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Windshield of this train amtrak 188 to make the determination if something struck it. like i said there's a circular pattern on the lower left side of the windshield. so now the fbi has been brought into the investigation. >> they've got to figure out what the projectile was. stand by rene. i want to bring in madison calvert. he was a passenger on an earlier train through philadelphia. took a picture of the damage caused when that train was struck by some sort of object. what was going on madison? you were southbound acela heading towards philadelphia when your window was hit? what happened? >...

This particular job for several weeks. he works five days a week it's an out and back trip to him. goes to new york washington and back to new york, five days a week. he said that he did not feel fatigued nor did he report any illness. as we reported the other day, the train has three conductors. the conductor is -- is not able to be interviewed as he is still in the hospital however we did interview the two assistant conductors. i'll call it assistant conductor number one. she was -- she's 39 years old. she was hired by amtrak in 2011. and she was in the fourth car which is the cafe car. she ...

Make sure that the window had not shattered all the way through. they declared it structurally sound and let us keep going on our way. >> what did it sound like what did it feel like? was it a rock? was it something else? what did it feel like when you looked over at the window? >> wolf there's a really small radius in the center of the picture. i mean the shatter is pretty big, so i assumed it must have been some kid throwing a rock or something like that. there was a small indentation. somebody on the train said they thought it was a bullet. you know i didn't even think about it. but i thoug...

And that the septa engineer said he had a broken windshield and placed his train into emergency stop. she also believed that she heard the engineer say something about about she also believed that she heard her engineer say something about his train being struck by something. this is her recollection, and certainly we are going to be conducting further investigation of this -- of this comment. our investigation is not independently confirmed this information, but 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...

Cooperative, but in fact he was being cooperative. >> also an bit from one of the assistant conductors. who overheard a conversation between the engineer of this locomotive and another engineer from what he described as a septa train, a southeast pennsylvania transit authority. local commuter train. that's some sort of projectile was thrown or hurled into the windshield there and may be into the windshield of this train, 188, the amtrak train as well. you heard him say that. >> i did and that's probably the perfect example of why the ntsb is so good at their work. there's all kinds of assumpti...