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Justin zemser was remembered for his spirit and courage. Members of the academy gathered with friends and family on long island to say goodbye. He was coming home on leave when he died in the derailment. Also among the eight dead a wells fargo executive returning from a funeral, a wine and oil merchant from italy took the train after missing his flight. As well as an Associated Press Video Software architect from new jersey. He was coming back from the nations capital. Happening right now, working around the clock on the railroad. We saw an army of Railroad Workers laying down new track, signal, wire other equipment needed to get the trains up and running again. Nbc10s drew smith is live in Port Richmond. I understand amtraks time line may be changing a bit. Reporter we just got an update from a spokesman saying its hard to know a firm time when things will start to get going again. Electrical workers are working hard. Theres just lot of work to do. Four electric pole new wire 22 new track panels on two brandnew sections of railroad. Thats the task for all these amtrak workers. Its all hands on deck. Theyre doing all that work signal work and everything working around the clock to get the railroad back up and running. Reporter amtraks fred schultz says the rail service is hearing from frustrated passengers and exploring every option to safely return to service. Whatever we can do to operate service between philadelphia and new york thats our primary objective. Reporter if the electrical infrastructure isnt ready, they may turn to diesel engines early next week. But that comes with equipment issues and restrictions. Their best bet is to get everything working all at once and that takes a huge team. Really excellent job with how fast theyre moving things. Reporter amtrak workers and subcontractors will remain through the weekend. The rebuilt rail uses modern materials so when Service Resumes it should be a safer and smoother ride. This is a permanent fix. Reporter there is a train moving in through one of the nearby tracks here and a train car over here. The amtrak crew will have to do some sort of a test run when they do decide to open up this stretch. They will have to do that before passenger trains can run through. Well ask what exactly that will entail and well have that at 6 00. Our coverage of the derail derailment continues. Latest information is always available on the go with the nbc10 news app for your smartphone or tablet. Sentenced to death. This afternoon convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev learned his fate. Jurors sentenced him to die by lethal injection after deliberating for more than 14 hours over three days. Tsarnaev showed no emotion as the sentence was handed town. Throughout the trial, lawyers tried to save his life pinning most of the blame on his deceased older brother, tamerlan. But prosecutors portrayed him as an equal partner in that attack. That same jury that sentenced him to death this afternoon convicted him of all counts last month in the bombings. Three people were killed and more than 260 others hurt in the attack just over two years ago. Sunny, warm and dry, great weather for a friday. Really is pretty out there. Just in time for the weekend, changes are coming our way. Nbc10 first alert meteorologist Sheena Parveen with the details. We have a fantastic rest of your friday evening set up but big changes coming in for the weekend. You can already see here satellite and radar. Were still on the dry side, but there you see rain just up to our north and west around williamsport so we could see a few showers overnight tonight. This is getting closer to the Lehigh Valley but we are still fairly dry. Humidity still low. But all the wet weather you see back off to the west and southwest, that air mass is going to be moving in over the weekend. So we have kind of an unstable setup for both saturday and sunday. Rain will be in the forecast this weekend. In the meantime, if youre heading out this friday evening, 74 degrees right now, the temperature in allentown, 76 philadelphia, 69 in millville, 64 in wildwood. A nice day today and the rest of your evening will be nice too. 6 00 p. M. 73 degrees if you have to friday night plans. 8 00 p. M. , 68 degrees. Still staying on the dry side. By 10 00, well see those clouds continue to increase temperatures in the mid60s and overnight there could be a shower around but of into the weekend we have a better chance of thunderstorms with some much warmer temperatures and more humidity. Ill show you the timing of the rain coming up. Penn state is warning thousands of people about a pair of cyberattacks that targeted its college of engineering. They say the fbi told School Officials about it last november. An investigation revealed there were two separate attacks, one launched from china. The university notifying 18,000 people whose information, including Social Security number, was stored on the target targeted computers but theres no evidence that information was stolen in those attacks. Rutgers was also the target of a recent attack. These attacks led to outages in internet service. The fbi has been helping rutgers with the investigation. Sky forceforce10 was over the scene of an incident this morning following a mysterious odor. Workers said they smelled Something Sweet and then felt sick and dizzy. One employee fainted. Crews did not find hazardous chemicals. The center is used by carriers to pick up mail for delivery. Customers do not go there. Police need help identifying these men wanted for robbing a 7 e lev en in southwest philadelphia on tuesday around 2 00 in the morning. The two men were captured on Surveillance Video inside the Convenience Store on south 70th street. One man pulled a gun on the cashier. The second man armed with a knife went to the back of the store. They got away with about 350. No one was hurt. Whats happening right now some of the worlds best cyclists are spending their weekend in wilmington. This is the citys annual grand prix event. Good news at a time when the city often makes news for its ongoing battle with crime. Tim furlong is live for us where time trials are about to begin. Reporter it is a shot in the arm, a good story line great weather, certainly. Here at monkey hill were about to see some riders come up here. This is the end of the 3. 