to do a jump-down. i mean i felt lucky i had one shoe and my phone. then i was kind of like where do i go from there? that s about the time the first responders got there. you can see from the scenes that the first cars, it was just i just felt lucky we were even crawling out. you felt lucky to be alive. when you hear now what we re learning the speed, we don t yet know why, we don t know why. the mayor of philadelphia said the train s engineer was reckless and irresponsible. we re learning a little more about him. we don t know why he was going so fast. when you were on that train, talking to a passenger, he said you were all in line together. seven people in that line are dead. others might be. we don t know. they re missing. how does it make you feel when you hear that? i mean in general, throughout the whole experience you re getting on the train. it s totally just your normal regular commute that you may do. but i mean action like after the crash, everybody you knew you
even more trag whick you think about that passenger who told us how enraged and infuriated he is that when was caused by speed. tonight investigators are looking at the engineer s actions. along with the track. to try to understand why this train, which was carrying 238 passengers and five crew members, was traveling so incredibly fast. tom foreman is outfront live in the virtual room. tom what have you been able to learn as you piece this together second by second about how exactly this crash happened? reporter: what we know that is investigators had good reason from the beginning to suspect excessive speed. surveillance video, watch the train rushing by. if you know the length of the locomotive the length of the cars you compare them to a fixed point, you can calculate, and we did early today, that it was going a lot faster than it ought to be going, 200 yards short of the impact site. now, why does that matter so much? think about what brian was talking about, about controlling
them in critical condition at this hour. it is almost 24 hours after this crash but there are still people missing. people hoping that their loved ones will be the miracle story tonight. this surveillance video shows the speeding train at the moment of the crash. are you okay? he s calling, okay? crawl forward, sir. keep crawling. passengers many of them with broken bones and serious head injuries, were scrambling desperately to escape. drew griffin is outfront in philadelphia. he begin ourself coverage. the man at the center of this is that ebbngineer. you have learned his name, something very crucial. reporter: yeah brandon bastion, from queens new york. we do know the police in philadelphia tried to speak with him, tried to question him. he refused, he has an attorney.
it could have been a mechanical problem. it doesn t hurt to wait a couple of days to figure out what the ntsb figures out. there is though a division going on. the police want to question him because they want to prosecute him. ntsb wants to find out what happened make sure it never happens again. when you turn this into a prosecution it s harder to get information out of a guy. as a result you have trouble gleaning all the information you can and preventing a repetition. right. of course we re showing pictures of him now. we just have his name brandon bostian, engineer. as drew griffin reported as you point out, he wouldn t answer questions from detectives today. the ntsb may be different as they try to figure this out. but speed has been a big issue. in spain, 79 people were killed in that crash. it s all within the capability of modern technology to prevent. the train knows where it is the train knows what the local speed limit is. you could program the train to refuse to exceed
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