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>> nothing you can do about it. all you can do is keep working through it and pray that it stops, thats it. >> reporter: philadelphia closed its doors ahead of this storm, cancelling school and government work and then suspending bus service because of deteriorating conditions. the state reduced speed limits on highways and bridges and banned empty and double tractor trailers. pennsylvania has spread millions of tons on the road, well ahead of the five-year average. in georgia, more than half a ...

I got to tell you theyre all very intrigued at the possibility of catching these fleeing suspects a lot more safely. it is an air cannon, a gps unit and super sticky glue. we got a demonstration in iowa where the state patrol just started using one. the air cannon is mounted to front of patrol car. it can hold two rounds. when the officer gets to within 50 feet and heated glue ball causes unit to stick. he can call off the high-speed chase and track the suspect from safe distance speed. this is ...

And he was going 60 miles an hour, then 82 miles per hour in a curve where the speed limit was 30 miles per hour. that would be understandable for a train to go off the tracks. >> absolutely. and particularly on this particular curve, a 30-mile-per-hour speed limit, various parts of the track have various speed limits. it would go off the track, braking or not, 82 miles per hour at that curve, it would have gone off the track. and the railway has to do fatigue studies as required by federal regu...

If im the operator and the train is supposed to be going 70 and its going 82, is that completely unusual? and unacceptable or does this happen sometimes? >> well, you know, sometimes it happens intentionally. sometimes youre pushing the envelope, trying to make up for a late schedule, et cetera. but in this case, you know, is it excusable? no. the speed limit was 70. the speed limits are there for a purpose because thats the maximum safe speed on the track and the track speeds vary, along a stre...

Redundancy by slowing or stopping a train thats not being operated in accordance with signals, speed limits or other operating rules. ptc is proven technology that can prevent train-to-train collisions, overspeed derailments, and incursions into work zones. since this is a derailment involving a high-speed train, its possible ptc could have prevented it. while this is our last on-scene media briefing, our work on this investigation is far from complete. investigators will continue interviewing t...

Water shows at sea world. >> t a courtroom drama is playing out in washington that could forever change the way we see water shows at sea world. >> the issue is whether human trainers should be allowed to swim with killer whales after the recent death of a trainer. abcs david wright has more. >> reporter: since the days of shamu, the bond between killer whales and their trainers have been the star attraction at sea world. dazzling families with acrobatic fetes and in 2010 they were -- feats, a...

Key here. >> it really is, yes. >> reporter: benjamin briggs has argued, he says sea world will say interaction between humans and killer whales is essential to their business. in other words, part of the magic. is that a legitimate argument? >> i think it is a legitimate argument. again, theyre taking the position that this isnt just the way that we do work. its what were -- its our product. >> reporter: sea world says its gone to great lengths to control the risks to its trainers but cant elim...

What? what is going on here? its like nobodys ever been able to figure out the missing link. the relationship between private enterprise, private individuals making profit, and there needing to be public infrastructure to facilitate them making that profit. what could possibly connect those two things? what does private profit do to contribute to public infrastructure that it needs in order to -- quoting from the "texas tribune," "efforts to increase taxes on the companies profiting from the ene...

Its like nobodys ever been able to figure out the missing link. the relationship between private enterprise, private individuals making profit, and there needing to be public infrastructure to facilitate them making that profit. what could possibly connect those two things? what does private profit do to contribute to public infrastructure that it needs in order to -- quoting from the "texas tribune," "efforts to increase taxes on the companies profiting from the energy boom to cover the road re...

Its like nobodys ever been able to figure out the missing link. the relationship between private enterprise, private individuals making profit, and there needing to be public infrastructure to facilitate them making that profit. what could possibly connect those two things? what does private profit do to contribute to public infrastructure that it needs in order to -- quoting from the "texas tribune," "efforts to increase taxes on the companies profiting from the energy boom to cover the road re...