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>> the same as the text message. he sounded a bit in shock. he really couldn't talk much at that time. he's being seen for and cared for and i didn't get much of a chance at all to talk to him. >> what is he like as an engineer in terms of the way he approaches his job and conversations you've had about it? >> the best. the best. safety is his number one goal. if you were riding any kind of a train, this is the man you want to be your engineer. he is the best of the best. >> you say that based on what? because obviously, i think there is a lot of people that -- that would make them raise their...

See on the locomotive number 601 that was on the amtrak train, and the septa lead passenger car, you see that there is significant impact damage to those windshields which would indicate that something significant was hurled at the front of the train and prior septa train. >> something significant. it would indicate you say something significant hit that windshield whether it was hurled or not, no one knows. that's why this is being investigated. would a rock do that? >> i think a rock would cause some chipping but i'm not an expert on what the impact results look like. but i can tell you that...

Couple of objects at the amtrak train and the same thing with the septa train. obviously there's other factors to be considered and one needs to keep an open mind about what caused something like this to happen but it looks as though from what we've seen so far, this is a plausible explanation for why there was disruption in the cab and locomotive. >> the ntsb is saying that 65 seconds before the crash, the train accelerated, from 70 miles an hour to over 100. actually to 106 miles per hour before it barrelled into that curve and derailed. you're a locomotive engineer. is there any way that th...

Five days after eight people were killed in a horrific amtrak train derailment 21 people remain in the hospital some of them critically injured. today the federal railroad administration is demanding urgent changes. this afternoon it ordered amtrak to make several immediate modifications to its trains to prevent a similar tragedy. erin mclaughlin has the details. >> reporter: poppy, we're just hearing from the federal railroad administration that they are instructing amtrak to take a number of steps to improve safety along that very busy northeast corridor. it says that the following will be f...

In part with the help of the fbi. this line of inquiry is based on an interview that they conducted today, with an assistant conductor who was working on the train and she apparently told investigators that she overheard a radio conversation between her engineer on her amtrak train and the engineer on a nearby septa train, a pennsylvania regional commuter train. there had been some media reports that a septa train nearby had had its windshield broken, just before the amtrak train derailed. and that it had been described as an unrelated incident. had been described as an unrelated incident, but...