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And i through this. i hope that faith of the families will pull them through too. >> i know in my heart, that chris is doing what he wanted to do. he has always loved flight and loved god and his family. and he was doing what he needed to do be able to help them. and i am so proud of everything that he has done and accomplished. >> now, 300 americans are on the ground in nepal helping with earthquake relief. the number of people killed in both earthquakes has passed 8,400. u.s. officials underscored the tremendous loss felt in nepal since the two earth quakes struck. now a conductor on the a...

Scenarios of what could happen and then we stipulate whether kind of corrective action or counter measures to be taken against that condition. now, what has happened here, even if we don't get testimony from this engineer, he may not be able to recall due to head injury or something else. the thing is, we're still going to have to have some kind of measure if something was thrown in the way of there train. that's what we have to do. >> what do you plane by that, dr. gross? >> well, for example if there is guarding inside the engineer's space. in other words, if a missile came through the winds...

Expand on this. perhaps there was something else going on in the cab prior to entering this turn. perhaps it was a case of what we see in aviation all the time of a lack of situational awareness, that all of a sudden the pilot or operator in this case does not know where he is in the roof and he may have not he was somewhere else. in any case the interview will be critical today. >> i want to take our viewers inside the engineer's car, and i don't know how many viewers know how you accelerate a train. can you explain this picture, peter? >> i have not been in this engine's cab, and it's a new ...

I'd like to thank the press. >> we just lost our feed there in boston as you can see there. that was dana cohen talking about his daughter, who was injured there. she was among the more than 260 injured when the bomb went off. thanking the first responders. thanking the attorneys as well. again, that's happening in boston. roughly 300 miles away in philadelphia. at any moment now, the national transportation and safety board is expected to give us the final update from philadelphia. we're told this is going to be the last field update that the ntsb is going to be conducting. we're going to be ...

>> mere seconds into the turn, we could see the train tilting approximately 10 degrees to the right. and then the recording went blank. >> the ntsb still has not interviewed the engineer. 32-year-old brandon bostian whose attorney says he is banged up and has little memory of the accident or why the train was traveling at 106 miles an hour, twice the speed limit. >> i believe as a result of the concussion he has absolutely no recollection whatsoever of the events. i'm told that his memory is likely to return as the concussion symptoms subside. >> bostian was in the cab in the front of this hi-...