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Trainmen earlier today. he talked about the fact that bostian had only an hour of rest in between train trips and most of which was probably taken up by switching trains filling out paperwork and doing equipment checks is that a real problem? well ordinarily i would say yes, you need to get significant rest for any mode of transportation it's hugely important. but here from we from the radio transmission he had his cell phone off. it's clear that he was awake and alert. he hadn't fallen asleep on the job. which would be what you would assume. if somebody had put the train in this high-speed do...

That engineer according to the dispatcher that his windshield had been hit by some sort of projectile. she said following that she heard from brandon bostian, the amtrak 188 engineer and he said that his train had also been hit. now authorities say they are following up. they plan on interviewing the septa engineer as well. meanwhile, deepening the mystery, we're hearing from passengers of a third train that was in the area around the same time. an amtrak acela train. we heard from one passenger who said he was sitting in one of the cars and he saw a projectile hit a window just in front of hi...

It's an electric motor, actually, to thrust forward. electric motors are extremely responsive. it's not like a diesel engine in a car. this is immediately responsive, applying that much force to the train. accelerating from 70 to 100 miles an hour, those algebra problems we used to do in the day, how fast does it take a train to get to this point from this point, when you have that type of power, it happens very initially to go 30 miles an hour once that inertia is in play. >> this morning, we spoke with the washington branch of the brotherhood of locomotive engineers, a trainman, a union lead...

The engineer said what you just heard from the ntsb folks. that some kind of a conversation was going on and the engineer said that he thought that his train had been hit by a rock or shot at and he saw some damage to the windshield. the engineer of the amtrak train 188 responded saying something similar had happened to him as well. ntsb says they will bring in the fbi to examine that front of the engine to see if there is any kind of damage to it consistent to a rock damage or any kind of shot being fired at it. out of this news conference you were saying that indeed they did interview the en...

>> chris, it's not functioning because they don't have the technology in place. >> i know. i'm not saying why it's not functioning, i'm saying it's not functioning and if it were this would be avoided. why won't you accept that? >> chris, this has nothing to do with money. >> i never said it did. i'm trying to get past the politics of it. >> you kept referring to the speaker's statement. >> because he said it's a stupid question. and you won't say whether or not it's a stupid question because you want to talk about money and that's the politics not the practicality. >> chris, i don't want to t...