2 time trial loop that ends going up the steep monkey hill. You can see guys going through on this slippery rock. Also at the top of the hill a great party, a great way to finish at a time really the city could use some good news. At 16 shes the youngest cyclist. It always helps when its a place you like to be. Makes it more enjoyable. Reporter the time trials now legendary in the cycling world. These guys are out with cowbells ringing them up charging them up the hill coaxing them up because its a tough climb. Reporter an important stop on the pro circuit and a big deal for the city. Signs are everywhere. The races will bring millions of dollars and thousands of Smiling Faces into a city that to some has become more known for its pock epts of crime and violence. Dominic is at work getting his new bakery open. It wont happen soon enough. I would love to be open today and tomorrow and sunday for all the events. All the people coming down. Reporter hes opening Market Street bread and bagel, taking a leap of faith the city is going in the right direction. And the racers seem to like what they see whenever they come back here. They dont have any preconceived notion of what wilmington is. They see the Community Welcome them, the course all the effort we put into it. Its a nice reminder that a place is what you make it. Reporter waiting for the first cyclist to start and go up monkey hill. The race should generate almost 2 million for hotels and restaurants this weekend. By the way, its free to come out and watch any of the races. On sunday you can actually ride in a big race that goes out through valley. Lots of reasons to come to wilmington this weekend. Hoping we see some guys coming up soon. Its dool see. Live in wilmington tim furlong, nbc10 news. This weeks deadly derailment thrust questions over Railroad Safety into the national spotlight. The ntsb is about to address us. It all comes down to money, though, in washington. Congress just voted to cut amtraks budget. Both sides are battling over how to play for safe rails. The primary is four days away. Tuesday voters pick a democratic candidate for mayor. Ahead, our exclusive poll show what is issues are most important to philadelphians. Tuesdays tragic amtrak train crash in Port Richmond sparked new kfgss about the safety of our countrys infrastructure. Today cory booker and Robert Menendez talked about investing in a longterm place to improve Passenger Rail service in new jersey and across the country. We put our children in structurally deficient cribs, sit around our tables in structurally deficient chairs . No. Right now we are at the risk of more accidents or tragedies because of a crumbling infrastructure that we have not made a commitment to invest in. Booker says the u. S. Has gone from number one country in the quality of infrastructure to number 18. He says we cannot pass on a failing infrastructure to the next generation. Joining us to talk about the ongoing fund deg bait the chuck todd moderator of meet the press. We have to start with the recent decision by congress to cut funding to amtrak one day after this deadly crash and the response from booker. Its a reminder that we sometimes wonder how do the two parties differ. Sometimes we so put them in their places of blue and red, we forget theres true philosophical differents between the two. Amtrak is a perfect illustration. Democrats view amtrak as sort of part of Public Transportation system and Public Transportation in every city in america is subsidized by government. Fares they dont fully fund them. It has to be subsidized. I think the Republican Party views amtrak as something the government should betaining the rail but it should be privatized and shouldnt be involved in running the train system itself. I think thats why you see what makes some folks shocking decisions coming out of washington. Party lines pretty much guyed on the issue of funding. Whats the future of rail service in the country . Look i think thats in the northeast corridor theres proof that this is something that its not just a luxury in the northeast corridor its a necessity when you see how many people travel in the northeast corridor from washington up to boston. If you took that away our air system couldnt handle it. Were finding it out the hard way in washington. People not able to use amtrak instead flying it is choking that. You need it here. Question is can you make rail service more prevalent and useful to the rest of the country, because politically if you can, then youre going to get more support for it. Part of the political problem for amtrak is where its most popular is where democratic lawmakers are representing constituents in washington. Where it is least popular is where you dont see amtrak in sort of rural red america where a lot of republicans represent. Theres just not a lot of experience using amtrak. Two passengers describe being tossed around. You wonder if there will be an implementation of seat belts down the road by the ntsb. I think theres a ton of safety issues well see come out of this and that will get bipartisan support. I think the longer term issue about the future of amtrak is where i think youll see the real divide between the two parties. Watch meet the press sunday morning 10 30 on nbc10. New information on a 2013 commuter train crash in new york city. The engineer fell asleep at those controls and we now know he will not face criminal charges. The metro north derailment killed four people. Federal investigators said that engineer dozed off because he suffered from an undiagnosed sleep disorder. Blues legend b. B. King has died. The guitarist known as the king of the blues passed away early this morning at his home in las vegas. King was considered one of the best blues players in the world, always performing with his custommade trademark guitar he called lucille. He was very active performing as many as 300 nights a year. He continued a very busy concert schedule into his 80s despite a variety of aches and pains. No im a diabetic. Got bad knees, bad back head aint much good either. Cant remember anything. B. B. King won 18 grammys and in 2006 received the medal of freedom. B. B. King was 89 years old. Today president obama released this statement about kings death. He said the blues has lost its king and america has lost a legend. B. B. King may be gone but that thrill will be with us forever. It is going to be one killer blues session in heaven tonight. Beautiful end to your week for your friday temperatures mainly in the 70s so the rest of your friday night will be very comfortable. The humidity still staying low, but then we go into the weekend starting with tomorrow and sunday warmer more humid across the board. Both saturday and sunday. And weakened thunderstorms will move through, some showers both days and temperatures will be warm enough to support any thunderstorms too. Live look at Citizens Bank park mostly cloudy skies in philadelphia 76 degrees is the. So very comfortable. Humidity only around 26 so the dry air making it even more comfortable out there. Through the Lehigh Valley 73 redding, 71 degrees west chester, upper six closer to the show. Stone harbor, 61 degrees, 67 in dover. The rest of tonight stays dry but there is rain just back off to our west. This will be moving in for the weekend. Some of these showers approaching Lehigh Valley but you see it to the west and southwest, more unstable atmosphere coming into play saturday and sunday. Through rest of the evening, the clouds