. >> let's bring in rene marsh with the latest. good morning, rene. >> reporter: good morning, john. you really do feel a bit of a shift the first night of the curfew lifted. another night of calm. you talked about the national guard and the drawdown. we know that should take 72 hours to be complete. they brought in 4,000 people. that will be underway this week. we are also beginning to learn a lot more or a bit more of the six officers involved here. some of the officers charged. as you know five men, one woman, three black, three white. some veterans some new to the force. just yesterday, i spent time in the neighborhood of officer william porter. he was hired in 2012. he is facing three charges, including involuntary manslaughter as well as second-degree assault. he is the officer who was called to the van to check on freddie gray. freddie gray at that time called and asked for medical attention, but did not receive it. back in the neighborhood i met with a woman who is his neighbor and a family friend. she has known him since he

i know rene marsh is there on the scene too. i want to go out to her to talk about the ntsb and how investigators are handling this crash site. good morning, renee. >> reporter: good morning, carol. we do know that the ntsb there on the ground here and the hotbed of activity is happening behind me. this is where the staging ground is for what is right now a recovery effort. and so i got off the phone about 45 minutes ago and their focus now is documenting the scene and paying close attention to the tracks where this all happened. of course they are also going to want to get those recorders. i did ask if they have secured them as yet but could not get a clear answer about that. of course as chris mentioned, there will be a briefing here that should get under way in a matter of minutes and ntsb says that they too, will be part of this. we know the mayor will be here and now ntsb telling me that they will join the mayor as well. so i don't know that the ntsb will at this point be ready to give any hard information about the investig

we have information from my colleague rene marsh.sperson told her that system called the positive train control which defaults and basically kicks in an automatic system which slows down or stops the train when it is going too fast that system was in place in the southbound side of the section of the track, but not on the northbound side which is where the accident occurred. the reason that positive train control is in place on the southbound side the spokesman tells rene marsh, because trains going from new york south travel at a greater rate of speed in that section of the track. it is a big controversy that the system is not in place in the northbound section. ntsb officials say if it had been this accident would not have occurred. christine. >> brian todd for us. thank you. friends and former colleagues of the engineer brandon bostian are speaking out in his defense. xavier bishop worked as his flagman until bishop was fired for attendance issues. he says he has never seen bostian take a drink or drive a train we he wasn't ready.

i want to go now to rene marsh. you are at the intersection referred to as penn north.his is the intersection right by that burned down cvs. i see police over your shoulder. i understand the presence of people from the community is really ramping up right now. >> what's really ramping up within the last five minutes or so you see those buses there. five buses filled with officers dressed in riot gear just arrived at this intersection. take a look. this is just one side of the street right now. you see the state troopers there in their gear riot gear masks are up. and you have the national guard here as well. we are standing right in front of that cvs. if you look at any corner here in this area you can see that there is a large presence. i want you to swing. if you just swing over there across the street you can see again every single corner. this area just essentially in the last five minutes they flooded the zone here. i spoke with one officer who said this is simply in response to the fact that they know that that medical examiner's report has been delivered to the s

back to you, guys. >> rene marsh, thanks for that. we'll up. date you as we get information on what went wrong there. >> you know, northeast corridor is the busiest stretch of rail in north america. 11.5 million people ride between washington, d.c. and boston every year. incredible. thousands of passengers per day. you can imagine how terrifying it was for them. i want you to listen to one man, and his description of the moment that the train derailed. >> the train starts doing funny things. and then it just gradually gets worse and worse. and just like chaos erupts. things start flying. stones laptops, and then people. seats, trays start flying. you hear bumping and you hear like metal mangling. but it happened so quickly. you didn't even know what was going on. and the next thing i know i look up and there's two people in the luggage rack above my head. two women got catapulted into the -- i didn't even see it happen. i didn't even know. and the train was like at a 30 degree angle down where i was. and i was trying to like hold on to the wind

for more on the protests and also the policing i want to bring in rene marsh. again, we are here this morning and we have a half hour left to go in the curfew. relative calm. >> it is. last night, an aside from the incident you showed there, it was relatively calm. really what we want to point out is the calming voice throughout all of this is maryland representative elijah cummings. he was out there yet arm in arm singing "this little light of mine." he was the voice of calm. we know that as the curfew approach his objective was to essentially make sure that people disbursed at 10:00. he spoke to cnn shortly after he was done with the march and protesters last night. take a listen. >> we must allow the process to go forward and all i can assure them and others is we will stick with this case until the end. the fact is now we have a state's attorney who we are impressed with and proud of. we believe in her. we trust her. i want her to get the facts right. she will apply the law and come to her own conclusions. that's her job. that's her job. i believe in her. >

