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It's structurally sound. five to seven minutes later, the two amtrak cops came on took a couple pictures felt the inside of the window and let us continue. to me i thought even though i've never seen it in years. i assume that these things must be fairly routine if they would send us off that quickly. all very surreal, the mayor of philadelphia came out the next day and said there was no connection. my train was hit, a septa train was hit and then the amtrak train derails and crashes. >> i remember reading about the local commuter train hit by some sort of projectile and wondering if there was...

Deadly derailment. >> she said she heard the engineer talking to a septa engineer. she recalled that the septa engineer had reported to the train dispatcher that he had either been hit by a rock or shot at. she also believed that she heard her engineer say something about his train being struck by something. >> the ntsb says the train accelerated as it approached a sharp curve in the track. data from the train's video camera shows 65 seconds before the crash, the train was moving at 70 miles per hour. 22 seconds later, more than 80. then 90 before exceeding to more than 100 miles per hour the ...

Deadline. >> you're going to live with that. what do you want them to do specifically by next week in order to allow the rue assumption of service between philadelphia and new york? >> we want them to match on the northbound side the technology they have on the southbound side which is less than ptc, but it still caps the speed of the train. if the train is speeding it sends a message to the engineer saying you're speeding. the engineer has to react to that or slow the train down. if he or she doesn't, it automatically slows the train down. >> what does amtrak say, can they do it by next week?...

Unlikely match? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." we're following two major breaking stories this hour. including the boston marathon bomber dzokhar tsarnaev sentenced to death. the 21-year-old condemned by a federal jury to die for six charges stemming from the homemade bombs he and his brother planted near the finish line of one of the world's most famous races. also breaking new, in the amtrak derailment -- one conductor is now telling the ntsb that just before the wreck, she heard the engineer say...

Federal railroad administration and you're the acting administrator. >> we need to know how the accident happened and how we can prevent it in the future. >> that's the most important thing is safety. it's our only mission and it's the most important thing we do and we'll be determining how the accident happened. how to stop it from happening in the future in the meantime is there anything we can do to make sure that rail passengers are safe. even before we have a determination of this accident. for example, amtrak in this area where the derailment happened has some technology on the southboun...