increase but temperatures dont get too cool. Tomorrow morning 9 00 a. M. Well be a little more mild upper 60s, areas north and west by 9 00 70s already around philadelphia, south jersey and delaware through the afternoon the temperatures warm into the mid80s. This is 1 00 in the afternoon, then later, 7 00 p. M. We could see some thunderstorms arnold the area. I dont think everyone will see them, but well see scattered showers and storms. Wherever you see the storms you notice allentown dropping to 70 degrees while philadelphia at 83. Then overnight we could see some more into sunday morning. Well still have the rain lange lingering, clouds stay around and really through the day sunday this unstable setup will still be in place. Temperatures expected to be in the mid80s. Cloud hang around through the day sunday and still the scattered showers stay in the forecast too. For tonight, though mostly cloudy, chance of a late shower mostly overnight tonight, 60 for the low in philadelphia, 52 north and west. For tomorrow highs will be warmer than today. Close to 10 degrees warmer 83 for allentown, norristown afternoon thunderstorms, 84 for chester, 85 philadelphia, 84 west chester 85 degrees glass bro with afternoon thunderstorms and more humid too. Closer to the shore, temperatures in the 70s. Farther inland like dover, about the mid80s. Afternoon storms tomorrow. Sunday looks like a day well see scattered showers around. Saturday could be the best day for storms. Monday, chance of showers. Look at the temperatures dropping into the low 70s by next thursday. Youve seen the images and heard the Horror Stories of this weeks derailment but if you were on board a train in an emergency, would you know what to do . Tonight, what every rider should see. Septa wants you to know how to stay safe if something goes wrong on board. All about the issues. Tuesday philadelphians choose the democratic candidate for mayor. Our exclusive poll shows most important to voters. El diablo puts riders facetoface as theyre rocketed forward and backward. Season pass holders are trying it out today before its grand opening tomorrow. In the meantime, in wilmington the gates open tomorrow for horse racing fans at delaware park. This is the 78th season of live thoroughbred and arabian racing. A full day of activities is planned including a simulcast for the preakness stakes the next leg of the triple crown set to take place tomorrow. Kentucky derby champion American American farrow will run in baltimore. You can watch the preakness, coverage starts at 4 30. How do you feel about cars that drive themselves . Well get ready for selfdriving cars to hit the road. Google announced its first selfdriving cars will make their public debut near the tech companys headquarters in california. Now, the cars cant go more than 25 Miles Per Hour and can only drive in areas that have been thoroughly mapped. These car will also have backup drivers in them who can take control if necessary. The Company Wants to make selfdriving Technology Available to customers in five years. A new stid di finds fewer students are being bullied at school. According to a survey conducted by the Education Department girls are more likely to be bullied than boys and white students are more likely to be bullied than minority students. 22 of students ages 12 to 18 said they were bullied in 2013 down 6 from 2011. That drop follows efforts from School Officials and local governments to reduce teenage bullying. Well go live in one or two minutes to the ntsb News Conference. Theyve been working around the clock up to this point in Port Richmond investigating that deadly amtrak train derailment. A source has told nbc news that investigators have been talking to the trains engineer. They of course have been waiting to talk to him. They were giving him some time to recover from his injuries and to mentally prepare. We know that he does have a concussion. We are going to have that Associated Press<\/a> Video Software<\/a> architect from new jersey. He was coming back from the nations capital. Happening right now, working around the clock on the railroad. We saw an army of Railroad Workers<\/a> laying down new track, signal, wire other equipment needed to get the trains up and running again. Nbc10s drew smith is live in Port Richmond<\/a>. I understand amtraks time line may be changing a bit. Reporter we just got an update from a spokesman saying its hard to know a firm time when things will start to get going again. Electrical workers are working hard. Theres just lot of work to do. Four electric pole new wire 22 new track panels on two brandnew sections of railroad. Thats the task for all these amtrak workers. Its all hands on deck. Theyre doing all that work signal work and everything working around the clock to get the railroad back up and running. Reporter amtraks fred schultz says the rail service is hearing from frustrated passengers and exploring every option to safely return to service. Whatever we can do to operate service between philadelphia and new york thats our primary objective. Reporter if the electrical infrastructure isnt ready, they may turn to diesel engines early next week. But that comes with equipment issues and restrictions. Their best bet is to get everything working all at once and that takes a huge team. Really excellent job with how fast theyre moving things. Reporter amtrak workers and subcontractors will remain through the weekend. The rebuilt rail uses modern materials so when Service Resumes<\/a> it should be a safer and smoother ride. This is a permanent fix. Reporter there is a train moving in through one of the nearby tracks here and a train car over here. The amtrak crew will have to do some sort of a test run when they do decide to open up this stretch. They will have to do that before passenger trains can run through. Well ask what exactly that will entail and well have that at 6 00. Our coverage of the derail derailment continues. Latest information is always available on the go with the nbc10 news app for your smartphone or tablet. Sentenced to death. This afternoon convicted Boston Marathon<\/a> bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev<\/a> learned his fate. Jurors sentenced him to die by lethal injection after deliberating for more than 14 hours over three days. Tsarnaev showed no emotion as the sentence was handed town. Throughout the trial, lawyers tried to save his life pinning most of the blame on his deceased older brother, tamerlan. But prosecutors portrayed him as an equal partner in that attack. That same jury that sentenced him to death this afternoon convicted him of all counts last month in the bombings. Three people were killed and more than 260 others hurt in the attack just over two years ago. Sunny, warm and dry, great weather for a friday. Really is pretty out there. Just in time for the weekend, changes are coming our way. Nbc10 first alert meteorologist Sheena Parveen<\/a> with the details. We have a fantastic rest of your friday evening set up but big changes coming in for the weekend. You can already see here satellite and radar. Were still on the dry side, but there you see rain just up to our north and west around williamsport so we could see a few showers overnight tonight. This is getting closer to the Lehigh Valley<\/a> but we are still fairly dry. Humidity still low. But all the wet weather you see back off to the west and southwest, that air mass is going to be moving in over the weekend. So we have kind of an unstable setup for both saturday and sunday. Rain will be in the forecast this weekend. In the meantime, if youre heading out this friday evening, 74 degrees right now, the temperature in allentown, 76 philadelphia, 69 in millville, 64 in wildwood. A nice day today and the rest of your evening will be nice too. 6 00 p. M. 73 degrees if you have to friday night plans. 