. >> cnn's renee marsh and sarah sidner are on the scene. they join us now.let me go to you first. a lot of attention being paid to this very sharp curve. there is also a lot of chatter on social media and a lot of talk elsewhere, about the safety conditions of amtrak. talk to us about those two points if you would. >> we do know at this point that -- that this train as it was approaching this curve, we are told that is when things went terribly wrong here. as far as how fast this train was going -- and what the speed limit was -- at that very section. that remains to be seen. of course, investigators will have that information. they'll know exactly how fast this train is going. when they, when they retrieved those, event recorders. it's very similar to what you see on aircraft, like the black boxes. that record, what was going on with the train at the time. as far as what could have caused this. that remains to be seen. we do not know. we have no indication. want to set the scene. we are here. there sois so much activity behd me. see the blinking lights. thi

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let's get more from rene marsh. >> reporter: christine, from the very beginning, philadelphia philip morris police were focused on excessive speed. this tells me they knew there were no problem was the tracks signals or train. that was based on inspection documents and checks the trains and tracks had gone through before the derailment. in their mind that can mean two things. reckless behavior or intentional act. both could justify criminal charges. but the ntsb is the lead investigator and it is not ready to rule out other potential factors like train performance. they held off on the arrest. the ntsb has the train engineer's phone. they also have phone records. we do know that phone calls were made and text messages were sent on the day of the incident. what they have not nailed down is whether the calls and texts were sent while he was operating the train. investigators are now matching the time stamps from the engineer's cell phone records with multiple data sources like the train's recorder and outward facing video from the train, recorded radio communications and surveillance v

cnn's rene marsh is also here in baltimore. and so rene it is unclear of course where many of the officers are. we do know that they did surrender without incident. facing their charges. many of them have posted bond that was anywhere between 200 and $300,000. what do we no about their potential whereabouts or even their next moves? >> fred so of course we're at the intersection where there is a police presence. but nothing like what we saw in the past few days. as far as the officers go. as you know this is a make up of five men and one woman. we know that not only did they post bond but the mayor called for their suspension. so the next court date is may 27th. that will be a preliminary hearing. but just yesterday, we all heard the state attorney come out and say, that the reason why she was filing charges, number one, freddie gray was illegally arrested. she also said that she believed that these officers based on the evidence that she's seen caused freddie gray's death by not seat belting him in. the back of that police van.

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let's bring in cnn's rene marsh. rene, we learned that the engineer told philadelphia police after the crash the other night. >> reporter: that's right, john. we know as you mentioned this train was going a whopping 106 miles per hour along this curve that had a speed limit of 50 miles per hour. according to a law enforcement source immediately after the crash, this engineer told philadelphia police detectives that he didn't recall his speed. detectives have since tried to interview him further, but he refused to answer any other questions and had a lawyer with him. his lawyer did speak out and here's what his lawyer had to say. >> he remembering going through the area generally. has absolutely no recollection of the incident or anything unusual. the next thing he recalls is being thrown around coming to finding his bag, getting his cell phone and dialing 911. >> reporter: all right. again, over my shoulder you can see that this is the track where this all happened. investigators from the very beginning, they suspecte

let's go to cnn's rene marsh in baltimore. good morning, rene. >> reporter: good morning, john. you remember the scene just days ago outside of city hall. the show of force has diminished here. we don't see the national guard and the police presence is small. you talk about the first night last night with no curfew. it was very calm. the national guard will complete its drawdown according to the governor in 72 hours. it will take 72 hours because they brought in some 4,000 people. in the meantime we are starting to learn a bit more about some of the six officers charged in freddie gray's death. i was in the neighborhood yesterday of officer william porter. he is 25 years old. he was hired in 2012 to be a police officer with the baltimore police department. he faces three charges, including involuntary manslaughter as well as second-degree assault. now, he is the officer who showed up to the van and called essentially to check up on freddie gray. when he got to the van, according to the state prosecutor freddie gray asked for medical attention, but did not get that medical attent

