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that trumps legal team also filed a motion to fight the subpoena on the grounds of executive privilege, basically that the president and his senior aides can have internal communications that dont have to be shared. this is a separate matter pences legal time is trying to block it on. pences team did not comment, nor did the justice department. what im told pence is doing with this is basically trying to block the testimony they believe is related and pertains to his legislative action...

On our most wanted list of transportation safety improvements. over 250 recommendations on rail safety that havent yet been implemented. so actions should be taken now and it shouldnt require an act of congress to do so. but if action isnt taken, thats what has to be done. >> norfolk southern announced today it will reform its hot bearing detecters that detect whether or not the bearings of the train are heating up too much after your agency said in a report that the east palestine train derailm...

Recognize that they have to be made and they have to be retrofitted and weve got to make sure we account for the time that it will take to do that. >> the least safe cars that you are considering there, the oldest standard, the d.o.t. 111, was it within your power, was it under consideration to ban them from carrying crude oil in a shorter term basis? theyre going to be on the rails until 2018. >> to be clear, we are banning them. it is just that we have to cycle them out of the market. and to a...

Standards. we think this is the right rule for the right time right now and were moving this rule as quickly as we can, prioritizing the least safe tank cars firsts prioritizing the crude oil movements first and making sure were doing everything we can to get these cars in the marketplaces as quickly as possible, but we also have to recognize that they have to be made and they have to be retrofitted and weve got to make sure we account for the time that it will take to do that. >> the least safe...

Transportation secretary anthony foxx just announced new rules governing oil trains at a press conference in washington. what he unveiled is a 395-page order that covers everything from how thick the walls of the tank cars needs to be to how fast these oil trains are allowed to move through communities to the types of braking systems they trains must have now. its a tough, far-reaching, expansive order from the obama administration about this vexing new problem we have on the rails with all thes...

Has sounded the alarm over. saying they are more vulnerable to being breached in a crash. >> there are different type of d.o.t. 111 cars so we will want to be confirming that. >> reporter: critics say oil company have been slow to upgrade the cars. the kind that derailed in quebec this summer killing 47 people. tank cars can withstand impacts at 18 miles an hour. but some say even prooxtd wouldnt protect them going 60, 70, 80. >> you cant physically build a tank that can withstand that kind of i...

Ntsb investigators have now arrived on the ground. >> i think our biggest challenge right now is that the fire is still burning, and were not able to get up close and personal to the wreckage. >> reporter: crashes like this are calling attention to overall rail safety. 79 people died this summer when a passenger train slammed into a concrete wall in spain. in early december, new yorks metro north train derailed, killing four. in north dakota, some of the rail cars may be the type the ntsb has so...