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may have made it worse. ntsb says life saving information may have been lost in the recent shutdown. they are only now looking in to 97 transportation incidents that occurred during the shutdown. in many cases wreckage had already been moved or altered and that impacts the ability to learn potentially critical safety lessons. bud light s super bowl commercial not sitting well with corn farmers. during the big game sunday, bud light released multiple commercials touting the fact that it is sweetened with rice rather than corn syrup. the ad was meant to be funny. the national corn growers association was not laughing. the group posted a tweet in response that american corn farmers are disappointed with you. thanks for supporting our industry a representative for the beer giant e-mailed the associates late sunday asking for a meeting with farmers and anheuser-busch confirmed that it is in contact with the group. corn farmers have taken a beating in the last year. the trade war put a 25%
no more delays on positive train control. investigation gators say there should be no more extensions for regard operators to installing the new technology. koortd according to the ntsb, it could have saved 303 lives and prevented some 6800 injuries over the last 50 years. congress passed a law requiring operators to installing the radio and satellite based technology by the end of the year in 2015, but the rail industry has repeatedly requested and received waivers because of the expense and complications with the technology. only four of 41 rail systems made the december 31th deadline. and ntsb says life saving information may have been lost because of the recent government shutdown. investigators are only now