Brandon bostian tells abc news his client doesnt remember how fast the train was going. He remembers coming into the curve. He remembers attempting to reduce speed thereafter he was knocked out, thrown around just like all the other passengers in that train. So he remembers deploying the emergency brake . He does not remember deploying the emergency brake. We know that it was in fact deployed. The last thing he recalls is coming to looking for his bag, getting his cell phone, turning it on and calling 911. Heres the latest on the crash, investigators say the engineer applied the full emergency brake just moments before the accident. The train was then going 106 miles an hour thats more than twice the speed limit on the curve where it derailed nap stretch was track was not equipped with an automatic speed control system known as positive train control. Safety investigators say the system could have prevented the accident. Amtrak has resumed limited services in parts of the northeast, co
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the philadelphia inquirer report, i think at the sheer number of passengers that remain unaccounted for. i expected one or two, but the philly inquirer says it s a dozen. reporter: yeah. and i think again, we re going to have to wait to hear more from authorities about that. we know that they have had this very active search that has been expanding in the recent days. they have people out looking for potential passengers, possibly they say, thrown from the train wreckage itself. it s also possible that some of the people unaccounted for could have actually just not simply boarded the train at all. and they re also saying it s people could have walked away from the crash site without notifying authorities. i expect we will be hearing more on that point from philadelphia mayor michael nutter, who s expected to give a press conference this hour. i hope so. erin maclaughlin life, thank
45-year-old robert gildersleeve was desperately looking for him. the father of two teenaged boys was dropped off by his wife at the train station in baltimore. he had a tract for amtrak 188 and never seen him again. we know his family has been made aware of this very grim discovery. and now, the mayor of philadelphia saying that all 243 people that were believed to have been aboard amtrak 188 have been accounted for, wolf. bring us up to speed, erin on the investigation, where does that stand? reporter: yeah well focus very much is on the engineer of the train. we understand that his lawyer saying he s been cooperative, that he was questioned by police. the lawyer says for hours that he answered all of their questions to the best of his ability. despite the fact that he had a head injury. that occurred in that crash. authorities here saying that he actually was inside the
accident. amtrak has resumed limited services in parts of the northeast, corridors, there are still no service between new york and philadelphia but amtrak says full service could return by early next week. let s get the latest now from philadelphia our correspondent erin maclaughlin is at the accident site for us and sunland is over at hospital where so many of the injured are still being treated. erin what can you tell us about the discovery of the eighth victim? reporter: hi wolf authorities are saying around 8:00 this morning a dog, sniffer dogs were brought out to the first car of the train that had been badly mangled. it was there that they found the body they pried open the car using hydraulics extracted the body and brought it to a medical examiner s office. now at the moment authorities are not identifying this victim they re not giving a name but we do know that the family of
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