8 00 p. M. , 68 degrees. Still staying on the dry side. By 10 00, well see those clouds continue to increase temperatures in the mid60s and overnight there could be a shower around but of into the weekend we have a better chance of thunderstorms with some much warmer temperatures and more humidity. Ill show you the timing of the rain coming up. Penn state is warning thousands of people about a pair of cyberattacks that targeted its college of engineering. They say the fbi told School Officials<\/a> about it last november. An investigation revealed there were two separate attacks, one launched from china. The university notifying 18,000 people whose information, including Social Security<\/a> number, was stored on the target targeted computers but theres no evidence that information was stolen in those attacks. Rutgers was also the target of a recent attack. These attacks led to outages in internet service. The fbi has been helping rutgers with the investigation. Sky forceforce10 was over the scene of an incident this morning following a mysterious odor. Workers said they smelled Something Sweet<\/a> and then felt sick and dizzy. One employee fainted. Crews did not find hazardous chemicals. The center is used by carriers to pick up mail for delivery. Customers do not go there. Police need help identifying these men wanted for robbing a 7 e lev en in southwest philadelphia on tuesday around 2 00 in the morning. The two men were captured on Surveillance Video<\/a> inside the Convenience Store<\/a> on south 70th street. One man pulled a gun on the cashier. The second man armed with a knife went to the back of the store. They got away with about 350. No one was hurt. Whats happening right now some of the worlds best cyclists are spending their weekend in wilmington. This is the citys annual grand prix event. Good news at a time when the city often makes news for its ongoing battle with crime. Tim furlong is live for us where time trials are about to begin. Reporter it is a shot in the arm, a good story line great weather, certainly. Here at monkey hill were about to see some riders come up here. This is the end of the 3. 2 time trial loop that ends going up the steep monkey hill. You can see guys going through on this slippery rock. Also at the top of the hill a great party, a great way to finish at a time really the city could use some good news. At 16 shes the youngest cyclist. It always helps when its a place you like to be. Makes it more enjoyable. Reporter the time trials now legendary in the cycling world. These guys are out with cowbells ringing them up charging them up the hill coaxing them up because its a tough climb. Reporter an important stop on the pro circuit and a big deal for the city. Signs are everywhere. The races will bring millions of dollars and thousands of Smiling Faces<\/a> into a city that to some has become more known for its pock epts of crime and violence. Dominic is at work getting his new bakery open. It wont happen soon enough. I would love to be open today and tomorrow and sunday for all the events. All the people coming down. Reporter hes opening Market Street<\/a> bread and bagel, taking a leap of faith the city is going in the right direction. And the racers seem to like what they see whenever they come back here. They dont have any preconceived notion of what wilmington is. They see the Community Welcome<\/a> them, the course all the effort we put into it. Its a nice reminder that a place is what you make it. Reporter waiting for the first cyclist to start and go up monkey hill. The race should generate almost 2 million for hotels and restaurants this weekend. By the way, its free to come out and watch any of the races. On sunday you can actually ride in a big race that goes out through valley. Lots of reasons to come to wilmington this weekend. Hoping we see some guys coming up soon. Its dool see. Live in wilmington tim furlong, nbc10 news. This weeks deadly derailment thrust questions over Railroad Safety<\/a> into the national spotlight. The ntsb is about to address us. It all comes down to money, though, in washington. Congress just voted to cut amtraks budget. Both sides are battling over how to play for safe rails. The primary is four days away. Tuesday voters pick a democratic candidate for mayor. Ahead, our exclusive poll show what is issues are most important to philadelphians. Tuesdays tragic amtrak train crash in Port Richmond<\/a> sparked new kfgss about the safety of our countrys infrastructure. Today cory booker and Robert Menendez<\/a> talked about investing in a longterm place to improve Passenger Rail<\/a> service in new jersey and across the country. We put our children in structurally deficient cribs, sit around our tables in structurally deficient chairs . No. Right now we are at the risk of more accidents or tragedies because of a crumbling infrastructure that we have not made a commitment to invest in. Booker says the u. S. Has gone from number one country in the quality of infrastructure to number 18. He says we cannot pass on a failing infrastructure to the next generation. Joining us to talk about the ongoing fund deg bait the chuck todd moderator of meet the press. We have to start with the recent decision by congress to cut funding to amtrak one day after this deadly crash and the response from booker. Its a reminder that we sometimes wonder how do the two parties differ. Sometimes we so put them in their places of blue and red, we forget theres true philosophical differents between the two. Amtrak is a perfect illustration. Democrats view amtrak as sort of part of Public Transportation<\/a> system and Public Transportation<\/a> in every city in america is subsidized by government. Fares they dont fully fund them. It has to be subsidized. I think the Republican Party<\/a> views amtrak as something the government should betaining the rail but it should be privatized and shouldnt be involved in running the train system itself. I think thats why you see what makes some folks shocking decisions coming out of