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it did. >> let's bring in rene marsh right now.ng to that person at temple university hospital say that they lost someone else overnight, massive chest injury most of the injuries were related to being thrown around inside the car. a lot of muscular skeletal injuries that goes along with what we've been hearing from investigators. but he also pointed to the unknown. that they don't expect more casualties to come in but they said there's a lot of unknown still going on here. what is the latest from the investigative side rene? >> well i can tell you it's absolutely right to be cautious. i was just talking to one of the lieutenants here and he kind of filled me in on what is going on behind the scenes there. they are still now that they have the sunlight they are able to see. of course it was a different story 9:30 last night. we know that earlier this morning an m.e.'s van left with two bodies according to this officer. and he is waiting now for another medical examiner's body van to show up on the scene to remove even more bodies.

let's go to renÉ marsh, who spoke with se brieabrina fulton. >> we're at pennsylvania avenue and westeally has been the epicenter of the so-called celebrations. sabrina fulton was out here a short time ago giving out sandwiches to people within the community. i spoke to her specifically about the announcement today coming from the state attorney and asking her, what was her initial reaction. she said in a word she was surprised. take a listen to what else she had to say. she doesn't want everyone to get this excited just yet. here's why. >> although we are celebrating in some manner that the police officers are going to be charged, that's just one step to getting justice because we know full well that charged does not mean convicted. so a lot of people have to just take a step back and realize that although they might be charged, they have not been convicted of anything. in our case with trayvon martin, the person was charged. yes, they were charged. we had a full trial. but he, at the end of the day, was not convicted. so he's walking around just like anybody else as if he has done n

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rene marsh joins me. >> that was the exception to what we saw yesterday which was overwhelmingly peaceful protests. what we can count on every day at these protests is maryland representative elijah cummings. he is in the mix with the protesters and speaking with them one-on-one. he was arm in arm with a protesters leading them as the curfew approached. they were sing "this little light of mine." his objective was to lead the protesters up until that moment at 10:00 and make sure everyone disbursed and went home. the other message he had for the protesters is trust the process. take a listen. >> we must allow the process to go forward. all i can assure them and senators and others is we which still with this until the end. now we have a state's attorney whom we are impressed with and proud of. we trust her. we believe in her. i know she will and i want to get the facts right. she will apply the law and come to her own conclusions. that's her job. that's her job. i believe in her. >> the her that he is speaking about is this 35-year-old state prosecutor. if you didn't know her name before

rene marsh has the story. >> reporter: singapore airlines flight 836 with 194 onboard was flying overnd for shanghai when both engines went out. the sudden loss of power at 39,000 feet as the jetliner passed through bad weather. within seconds, the aircraft dropped nearly 13,000 feet. >> the pilot has to basically put the plane that's now lost power in its engines in a dive. and that wind going through those engines spins the turbines and helps the pilots get a relight. but even with a relight, getting your engines actually going again, fuel is burning, you have to be able to sustain those engines. so it's a really tricky maneuver. >> reporter: singapore airlines said the problem started about 3 1/2 hours after departing from singapore. they say one engine regained power while pilots worked on the second. >> that is something they're trained to do. and in all cases on all planes there is a point at which the manuals say, don't try any more diving restarts. just look for a place to put it down and set it down. >> reporter: this is the latest of several incidents involving asian airline

rene marsh is "outfront" where amtrak service resumed today. rene, the investigation is focusing on the engineer's handling specifically. they're not ruling out a wide rarity of things including something intentional. what more have you learned? >> well erin, i can tell you, we've been here all day talking to law enforcement and government sources. and there is a sharp focus on this engineer how he handled the train, and also his experience. we know from the ntsb that the engineer has been on this particular route for several weeks that is not a lot of time. so they're looking at that. we also know that just because investigators are looking at him and his handling it doesn't necessarily indicate there is a criminal act here. in fact we do know that police investigators here in philadelphia as well as the district attorney's office here in philadelphia they're in a bit of a holding pattern as far as criminal charges simply because they want to wait and see exactly what the ntsb concludes and what it finds in its conclusion. we do know as far as

