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Of the crash. also a reminder that there is still no positive train control as required by congress. thats the bicker issue of safety. there is news on train 188 specifically. the fbi is betting reports the trains windshield was hit by a projectile before the wreck. lets go to alexander field. she is live on that first amtrak train to leave philadelphias 31st street station since the crash. everything all right? >> sure is. chris. we have passengers getting on as we have just stopped right now. ...

>> i think it is a distract from the reality. united states of america is falling behind dramatically its global peers in terms of the quality of its infrastructure. we have trillions of dollars of an infrastructure debt right now and the accident which we saw happen which the ntsb says would have been prevented should we had positive train control -- we should not be scrimping on investments in public safety of but what its even more important to understand this as china invests about 9% of the...

>> i think it is a distract from the reality. united states of america is falling behind dramatically its global peers in terms of the quality of its infrastructure. we have trillions of dollars of an infrastructure debt right now and the accident which we saw happen which the ntsb says would have been prevented should we had positive train control -- we should not be scrimping on investments in public safety of but what its even more important to understand this as china invests about 9% of the...

There traffic on the tracks something going on on the track, what has to happen? whats a much more in-depth system. >> so is automatic train control, this technology on lots of portions of this highly traffic route? >> id say most of it on the northeast corner and i should say many passenger rails. the government had long ago insisted there be speed controls and this older technology. so when the federal rail administration over the weekend ordered them to get something on there now, this was sa...

100 million. you can see how happy they were. the ceo of amtrak released a statement. he said the safety of our passengers and crew remains our number one priority. our infrastructure repairs have been made with the utmost care on infrastructure integrity, including complete compliance with federal railroad administration directorives. just a minute ago, the first train that came from philadelphia to penn station, new york passengers just unboarded a minute ago. that train was ten minutes late i...

Injured hundreds. there is a local radio call from a local commuter train about its windshield being shattered. >> transit 1, let those personnel know that that train was shot at so use caution. >> the engineer for that train also of interest to federal investigators. the lead investigator also stressing the need for the safety technology known as positive train control which they say would have prevented the crash. positive train control automatically stops a speeding train and despite the vast...

>> again for four years the democrats control the whole thing. we had a shot at doing the reauthorization this year. you sa we took steps. i have been on them they lovrs over a billion dollars in the dozen years in food service. thats selling food to a captive audience. they have spent money on bonuses. these arent my reports. these are inspector general reports. huge bonuses going to these executives that are getting the job done. so were hammering them going after them. for the first time we a...

Youre looking at live pictures on board an amtrak train this morning, the first train in the restored service between philadelphia and new york city. six days after that deadly derailment, full service along the northeast corridor is back this morning reopening a critical pipeline for commerce and travel. and joining us now from washington secretary anthony foxx of the u.s. department of transportation. good to have you on this morning. >> thank you me came pika. >> amtrak got up and running pre...

Control, lets talk about that fix, if i could, because i have a couple of questions when you look at sort of the background here. you started at boston. given the fact that automatic train control could have prevented this accident, you look at boston 1990, 70 plus injured and federal railroad administration mandates that automatic train control is put in place on that curve. and a few others and its done. and then you go to new york, 2013 the metro authority derailnorth derailment, four people ...

Three years ferrari picked up the franchise. in england, you have richard branson, virgin rail operating. >> yes. >> lines. >> here we have a soviet style management. we have no competition and people continue to protect that in congress and it soon be. >> thats a great point you paid there. its a good one to end on, representative. there was a the pushback on speaker boehner. when he was like oh this is a stupid question. dont talk to me about infrastructure. this train was going to fast. you k...