washington. Party lines pretty much guyed on the issue of funding. Whats the future of rail service in the country . Look i think thats in the northeast corridor theres proof that this is something that its not just a luxury in the northeast corridor its a necessity when you see how many people travel in the northeast corridor from washington up to boston. If you took that away our air system couldnt handle it. Were finding it out the hard way in washington. People not able to use amtrak instead flying it is choking that. You need it here. Question is can you make rail service more prevalent and useful to the rest of the country, because politically if you can, then youre going to get more support for it. Part of the political problem for amtrak is where its most popular is where democratic lawmakers are representing constituents in washington. Where it is least popular is where you dont see amtrak in sort of rural red america where a lot of republicans represent. Theres just not a lot of experience using amtrak. Two passengers describe being tossed around. You wonder if there will be an implementation of seat belts down the road by the ntsb. I think theres a ton of safety issues well see come out of this and that will get bipartisan support. I think the longer term issue about the future of amtrak is where i think youll see the real divide between the two parties. Watch meet the press sunday morning 10 30 on nbc10. New information on a 2013 commuter train crash in new york city. The engineer fell asleep at those controls and we now know he will not face criminal charges. The metro north derailment killed four people. Federal investigators said that engineer dozed off because he suffered from an undiagnosed sleep disorder. Blues legend b. B. King has died. The guitarist known as the king of the blues passed away early this morning at his home in las vegas. King was considered one of the best blues players in the world, always performing with his custommade trademark guitar he called lucille. He was very active performing as many as 300 nights a year. He continued a very busy concert schedule into his 80s despite a variety of aches and pains. No im a diabetic. Got bad knees, bad back head aint much good either. Cant remember anything. B. B. King won 18 grammys and in 2006 received the medal of freedom. B. B. King was 89 years old. Today president obama released this statement about kings death. He said the blues has lost its king and america has lost a legend. B. B. King may be gone but that thrill will be with us forever. It is going to be one killer blues session in heaven tonight. Beautiful end to your week for your friday temperatures mainly in the 70s so the rest of your friday night will be very comfortable. The humidity still staying low, but then we go into the weekend starting with tomorrow and sunday warmer more humid across the board. Both saturday and sunday. And weakened thunderstorms will move through, some showers both days and temperatures will be warm enough to support any thunderstorms too. Live look at Citizens Bank<\/a> park mostly cloudy skies in philadelphia 76 degrees is the. So very comfortable. Humidity only around 26 so the dry air making it even more comfortable out there. Through the Lehigh Valley<\/a> 73 redding, 71 degrees west chester, upper six closer to the show. Stone harbor, 61 degrees, 67 in dover. The rest of tonight stays dry but there is rain just back off to our west. This will be moving in for the weekend. Some of these showers approaching Lehigh Valley<\/a> but you see it to the west and southwest, more unstable atmosphere coming into play saturday and sunday. Through rest of the evening, the clouds increase but temperatures dont get too cool. Tomorrow morning 9 00 a. M. Well be a little more mild upper 60s, areas north and west by 9 00 70s already around philadelphia, south jersey and delaware through the afternoon the temperatures warm into the mid80s. This is 1 00 in the afternoon, then later, 7 00 p. M. We could see some thunderstorms arnold the area. I dont think everyone will see them, but well see scattered showers and storms. Wherever you see the storms you notice allentown dropping to 70 degrees while philadelphia at 83. Then overnight we could see some more into sunday morning. Well still have the rain lange lingering, clouds stay around and really through the day sunday this unstable setup will still be in place. Temperatures expected to be in the mid80s. Cloud hang around through the day sunday and still the scattered showers stay in the forecast too. For tonight, though mostly cloudy, chance of a late shower mostly overnight tonight, 60 for the low in philadelphia, 52 north and west. For tomorrow highs will be warmer than today. Close to 10 degrees warmer 83 for allentown, norristown afternoon thunderstorms, 84 for chester, 85 philadelphia, 84 west chester 85 degrees glass bro with afternoon thunderstorms and more humid too. Closer to the shore, temperatures in the 70s. Farther inland like dover, about the mid80s. Afternoon storms tomorrow. Sunday looks like a day well see scattered showers around. Saturday could be the best day for storms. Monday, chance of showers. Look at the temperatures dropping into the low 70s by next thursday. Youve seen the images and heard the Horror Stories<\/a> of this weeks derailment but if you were on board a train in an emergency, would you know what to do . Tonight, what every rider should see. Septa wants you to know how to stay safe if something goes wrong on board. All about the issues. Tuesday philadelphians choose the democratic candidate for mayor. Our exclusive poll shows most important to voters. El diablo puts riders facetoface as theyre rocketed forward and backward. Season pass holders are trying it out today before its grand opening tomorrow. In the meantime, in wilmington the gates open tomorrow for horse racing fans at delaware park. This is the 78th season of live thoroughbred and arabian racing. A full day of activities is planned including a simulcast for the preakness stakes the next leg of the triple crown set to take place tomorrow. Kentucky derby champion American American<\/a> farrow will run in baltimore. You can watch the preakness, coverage starts at 4 30. How do you feel about cars that drive themselves . Well get ready for selfdriving cars to hit the road. Google announced its first selfdriving cars will make their public debut near the tech companys headquarters in california. Now, the cars cant go more than 25 Miles Per Hour<\/a> and can only drive in areas that have been thoroughly mapped. These car will also have backup drivers in them who can take control if necessary. The Company Wants<\/a> to make selfdriving Technology Available<\/a> to customers in five years. A new stid di finds fewer students are being bullied at school. According to a survey conducted by the Education Department<\/a> girls are more likely to be bullied than boys and white students are more likely to be bullied than minority students. 