why i say that my colleague rene marsh has good information from investigators that they are seriouslyn a preliminary sense, looking into the factor of speed and the role speed could have played in this crash. trains along the northeast corridor can go in excess of 100 miles per hour that's absolutely aloud, but when they're in a res dengal area or going around some of the curves they are required to reduce their speed. we're told the speed limit around this area is about 50 miles an hour. that should be an easy bit of information to come forward. that's one of the easy things to come from that black box that's being -- that's being analyzed right now. that is something that we hear from the ntsb the information in that black box, that could be readily available relatively soon and that could be a key factor at least preliminary that is one of their big focuses is right now. wolf that's happening here on the ground and the black box being analyzed in delaware. a lot of outstanding questions. when we heard from the ntsb earlier, they said essentially the same thing we're doing, they sai

renÉ marsh, glad you got that interview. we'll look for more later on here on cnn.g on an expert voice here. former amtrak board chairman also chairman of transportation for america. john robert welcome. >> good afternoon, brooke. thank you for having me. >> let's just begin with this engineer on board this train because according to the lawyer he remembers coming into the curve, attempting to reduce speed, and apparently the last thing he remembers is coming to looking for his bag, getting his cell phone, turning it on and calling 911. so the blank spot is after he reduced speed. apparently doctors are telling them that he will, you know regain some of what he remembers in time. my question to you would be, what's your response to that and when that happens, what questions will be should be asked of him? >> well i certainly can't comment on the engineer and what he remembers or doesn't remember. obviously his testimony will be important, but there's plenty of data that can be drawn from the locomotive itself to answer a lot of those questions. i'm sure that we'll g

rene marsh is in philadelphia. we heard from philadelphia mayor michael nutter saying we still do not know what happened here. we also heard him say police have interviewed the engineer. sources are telling you that investigators believe the train was traveling way, way too fast the ntsb making that announcement just minutes ago. what led them to that conclusion? >> reporter: well jake while i talk to you, it is still a search operation here. but meantime there's a full-blown investigation under way. as you mentioned, we now know that train was going in excess of 100 miles per hour as it approached a curve that had a speed limit of 50 miles per hour. the reason why investigators know this they are looking at how the wreckage is laid out at the site, looking at the angles. they're also looking at the sort of damage to the train cars. and we also know they have the train's event recorders. the question now, though is why was this train going so fast? >> keep crawling. >> crawl forward, sir. >> reporter: passengers ma

bring in cnn's aviation correspondent rene marsh.very very lucky to be alive. >> reporter: yeah. you know we just got the police report and in it it says that this man was slurring his speech. he was sweating. he even appeared disoriented. they even found open bottles of alcohol in the pilot's plane after he crashed at melbourne, international airport. a very busy airport with both general aviation and commercial flights. >> 32-where you going, sir? okay. how you doing that, sir? >> reporter: air traffic control audio captures a frustrated controller dealing with a defiant and officials say intoxicated pilot. on the taxiway at melbourne, international airport in florida. >> hold your position. i didn't tell you to move. >> reporter: the cessna ran off the runway and through a ditch before hitting a satellite dish on airport grounds. 57-year-old christopher hall was at the controls of the private plane and his 10-year-old son was onboard. the police report obtained by cnn says the pilot's speech was slurred. police smelled alcohol, an

cnn's rene marsh joins us live. two other trains reported being struck by projectiles near the crash site. what's the latest from the ntsb investigators and the fbi? >> reporter: i can tell you, jake we have been all day today speaking to law enforcement as well as government sources, and they are all indicating that at this point there is a sharp focus on the engineer of this train and how he was handling the train. also his experience with this route. also just a short time ago, a law enforcement source throwing cold water on this theory that a projectile may have hit train 188. the source telling me that they listened to all of the dispatch audio, heard no mention of train 188 being struck and also interviewed passengers no indication from that that anything struck the train either. tonight, fbi analysts are examining the crashed amtrak locomotive trying to determine if something struck the train moments before's it crashed. the ntsb says they found no evidence to back up an assistant conductor's claim she heard

