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>> they get priority what we're talking about, the implementation of something like positive train control, that has to be done with the tracks which the private companies have to do amtrak can't do that by themselves. >> absolutely not. absolutely not. >> and, you know i don't blame amtrak. first of all, our rail bed from boston to washington is so bad because it's curved everywhere curves are inherently dangerous when you're going any significant speed. to give you an example, the acela can go 150 miles an hour on a straightaway. but from boston to washington it averages 80 miles an hour bec...

It didn't feel dangerously abnormal or anything like that, and then the next thing i know, there was just an impact and a crash and a bang, and i. >> did you get thrown forward and back? >> forward and back, forward and back. and lifted up a little bit during that entire. >> that's all the force of that movement ricocheting until you come to rest? >> yes. >> were you okay? >> yeah. as quickly as it happened, it ended. but i remember thinking, what just happened. how could this -- how could a train have crashed. did we crash? why? how? there were a lot of questions. i think that i was in shock.

Two dozen of those injured in the crash have been hospitalized. we're also expecting to hear from the president of medgar evers college. one of their deans was killed in the crash. we will be watching for both of those news conferences. in the meantime, the big news overnight, the man at the controls of train 188 has been identified as 32-year-old brandon bostian, an amtrak engineer for five years. bostian was injured in the accident but was released from the hospital and his attorney spoke to abc news and said bostian doesn't remember a thing. >> he remembers driving the train, he remembers g...

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...

Along. >> and there was no part of you that was like we're going too fast? >> no it felt like a normal average train ride. it didn't feel dangerously abnormal or anything like that and then the next thing i know there was just an impact and a crash and a bang, and i. >> did you get thrown forward and back? >> forward and back forward and back. and lifted up a little bit during that entire. >> that's all the force of that movement ricocheting until you come to rest? >> yes. >> were you okay? >> yeah. as quickly as it happened it ended. but i remember thinking, what just happened. how could this...