22 of students ages 12 to 18 said they were bullied in 2013 down 6 from 2011. That drop follows efforts from School Officials<\/a> and local governments to reduce teenage bullying. Well go live in one or two minutes to the ntsb News Conference<\/a>. Theyve been working around the clock up to this point in Port Richmond<\/a> investigating that deadly amtrak train derailment. A source has told nbc news that investigators have been talking to the trains engineer. They of course have been waiting to talk to him. They were giving him some time to recover from his injuries and to mentally prepare. We know that he does have a concussion. We are going to have that News Conference<\/a> for you coming up in just a moment. But first this break. We are waiting to hear from federal investigators on the deadly amtrak ze railment. They were waiting to interview brandon bostian, at the controls tuesday night. Crews are reed bying the tracks. Sections of rails are being brought in by trucks lifted with cranes as you can see, and placed onto the ground by workers. Amtrak had hoped to have limited service on the northeast corridor up and running by monday. Turns out that day has been pushed back to tuesday but theyve been on the scene with those White Helmets<\/a> for 24 hours now, around the clock, since tuesday night. Live to a News Conference<\/a> in just a bit. Thats what were waiting for, the ntsb. It will be their last update here. We heard yesterday that the train was accelerating before it reached that curve, so there are so many questions for this engineer trying to figure out exactly why he accelerated, if it was operator error, if it was mechanical, if there was something with the track. We will bet to that conference in just a moment. Family and friends gather on long island today to remember the youngest victim of the derailment. Justin zemser was honored with full military honors. Greg cergol reports. Reporter they stood at attention as hiss casket was escorted from the chapel. His Naval Academy<\/a> classmates his football teammates, hi friends. More than 150 traveled by bus from annapolis to say goodbye. It was rough, especially, you know, you cant expect that kind of thing to happen. Reporter he was with zemser just hours before the amtrak derailment that killed the 20yearold. For most, the sudden loss of the secondyear midshipman was with so much promise was hard to fathom. A freakish accident and a lot of questions on why. But, again, its about celebrating justins life today. Reporter thats exactly what his neighbors tried to do. They wore these special ribbons and one woman carried a Football Jersey<\/a> from the High School Team<\/a> zemser had led as captain. He just didnt deserve to go this way. Reporter High School Classmate<\/a> aurora perez said zemser continued to mentor younger students even after leaving channel view. Many teams stood friday with his grieving parents. I told him, i want you to know i love you and were so proud of you. Reporter neighbor sharon bradys spontaneous expressions came last weekend, the last time she saw the young man she had known since his childhood. Every morning since that day i just thank god every day that i spoke to him and told him that. Reporter that neighbor said Justin Zemser<\/a> was so talented he could have been president one day, making the reality that hes no longer here that much harder to accept. Greg cergol nbc10. A source is telling nbc news that the engineer speaking with investigators today so we hope to learn more on the derailment from the ntsb. In the meantime, the deadly derailment continues to cause some big headaches for rail passengers. Amtraks vital northeast corridor is still cut off. And in a moment we will have the story for people trying to get to new york and how they can manage to get there and travel there now. We do want to go to the live News Conference<\/a> and listen in to the lead investigator. Hi. Good afternoon. Im a board member with the ntsb. And i realize we are later than we originally said we would be and the reason for that is around 4 30 we started getting some news about interviews and some other things that we felt that were important for you to know about so we delayed it so we could report that information to you. Weve interviewed three crew members today, and i want to point out, im going to recapture some of the things that they have said but i want to point out that these crew members have been traumatized through this accident that they were in and theyve not fully recovered from their injuries. We did interview the engineer today. As has been widely reported hes 3 the years old. He had his fra, federal Railroad Administration<\/a> test just last month. Our investigators found the engineer to be extremely cooperative. He was accompanied by his lawyer, which is not at all unusual. And the engineer encouraged us to contact him further, again, contact him again if we needed anything else. So, again, we found him to be extremely cooperative. He recalls ringing the train bell as he went through the north philadelphia station. Thats not a normal station stop for him, but hes required by regulations to sound his bell. I may have said horn. Hes required to sound his bell as he goes past a station stop. And he did that. He recalled doing that. But he has no recollection of anything past that. He felt fully qualified and comfortable with his equipment. And he reported no problems with his train handling. And when asked, when asked, he demonstrated a very good knowledge of the very good working knowledge of the territory, speed limitations, things like that. He began his Railroad Career<\/a> while he was in college as a brakeman. He started with amtrak in 2006 as a conductor. And in 2010 he became a locomotive engineer. Since 2012 he has worked out of new york city, and hes been on this particular job for several weeks. He works it five days a week. Its an out and back trip for him, goes to new york, washington and back to new york five days a week. He said that he did not feel fatigued nor did he report any illness. As we reported the other day, the train has three conductors. The conductor is not able to be interviewed as he is still in the hospital. However, we did interview the two assistant conductors. Ill call it assistant conductor number one. Shes 39 years old. She was hired by amtrak in 2011. And she was in the fourth car, which is the cafe car. She stated that before departing washington the entire crew conducted a safety briefing where they went over all of the speed restrictions along their intended route. She reported that it was a normal run through philadelphia everything was normal up through philadelphia. And she said she could hear the transmission of the locomotive engineer. The conductors carry radios and they are frequently talking to and listening to the locomotive engineers, so she could hear the transmissions from the