first, cnn's rene marsh in washington, d.c.think a lot of people might say it's a dumb thing to do and the truth is, this is a felony and it will put you in federal prison. >> you hit the nail on the head. this is a dangerous midair distraction. looks like a tiny pin light, but that light expands and it's very problematic for the pilot. it can disorient the pilot, even temporarily blind the pilot. what happened? we know that last night five commercial passenger planes were struck with lasers. this was near farmingdale, new york, over long island. most of the aircraft were about at 8,000 feet and at that level, you're either coming in for a landing or you're recently perhaps took off from the airport. those are critical points of flight because that's the point when the pilot needs to be very focused. just imagine this, you're in a very dark car and someone flashes a camera flash. you understand that your eyes have to adjust to that. the consequences as you said, ashleigh, really could be deadly. these lasers can even cause dama

right no cnn rene marsh.u tell us she's live. >> reporter: i can tell you, jake the ntsb was supposed to be holding at this moment their final press briefing. however, that's not happening right now because investigators as we speak are interviewing not only the train's engineer, but two aprilssistant conductors. that's happening right now gathering all the facts from those individuals and once they have all that information they will share that with us at this press briefing. this is critical for investigators, because for the first time they are getting a face-to-face with amtrak's crew. it's a critical point in the investigation. brandon bostian telling the ntsb his account of tuesday's deadly derailment. the ntsb says the train accelerating approaching a sharp curve in the track. data from the train's video camera shows 65 seconds before the crash, the train was moving at 70 miles per hour. 22 seconds later, more than 80. then 90. before exceeding to 100 miles per hour. the brakes heard as it approached t

rene marsh is here to talk more about that and where the investigation is. ntsb when they were up here, they said look, we just got on the scene because they are doing rescue and recovery on there. they have a lot of work ahead of them. where does the investigation focus right now that you're learning? >> we know as you mentioned those boxes are being analyzed an those are so critical. it will tell us how fast this train was traveling and whether brakes were applied and when they were applied. in speaking to people who were familiar with this investigation, they are saying they are seriously now focusing on this issue of speed. the possibility that the train was going too fast for this section of the track. there's a bend here. this is also a residential and commercial area so i am hearing the speed limit is around 50 miles per hour. so the belief is this train may have been going a lot faster than that. again, i want to stress this is very early in the investigation. they are really honing in on the speed factor and the reason for that is because they're lo

cnn's rene marsh is joining us from philadelphia with more. r: well law enforcement sources essentially throwing cold water on this theory that a projectile might have been thrown at the train causing the derailment. the sources say philadelphia police listened to the amtrak dispatch tapes, didn't hear any mention about the train being struck. they also interviewed passengers no mention of the train being struck. meantime we've been talking to government sources as well as law enforcement sources all day. it appears there's a sharp focus on the engineer, his experience and his handling of the train. tonight fbi analysts are examining the crashed amtrak locomotive now housed at this maintenance site in delaware trying to determine if something struck the train moments before it derailed. meantime the ntsb said they found no evidence to back up an assistant conductor's claims she heard the engineer say train 188 had been hit. >> we interviewed the septa engineer and he did not recall having any conversation between him and the amtrak engineer but

. >> renee marsh, thank you so much. earlier i spoke with the safety board expert and asked him why speed controls had not been on the northbound tracks until now while there were already on the northeast corridor's southbound tracks. here is what he said. >> the risk assessment for the northbound section of track just assumed the risk was low because he was coming out of a station going slow and that he wouldn't have the same risk that is associated with the southbound track, because the southbound track has a long straightaway coming into it with a high speed limit on it, so when they were putting in the measures in, it was deemed the risk was lower on the northbound side of the track, and maybe factors were not considered, but that is what they did. >> knowing this, are their routes on your radar that raise red flags elsewhere about the safety of amtrak? >> i think amtrak's safety record has been improving. in my days at the ntsb, we had lots of accidents with amtrak and lots of fatalities. so it has been improving, b

