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Casualties and now amtrak adjusting the number saying 77 passengers were on the train at the time. five crew members also aboard. five motor vehicles down on the highway on i-5 and you see right there, were struck and it also two semi trucks and you can see, i believe that orange is a semi truck right there. that orange vehicle, were also struck. theyre working to secure the trains but the real breaking news here is that positive train control was not implemented in todays incident. train 501 di...

Plowed her 1996 oldmobile on to a sidewalk along the strip with a 3-year-old girl in the car. officials describe holloway as stoic following the crash, saying she may have been under the influence of a stimulant. blood tests are still pending. holloway is being held in police custody without bail and faces charges of murder with a deadly weapon. 100 million americans are expected to travel this christmas week, many by train. tonight amtrak is ramping up its safety system. officials announcing ...

Miles per hour. that accident is still under investigation. >> that type of a system we call a positive train control system, that type of system is designed to enforce the civil speed to keep the train below its maximum speed. so we have called for positive train control for many, many years. its on our most wanted list. congress has mandate thad it be installed by the end of this year. >> reporter: now theyre installing it by the end of this year. amtrak officials put the price tag for this in...

Its ground that they want the safety measures implemented, right? >> they do. they also kept delaying it at the beginning. theyve had quite a long lead time to get this done. >> i see. >> its dirty hands in a number of different places. one is that amtrak, one is congress with the funding issues to make sure amtrak has the money to invest in this technology. its like a computer. you buy it and 18 months its out dates. some of this positive train control is in the same position. >> youre talk abo...

Deems to be necessary safety measures. this in the wake of the derailment in vermont. amtrak issuing demands and trace gallagher is live with break news. >> the netechnology is called positive train control and regulates train speeds electronically by slowing train downs as they head toward the sharp turns or congested areas. after the amtrak crash near philly that killed eight people it was major push to get the technology installed faster but the bottom line is theres no way the railroad will ...

For infrastructure banks to take on the bigger picture. what about even with amtrak? you look at ridership, up 55% the last several years. yet in the house, the subcommittee not an overall vote, but they cut it just about 20% even though riderships up 55%. do you think theyll reverse course? >> i hope so. and you know, i hope that this will be a lesson learned and drive home the message that more needs to be done. theres been an opposition to amtrak in the republican party for a while. lets put ...

-- >> i was there. >> you were there. we passed a bill in 2008 that required that the system have positive train control which is the advanced technology which would have prevented what happened in amtrak by december 2015. california already has it. where the accident was. we have to do it throughout. there are some in congress who said, well, give it five more years to be put in place. we did not do that. and it is not just all public dollars. its public/private partnership. >> yeah. when you l...

Government this time says amtrak service may not be rea in-stated until automatic train control is put this place. so guess what they did? they put it in over the weekend. so not only is it inexpensive, it is easy to install. and every time they do it after there is blood on the tracks. every time. it would be nice if they actually maybe looked at all the different curves where train speed would affect a derailment and put automatic train control in before people die. that would prevent people d...

Throttles and the then the train continued to accelerate thats one possibility, in my mind. the other possibility is just that it was an unplanned act. it was something that was overlooked simply forgot he was going into a turn. and the third possibility is some kind of inka passitation by the engineer. he was having memory loss. did that happen before or after the accident? >> were also learning that the engineer had been traveling the route for just a few weeks. do you think that could have pl...

Part that got him into the predicament he is in. >> he has proven his point. the quote you just read, he has demonstrate howd relevant that technology really is. so his point has been proven. whether he intended to prove it himself or not, i couldnt tell you. but it may be that he is just the opposite. im not disagreeing with jim. but there is another angle, and that he is less confident. he is insecure with his skill set and his training. because he is relatively new -- >> you pump your chest a...