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Car. >> that man is the third person to report something hitting a train in that area. the assistant conductor told investigators she heard something had hit the locomotive. an engineer on a local train also claims his train was hit. >> wow. reports that three different reports of this. what's the latest you can tell us? >> good morning, steve. the fbi now involved in investigating is there a pattern here? is there a link between three separate incident ss. you had the train. you have the septa train, a local metro train on a parallel track and at 9:21, amtrack 188 hit by what officials are ca...

Hill. >> reporter: that happened just minutes before amtrak 188 derailed. the assistant conductor not only did she hear that being reported, she believe she heard the amtrak engineer say his train was struck as well. they are looking at the windshields of 188, and they are going to be doing lab test to see if it was struck by a projectile and what angle it came from, and it was ordered amtrak take safety measures immediately, and they installed the safe tracks, and they are asking amtrak to do a risk assessment on all of the curves along the northeast corridor. lastly, they are ordering amtrak

Pictures. the tractor driver was not physically injured. the trailer attached to the tractor was destroyed. crash investigators in the u.s. uncovered disturbing details about last week's train derailment in philadelphia. we have more on the growing investigation. >> reporter: new information from this assistant conductor is deepening the mystery about what caused this deadly derailment. if we reset, we know a train was struck by some sort of object. that happened minutes before amtrak 188 derailed. police responded after reporting it was struck by a projective. >> an object shattered the win...

Eight people. and the fbi and ntsb are trying to determine if an object smashed into the windshield before it crashed. let's get the latest. >> reporter: new information from the assistant conductor is deepening the mystery about what caused the deadly derailment. if we reset we know that a train was struck by some sort of object, and that happened minutes before amtrak 188 derailed, and we have audio when police responded to the septa train after it was struck by an object. >> an unknown object made contact with that train shattering the windshield. we do not have an update on any injuries as...

Any discoveries? >> reporter: hi frederica. well tomorrow we expect fbi forensic vote take a look at the train's windshield to assess whether or not it was, in fact hit by some sort of projectile. meanwhile, we have spoken it a philadelphia native who showed us just how easy it was for someone to access the tracks. the mystery of amtrak 188 continues. at the center of the investigation, a fist-sized marking on the windshield and the possible that shortly before it derailed the train was hit by an unknown object. last week the assistant conductor of the doomed amtrak train told investigators th...