and renee mar marsh is joining us and it seems too much of a coincidence for it not to be intentionalstigating. >> yes, and now they are looking at it to see if amtrak 188 was also hit. we know that when the reporters were making the connection, the philadelphia mayor came out to say that they were not connected, but after the ntsb received this new information just yesterday from this assistant conductor who said that she thought that she heard the engineer of amtrak 188 say that the train had been truck as well and now the investigateors are taking a closer look at the windshield of the train, and specifically a circular shatter pattern on the lower left-hand side of the windshield and the fbi has been called in to do forensic analysis. this is all going to matter, because ntsb wants to know essence shally all of the factor s -- essentially, all of the factors that may have contributed to the derailment and get to the bottom of it and did it perhaps distract the engineer, but it leaves a question, if amtrak 188 was hit, why was the train accelerating? why would it not stop or slowdo

let's get to aviation correspondent rene marsh. rene? >> reporter: this is a dangerous mid air distraction. lasers can disorientate and even temporarily blind the pilot. as you mentioned, four commercial passenger planes struck with these lasers last night near farmingdale, new york. aircraft at 8,000 feet. they are either coming in for landing or recently taken off and that's one of the most dangerous points of flight where the pilot has to be extremely focused. take a listen to one of the pilots at the moment his aircraft was struck. >> i thought it was just a rogue laser. they were aiming for us a couple times. we saw it a couple times into the cockpit. >> you see the green laser might be in your vicinity right now. >> american 185 we just had a laser strike left side. >> reporter: imagine this. imagine you're in a car, it's pitch black and a camera flash goes off. that's what it's like in the cockpit and consequences could be deadly. the lasers can even cause damage to the pilot's eyes and in some cases pilots have been hospitalized

we have more from rene marsh. >> reporter: we vhave been speaking with the enforcement here in philadelphia. they are focusing on the engineer on the train. the engineer had been on the route according to the ntsb for several weeks. that's not a long time. we should point out although investigators say they are focusing on the engineer's handling of the train, that doesn't necessarily indicate anything criminal. in fact we know philadelphia police as well as the district attorney's office are in a holding pattern. they want to wait and get definitive answers from the ntsb investigation before they move forward with their investigation. we do know the ntsb has completed the analysis of the train's recorders. that is a fact. so far, so far, they say they have not found any sign of mechanical failure, but a source with the ntsb is stressing it is too early to rule anything in or out. they say they will not determine the cause of the derailment until the investigation concludes. poppy, they say that could take 12 months. back to you. >> rene thank you. >>> also this as baltimore recovers from t

rene marsh, live, after 3:00 a.m. in philadelphia. thank you, rene. >> cnn has spoken to a number of passengers. they describe getting thrown around the inside of the train as it want off the rails. >> yeah, by all accounts. the accident happened quickly. leaving victims injured and disoriented. >> must have baeen abut six roos from the back of the train. sitting, everything was normal. then major impact. chairs were flying around. people were fleeing around. bags. pretty chaotic. >> i was praying "please make it stop. please make it stop." it felt like we were gliding along for a little while there. and i dent knon't know if it fet way. maybe it was a few second. i was just praying the train didn't tip anymore. i was afraid we were going to fall all the way on our side. but we didn't. finally it stopped. at a tilt. everyone was screaming. i stood up. realized i wasn't hurt. thank god. immediately asking everybody around me, "are you okay? are you okay?" chilling details from passengers. we want to show you photos take any board one of

renee marsh, cnn, philadelphia. >> many experts are asking if the automated speed control system, the talking about in that report, also called positive train control would have worked. >> positive train control is the matrix of information about all of the trains out there so they know precisely where they are and where hazards might be as well and so they can avoid them. it starts with gps, satellite to track the movement of every train and let it know where it is at any second in time. next part of it, relay stations along the tracks themselves. to tell them where switches are p. what position they're in. potential hazards, crossings and overall ground patrol effort which brings all of that information together and turns it into one simple graphic that would show up for any engineer out there. showing him or her precisely when the train need to be slowed down. how much time it'll take at that weight and at that length after train, that sort of thing and if they do not responding with if the engineer does not showdown when the hazard is up a ahead. commuter would take over. that the

renee marsh reports. >> reporter: singapore airlines with 194 on board was flying over the south chinang high when both engines went out. within seconds, the aircraft dropped nearly 13,000 feet. >> the pilot has to basically but the a plane into a dive and that wind going tlooi those engines, spins the turbin and helps the pilot get a relite but even with a relight, getting your engines actually going again, you have to be able to sustain those engines. >> reporter: singapore airlines says it happened moments after departing. >> it is something they're trained to do and in all cases on all planes there is a point at which the manuals say, don't try anymore diving restarts. just look for a place to put it down and set it down. sfwlrks this is the latest of several incidents involving asian airliners. in february both engines lost power. and flight 235 crashed into a river in taiwan. and airasia flight and airbus dived into the sea minutes after the pilot asked to climb altitude to avoid bad weather p. and another one disappeared without a trace more than a year ago. and as for singapore

