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The use of a speed control system at the site where manhattan bound train derailed tuesday killing eight people. it was going more than twice the speed limit for that stretch of the rail system. the system is already in place and in use in the southbound side of the route. it will be activated on the northbound rails. brian is live in philadelphia. >> well amtraks ceo says he was onaunaware of the loophole that only the southbound trains had the automatic train control that slows down speeding t...

To the current circumstances that require now more americans to be put in harms way. i think this whole subject, the threat from irans nuclear weapons program needs to be at the center of the political debate over the next year. >> as always thank you for your insight and analysis. >> thank you. >> there is new fallout from this weeks deadly train crash in philadelphia. amtrak now saying itll expand the use of a speed control system near the crash site. thats a safeguard that automatically appli...

>> interesting to note. u.s. safety authorities are in the process of implementing an ought matting speed control system on rail lines. that technology called positive train control was supposed to be in place by the end of 2015. the stretch of track where this crash occurred did not have it installed offs yet. u.k. rails meantime are operating a lower tech version of this kind of braking system. later in the show, phil black will explain exactly how it works. yes has taken control over govern...

>> we will have positive train control on the northeast corridor section by december 31st. >> to push you a little bit, some would say, congress says you have to have it by december 2015. why dont have you it now? is it a issue after cost? >> it is time issue and cost. >> now the hope is to reopen them by early next week. renee marsh, cnn, philadelphia. >> many experts are asking if the automated speed control system, the ceo was talking about in that report, also called positive train control w...

Doesnt remember the crash itself even though officials say he applied the emergency brake in the moments just before it. now, speed is certainly the key factor in the investigation. at this point the question is why was this train traveling 106 miles an hour before it derail derailed? that is twice the recommended speed for that curve. and then the human cost of this situation, seven dead 200 hurt. that total could climb as the investigation continues and questions about whether this should have...

>> well im reminded of a bad derailment in england in 2000 derailed 115 miles an hour and everyone lived except unfortunately for one car that wrapped itself around that concrete utility pole. so now when you derail you can always get tossed around and break your neck like being in a car accident without a seat belt but those are kind of individual events, to kill a lot of people you have to have loss of survivable volume, in other words the car is crushed. >> so we have greater understanding wh...

Everybody. michelle democrats, are they making this political? >> of course they are, theyre politicizing this tragedy. when someone has a car accident and theyre driving too quickly and they kill someone, we dont say, oh we need to fix the bridges, the roads in this country. we say, why were you going so fast. it appears as though this tragedy was caused by human error. wasnt caused by evil republicans on capitol hill. we give $1 billion a year to amtrak. republicans, theres nothing they could ...

>> the asian gnaw airlines crash left people dead. they relied too much on automatic controls and the pilots were confused hue to use them when they hit a sea wall. the pilots unintentionally shut off a speed control system that might have prevented the accident. they are recommending better pilot training. >> the sudanese women sentenced to die and then was released is now detained again. meriam ibrahim her american husband and children were stopped at the airport and interrogated there. her la...