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Help for safety. are you looking into that? have you heard about that? >> absolutely. positive train control is a technology designed to prevent derailment accidents due to speeding and what we have here is a derailment accident due to over speeding. >> but specifically are you looking into the possibility that he was posting on the forums and discussing issues? >> no we havent. we will talk to him and get his viewpoints. we have several more days here on the scene. a lot of the physical evidenc...

According to the mayor, michael nutter of philadelphia. he spent a good deal of the time with police and was cooperative up to the point he would give over a blood sample and hand over to the phone, to the police he would not answer any questions. >> and the ntsb said a positive train control was installed on this track like it was on the rest of the route, this wont have happened and i understand bostian himself had written about this himself. >> this is what is interesting when he talks to the...

>> are you really going to ask? thats a stupid question. listen, they started this yesterday. its all about funding. its all about funding. obviously its not about funding. the train was going twice the speed limit. >> that was house speaker john boehner snapping at a reporter there but also really going after democrats for what he says is playing politics over the train disaster in philadelphia. democrats are slamming republicans after a house committee voted to cut money from amtraks budget by...

They did a mechanical inspection records up until the departure of the trip. officials say they found no anomalies in the records. they did a track inspection. a vehicle drove over the section of the tracks for inspection before the trip and found no anomalies. they checked the signals around the junction of the track. so far, they have found no anomalies. we have information from my colleague rene marsh. a spokesperson told her that system called the positive train control which defaults and ba...

We asked amtrak why is that the case. they said because trains on the other side are going way faster as it approaches that curve. keep in mind we are not talking about positive train control. its another less advanced slowing mechanism that is in place. back to you guys. >> all right, rene when you say some say, one of the people who were criticizing these lack of upgrades was the engineer driving train 188. thats an interesting piece to this. now, the urgency to find out what happened here is ...

And has to be addressed not six years ago, not four years ago but this horrible accident shows something should have been taken care of without any political discussion or debate a long time ago. and you remember we only have one individual that we know of in front of this train. there are two individuals in front of an airplane. i think the question should be asked why isnt there more than one individual on this locomotive. whether you have a failure of the engineer failure of mechanical or ele...

You cant reroute them around cities like philadelphia. the only thing that they are now requiring is at least notifying safety officials when these trains are coming through basically, anderson giving them a heads up that theyre there. >> its interesting because i dont think a lot of people realized that theres nothing much that the locales can do about it. what about forcing them to make the track cars safer? >> its difficult to force anything. now they are going to require these newer tank car...

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...

The only reason its not installed yet we found out today is because of the fcc, there was a bandwidth problem trying to work out. nothing to do with funding and amtrak came out today to say that and still they proceed. still chuck schumer explicit says it is simply a fact that insufficient funding delayed installation of positive train control. no it isnt. its not a fact. you have misled the american people and, charles, he is going to get away with it. no one will make him draw that back. no on...

Insufficient funding for amtrak has delayed the installation of positive train control. by the way, that statement coming out just about the same time that we got the reports that the train control technology was actually installed in the tracks near the crash site but was not working. president obama did take the opportunity last night to highlight the need for more infrastructure. spending though also pointing out that the cause of the accident has not been confirmed, chris. >> right. and were...