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Of passengers still unaccounted for, and that number might be as many as 12 people that are still missing. we now noah hmong those miss something a 45-year-old father gildersleeve an executive traveling on the train from baltimore and his family is still looking for him this morning. and there is a pass that allows them to get on the train easily and it might not get punched they are actually on the train until well into the trip, and that's what happened likely in the case of rachel jacobs and she got on the train here in philadelphia, and for quite sometime her family was accounting for her ...

It has been resisted by unions and by the engineers. they don't want to have a camera looking at you, but from a safety perspective, it's important to have them here. >> peter i will put you on the spot. i keep hearing how ghoulish it is to bring up funding for amtrak's infrastructure and i ride an amtrak train every weekend because my husband lives in boston, and last weekend the engine stopped working and power on the train went out and it took them 45 minutes to fix it and the heating and cooling systems on the trains don't often work properly, and doors are sometimes stuck open, and someti...

Passengers along the northeast corridor between washington and boston it has become one of the busiest, most complex technically advanced rail systems in the world. engineering professor george bible says while traveling by train is largely safe passengers should be more concerned about the state of the tracks than speeding engineers. >> most derailments are caused by equipment error, rail problems are a common one. rails can fracture from metal fatigue or move around and shift or anything else that moves. common ones are wheels bearings and axles. coincidentally the site of tuesday's crash in...

Reduce speed thereafter he was knocked out and thrown around like all the other passengers in that train. >> reporter: his lawyer robert goggin bostain provided a blood sample and authorities are trying to get a warrant to look at his phone records thinking he could have been distracted at the time of the crash, and goggin says his client was not taking medication and no explanation for why this might have happened. >> eric mclaughlin, thank you so much. let's talk more about this with peter goels. the ntsb says it could be true that he doesn't remember anything. what do you think? >> it could...

Train, he doesn't remember a thing but he has been released from the hospital, right? >> reporter: that's right, carol. authorities say they hope that bostain will be able to provide them with clues, and his lawyer says he doesn't remember everything that happened that fateful evening. take a look at what his lawyer had to say to abc's "good morning america." >> he has no recollection of the events and i am told his memory is likely to return as the concussion symptoms subside. >> he spent six hours with the police and what did he tell them? >> everything he knew. cooperated fully. >> what doe...