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I made sure i helped people get out, you know, at first i checked to make sure i had my arms and legs. it was pretty violent. >> you're checking to make sure you were still in one piece? >> yeah, yeah, because there's blood. and i was deployed over seas twice with the army, i was okay, and then the guy next to me was unconscious, i got him up, said, get up, brother, get up. he came too, i yanked him up, and i had to pull myself, the ceiling was the side window, so i pulled myself up on the bench area so i could help get them out. and then i was trying to help the folks that couldn't move and t...

Our initial coverage we had lights from helicopters and flashlights and news cameras, but we couldn't really get a whole sense of the damage. when the sun rose today, we can see all seven cars. the engine derailed, one of the difficult questions that remains even at this hour is whether all the people on board that train have been found. the death toll from this accident as i said, it stands at seven people tonight opinion at least eight more people are in critical condition. as the day has gone on, a number of people killed in this accident have been identified by their families or employers....

And i look up what i see are two huge wire poles leaning in over the train, and i'm thinking. could these collapse? as i'm looking at that scene, i realize that it looks like the train has been pulled apart, i don't know if it was. >> did you go to the hospital? >> yeah i did, badly bruised but okay. >> janelle richards thanks for sharing your experience and please take care of yourself. >> nbc news has confirmed the name and a photo of the engineer of that train. i believe we have it up now, his name is brian bossian. he was manning a train that was, as we know from the ntsb traveling very fa...

We want to look at the signal. we want to take a holistic approach to understand why this train ended up in the situation that it did. when you look at the crash site as i did in a helicopter today, the physics are pretty apparent. you guys don't have a lot of mystery in terms of what happened. how did it get to that speed? >> yes. >> let me ask you a legal question. my understanding is that the nature of the law, the ntsb can legally compel testimony from people involved in crashes, including in this case the engineer, they cannot -- that testimony cannot be used later in any sort of criminal...

Railroads because we share track. amtrak trains have to be able to recognize septa trains and vice versa versa. as you spread out across the country, it gets even more and more, because there's lots of little railroads and freight lines that operate all over the country that eventually are going to have to be integrated. >> one last question you don't wear a seat belt in a train. you wear one in a plane, you put it on on a plane, geez if we crash, we crash. i don't know what the seat belt's going to do. why don't you wear seat belts on the train? >> it's something historically that's never bee...