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Transcripts For KGO Good Morning America 20150514

And airborne at indy. The threetime champions spectacular crash, spinning out of control at over 230 miles an hour. The incredible video from inside the car. This morning, how he walked away without a scratch. And good morning, america. We have a lot to get to this thursday. And we begin with all the fallout from that deadly Train Derailment. Theres the aerial footage right now. New details coming in overnight. A brandnew satellite image from google. It shows the train off the track, the cars toppled. At least seven people now confirmed dead. More than 200 injured. Were learning the name of the engineer of the train that was going more than 100 miles an hour. Well over the speed limit. Well hear from his attorney in a moment. But first, paula faris starts off our Team Coverage this morning. Good morning, paula. Reporter good morning, robin. The mayor calling the driver reckless and irresponsible. Meanwhile, the ntsb acknowledging speed was a factor. Telling me this morning they have a lot of long days ahead in regards to the investigation. Its been nearly 36 hours since the crash. For the families still missing loved ones, a race against time. As the search to find missing passengers intensifies this morning, authorities are zeroing in on the speed of the train and this man, 32yearold engineer brandon bostian. He was driving the train more than 100 miles an hour. Even though the speed limit leading up to the curve is 50 miles an hour. The train was traveling at approximately 106 miles per hour. Reporter the ntsb says the speed made the train jump its tracks. The first car twisted into a mangled heap, killing at least seven passengers, injuring 200. Theres people stuck in here. They cant get out. Reporter this Surveillance Video shows the moment of when the train rounds the bend. What looks to be several explosions follow. Officials say bostian applied the emergency brakes just moments before the accident. Decreasing from 106 to 102 miles an hour. It was too late. He remembers driving a train. He remembers going to that area generally. Has absolutely no recollection of the incident or anything unusual. Reporter hes been questioned but says he has no recollection of the accident or how it could have happened. I asked him if he had medical issues. He said he had none. Reporter the violent crash injuring 200 people and killing 7. Including rachel jacobs, a ceo and mother of a 2yearold. She texted her husband an hour before the crash. I remember her as a wonderful young lady. Always full of life and energy. Reporter as well as dr. Derrick griffith. An academic from new york dedicated to improving city schools. This morning, the frantic search continues for the passengers unaccounted for. Including bob gildersleeve, a businessman from baltimore whose son is still searching for his dad. My name is mark gildersleeve. Please help me find my dad. Reporter and questions whether this could have been prevented. There are systems that can limit a trains speed. Positive train control which some rail lines contain including parts of the northeast corridor but not in this part of the system. As of this morning, 42 remain hospitalized, 10 in critical condition. The engineer suffered a concussion and was banged up. Hes been released from the hospital. George . Thanks, paula. Were joined by brandon bostians attorney, robert goggin. Thank you for joining us. Your client got pretty beat up. How is he doing . He has 15 staples in his head. Stitches in one leg. The other knee is immobilized. He has a concussion. On top of that, he looked exhausted. Mayor nutter, the mayor of philadelphia, calls mr. Bostian reckless and irresponsible. Your response . I dont know the basis for that. We know the train was going at excessive speed but the reasons why are still to be determined. We know the emergency brake was hit but has your client given you any information as to why the train was going so fast . He has not. I believe as a result of the concussion he has absolutely no recollection whatsoever of the events. Im told that his memory is likely to return as the concussion symptoms subside. He spent six hours with the police. What did he tell them . Everything he knew. He cooperated fully. What is the last thing he remembers . He remembers coming into the curve. He remembers um attempting to reduce speed. Thereafter, he was knocked out, thrown around just like all the other passengers in the train. He remembers deploying the emergency brake . He does not remember deploying the emergency brake. 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. Had your client been drinking at all . Nothing. In fact, the Police Department requested a search warrant for his blood. He consented immediately. No drinking. They dont need the search warrant. No drinking, no drugs, no medical conditions. Nothing. How about speaking on the phone or texting . Hes turned over his cell phone as well. His phone was off and in his bag, as is required by amtrak rules. Has he ever had any kind of mishaps before as an engineer . No, none. No explanation for what happened . I can give you nothing. Youll have to wait for his memory to come back or other facts be ascertained by the ntsb investigation. When will he be meeting again with investigators . When they ask. What does he want the victims to know . We didnt discuss that. I can tell you that he was distraught as he learned