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>> train engineer brandon bostian will sit down with federal investigators in the next few days. >> i believe, as a result of the concussion he has no recollection whatsoever of the events. i'm told that his memory is likely to return as the concussion symptoms subside. >> all eight of the victims of tuesday's accident have been identified. their families grieving their loss. >> this has been a massive effort. it's been painful. >> amtrak says it's continuing to work on repairs around the site but they hope to have full service restored between philadelphia and new york sometime early next wee...

Train acceleration. the ntsb says they now believe that just over a minute prior to the crash that the train sped up at a time when it should have been slowing down just as it began to enter that curve. that's when they say they believe the train engineer hit the emergency brakes but by then it was simply too late. seconds later the train crashed and now that's based on detailed analysis of footage captured by that camera that was installed at the front of that train. of course, what that footage does not tell investigators is why? why was the train going that fast. that's why investigators wa...

Engineer's lawyer will present? >> absolutely. frankly, if i were a train engineer i would want this positive train control to help me in case i made a mistake. he obviously screwed up here and just to echo what mr. francis was saying this positive control technology that exists amtrak is using in other parts, but this is the busiest corridor in the united states and this is the place you would want to put it in first, and why they didn't do that i don't know. possibly a funding issue and managing issue. >> and amtrak is in trouble when it comes to civil lawsuits? >> yeah they are going to be ...

Breaking news tonight. new surveillance video showing the sudden explosion as amtrak train 188 derailed and crashed. you see this there on the left of your screen. this as the ntsb tonight reveals in the 65 seconds before the crash the train accelerated from 70 mile an hour to 100 miles an hour in less than a minute then there was the actual crash. the person who applied the brakes in tin stant before the crash was the engineer brandon bostian. he says through his lawyer that he does not remember what happened. this is not the first time a train engineer has been at the center of a investigati...

Engineer, if the train seems to have not noticed a signal or if the train is speeding right? if the train engineer doesn't respond to that signal positive train control can override the human. override that locomotive engineer and automatically slow the train down or stop the train by remote control. this sort of system does require equipment upgrades to trains, putting a lot of basic train infrastructure on the grid. it requires some gps technology. this is not like learning to live on mars right? this is basic kind of atari level computerized safety systems for america's trains and they pass...