respectfully you know mourn the loss of life and the injury to all those passengers. i don t know that this area the philadelphia area isn t the only place that doesn t have this train control. like you, i only heard of it for the first time today as well. obviously, it s something experts have been looking for. they want it and one of the problems is it s expensive. money is you know as a mayor, it s always a problem. i understand that. life is priceless. we need to stay focused as greatly as we can on having these kind of safety mechanisms. again, that s a different fight for a different day, dealing with congress and budgets and all those kind of issues. i think there can be no dispute today, certainly anywhere regardless of party, regardless of your level of government these safety features need to be in place. we can t afford to lose
we have widened the area about 45 minutes or so. we sent out another 25 philadelphia police officers and supervisors in a widened search area to continue to search. we will not rest or stop. we will maintain focus on trying to get as much information as possible about search and rescue capacity and until we are firmly convinced that we have searched every possible place, we will not end those efforts. mayor, as you know there s something called positive train control. that s supposed to be able to make sure a train does not go 100 miles an hour into a 50-mile-an-hour curve. in this particular area in philadelphia it was not in place. we have now heard from the ntsb those in charge of the investigation, peter is a former ntsb manager. they want this. why isn t this in effect right
mitts back on. guess what else. the little sioux chef in the corner is beating them both. ron paul up top with 28%. gingrich falling to second. romney now in third. folks, this goose is far from cooked. let s bring in our panel right now. democratic strategist julian epstein in miami and in washington, republican strategist sherry jacobyist. good afternoon to both of you. the very latest polling has ron paul running away from both romney and gingrich in iowa. but given that few expected romney romney to win iowa, isn t this in effect the next best thing for him? well, i think it is probably relatively good news for mitt romney because it puts some distance between him and newt gingrich. but ron paul is never going to be a republican nominee. and i think that his supporters would, if they don t get ron paul, they would vote for barack obama which means they have no business operating in a republican primary.