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The engineer said what you just heard from the ntsb folks. that some kind of a conversation was going on and the engineer said that he thought that his train had been hit by a rock or shot at and he saw some damage to the windshield. the engineer of the amtrak train 188 responded saying something similar had happened to him as well. ntsb says they will bring in the fbi to examine that front of the engine to see if there is any kind of damage to it consistent to a rock damage or any kind of shot being fired at it. out of this news conference you were saying that indeed they did interview the engineer of amtrak train 188, that he was cooperative, that his lawyer was with him but he has no recollection of what happened after he left fillphiladelphia station, 30th street station blew the whistle as was the normal procedure and after that ....
He s explained those comments. the ntsb we don t want to prejudge the investigation we want to make sure we re conducting a very thorough investigation and i want to applaud the city of fillphiladelphia and the mayor s office itself in cooperating. the time line is probably not going to be on the time line that the media would like. but we re going to do it very methodically and when we do it we want to do it right. thank you. so joining me new exclusively is stephanie mcgee, she s a friend of the engineer brandon bostian. when you found out he was the engineer on the train, what was your reaction? i was shocked. i was heart broken for him just knowing how much he loves this ....