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>> you think he may have nodded off -- >> sorry? >> you think he may have nodded off? >> it would not surprise me. the accident happened about 10:20 at night. but that's why -- i give you my hunch. i don't have any information but we've seen this kind of thing before. we need to know when did he start to work? how familiar was he with the route? what's his normal routine. >> stephanie, i know you've been looking at the engineer's past. what do we know about brandon bostian? >> well we're learning things in part from some of his friends and a lot of his friends have ongone line to his facebook ...

>> from each crash. when you consider how many injuries here it's not that much money. so the situation now is there's going to be this pot of money, presumably, all of it and the people who died the people who are injured, the courts are going to have to figure out how to divide it up. >> and i'll speak with an ntsb board member who's been on the scene and we'll tell you what he makes of a message board post allegedly made by the engineer. and a look that safety system that may have prevented this tragedy. we're getting information that a slowing system was in place but only on the other side...

Different depending on whether you're a trucker or bus driver or airline pilot or a train operator. they are complex and to explain it i would have to spend a lot of time looking through the regulations. but they are different according to each mode of transportation. >> the engineer's injuries does anything indicate [ inaudible ]? >> does the engineer indicate from his injuries that me may have been struck by something entering the cab and he did not report anything to that effect when we interviewed him this afternoon? [ inaudible question ] did it come to -- did the

Problems with the intelligence. but what i think he got wrapped around the axle on is this time machine question that you were joking about at the beginning of the segment. but to go back in time -- >> but it was cleared up for him the next day. he screwed it up for the last two days. this is not hard. >> well, this is -- >> you have nothing to say. you were sweet yesterday, so we'll let you go. >> let's read gail collins' piece subtly titled wow jeb bush is awful. it reads in part, the bottom line is that so far he seems to be a terrible candidate. he couldn't keep his i'm my own man mantra g...

Let's get back to the coverage of the amtrak train derailment in philadelphia. investigators are focussing right now on the train's speed. 106 miles an hour around a 50 mile per hour curve at the time of the crash. according to the engineer's attorney spoke to abc earlier today, the engineer doesn't remember everything about the crash. >> we know the fact that the train was going at an excessive speed, but the reasons why are still to be determined. >> we know the emergency brake was hit, but has your client given you an explanation as to why the train was going so fast? >> he has not. i belie...