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We understand that there's a lot of focus on the engineer, the engineer's speed. do we know where he is tonight? and also, the police are now taking a closer look at his cell phone records. what more do we know about that? >> well, we know he spokes to them yesterday, but today he wasn't saying anything to them. and it looks like he's laying low. i've been looking at his facebook profile. sometime in the past 24 hours, he changed his profile picture to a blank back picture and there's no longer access to his photos. we do know, as in many of these cases whether it's an airplane that's missing ...

At the fact that for yes, it's in the northeast, but also -- >> is that doctor we're against it? >> i guess it is. no, but what i'm saying is you have so much of the economy centered here. and from boston all the way down to washington so many man and woman hours lost every day. you have richard haas bringing in statistics from the council on foreign relations that this costs us billions and billions of dollars every year. why don't we aggressively support infrastructure when this means good business, more money, bigger economy? >> and why didn't we find the amtrak corridor in every part of th...

Will be an issue of restructuring at amtrak. people use it. if you want to deal with the traffic issue you have to have more in the area of rail. people need to have confidence in rail when they pay their ticket north of boston i use it occasionally when you get on and pay your money, you want to make sure you're safe. >> absolutely. >> i know national transportation safety board is looking at this. it appears as if it's probably pilot error -- pilot error, the engineer's error. however, you heard the testimony. you started your program by saying there's technology out there that should be imp...

It's thursday, may 14th. captions paid for by abc, inc. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> and hello to you on this thursday morning. i'm t.j. holmes. >> i'm marci gonzales. reena ninan is on assignment. we begin with the focus on speed as investigators try to get to the bottom of that deadly amtrak crash in philadelphia. >> we now know the speed of that train. it was going over 100 miles an hour. thing is, it was in a 50-mile-an-hour zone at the time. that's when all seven cars jumped the tracks. now the engineer says he doesn't remember a thing about the crash. >> this is what's lef...

More than double the speed limit as it hit a dangerous curve near the frankfurt junction rail yard. the engineer hit the brakes but it was already too late. >> maximum authorized speed through this curve was 50 miles per hour. when the engineer induced brake application was applied, the train was traveling at approximately 106 miles per hour. three seconds later, when the data to the recorder is terminated, the train speed was 102 miles per hour. >> a nearby surveillance camera captured what appears to be explosions as the train derailed at 9:21 p.m. six out of seven cars left the tracks and t...