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Have the opportunity to prevent an attack they will summon the courage to do it. >> this could have gone the other way and could have been a big carnage there, no doubt about that. this all started on friday there in europe. high-speed train speeding from amsterdam to paris, france. these three americans were in europe to visit friends. they say they were sitting on that train when they noticed a train conductor running through that carriage and behind him was a man shirtless with a rifle over his shoulder. they describe what happened at the time of this incident. >> really proud of my friend ...

Perceived as a member of the conservative. what i'm saying about hillary is she needs to tell the full story. she needs to get ahead of the curve if she can on this issue. do a sitdown and layout everything we want to know about the e-mail. see you next week. ran a good ten meters to get to the guy and we did not know that his gun wasn't working or anything like that. spencer just ran anyway. and if anybody would have gotten shot, it would have been sensor for sure. sfwr hearing there from one of the three americans who helped prevent a possible massacre on a train speeding through europe. t...

Many things we're looking at right now. we interviewed the amtrak, well, let's see, we interviewed the dispatchers and listened to the dispatch tape and we heard no communications at all from the amtrak engineer to the dispatch center to say that something had struck his train. >> nothing at all. >> nothing at all that he reported to the dispatch center. >> now, whether or not that led to the train speeding up to 106 miles per hour we don't know. but the federal railroad administration has ordered amtrak to put signs on the side of the railroad indicating curves and speed limit. alex? >> okay....

Federal railroad administration and you're the acting administrator. >> we need to know how the accident happened and how we can prevent it in the future. >> that's the most important thing is safety. it's our only mission and it's the most important thing we do and we'll be determining how the accident happened. how to stop it from happening in the future in the meantime is there anything we can do to make sure that rail passengers are safe. even before we have a determination of this accident. for example, amtrak in this area where the derailment happened has some technology on the southboun...

Ahead of qualifying for the indy 500. a little shaken up but he wasn't hurt. in fact, he was behind the wheel later that day. those are some of our top stories on this wednesday, may 14th. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> and we begin with the latest on the amtrak crash in philadelphia. that train speeding down the rails at more than 100 miles an hour. >> investigators are saying the engineer should have been going half that speed when it derailed. seven people killed. he claims though the engineer, he has no idea what happened. our coverage begins with wabc's jim dolan in philly...