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Metro north crash north of manhattan where the tired train conductor zoned out and four people died. and what happened in philadelphia, for some reason heading into that 50-mile-an hour curve that train was being driven at over 100 miles an hour. the cars flung off the rails. yeah positive train control would have prevented this crash too. but the system is not in place yet. amtrak has been slowly getting that system in place piece by piece, doing this here and that there. they have positive tra...

It a positive train control system. that type of system it is designed to enforce the civil speed to keep the train below its maximum speed. and so we have called for positive train control for many, many years. congress has mandated that it be installed by the end of this year. so we are very keen on positive train control. based on what we know right now we feel that had such a system been installed in this section of track, this accident would not have occurred. >> had the system been install...

Inside of the passenger cabin was crushed. >> you can actually see the metro link engine pushed inside of the passenger car. it must have been a very traumatic crash. >> friends and relatives rushed to local hospitals. some learning their loved ones were lost. >> one of my uncles is really injured. >> theres no word yet how or why this happened except to note the obvious. there is only one track here, and horribly both trains were on it. >> both trains were on the one track. what happened in tha...

Joining us now is samantha philips, director of emergency management for the city of philadelphia. her office has been coordinating the citys response to the derailment since last night. thank you so much for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> its now almost exactly 24 hours since the crash. what right now is the most pressing thing that your office is working on right now? >> were actually starting to demode a little bit. and so were trying to get back into normal operation to the exten...

>> sure i will. >> thank you. theres much more ahead including a fix that investigators are already saying would have prevented this crash and should have been in place any day now. it just wasnt there yet. its incredible information and thats next. daughter: do you and mom still have money with that broker? dad: yeah, 20 something years now. thinking about what you want to do with your money? daughter: looking at options. what do you guys pay in fees? dad: i dont know exactly. daughter: if yo...

Just north of manhattan at a curve in the river, its called spiten ivel, its technically in the bronx. a lot more people could have been killed in that crash, the arent tracks curve is because of how close the rail line gets to the river there. when that train derailed, those cars -- see the water at the bottom of your screen. those cars went spilling toward the river. had they gone into the river, we may not just have seen blunt force trauma. we may have also seen drownings. both the metro nort...

>> sure, i will. >> thank you. theres much more ahead including a fix that investigators are already saying would have prevented this crash and should have been in place any day now. it just wasnt there yet. its incredible information and thats next. please stay with us. and now, im back! aleve. i love making sunday dinners. but when my back hurt, cooking all day... forget about it. tylenol was ok, but it was 6 pills

Must have been what caused the crash, were still awaiting the full investigation, the final results, when we heard today this idea of the train going over 100 miles an hour down the tracks through northeast philly we almost intrinsically knew as americans that that spelled catastrophe, that something was wrong with that 100 miles per hour? 106 miles per hour? clearly that was the problem, we knew it. between the cities of barcelona and madrid the average train speed is 154 miles per hour. trains...