the corner. 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-tech engine. on the left, the throttle handle to increase speed. a red alerter button the engineer has to hit a couple of times each minute or the engine goes into emergency shutdown. on the lcd screen in front of
announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning to you all on this friday. i m t.j. holmes. i m marci gonzalez. reena ninan is on assignment. we begin with the search for answers in that deadly amtrak crash. the engineer expected to speak with investigators any day now. but we now know the train accelerated. it was speeding up for a full minute before it derailed. the ntsb says it s unclear though whether the speed was increased manually by the engineer. the eight people killed have all been identified and amtrak is now helping victims with funeral and medical expenses. abc s david kerley is covering the investigation. we walked onto the tracks. eight lives lost here. amtrak asking us not to focus on the mangled first car where most of those were killed. investigators said the engine s camera recording shows the speed increasing from 70 to 100 miles an hour in the last minute. the brake is flipped just before the corner.
there were reports abu baghdadi was gravely injured in an air strike but the recording has references to events after that attack. speaker calls on muslims to either join isis in the middle east or stage attacks in their own countries. some experts say the recording does sound like baghdadi. nepal s army says it has spotted the wreckage of an american military helicopter. missing since earlier this week. six marines were aboard and two nepalese and they were delivering rice and other relief supplies to a remote area when it went missing. many of the roads still impassable. the helicopter disappeared on tuesday. that s the same day a second powerful earthquake struck nepal. environmental activists are mobilizing in seattle protesting a controversial oil drilling plan in the arctic ocean. a 400-foot drilling rig was greeted by about two dozen protesters in kayaks. it s the first of two rigs that will park in the harbor acting as the base for shell oil s exploratory drilling set to
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abc s karen travers begins our coverage from philadelphia. good morning to you, karen. good morning, t.j. brandon bostian s attorney tells us his client has been fully cooperating with the police and yesterday investigators said they will speak to him at some point over the next couple of days. they say this is not necessarily an interrogation. they want to give him a blank piece of paper and basically say tell us what happened. amtrak train 188 accelerated over the final minute before it derailed. investigators say they know the speed from a video taken from the front of the train. 65 seconds before the end of the recording, the train s speed went above 70 miles per hour. 16 seconds before the end of the recording, the train speed was going through 100 miles per hour. but then just before the moment of impact. mere seconds into the turn, we could see the train tilting approximately 10 degrees to the right and then the recording went blank.