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big day, unexpected and significant? >> absolutely. cassidy hutchinson has long been considered one of the most consequential witnesses for the january 6th committee due to her approximatety to trump many chief of staff mark meadows and therefore to critical events and conversations surrounding january 6. now, the committee has not released the topic of today's hearing, but the rush to get the hearing happening today shows just how important they believe this testimony could be. her testimony has rattled capitol hill. >> are you aware of any -- >> reporter: once a top aide to former ...

And either the train hit something. i honestly just thought it was going to be a delay. but then we started feeling the train tilting over to the right. that's when it kind of went into my mind, this is life or death. this is very serious. this is the first time for any of us on a train too. it was incredible. >> yeah. >> did you see the dump truck ahead of time? >> i was looking out to the right. i was on the right side of the train. i saw a cloud of dust. and i was -- you know, we were perpendicular to the train. there was one vehicle, you know, in that cloud of dust, which means there was a...

>> mere seconds into the turn, we could see the train tilting approximately 10 degrees to the right. and then the recording went blank. >> the ntsb still has not interviewed the engineer. 32-year-old brandon bostian whose attorney says he is banged up and has little memory of the accident or why the train was traveling at 106 miles an hour, twice the speed limit. >> i believe as a result of the concussion he has absolutely no recollection whatsoever of the events. i'm told that his memory is likely to return as the concussion symptoms subside. >> bostian was in the cab in the front of this hi-...

Have all that information they will share that with us at this press briefing. this is critical for investigators, because for the first time they are getting a face-to-face with amtrak's crew. it's a critical point in the investigation. brandon bostian telling the ntsb his account of tuesday's deadly derailment. the ntsb says the train accelerating approaching a sharp curve in the track. data from the train's video camera shows 65 seconds before the crash, the train was moving at 70 miles per hour. 22 seconds later, more than 80. then 90. before exceeding to 100 miles per hour. the brakes hea...

Deadly derailment. >> she said she heard the engineer talking to a septa engineer. she recalled that the septa engineer had reported to the train dispatcher that he had either been hit by a rock or shot at. she also believed that she heard her engineer say something about his train being struck by something. >> the ntsb says the train accelerated as it approached a sharp curve in the track. data from the train's video camera shows 65 seconds before the crash, the train was moving at 70 miles per hour. 22 seconds later, more than 80. then 90 before exceeding to more than 100 miles per hour the ...