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Know, with the speed that -- or with the energy that we can see here in this crash, it tells us they werent going at a low speed. you always want the cars to remain upright. thats the best outcome for passengers. but in this case, falling from that bridge or going into the woods where they can hit other things, again, those are all not outcomes that you want to see, especially train cars flipped over. >> theres been a lot of talk about ptc, positive train control. can you explain exactly what th...

Designed to slowñr trains down m automatically was notfá activat. could it have made a difference here? >>xd yes. this kind of accident is where positive train control could have made a huge difference.e1 extensions. the government has extended the deadline by whiche1 trains haveo comply or owners have to comply with positive train control activation. and yout( know, the issue for that. the reason they have been given money. it is expensive to put it on thá tracks, but this particular section...

>> lakewood mayor don anderson and his city council fought to stop the train line citing safety concerns. $180 million in federal stimulus money spurred washington state to move the passenger line from the sparsely inhabited coastline directly through towns like lakewood and over interstate 5. anderson warned just two weeks ago that disaster could be coming. >> if there is an accident, and try to justify not putting in those safety enhancements. >> maybe you didnt predict this exact thing, but i...

Removing from this one location where you can see where the train was hanging over, the overpass. they did use the cranes to move the train and get it off the tracks, and then working tirelessly to figure it out. the ntsb saying it will take seven to ten days to figure out what happened, and speed is one of the concerns. theres an issue about the positive train control, which we have been hearing that it could have helped in this sort of accident. take a listen to what bella deny czar from the n...

Start immediately fixing the infrastructure of the united states joining us now with reaction from lubbock, texas, mcgehee. former deputy assistant secretary of education. its great to see you, sir. the president commented about infrastructure involving the amtrak derailment. that was alternate route for that train, is it not? might not be an structure issue on that particular accident? >> well, thank you for having me, laura. it probably is, because this was about positive train control. and us...

Could be mechanical error. we dont know what -- why this happened. and we really want to know that. and i think -- i think its almost irresponsible just to say oh, positive train control would have been prevented it. it might have. but you really need to know what happened here. >> and i know from investigations in other train accidents long before there was positive train control that was controlled by satellite or gps there are mechanical systems on trains meant to do the same thing if a train...

It indicates the train could have been taking the turn far, far too fast. why is another issue. >> we were talking about this, the philadelphia train derailment. and we talked about positive train control. the president also says that positive train control, that technology designed to slow a train down automatically was not activated at the time. could it have made a difference here? >> oh, yes, in this kind of an accident is exactly where positive train control has made a huge difference. and,...

They do not do that. they graduate down with different speed limits. that is possibly a suggestion that could have made this a little less likely to happen, but again, if you lost track of where he was, or he misjudged, or you are unfamiliar with the territory, any of those things could have happened, and once again, some positive train control for space and the like saved in the coming we would not be having this conversation. >> jon: this was the first time that amtrak was using that particula...

Run on a new passenger route, the train sped at 80 miles per hour, much faster than the posted 30-mile-per-hour speed limit for the curved section of track. investigators already recovered the trains rear black box. and they also know this. life-saving technology called positive train control, was not activated on this brand-new passenger rail line. ptc forces speeding trains to automatically slow down. >> were going to find out exactly what ptc or positive train control would have prevented thi...

Before the horse, but its not clear he was saying we need to heavily invest in these sorts of things. >> lets be honest. the problem is bigger than donald trump. this is about mustcle memory an politics. the nra taught us they will go after us and deprive us of money and we will have lobbyist attacking us, and so the problem is bigger than donald trump. but he campaigned on the promise to blow up the old orthodoxes. it should be about things like positive train control and front loading, and com...