawyer said he wasnt texting. His cell phone was off as is required by amtrak. Thats perfect. Im glad to hear that. That eliminates one possibility. And thats whats going to happen. One by one the possibilities are going to be eliminated. I heard what was being said about all of the people that he was a great person and so on but people do make mistakes. Its very common for people to make mistakes especially if theyre fatigues. I havent heard anything talking about what his work schedule is like. Not only this day but the proceeding three days. Thats standard protocol for ntsb so they will dig into that. Theres a lot of questions that we have that havent been addressed yet and they will be addressed over the next couple of days. Some of them will be able to be answered quickly and easily. Others are going to take a tremendous amount of work to get to the bottom of. Something else that im sure that will be in the lawyers mind this amtrak employee filed a lawsuit. Within the lawsuit are these allegations. Amtrak failed to provide sufficient personnel to safely operate the train. Also inside that lawsuit, there werent proper systems in place to slow the train. Will that add into whatever charges are filed against this engineer . Obviously positive train control is something thats at the heart of the issue. You have negligence here. Who and exactly where to pin it is really the issue. Theres no question that amtrak is at fault here. Either they could have and should have had the positive train control in effect. To find out yesterday that it was on the southbound track and not on the northbound track and coupling that with the metro north crash virtually 18 months ago where this is a duplication of the same accident. The activities within the control panel by the engineer may somewhat differ but ultimately the train reached a speed that was excessive, far excessive of what was safe. Went into that turn flew off the tracks people were killed and so many people were injured and the people that have suffered families people who have been fortunate enough to survive it will live with this for the rest of their lives and its something that unfortunately it was totally avoidable. All right. I have to leave it there. Thank you so much for being with me today. I appreciate it. In our next hour here on cnn, well hear from the friend that bostian called from the hospital right after the crash. Grim milestones. The first funeral and final identification of those killed. Lets return to philadelphia to get more from cnns sunlen serfaty. Good morning. Reporter good morning, carol. All eight killed by that train crash have now been accounted for and identified including 45yearold father of two from baltimore, maryland. His body was just found yesterday at the crash site by a cadaver dog. Also among the killed 47yearold Real Estate Agent from new york and also an Italian National that was here visiting the u. S. On business. He was an oil merchant. Later this morning will be the first of funerals for that of a 20 year old from u. S. Navy academy. A mid shipman. A sophomore there. We know that hell be honored with full military honors from the u. S. Navy and the u. S. Navy will present his family with an American Flag and we know that 160 mid shipmen from his company will be at his funeral later today. Sunlen serfaty, many thanks. Still to come in the newsroom, breaking news out of iraq. Is isis gaining ground . Nick paton walsh has the latest. Reporter well hear whether or not isis managed to gain full control of a key province to the west of baghdad. 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Two of which it seems caused isis to have a passage in toward the city center. They now raised their flag over the Police Headquarters and seem to have control of a key mosque there as well. The fighting is ongoing. People are fleeing and its a symbolic city because its the capital of anbar but its an area the city hoped to exert influence and push isis out and find many sunnis living there who would welcome their return. Instead now isis is raising their flag. Bad for the baghdad governments narrative. So give us a sense about how things are going within iraq. Is isis in control of too much territory . Are iraqi forces making progress . Whats the story there . Certainly it looked like iraqi forces were doing well in terms of a mixture of shia militia and security forces. We saw isis in kobani in syria being pushed out. It had seemed as though much of the narrative territorially was turning against isis. There is speculation as to where is isis leader and whats happening now, we saw the audio message yesterday emerge and seem to show he was in good enough spirits but in the last six to eight weeks or so and were also seeing this move into ramadi suggesting that isis is trying to push back in one direction. We simply dont know full condition of them whether theyre experiencing significant wear and tear off Coalition Air strikes lacking in resources many reports suggest but if they manage to retain ramadi or exercise full control in the days ahead will be a significant blow for Coalition Efforts against them. Carol . Nick paton walsh reporting live from beirut. Coming up mitt romney ready to throw some punches tonight. Jeb bush is dodging punches this week. Well talk about both men next. Making a fist something we do to show resolve. To defend ourselves. To declare victory. So cvs Health Provides expert support and vital medicines. At our Infusion Centers or in patients homes. 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And Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in court has really seemed a lot lighter. His mood. His demeanor. We sat through this trial and the guilt trial since march and he was very serious. We dont know whether he was instructed to be that way but yesterday after the jury began deliberating he seemed much more relaxed. He was writing on a pad. Some people thought he was sketching. Then another time toward the end of the day during private conversation with his lawyer there was actually a belly laugh and all of the journalists in the courtroom kind of looked at each other saying did you hear what i heard because hes shown so little emotion during this whole period. He knows hes got two options, carol. Either dies by execution or he dies after spending every single day for the rest of his life in prison. We have two notes. It appears out of the six sections that jury has to consider that they made their way into the third section at the very least. Thats the aggravating factors. 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