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Police in new york say they were forced to shoot a man who lunged at an officer with a hamner his hand. you see two uniformed officers approaching 30-year-old david barrel before he began swinging a hammer at a female officer striking her as she backs away. per partner fires four shots hitting the man in the arm. nypd says barrel has a history of mental illness and is believed to have attacked four other people in the city with a hammer. incidents like that remind us how dangerous it can be for police officers and the split second decisions they need to make while serving and protecting .in....

Tangel, a "wall street journal" reporter who was part of the team that first broke the story today about the train's speed before the ntsb confirmed that. ayman, what is the situation at the crash site tonight? >> well, investigators are still going through the timeline. that is the word we're hearing over and over again. it is all about timing, when the train left the station and as a result of that, the ntsb says that they have, at least on-site here, returned the tracks to amtrak, meaning they have add least concluded some part of their investigation here. now the investigation has shifted ...

That that would rectified or prevented, rectified the problem or prevented this tragedy. but i think the separate in part from this incident we should i think we should do everything we can to provide more funding for amtrak than has been provided at least the last couple of years. >> senator bob casey of pennsylvania thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks wolf. coming up the engineer of that train says he has absolute floi memory of the crash or what caused it. that according to to the engineer's attorney. we're going to discuss what's going on with the panel of experts. plus jeb bush...

Traveling at 106 miles an hour twice the appropriate speed entering the sharp turn. >> he was already in the curve at that point. you're supposed to enter the curve at 50 miles an hour. >> bostian spoke to philadelphia police the night of the crash. and according to a law enforcement source told them he couldn't recall his speed. his lawyer says he doesn't even remember the crash itself. >> he remembers going through that area generally. has absolutely no recollection of the incident or anything unusual. >> police now in the process of obtaining a search warrant of the engineer's phone records...

These investigators are going to be combing through over the next 4 hours. >> and obviously, after every train crash, there's a talk about positive train control that would have prevented this accident from happening. give us a sense of what exactly it is and how it works. >> well, in the northeast corridor, these trains that go-between cities like washington, d.c. and new york, as was the case, was supposed to be the case with this train, this type of system is already in place. it's automated speed control. so if the train doesn't slow down, if the engineer doesn't bring it down to the speed...