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Concussion subsides, his memory could return. all right. erin, thank you, reporting live from philadelphia. thank you. i also want to give you a chance to hear from some of the people who are close to that engineer, brandon bostian including one person that spoke with him the very night of the derailment. i spoke with him. he said he was in the incident. he did not remember much. he couldn t remember much. he said he had some staples and stitches and he was sore. he was in some pain. he couldn t really talk to me, obviously, because he was getting he was getting taken care of in the e.r. ever see him drinking? never. ever see him too sleepy? texting? no. phone calls? never had his phone out. it didn t matter what the situation was. never had his phone out. let me ask you, what do you think happened? i i honestly don t know. i really believe something ....
Shows. his lawyer says bastion had a a concussion. he wants to cooperate fully, he can not remember the moment of the crash. as for the evidence, the locomotive s dash camera is set to show that not only did the train not slow down as it entered a dangerous curve, it sped up. and not just a little, a lot. from 70 to more than 100 miles per hour in just around a minute. bastion s friends and colleagues say he would never have deliberately been reckless as philadelphia s mayor had publicly charged just hours after the wreck had happened. that brings me to cnn s erin mcglocklin. friends are talking about how passionate this man has been about trains since he was a kid. and they re also talking about some of the comments now that he s been making regarding safety. can you just fill us in a little more on the profile of the engineer with respect to this, ....
Erin? hi. 32-year-old brandon bastion is someone who is very concerned about train safety. a series of posts to a train forum, he laments that railroads were not more pro active in installing positive train control. that is the same safety system that in a grim ironic twist the ntsb says could have prevented the crash of amtrak 188. let me read you to some of the posts that we believe bastion made to that online forum. one post, dated march 11th, 2011. he writes, i wish the railroads had been more pro active in adopting active signalling systems from the get-go. it s easy for them to cry foul that the 2015 deadline is unreasonable but the reality is that they have had nearly 100 years of opportunity to ....
Storm flooded perish prisons, eight of those temporary jails still house inmates today. erin? and now a plot to kill singer josh stone. two british men were convicted of conspiracy to murder and rob stone. the evidence against them included a samurai sword, body bags and notes that suggest stone was not the only celebrity in their sights. erin mcglocklin is out front. what can you tell us about this plot? the evidence in this case pretty incriminating both kevin liverpool and junior bradshaw arrested within miles of the singer s home inside their car. police found a stash of weapons including, as you mentioned, a samurai sword, two knives and inkrin naturing notes, notes that read, jocelyn r.i.p. and once jocelyn is dead, find a river to dump her. evidence found overwhelmingly ....