locomotive engineer. She reported that approximately three to four minutes after departing philadelphia she said she heard the engineer talking to a septa engineer. She recalled ta the septa engineer had reported to the train dispatch theyre he had either been hit by a rock or shot at and that the septa engineer said that he had a broken windshield and he placed his train into emergency stop. She also believes that she heard the engineer Say Something<\/a> about she also believed that she heard her engineer Say Something<\/a> about his train being struck by something. This is her recollection and certainly we are going to be conducting further investigation of this comment. Our investigation is not independently confirm this information, but we have seen damage to the lefthand lower portion of the amtrak windshield that we have asked the fbi to come in and look at for us. We oftentimes rely on the fbi for their Technical Expertise<\/a> in such areas. And they will be there tonight looking at this particular damage to the amtrak locomotive. Windshield windshield. Of course when the engine went through the impact, the windshield was shattered, but theres particular damage there that we want them to look at for us. Weve secured the track image recorder, by the way, from the septa train to see what we can learn from that. Now, moving forward, right after she recalled hearing this conversation between the engineer and the her engineer and septa engineer she said that she felt a rumbling and her train leaned over and her car went over on its side. She said they were not able to selfevacuate and they waited for the Emergency Responders<\/a> to get them out. She said she had about 15 passengers in her car. We asked what her working relationship was with her locomotive engineer. She said she had worked with him a good bit and said that he was great to work with. She said he was always offering to help her with her job. Now lets move the the assistant conductor number two. Hes 35 years old. He was hired by amtrak may of last year. Just a few days before the accident he had celebrated his oneyear anniversary with amtrak. He was in the seventh Passenger Car<\/a>. That, of course was the last Passenger Car<\/a>, and he reported having about 40 people in his car. Up to the accident he report nod problem s problems other than some radio problems with his portable radio. He said sporadically he could hear but not sure that some of his transmissions were going out. At the point were describing of the location of the accident he said he felt shaking then two major impacts. He said that interior seats disconnected and he attempted to contact the amtrak dispatch center but does not recall receiving a response. He assisted with the evacuation of injured passengers until he was instructed by Emergency Responders<\/a> to go seek medical attention on his own. He said he had not worked mucher with the amtrak engineer for the actual trip, but he did say that he was happy with the engineer and described the engineer as being very professional. So what weve just described is the information that allowed us to delay the press conference so that we could report that information to you. Weve got some other investigative activities that well fill you in on whats been going on. You know weve mentioned through the week a 3d laser scanner. We have done a 3d laser scanning of the locomotive interior and exterior. Weve scanned an exemplar Passenger Car<\/a> so that we can compare the exemplar Passenger Car<\/a> to the damaged cars. And weve also documented interior safety features in all cars. Weve continued the testing of the signals and the signal circuitry. Basically as the tracks are being rebuilt, our signal specialists are going along to check the continuity of the signal circuitry. Over the weekend, we plan to reassemble the train set as much as we can to put it back together connect the brake lines and conduct a brake test and that will take several days. Over the course of the last few day, some of you have asked what would we do if we could not talk to the engineer and how would we resolve it and we one of the things weve called for in the wake of a fatal train crash in 2008 where 25 people were killed including the engineer the ntsb issued recommendations for forwardfacing image recorders and inward facing image recorders, so something that will get a video and audio image of whats going on inside the locomotive cab as well as the outward facing cameras. And of course this train did have an outward facing camera. We also feel its important to have the inward facing cameras. That recommendation was issued in 2010 when we completed our investigation of that accident out in chatsworth california. And the fra has inclined they do intend to act upon that recommendation. Theres a lot to be done. I think over the last few days weve gotten a lot done. But this will be our final press briefing on scene. Future information on this accident will be coming from our press office in washington d. C. In just a moment ill ask peter to explain that process, but basically i i can you can follow us at our webpage, ntsb. Gov. And also follow us at twitter. ntsb. I want to emphasize that even though this is the final quest briefing certainly there is a lot of work that needs to be done and will be done over the next several days while our Investigative Team<\/a> is here in philadelphia. Theres a lot that needs to be done and will be done. But anyway thats the end of my prepared remarks. If you would, please raise your hand, ill call on you and identify your outlet. New york post. You said new york to washington and back to new york. Yes. Was he coming back that was his second journey of the day . He does his second journey of the day. The answer is its one roundtrip. So he starts in the early afternoon, washington excuse me new york washington back to new york. So its one roundtrip. And how much time is in inbetween that . How much time is between that . We will have his schedule. I dont have it immediately in front of me. As ive offeren said we are here to get information that will go away with the passage of time. His schedule we can get next week, but we want to do things like train interviews and thing like that crew interviews. Yes, sir. Patrick man, fox news. [ inaudible question ] other than human input, what else could explain the acceleration of the train . The train does not have i flew airplanes far long time. Weve had airplanes that had automatic throttles. The trains do not have automatic throttles. Its a manual input. Were going to be through the event recorder through the black box, if you will we do one of the parameters recorded is throttle movement is well look at that to see if that might correspond with the speed increase. But were also looking to see if there could be any type of mechanical anomaly that could potentially cause the train to accelerate without an input. So well come right here. Have