Good thursday morning. Im Marci Gonzalez reena ninan is on assignment. Hello to you all. Im t. J. Holmes. We begin with the speed factor. This Surveillance Video shows the train zooming down the tracks. Investigatoreors say it was going more than 100 miles an hour double the speed limit. Fiveseven people have been confirmed dead. And five have been identified. This is the engineer. He has no memory of the crash. Lana zak starts our coverage. Reporter we now know that the cause of this accident was due to excessive speed. We know that there are technologies that amtrak has that could have prevented this speed. But at this section of the track, they were not installed. The pain staking process of clearing the tracks in philadelphia is under way. Training lifting and carrying the cars. This morning just two remain. The most heavily damaged. As crews work were learning more about what happened and the people involved including the engineer identified as 32yearold Brandon Bostian of queens,
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Lets get weather and traffic. Reporter on satellite were not looking a lot of cloud cover. Were looking for High Pressure bringing us a better day today. 51 in philadelphia. 44 in allentown. We have cooled down overnight as expected just 49 in wilmington and 52 in sea isle city. As we head out the door to catch the bus between 6 and 8 00. 49 degrees by 6 00 a. M. 59 degrees by 8 00 a. M. Rolling through the day, 54 by 8 00 a. M. Noon, 66. This afternoon, 72 high of 73 around 4 00 p. M. By 6 00 p. M. Well be holding on to 71 degrees so pretty nice. As we head on it and check out the pollen count were running into the medium high leaves were down a little bit as we head in through the weekend. This is where we were last weekend way up high. Karen what are the roads looking like. Reporter were looking at philadelphia, new york city, still no Amtrak Service everything canceled. Running on a modified schedule on the northeast corridor, washington, d. C. And philadelphia new york city and bo
The curve here at the frankford junction. The speed limit around that curve is 50 miles per hour. The engineer of the train weve learned is 32yearold brandon bostian, as of late last night, philadelphia detectives have told us that theyve interviewed him, took a blood sample as well as his cell phone and started the investigation. However, the ntsb has said it has not yet done an interview with bostian. And a retired worker said the evidence does not look good for the engineer. The car came by fast and he applied the brakes that proves it. Because he went full on it and tried to slow that train down there was no way he was going to slow it down going into that curve. Reporter at this moment Philadelphia Police tell us there are no criminal suspects as far as the investigation is concerned. Of course, this investigation is still early on. The engineers attorney told a National News outlet that his client has no recollection of what happened or anything unusual. Coming up at 5 30 what el
Accident. Theres also new information from the lawyer of the amtrak engineer being investigated. He was at the controls tuesday night. Also theres no Amtrak Service between philadelphia and new york again today. We have live nbc10 team coverage. Were gathering new information in the investigation and new information on those killed. The search for the missing, were still at least one person missing in all of this. Were also looking again at how this is impacting a lot of commuters in the area. Lets start into the investigation into the derailment. Federal investigators are already poring over data taken from that train downloaded on the trains computer. Right. Theyre trying to gather enough information to find out exactly why the train jumped the tracks. Nbc10s matt delucia is live in Port Richmond. Youve gotten a better view. Explain where you are. Reporter chris and tracy, we moved on a rooftop so we have a Better Vantage Point of the scene. You can see from this height level, you ca