one of the survivors but it was not to be. if there were any words to describe him, i would say probably the adjectives i would use is he is kind. he s humble. he is a family man. reporter: how do you explain to the children? how do you try to come to some sort of understanding in terms of what s happened? that s a tough one. we ve been talking about it at home and talking about how god we all have missions in this world. we come with a mission. we come with work to do. and when it s fulfilled, then we re released from our daily tasks and we have more work to do somewhere else so he got promoted. reporter: gaines joined the associated press in 1998 where he was a video software architect. next month the gaines were to celebrate their 26th wedding anniversary. so many memories and so many
high ozone. amtrak says it is trying to recent busy northeast corridor in time for the beginning of the busy workweek. the railroad has ordered was ordered to make some safety changes before it can put the trains back on track following last week s crash in philadelphia. that crash took the lives of eight people and injured more than 200 others. cnn national correspondent, jason carroll, joins me now. jason, you spoke exclusively with the widow of one of the victims. tell me more about that conversation. it was an incredibly difficult conversation to have an emotional one with jim gains wife jacqueline. i interviewed her earlier today. you can see a picture of jim there with his daughter anushka. jim, as you said was one of those that lost his life in the amtrak deraiment, a father of two children oliver 16 anushka, just 11. he worked at the associated press as a video software
to helped someone else that i knew on the train, you know out of the train. and so and i can see these different connection points starting to form. and i just really wanted you know to get together with these folks and share our knowledge. i would imagine. paul thanks for being here. thank you. great talking with you. we have to note that one of the eight passengers on the train that lost their lives was a colleague at the associated press, jim gaines. he was a video software architect. he was 48 years old, a husband and a father of two. and our thoughts go out to his family today and to you and your co-workers, paul, at the associated press. we ll be right back with more reliable sources in just a few minutes. ealthier doesn t happen all by itself. it needs to be earned. every day. using wellness to keep away illness. and believing that a single life can be made better by millions of others. healthier takes somebody who can power modern health care. by connecting every si
the engineer pushed the throttle forward. and that s we are we the convenient recorder does record throttle movement. we will be looking at that to see if that dore rescorresponds to the increase in the train. we talked to the engineer, the person operating the train. he was fully he was fully cooperative when we met with him on friday and then also interviewed two assistant conductors that were on the train. they still don t know why this happened. jason carroll joined me now the human story of all of this is the most important, people that lost their loved ones you just this morning sat with a woman who lost her husband. right. jacqueline gapeines lost her husband, jim, he was 41 yearsed ork he worked for the associate press, video software architect, coming back from washington, d.c. for a business trip. you know we spoke to her this morning. it was a very difficult interview, i have to tell you, a very strong woman, a very spiritual woman, but having said that it s very s
points. but we want you to know at least something about them. the senior vice president of wells fargo hospitality finance group. his wife says he was a find family man who did his most to help others. jim gains, worked as a video software architect for the associated press. he was 48 years old. he had two kids. his family says he was more precious to them than they can express. rachael jenkins, ceo of a small tech company called aprennet. she was plard and leaves behind a 2-year-old son. her family says she was a wonderful mother devoted to her family. derrick griffith, dean of student affairs and enrollment manage. for city university of new york. and he leaves behind a son. robert gildersleeve was the