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Create jobs. my policy is focused on job creation. how canhelping businesspeople t accelerate job creation. its an emancipation agenda i would say. i want people coming from poor neighborhoods, middle classes, to succeed through education and work in my country. when you have a country with a lot of public expenditures, with a high unemployment and your victims are poor people and people coming from poor neighborhoods.>>chris: one of your named targets has been the national railway systems. jobs...

Create jobs. my policy is focused on job creation. how canhelping businesspeople t accelerate job creation. its an emancipation agenda i would say. i want people coming from poor neighborhoods, middle classes, to succeed through education and work in my country. when you have a country with a lot of public expenditures, with a high unemployment and your victims are poor people and people coming from poor neighborhoods.>>chris: one of your named targets has been the national railway systems. jobs...

Create jobs. my policy is focused on job creation. how canhelping businesspeople t accelerate job creation. its an emancipation agenda i would say. i want people coming from poor neighborhoods, middle classes, to succeed through education and work in my country. when you have a country with a lot of public expenditures, with a high unemployment and your victims are poor people and people coming from poor neighborhoods.>>chris: one of your named targets has been the national railway systems. jobs...

So how could a projectile have led to this. and the working hypothesis still holds true i think that if somebody threw a projectile, other train engineers have said this, if something big and heavy hits the windshield just the noise just the shock and surprise alone can disorient the train engineer. now, this is a train coming out of the north philadelphia station. its about a three-mile stretch to get to the curve where the accident happened. and when 188 came north out of that station the rout...

U.s. compared to, say, europe because spain a few years ago and the driver of the engineer on that train? he was charged with dozens of counts of man slaughter. >> well, in the u.s., our safety system is -- has been built on a -- on an assumption that you could make a mistake and its not a criminal offense. so it is a nonprosecutoral environment, even after what are obvious mistakes by pilots or by train engineers or by bus drivers. they are seldom prosecuted. not entirely do they go free, but t...

Zone that was only 50 miles an hour. >> what is the margin on a train and rails? is there any way to say there is always going to be a give like a race car driver know theres is a certain margin of danger that he is willing to accept. is there a certain margin you can go over the speed limit. say its supposed to be 50, the you had been going 70. but he went 106. it seems like that would be well beyond any kind of margin. >> yeah, train engineers are tested periodically and randomly. they dont ev...

Examiner and wonders about this slippery slope. >> well look at pilots. what about bus drivers, train engineers? where does one end, you know, in doing all of this evaluation? >> reporter: globally mental health screenings for pilots seem rare. in the u.s., the faa requires that commercial pilots get an annual or semi annual physical. but theyre not required to go through regular psychological check unless an faa examiner thinks theres reason to be alarmed. if you look at the hard data, it may b...

Welcome back everyone. im john berman in new york. the railroad line involving the deadly train derailment is announcing new safety upgrades. signals will alert train engineers to reduce speed when approaching the curve where the train derailed. that train jumped the tracked while heading into a curve at 82 miles per hour. that is nearly three times the posted speed limit. former sbag mayor bob filner in court today to face sentencing for kissing and grabbing. he resigned from office. he is ...

Engineer in the metro north train crash was sleepy. >> what he will tell everybody today is that he basically nodded -- you nod out and you catch yourself. i think weve all done that. >> reporter: william rockefeller was only a few hours into his shift when the train crashed. rockefeller has ten years experience and told investigators he was in a daze, a feeling described by other experienced train engineers. >> we just kind of zone out. >> reporter: david wrangle runs the nations premiere railr...