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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...

Bostian agreed to meet with them for an interview. we have learned a lot about him today, including our interview with one of his close friends and former coworkers. we'll begin with jason carroll out front tonight in philadelphia. you're learning a lot more about the investigation at this hour. >> reporter: well the ntsb says that the train does not have a mechanical history of unintended acceleration. that's why it's very important for investigator to speak with this engineer and find out why the train accelerated. now it appears they'll get their chance. the train's engineer, 32-year-old br...

Thank you, sir. it's an important detail because they need to get answers from this engineer. next we're going to talk about that issue. could criminal charges be brought against the engineer. and could existing technology have prevented this train from speeding up so fast the 70 to 1000 in just a minute. a special outfront report from inside the engineer's cabin. the patriots deflate gate is about losing weight not footballs apparently were for real. i am totally blind. i lost my sight in afghanistan but it doesn't hold me back. i go through periods where it's hard to sleep at night and sta...

Accident in northwestern spain. the engineer was talking on the phone when he drove his train around a curve at 95 miles per hour reaching twice the speed limit before it derailed killing 79 people. he survived and was charged with 79 counts of reckless homicide. >> now the head of the ntsb says he's going to be obtaining the engineer's cell phone records. he is looking for any distractions that could have occurred in that locomotive cab and whether the engineer suffered from any medical crisis. >> thank you very much. i want to bring in now the a retired amtrak engineer. he worked with amtrak...

Passengers in the train. he does not remember deploying the emergency brake. we know it was deployed. the last thing he recalls is coming to looking for his bag, getting his cell phone, turning it on and calling 911. >> his attorney says he client did dmot have a preexisting medical condition, was not impaired by alcohol or drugs and his cell phone was off. bostian did speak to investigators for several hours on tuesday. following the questioning, the city's mayor says bos chon refused to provides a formal statement to police. the mayor also not holding back on who he believes was at fault for...