The chief investigator probing last week's fatal derailment of an Amtrak train on Sunday discredited speculation that someone may have fired a gun at the train before it crashed.
"It looks like something about the size of a grapefruit," hit the train's windshield based on a fracture pattern, Robert Sumwalt, of the National Transportation Safety Board, said on CBS' Face the Nation. "And it did not even penetrate the entire windshield."
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