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Plot. so sure there is not a criminal case against her and it looks like there would never but but i think her conscious should be very heavy during the subsequent years. >> jeff thank you, and drew griffin, thank you for being on and drew we'll have more from you. and new reason to think if amtrak 188 was struck by something, just by a nearby train was, when a conductor could say that could blow up the investigation. and interviewing the train's engineer today and coming up i'll talk to brandon bostian closest friends and when they spoke to him the night brandon bostian was in the emergency r...

Windshield. erin mclaughlin is live following the investigation here. erin, what have you learned this morning? >> reporter: hi, christi. well, investigatorsing trying to solve the mystery of why amtrak 188 crashed. they're now looking at the possibility that the train may have been struck by some sort of project style. yesterday in a press conference, a member of the ntsb pointed to two key new pieces of evidence. information from the assistant conductor of amtrak 188. she says that prior to the crash, she heard a radio transmission between the amtrak dispatcher and the engineer of a nearby s...

Crash immediately. they also are ordering amtrak to assess risk at all curves along the northeast corridor and they also want increased speed limit signage. amtrak must increase they say, its wayside signage alerting engineers of maximum authorized speeds throughout the northeast corridor. it's described these as initial steps. we are still waiting to hear from amtrak. poppy. >> erin thank you very much. and at the same time one of the engineers interviewed by the ntsb yesterday says that the locomotive engineer aboard this train reported his windshield had been struck by an object. passengers...

Train said he had been hit by a projectile the windshield rather had been hit by a projectile. she says that she then heard from the engineer on board amtrak 188, he said that his train had been hit as well. now, adding to the mystery, a third train in the area around the time of the derailment passengers on board an amtrak acela train experienced a projectile. projectile hit a passenger win do 15 to 20 minutes before the amtrak 188 derailment. investigators taking this very seriously. >> my goodness. talk about the service. a lot of people rely on that northeast corridor track and they haven'...

Passengers aboard a separate train called septa had similar things happen. you see them on the screen. eight people lost their lives, more than 200 people were injured. amtrak has been hit with one lawsuit. more are likely to follow. let's talk about this with our criminal defense attorney. thank you for being here. >> great to be back with you, poppy. >> we know that the engineer here has been cooperate inging with the ntsb. he's been very cooperative. they also say he cannot recall anything about the crash. if he is sued and his memory does not come back would he be able to use a lack of rec...