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Can place on his commissioner that he put in place to get them moving forward. i would lay it at the presidents feet. again, theres a reform bill out there that we passed out of our committee out of the house on a bipartisan vote 316 to some and its over in the senate now. the senate needs to take that up and lets pass this lets do the reforms necessary, lets get the states involved lets make sure that if were giving billions of dollars to amtrak that theyre spending it wisely. right now i dont ...

Officials say amtrak train 188 accelerated from 70 to over 100 miles an hour in that final minute before tuesdays deadly crash. amtraks ceo now says that technology that could have been -- could have prevented the disaster captured in this newly obtained surveillance video will be installed on the northeast corp doi by the end of years. meanwhile, the funeral for midshipman justin zemser will be held today on long island. a bill that will give congress to potentially reject any nuclear deal wi...

Surveillance camera from a nearby building. watch as sparks fly at over 100 miles an hour. the deadly speed catapulting seven train cars and the engine off the tracks. >> we will have positive train control on the northeast corridor section by december 31st. >> reporter: amtraks ceo says that safety mechanism to prevent human error will be in place by the congressional mandate. but some say too little too late. why isnt it done now? was it an issue of cost? is it just come down to the bottom lin...

Engineer at the controls of ill-fated amtrak train 188. >> were very excited that hes agreed to talk to us. we plan to do it in the next few days. >> hes a sweet guy. hes a good decent person. >> reporter: friends of the engineer speaking out saying he would never do anything with negligent intent. >> just knowing how much he loves this job and how much it means to him and to have this happen is just got to be devastating. >> reporter: according to bostians attorney the five-year veteran enginee...

Rescue. tremendous sadness for those families im sure. thank you. we turn now to startling developments in the amtrak crash investigation. officials say that that train accelerated substantially in the final minute as it hurtled toward that fateful curve going from 70 miles an hour to more than 100 in only a minute. cnns transportation and government regulation correspondent rene marsh has the very latest for us live in philadelphia. thats an extreme speed-up. >> reporter: it absolutely is. yo...

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...

Site. what is the latest on the investigation? >> reporter: good morning. its been a very busy scene here throughout the course of the evening and early hours of the morning. you can probably see over my shoulder an oversized flat bed truck has brought in a new set of tracks. they released a part of the track back to amtrak allowing to begin to lay new tracks in order to try to get traffic back up and going. they have a lot of work to do here. in terms of the investigation though, we have heard ...

Embankment. you can see -- lets see if we can see this, that looks like one of the front cars, essentially sheered down to a third -- only a third of it -- there are trains on that, you can count six cars still laying there. three of them in tact and upright. three of them laying on their sides as trains are operating, moving debris in the crash site. you can imagine a train traveling at a speed the train was traveling. in excess of 100 miles an hour. as it takes the curve, the force is too much...

Place. its the end of this year, december 31 2015. and you know the rail industry like every industry they dont like being told what to do theyve been lobbying hard to push that deadline back even further. 7 years is too fast for them to implement that basic system nationwide, they want more time more years, they have found a lot of sympathetic years in congress. even if congress doesnt extend it, if the existing 2015 deadline holds, the existing 2015 deadline was still too late for these poor p...