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Threw the emergency brake full force, all the way down. what would we feel like if we did that right here at 70 miles per hour. >> well i will show you. >> so that's full force on the brakes at just 60 miles per hour and we're still going. >> yeah. yeah you can't apply the brakes any harder than that. >> it still doesn't stop automatically, still takes times no matter what speed. >> a fully loaded 48freight train. >> let's take it around the bend as fast as you can go and you are saying this train that derailed may have been going about 106 miles per hour so we will see what this does. >> we w...

I suspect folks will gradually recover, and you get better from broken bones, and i don't think there will be lasting affects, because most were broken bones. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]? >> the question is do we have any remaining unidentified people? and the answer is no. all the folks here are ones that we know. and their families know they are here and the various countries know they are here. >> we are going to step away but it's a relief that doctors know who everybody is in the hospital so families can tend to them as well. the doctor giving an interesting account of how the injuries occ...

The train. >> according to the railroad administration on average there have been 31 amtrak train derailments a year of varying degrees since 2006. so far there have been nine this year prior to the most recent incident. while amtrak owns and operates about 80% of the 457 miles of track between washington and boston called the northeast corridor some of the most recent fatal crashes have involved commuter trains operated by others. in february just north of new york city a metro north commuter train slammed into a vehicle that was stopped on the tracks killing the driver and six commuters. in ...

On the emergency brakes. the engineer is not talking to investigators but he has talked to his lawyer who says bostian does not remember what happened. >> as a result of the concussion he has no recollection whatsoever of the events and i am told his memory is likely to return as the concussion symptoms subside. he remembers come into the curve, and he remembers attempting to reduce speed thereafter he was knocked out and thrown around like all the other passengers in the train. >> what is it like staring down the tracks at 100 miles per hour knowing something bad is going to happen. randi kay...

You listen to the statements what his lawyer made his client remembers applying the brakes and nothing after that and we know what happened it derailed and it was a catastrophe, and the lawyer said he remembers the important pieces of information we want to know about. >> as you are investigating a crash like this you are not getting any cooperation from the engineer but you know the train was traveling at about 106 miles per hour when it approached the curve, so from what you can ascertain from watching this over the past day or so how do you suppose the accident went down? >> the one thing t...