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Have any recollection of anything past north philadelphia. >> reporter: bostian also said he was not sick or tired. it's still not clear why the train kept speeding up. 16 seconds before the crash 100 miles per hour. then 106 when bostian slammed on the emergency brakes. one of bostian's close friends said he was watching coverage and then called bostian and spoke to him from the e.r. >> he was in shock and didn't understand. his memory was very fuzzy. he had a hard time remembering things. >> reporter: meanwhile in new york on friday, funeral services for the youngest victim, 20-year-old nava...

>> reporter: right now, amtrak 188, there is no evidence that anything hit that windshield. the driver sits on the right side. the damage is in the lower left side of the front windshield. that is going to be looked at by the fbi, their criminal analysis to basically determine what could have struck there. was it a rock was it a bullet consistent with anything else or consistent with the fact this was involved with a crash. but again, the information they are getting, it is kind of convoluted about an overheard radio conversation by somebody else listening on this frequency. >> overheard by th...

Radio, the crew of the train, they all have a radio and a radio she was overhearing her engineer and the engineer of the septa train, the commuter train here talking about projectiled. the ntsb just a little while ago said they made arrange. s will talk with the septa engineer and so you'll have one of the participants speaking about what the conversation was. because as we've been reporting, the engineer of the amtrak train still can't recall anything including recalling any kind of conversation he may have had on the radio. >> do we know how much in advance of the derailment this allegedly t...

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 ...

Recorders as well as amizing the brakes to determine if there are any mechanical failures that are also contributing to this, poppy. >> and why is it that all trains, all of these routes do not have that mandated technology that is in some places a ptc, to slow them down if they are going 106 miles an hour into a curve, and it seems in air travel that would be mandatory for any airplane that you get on to have a safety precaution like that, and why not all of these trains? >> well, we know that congress has mandated that all of the nation's railways have what is called positive train control w...