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Was the train traveling at an unusual speed, was it a turn? what can you describe if you were conscious of that at the moment of impact? >> i'm on the train very often. we were on the straight away and it felt like we were going at normal speed. being a regular rail passenger it did not appear that we were going at any extraordinary speed at all. >> we're seeing live pictures. the engineer's ability to stop quickly, my recollection that's when we got jolted.

>> that woman was so distraught that when the dispatcher asked her her age, she said "i don't know how i am, i'm sorry." nobody on the freeway was seriously hurt. the day after the accident, authorities released the call made by the engineer operating train. he described cars everywhere and multiple injuries. according to federal investigators, the engineer was not on his cell phone at the time of the accident but he was training a conductor on the new route and he may have been distracted. that is just one be possibility, rick. could take more than a year to understand why the train derailed....

Crew members were not using cell phones or other electronic devices. but only mention the excessive speed about six seconds before the train went off the tracks. the emergency break was automatically activated. instead of being initiated by the engineer, raising questions about whether he may have been distracted by a second person. meanwhile, local crews have been hard at work, clearing away their wreckage, getting the busy i-5 highway fully back open in time for the holiday rush. >> this is beyond anything in my experience, as far as the scale, the enormity of the event. >> in the nearby cit...

Investigators also looking into whether the engineer was distracted by an employee in training when the train plunged off an overpass killing three people. among the dead jim henry and jack. both men were railroad advocates. the actress both known as the voice of daphne on scooby-doo has died. >> where are you? jillian: heather north voiced the character on the cartoon series for over 30 years. north also made her way in front of the camera on the daytime soap opera days of our lives in the 1970s. she passed away last month. a family friend just speaking out saying she has been battling some s...

The 30-mile-per-hour limit. >> the emergency brake was automatically activated after -- when the accident was occurring, rather than being initiated by the engineer. >> reporter: the train was making its first passenger run between seattle and portland on newly upgraded track, filled with rail lovers like zach willhoite and jim hamre, two of the three people who died. >> it was like being inside an exploding bomb. >> reporter: beverly and charlie heebner were excited for that maiden run, too. >> i saw her legs, i reached down and i shook one, and she shook it back. i said, "oh, boy, are you al...