of the devastation. He was distraught. Mr. Goggin, thank you for your time this morning. Thank you. All right, george. Back to the scene now. And new questions about safety on the rails. Abcs david kerley is there and david, i can imagine that the ntsb is anxious to talk to the engineer. Reporter absolutely, robin. We now know what happened. Speed was involved here. Twice the limit on the corner just on the other side of those buildings behind me. The question is why. You just heard the attorney say the engineer has no recollection. I just spoke with a member from the ntsb board who is here about what they want to do, what they want to learn from that engineer. We have not interviewed the engineer. We look forward to that opportunity. I want to point out that its not unusual for somebody who has been through a traumatic event to have some memory loss, at least shortterm memory loss. Reporter will they speak to him today . Its a possibility. Thats unlikely. They may wait a day or two until he recoverers a little bit more. You mentioned infrastructure. That is a problem with some of the rails. There is a Safety System and paula mentioned positive train control. It is on parts of rails all over the place. All rails are supposed to have it by the end of this year. The ntsb does not believe theyll meet that deadline. Its the rail telling the train, youre going too fast, and it slows it down. Its not on that piece of track behind us. Robin . Thank you, david. We move on to the dangerous flooding in the south. Texas and oklahoma swamped by heavy rain. Dozens of water rescues. Rob marciano is tracking it all. Another day. Another night of torrential rains. Across this state. Some areas getting three to six times the normal amount for this month. This mailman having a difficult time. A difficult night last night for sure. Overnight, texans evacuating as downpours bring flooding across the state. Got the animals out. Got clothes. Gotta have something to wear. Reporter scary scenes from the nonstop rain. This car swept downstream. Parts of houston getting ten inches in the past 24 hours, leading to at least 20 water rescues. This pickup helping to push a stranded driver. Store owners sandbagging. In anticipation of more rain. Ive been stuck in the parking lot for four hours. Reporter in the northern part of the state, officials taking the unusual step of releasing water from swollen lakes. Nearly a foot of rain has fallen in the last few days. Opening those flood gates is submerging nearby neighborhoods. This store is really flooded. Reporter outside dallas, heavy rains blamed for this massive sinkhole. Rainwater making its way into the hospital. Were hoping for the best. Reporter the red cross setting up emergency shelters. For those flooded out. Flash flood watches in oklahoma. Dry for now across texas but more rain on way. We stretch across the plains, another one to two inches in these areas. Still have swollen rivers. This comes with a Severe Weather threat through the weekend, robin. Well talk more about that throughout the program. The latest now on deflategate. A new espn abc news poll finds 76 of avid fans support the suspension and the penalties. Brady has until this afternoon to appeal the decision. Hes hired a highprofile lawyer. Ryan smith is here with the latest. Reporter good morning to you, robin. That lawyer has been a thorn in the nfls side from the legal standpoint, winning multiple cases against them. As brady gears up for that appeal, a teammate is letting brady know the team has his back. This morning, the new England Patriots making it clear the team is standing by their star quarterback. Hes an unbelievable player. He has full support from myself and the organization. Reporter this is tom brady now reportedly lawyering up for a showdown with the nfl over deflategate. A source telling espn bradys adding bigtime football lawyer jeffrey kessler, famous for taking on the nfl, to his legal team. Kessler just last year helping reinstate both ray rice and Adrian Peterson after their suspensions for domestic violence. The fourtime super bowl winner is racing the clock. He has until 5 00 p. M. Today to appeal the decision suspending him for four games after a deflategate investigation found it is more probable than not that tom brady was at least generally aware of the release of air from patriots game balls. A lot of athletes appeal. Occasionally theyre overturned. Maybe the four games could be lessened to two. Thats possible. Reporter if brady appeals, the big question, will Roger Goodell hear it or designate someone to hear it . Under his watch, several players have had their suspensions reduced or overturned. He has until this afternoon . Until 5 00. We move to the race to the white house now. Jeb bush playing defense over comments he made about the iraq war. His republican rivals pounce. He wrestles with his older brothers legacy. Jon karl is in washington with the latest. Reporter good morning, george. Jeb bush is not an official candidate yet. Hes already had his first big stumble, offering four different answers to a basic question about the iraq war. For jeb bush, it was a moment of shock and awe. Knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion . I would have. Reporter really . He would have invaded iraq even if he knew there were no weapons of mass destruction . Now bush is saying he misheard the question. I heard whatever i heard was translated, knowing what you knew then, what would you do . Reporter the misheard question and the less than smooth clarification has put the iraq war, the most unpopular decision of his brothers presidency, front and center in the campaign. Bushs republican rivals are pouncing. We know that intelligence was false. No way we would have gone to war with iraq. I want to directly answer your question, thats what i do. If we knew then what we know now and i was the president of the united states, i wouldnt have gone to war. I think at the time invading iraq was a mistake. Reporter bush is declining to answer the question he misheard. Talking about whether the war should have been fought does a disservice for those who served. Going back in time and talking about hypotheticals i think does a disservice for them. Reporter he says we should focus on the Lessons Learned from the war. Although he hasnt yet said what those lessons are. Jeb bushs latest answer on this is quote, given the power of looking back, of course anybody would have made different decisions. Still not crystal clear. Hes gotten much closer to that direct no answer that his rivals have given. And they did that fast. Jon karl, thank you very much. Now to amy with the other stories. Starting with the strange attack here in new york. A dramatic scene that unfolded. Right near busy penn stagts. Surveillance video capturing the moment. A man with a hammer attacked a Police Officer. They spill into the street where her partner then shot the man. That suspect in critical but stable condition. Hes wanted in other hammer attacks in the city. The Police Officer was not seriously injured. Breaking overnight, the taliban is taking responsibility for an attack on a hotel that left an american citizen and 13 other people dead. Gunmen stormed the restaurant and siege lasting for hours. Now to the desperate search for a u. S. Military helicopter missing in nepal. It was on a mission to help earthquake victims with six marines on board. Terry moran joins us with the latest. Good morning, terry. Reporter these are anxious hours for the marine corps and the families. Two days since those marines and their colleagues disappeared after reporting fuel issues on board that aircraft. And still, no sign of them. This morning, at first light, the search for the u. S. Helicopter intensifies as the hours pass. Across this incredibly rugged terrain, eight helicopters, a drone, and a battalion of nepalese soldiers all searching. The mountains, valleys and forests. Trying to catch any kind of signal from the choppers emergency beacon. Activated ultimate automatically if it hits water. Able to be manually switched on, too. Crew members would have had their own survival beacons. And satellite radios. So far, nothing. Even satellite frequencies sometimes can be hard to get out on a satcom radio when youre in the mountains. Reporter hours after they went missing, Ronald Norgren posted that our son chris was flying the helicopter that is now missing in nepal. And he urged prayers for his family. One hopeful sign. Searchers have seen no smoky areas or burn areas in those valleys. Some of that terrain is so inaccessible, it can only be reached on foot. And so the search and those prayers continue. Amy . Indeed they do. Terry moran, thank you so much. New details about that secret Service Accident during a bomb scare outside the white house in march. An Inspector General investigation found the two agents were quote more likely than not impaired by alcohol. One of them, the number two man in the president s detail, has announced hes retiring. A warning about tire safety. After this crash in louisiana. An rv towing a truck flipped over on the highway. Police say a dried out front tire blew. Thankfully, no one was seriously injured. Scientists say it is unheard of. An alarming new study finds that 40 of honeybee colonies in the u. S. Have died in the last year. Accelerating what was already a crisis. Its taking a major toll on farmers who depend on honeybees to pollinate crops. You can say this woman was left hanging during her b. A. S. E. Jump. Off this bridge in idaho. A gust of wind caught her leap in mid leap tangling her parachute on the bridge and left her dangling 500 feet over the snake river. She was stuck there for 30 minutes until a rescuer was lowered down. They had to pull her up through a manhole cover on the bridge. That would be reason 582 of why i will never b. A. S. E. Jump. You need that many . Youre busy. Drive it home. Thank you, amy, so much. Out west so dry and windy. They have bad conditions out there. Outside of sacramento we have a brush fire. Local Fire Departments got on it. Its threatening the homes. That got under control. And theyre going to get lateseason help from mother nature. This is a strong may storm. More like a march storm driving into southern california. Could see an inch of rain. Across parts of l. A. An inch of rain. Across parts of l. A. Only, i am meteorologist mike nicco with the bay area microclimate forecast. Waves of showers are possible with thunder and the chance fades on cooler conditions tomorrow and a warming trend this weekend but below average all seven days of the forecast. We have midtoupper 50s along the coast into San Francisco and lowtomid 60s elsewhere with the scattered nature of the showers and storms. Mid40s tonight to low 50s under cloudy sky and patchy drizzle po check out this cool shot of the sun halo taken in san diego yesterday. 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