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we have new information from rene marsh our transportation correspondent and said he was approached last night and he said he couldn't recall his speed. they went back to him today and brought him into the office, to talk about it and he came with a lawyer and woe not answer any questions. the ntsb said they are going to try to talk to him, i believe, tomorrow. but right now he is not talking. initially he told authorities he could not recall the speed he was traveling. >> and according to the ntsb official i talked to before it is amtrak policy to glif a -- give a blood test or a breathalyzer. >> right. they want to see if there is anything in an engineer's system and they obviously want to talk to him and they will do a test of the emergency break system to see if it was a mechanical failu failure. >> a runaway train. >> right. but the key part is taking to the engineer and the ntsb made it clear they have to talk to him. >> the mayor came out drew with critical comments of the engineer, saying regardless it was reckless for him to 106 miles per hour and the ntsb said the mayor went to

. >>> before we get to our renee marsh, i want you to look at the accident scene.he front car where the engineer and conductor drive the train remains up right, and both did survive. the second car was a charred mess. it was reduced to a twisted heap of metal, and i would expect the passengers that expired were in that second car, and the third and fourth were on their sides, and the fifth and sixth and seventh car was upright but derailed. was the train going too fast around the curve? is that what investigators initially think? they just don't know anything right now? >> reporter: carol, what you said they just really are not coming out and saying what the cause is at this point. i do know they will be looking at speed as one of the many factors. i just got off the phone with the ntsb they do have part of their team here and the second part of the team is about 30 minutes away. when they are altogether they are looking at speed and they want to interview the crew, because that is going to be critical. what was their work schedule leading up to the shift? were the

. >> cnn's rene marsh is live for cnn in philadelphia. rene just minutes ago you spoke with amtrak's ceo. his first comments on-camera at the crash site. what did he have to say? >> reporter: well jake we now know what amtrak's ceo does not believe caused this crash. he does not believe a deteriorating railways is the cause here. he is very confident about the condition of these tracks and as you mentioned, this is the first time he is speaking out since this fatal crash. >> so this was the frankford curve -- >> reporter: amtrak ceo joseph boardman at the crash site where new york-bound train number 188 jumped the tracks. the locomotive still on-site and steps away a mountain of shredded twisted metal from the damped cars. >> you're heartbroken. sick to your stomach. this hasn't happened on the northeast corridor for 28 years. >> reporter: when you heard the news 106 miles per hour in a 50 mile-per-hour zone your feeling? >> too fast. we knew that right away. >> reporter: thursday morning an eighth body was discovered. >> the dog hit on a

renÉ marsh is joining us.it's unfortunate the plane never got off the ground but tell us what happened. >> it is fortunate it never got to take off. we're talking about a cessna. it essentially ran off the runway went through a ditch, before it crashed. you just saw that video there, crashed into a satellite dish on the grounds of the melbourne international airport. the man at the controls here 57-year-old christopher hall. we know he was arrested and he has been charged. police say what happened was -- you're looking at his mug shot there. he asked for clearance to go on to the runway. air traffic control denied that request. then he proceeded to taxi the plane in that direction anyway. take a listen to air traffic control audio that captures what sounds like a very frustrated controller dealing with what sounds like a defiant pilot. take a listen. >> where are you going, sir? >> sky master 32 is everything all right, sir? 32 mike, turn your engines off. turn your engines off, sir. kill your engines. >> all

we want to get more on this from cnn's rene marsh. >> reporter: new information from this assistant conductor is really deepening the mystery about what caused this deadly derailment. if we reset we know a train was struck by some sort of objects and more eminutes before the amtrak 88 derailed and we have audio that police responded after the train was struck by a proceed j projectile. >> we do not have an update on any injury because they are making communication with the engineer while he is still on a rail, but it is a train that has had a foreign object made contact, shattereri inin ining windshield. >> reporter: that happens minutes before the amtrak 188 derailed. the engineer said not only did he hear the engineer report that his train had been struck, she believes she heard the amtrak engineer saying his train had been struck as well. the fbi is taking a close look at the windshield of train 188 and they are going to be doing lab tests determine was it struck by a projectile and what angle it came from. we know the federal railway association has asked amtrak to take steps immediately.

