pendleton in california but were in hawaii for training. for the first time since the amtrak disaster, passenger train service is resuming between new york and philadelphia. crews worked around the clock to repair the tracks as investigators searched for clues in the crash that claimed eight lives. more now from abc s phillip mena. the mystery surrounding the derailment of amtrak 188 deepening. the ntsb s lead investigator telling abc s george stephanopoulos on this week, that there s no emergency transmission evidence that the engineer brandon bastion alerted dispatch about any projectiles. we heard no communications at all from the amtrak engineer to the dispatch center to say that something had struck his train. sumwalt s remarks coming just two days after he said three separate trains including amtrak 188 appeared to have been struck by projectiles in the same area in philadelphia and all within minutes of tuesday s derailment that killed eight people and
manually moved the throttle forward to increase the speed of the train there is no question about that. the question is though why did he do that and what happened after. why wasn t this train slowed down as it approached that 50 miles per hour curve. that remains on the answered erin. thank you very much rene marsh. we should emphasize when they talk about so many things still being on the table, including something intentional, the engineer did at the very last moment hit the engineer brakes. he did try to slow down. right now transportation attorney and who investigated rail accidents for 18 years. jim, you heard rene. you and i have spoken before about this crash. and you had said look i don t buy into the projectile. they are now firmly saying it was not a bullet. that was certainly not something that is to blame here. they re now focusing in on the engineer brandon bastion.
lower left-hand side of the windshield. they think it may be the result of some sort of projectile that hit the train prior to the crash. and are so interested they ve asked the fbi s forensic team to come in and analyze those markings further. in addition to that they interviewed yesterday, the assistant conductor who was on board that train, she says that shortly before the crash, she heard radio transmission between the amtrak dispatcher and a, an engineer that was on board a separate septa train, that was in the region. that septa engineer she says she believes told the amtrak dispatcher that a projectile hit his windshield. now she said that following that she heard from her engineer brandon bastion. this is something that
you just heard from carmen ortiz. you also heard from the fbi special agent in charge and the lead prosecutor there. all of them reacting to the jury s decision to sentence dzhokhar tsarnaev to death. we are also, we should let you know, awaiting for the ntsb news conference as well, as we ve been reporting here this afternoon, we have been told by our sources there at the ntsb, we ve been told that they spoke to the engineer on this friday afternoon. that they talked to brandon bastion, and we are expecting to find out a little bit more of what they learned when that news conference gets started. i want to bring in ronan farrow who joins me from boston. also ari melber is here in the studio as well.
that is one good idea. if you know someone who deserves recognition just like robert lee, go to cnnheroes.com. thanks, everybody, for joining us at this hour. legal view with ashleigh banfield starts right now. hello, everyone. i m ashleigh banfield and i m here with you on legal view. they have the black box, actually orange, but filled with dat yachlt they have video from the train itself. now investigators in philadelphia and that amtrak crash are counting the minutes until they can interview the injured engineer. brandon bastion. we do not know when that is going to happen. the lead investigator says he expects it to happen soon, in fact, in the coming days. a bigger question is what the nine-year amtrak veteran can add to what the evidence already