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Treated for that after the accident was he hit by a projectile and incapacitated just as the train was speeding up? this morning new questions about the chain of events tuesday night. minutes before amtrak train 188's derailment, a pennsylvania regional septa train reported it had been hit by a rock or shot at damaging the front windshield. on friday the ntsb said it had also found something unusual on the windshield of the derailed amtrak train. >> we have seen damage to the left-hand lower portion of the amtrak windshield. that we have asked the fbi to come in and look at for us. >> reporter...

Shot at or hit by a rock. >> she also believed she heard her engineer saying his train had been struck by something. this is her recollection and certainly we're going to be conducting further investigation of this comment. >> so just to be clear, the assistant conductor said she heard the engineer brandon bostian saying that amtrak had been hitten by something minutes before it jumped the tracksment and we do know that other amtrak trains were struck by other projectiles at the same time amtrak derailed. the mayor said the incidents were unrelated and drew griffin joins us tonight. and so thi...

In the same area causing window damage. the engineer of the derailed amtrak train saying he still cannot remember anything in the minutes before the crash. brian yennous has more in philadelphia. >> reporter: hi julie. exactly right. the fbi had a presence here on the crash site from the very beginning but the ntsb asked them to analyze the lower left portion of the windfield for amtrak train 188, particularly a circular break that could have resulted from someone throwing or shooting something into the windshield. before the train crashed tuesday 9:21. an assistant conductor in the cafe car s...

Connected, but after the ntsb received this new information just yesterday from this assistant conductor who said that she thought that she heard the engineer of amtrak 188 say that the train had been truck as well and now the investigateors are taking a closer look at the windshield of the train, and specifically a circular shatter pattern on the lower left-hand side of the windshield and the fbi has been called in to do forensic analysis. this is all going to matter, because ntsb wants to know essence shally all of the factor s -- essentially, all of the factors that may have contributed to ...

Assistant conductor on the amtrak train believes she heard the engineers oftt trains discussing the projectile in a radio transmission but she couldn't be sure of that recollection. al the ntsb says it is looking at video footage from both trains for any sign of a projectile and they'll bringing thin five. they have now interviewed the engineer of the train. he told him he was not tired before the crash. he wasn't sick wasn't on his cell phone. he told them he can't remember anything about the crash itself. >> he recalls ringing the train bell as he went through the north philadelphia station....