>> this is coming from our transportation correspondent rene marsh and she's confirmed this positive train control system was on this track but placed in the southbound lanes of the track behind me not the northbound lanes which would have sadly prevented this crash from happening. it is a sad irony of how this system rolls out. it is very expensive and time consumering and congress is try -- and congress is trying to kick it down the can supposed to be in place by december 31st of this year and this is terrible news for the family that it was just on the wrong side of the tracks anderson. >> do we know why it was placed on that side was that side of the tracks more dangerous or do we know? >> we do not know that. i imagine the ntsb will have that wrapped up in the report and in how and when this gets placed first and maybe it was just scheduled to do one side and they have to keep the trains moving while they work on the tracks and just again a sad irony. >> very sad for the families when they hear that. >>> as drew reports this hour there are a number of posts online by brandon bos

we have information from my colleague rene marsh. an amtrak spokesperson told her the system called the positive train control which defaults and kicks in and stops the train when it is going too fast that system was in place in the southbound side of the section of the track, but not on the northbound side which is where the accident occurred. the reason that positive train control is in place in the southbound side this spokesperson said is the trains going from new york south travel at a greater rate of speed. it has been a big controversy that the system has not been in place in the northbound system. the officials say if it had been then this accident would not have occurred. christine. >> brian todd great context. friends and colleagues of brandon bostian are defending him. xavier bishop worked with him as a flagman for some time. he doesn't work for amtrak anymore. bishop describes bostian as consciousous. he says he never saw bostian drink or drive a train when he wasn't ready. >> he was on point. if there was something he di

renee marsh is "outfront" with breaking developments. that is a significant thing. the philadelphia police wanted to arrest him that very night. why didn't they? >> they did from the very beginning, philadelphia police were focused on excessive speed. the source tells me that they knew there were no problems with the tracks the signals, or the train. and that was all based on inspection documents and maintenance checks that the train and the tracks had undergone before the derailment. so in their minds that could only mean two things. either reckless behavior or an intentional act. and both could, according to this source justify criminal charges. but the ntsb is the lead investigator in this situation. and they were not ready to either rule anything in or out. so they had to hold off on that arrest. >> and at this time they are now focusing on the engineer extensively. they now have his phone and correct me if i'm wrong, they have his physical phone? >> they have thinks phone. they have his phone records. so now they're looking into the issue as to whether or not h

rene marsh is live in baltimore.prosecutor's response to the challenging her case against the officers? >> reporter: jake she is standing firm on her decision saying that the evidence they found during her independent investigation supporting the charges filed. what we have here in baltimore, two dueling investigations. you have baltimore city police investigators on one side and investigators with the prosecutor's office on the other. >> from the beginning, we knew that this was a serious case. we have been working independently. >> reporter: two independent investigations one by baltimore police the other by the maryland state attorney's office. cnn has learned both investigations are in conflict. one point of contention the knife found on freddie gray. >> the knife was not a switch switchblade and is lawful under maryland law. >> reporter: under state law, the knife is legal, making freddie gray's arrest illegal. the police investigation contradicts that saying based on city code the knife is illegal. >> what is t

i want to talk about this with cnn correspondent renee marsh. we know there has been a considerable amount of conversation about bringing the community together. we have seen for the last couple of days, celebrations. we heard music. we saw dancing even in the streets. today, a more sober approach to this event. >> reporter: right. as you mentioned, you were talking about the curfew. that's a coin that people are pretty are upset about and want that to go away. the militarized state of balm, as some people have told me, they don't want to see that presence any more and it's time for it to go. all that said, the tone today that we expect to see as thousands more are going to take to the streets to march in another rally today is a different tone, a very religious tone. we know religious leaders are going to get together and they are going to be marching. speaking about peace and speaking about getting the message through but through religious means and that will happen today, victor. a large peaceful protest in downtown baltimore with the feeling