you been able to get any of [ inaudible ] back blood work, thing like that and are there any other video sources on the train that may show you what he was doing before the crash . Have we been able to get back the tox reports and is there any other video that we may be able to learn from. Let me address the video issue first. Were always surprised and happy that there are video sources that come from unintended sources like such has been reported on media, a Security Camera<\/a> that recorded some sparking or an explosion, is the way it was described on tv that probably came as a result of the lines collapsing after the collision after the accident. So, you know, people have cell phone cameras and things like that. So were always looking for additional sources of video information, if anybody has video information that we dont know about, we love to hear about it from our witness line. That witness line is witness ntsb witness ntsb. Gov. Wed love to hear from that. The first part of the question was tox ruts. First of all, i hear people talking about blood work the ntsb does not request blood work. We dont do that. By federal law, whenever theres a transportation accident involving commercial entities by federal law, transportation workers are required to perform drug and alcohol testing. That is done by the carrier, in this case, by amtrak. Amtrak has conducted that in accordance with the regulations. We take a split sample. Amtrak sends that to their independent lab. We send it to our independent lab in Oklahoma City<\/a>. And one of the d. O. T. Requirement is for five specific drugs to be checked for. We send it to the faa in Oklahoma City<\/a> to look for many many drugs, overthecounter drugs, so thats a long answer to say that that process takes time. However, the process has been initiated. Question right here. Adam reese, msnbc. Based on what you saw at the scene and interviews youve done so far, what is the preliminary conclusion you can draw in terms of what caused this crash . Second question is you say you want to look at a particular part of the window. What is it exactly youre looking for . What did you see that raised suspicion . Couple questions there. What conclusions can we draw . The answer to that is easy. We do not draw conclusions at this stage of an accident investigation. Were here to collect information. We will draw conclusions at the completion of the investigation, which will be after a very thorough and comprehensive investigation. Regarding the question about what damage patterns to that windshield are we having the fbi look at it would be on the if youre standing in the middle of the locomotive path the centerline over here is where the engineers windshield is over here is the other wind shield and in the lower portion of the lefthand windshield there is a circular pattern that emanates out just a bit. So thats the damage to that. A rock might have gone through that . What could have caused that we are going to that will be part of the analysis and thats exactly what were going to look at. Question right here. Let me catch her first then ill come to you next. Does the ntsb require [ inaudible ] number of hours behind the wheel . Listening in to the final briefing from the National Transportation<\/a> safety board and Robert Sumwalt<\/a> who is the lead investigator. We have been waiting to hear from the engineer brandon bostian. We do know that the ntsb spoke the two conductors and the engineer. The engineer was extremely cooperative. He had his lawyer accompanying him, which is not unlikely in this situation. That engineer recalls ringing the train bell doesnt recall anything after that. He says there were no problems with the train and he was very aware of the speed limitations. He said too, he was not fatigued. He said he didnt feel any sort of illness, wasnt suffering, anything like that. Were going to continue to recap this. In the meantime, go to nbc10. Com. We are going to be having this News Conference<\/a> streaming thrive as well as our app. Well be right back. New information from the in the sb on the train derailment. The epg near, brandon bostian, was extremely cooperative, didnt report any illness or feel fatigued. But they also reported he doesnt remember anything after ringing that bell shortly after leaving philadelphia. And we had heard yesterday that the train was increasing going into that curve. Ntsb says they are looking at any mechanical anomalies that could have taken place to cause that train to increase. They spoke to the conductors. Interestingly, the septa engineer said he was hit by a rock. The windshield was broken. They are going to look at that windshield. The faib fbi is examining it to find out what that could possibly be and this weekend they are reassembling that train and taking a closer look at it. Much more on this new information from the ntsb on nbc10 news at 6 00 coming up next. In the meantime visit nbc10. Com and download our nbc10 news app for much more on the deadly train derailment. Heres what we know in the deadry derailment in Port Richmond<\/a>. Investigators interviewed three people today, including the engineer brandon bostian, who says he does not remember the crash. He answered all the questions with his attorney present. The ntsb says he was very cooperative. One of the conductors says she believes she heard the engineer say a projectile hit the train. The ntsb is asking the fbi to help them examine damage to the lower left side of the windshield of the engine to see if it was, in fact, hit before the derailment. The ntsb News Conference<\/a> just wrapped up at the sheraton society hill. We have a reporter inside. Again, heres the engineer the ntsb spoke to today. He is brandon bostian. Suffered a concussion in the crash and also has 15 staples in his head. The ntsb had this to say a few minutes ago. He felt fully qualified and comfortable with his equipment. And he reported no problems with his train handling. And when asked, when asked, he demonstrated a very good knowledge of the very good working knowledge of the territory. Separate from the investigation, crews are making progress today as they try to get a new track operating in Port Richmond<\/a>. We understand they need to put 22 track panels in to complete the process. Nbc10s Randy Gyllenhaal<\/a> joins us live in where that News Conference<\/a> just wrapped up. Reporter this was the final ntsb News Conference<\/a> to take place in philadelphia. We are learning new things about their investigation, specifically in the last hour they just finished interviewing at least three crew members that were aboard the train that derailed. Two conductors and the engineer. 32yearold brandon bostian, Officials Say<\/a> he was extremely cooperative with investigators. He had his lawyer with him, but they said that is normal in these kind of circumstances and he was very willing to talk. 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