Everyone wanting to know why that train accelerated so quickly just before it hit the curve. The lawyer for amtrak engineer bostian says investigators hope they can fill in the blanks to what happened. Why did the train speed up so rapidly before going into the curve . And why did bostian deploy the emergency brakes when he did . Sources tell me he gave blood and urine for testing and thats standard. And the District Attorneys Office wants to search through his cell phone records. His attorney has publicly claimed the cell phone was off as amtrak requires. Sources tell me the ntsb is also looking at internet posts that bostian rote v wrote, talking about rail safety. I did ask the ntsb about additional video, perhaps from on board the train. They tell us they are in the process of looking at all Surveillance Video from around the area trying to figure out why this train derailed killing eight people. Again, that briefing set to come up in less than a half hour and we will bring it to y
Than 100 miles an hour into a curve and tumbled from the tracks tuesday night. We are right now waiting for a live update from the National Transportation safety board at this hour. Our crew is in position and we will bring you this News Conference as soon as it happens happens. Many more of the victims in tuesdays derailment are out of the hospital tonight. A big reason for that is the quick action of the First Responders. Now, some of them are sharing what they went through as they sprung into action at the crash site in Port Richmond. Fox 29s jenny joyce is live in Port Richmond and jenn, it must have been overwhelming for some of them as they responded to that horrific scene. Reporter dawn, that is exactly the word that they used to describe overwhelming and we heard from a number of First Responders today from several different agencies and they all said the same thing. Despite the level of chaos and disaster they were focused on getting the job done as one team team. At 9 27 tues
Made sure they know where each and every person on the train is right now. You mentioned the ntsb did update the investigation with the press conference a little while ago. We did learn a few things this evening. For that and for word on who survived go to brad bell standing by in philadelphia as well. Brad . Brad you talk about survivors. That is one of the things that the philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter amazes him that so many people did walk away from this. Sadly, seven perished many injured but many, many survivors. The breaking news as you said from the ntsb a while ago. They have been going over all day the data recorder from the trains engine. They have done calculations. Yes, they have come up with what to them is a fact. That the train was going more than 50 Miles Per Hour faster than it should have been which is really something that matches up with what we are hearing from the survivors that says it seemed that the train lost it on a tight corner. What had been a sleek sev
What investigators call a very suspicious pyre. Delia goncalves is gosh fire. Delia goncalves Delia Goncalves is live on the scene with more. Reporter a mike a lot of activity has been happening especially the last couple of hours, weve seen atf acts and d. C. Police going in and out of the house trying to figure out exactly what happened here. In this suspicious fire in the 3200 block of woodland drive. Take a look at that second floor. You can see that heavy fire damage from yesterday afternoons fire. And that is on the second floor where firefighters discovered the bodies. Heres what we know so far. The home is owned by 46year old sava savopoulos and his wife amy. Neighbors tell us they have two teenagers daughters and a teenaged daughters and a son in the fourth grade. Police havent identified the victims but a housekeeper who was reporting to work yesterday and she was frantically trying to get in touch with folks inside. She believes mom, her son, and another housekeeper were ins