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Welcome back, everyone. time for your morning primer. everything you need to know to start your day. we begin with mitt romney officially announcing his bid for the senate seat in utah. he will run to replace 83-year-old senator orrin hatch. newly released tax filings reveal president trumps inaugural committee paid $26 million to an event planning company founded by melania trumps friend. a spokesperson for the first lady tells nbc news she had no involvement and no knowledge of how the funds w...

Are being dispatched and receiving medical treatment. as of last count, its six different hospitals in the immediate area. were getting a lot of updates as to the family reunification center that has been set up in city of dupont. as to the cause of this, jim, this is going to be awhile. i know the mind and heart especially seek answers as soon as possible in the aftermath of a nightmarish tragedy like this, but i just want to remind you, jim, a couple of years ago in pennsylvania when there was...

Amtrak has been out there doing repairs. he says he has to be in philadelphia today. he has no plans to travel to new york city but if he were traveling to new york city he would be taking this train along with everybody else. they pull into the station here in a few minutes. they say they can make other arrangements trying to roll with it either driving to computes in newark new jersey everyone is feeling relieved today. we know extensive work has been done to repair the track. amtrak tells us ...

13 minutes past the hour right now. amtrak we know is installing new speed controls today along a stretch of track where a passenger train derailed killing eight people and more than 200 injured. >> amtrak must also carry out a risk assessment on all of the curves on the northeast corridor and limit a speed limit sign there. its looking to get all this done by tomorrow, maybe tuesday, to resume full service. >> so lets bring in john, a former board member of the ntsb and transportation expert ...

6:24 on the east coast.amtrak says it was just months away from finishing installing a safety system that could have prevented that train derailment in philadelphia. officials say the train did have automatic speed control as did the track, but it wasnt operational yet. amtrak says budget issues and delays in receiving clearance to use radio frequencies are to blame. meanwhile federal investigators say train 188 started to accelerate 65 seconds before it derailed. it hit 100 miles per hour 16 se...

These investigators are going to be combing through over the next 4 hours. >> and obviously, after every train crash, theres a talk about positive train control that would have prevented this accident from happening. give us a sense of what exactly it is and how it works. >> well, in the northeast corridor, these trains that go-between cities like washington, d.c. and new york, as was the case, was supposed to be the case with this train, this type of system is already in place. its automated sp...

Of three times. but if it only clicked once would it lock into place or does it need to click the other two times? >> i would say the bars position is dependent on the size and weight of the individual. you could have a device like that bar fit over a woman that has certain size that would be 95 percentile and wouldnt get to the further lower position because of the restraint of the body. this all has to be looked at and understood if this ride was appropriate for a person of this size. >> witne...

The full picture will become clear, if it ever will? i suppose thats really entirely dependent on how cooperative the russian authorities decide to be with the u.s. >> oh, absolutely, anderson. we dont know what the russians are willing to tell us and what theyre not. maybe they did make contact with him at some point, attempt to recruit him. its something they wouldnt want to admit to us. not that they had known about the attack in boston but intelligence services will do that, in particular th...

With the u.s. >> oh, absolutely, anderson. we dont know what the russians are willing to tell us and whether theyre not. maybe they did attempt to contact him and recruit him. they wont tell us that. not that they knew about the attack in boston but intelligence services will do that, particularly in particular the russians, try to recruit him, go back, find another chechen. theres a whole file that they have that theyre probably a little bit embarrassed about at this point. ill go back to the e...