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North korea did test a ballistic missile, the president tweeted oh, does this man have nothing better to do? so, there is a bit of unknown in what the strategic, if anything, plan there is right now from the united states. but clearly we are seeing a reaction from north korea following these heated words from the president. >> ryan, how do you see it? >> i think there are two things that every military analyst that i have listened to and every diplomat that understands the region has basically p...

Vincent," which isnt anything new. north korea has many times threatened a nuclear attack to rain fire on the united states and its allies. so thats not new. what is new there was a special forces operation that pyongyang conducted last week. it was the same day that we saw the images of the special forces were released on the same day we saw kim jong-un in person at the ribbon cutting of a new sky scrape earp he ordered built here in pyongyang at the moment we were attending this event with the...

Have a good plan. in particular, ted cruz talked about carpet bombing with precision. that seems to be an oxymoron, precision carpet bombing, an impossibility, is that not the case? >> thats absolutely the case. eight total contradiction in terms. carpet bombing is the total obliteration. it completely wipes out the entire field beneath you. we saw that last in vietnam. that was called a quagmire that went on for years and years and years. cruz is trying to make the argument that if were patroll...

Task of keeping oil trains from blowing up, well then maybe the companies cant be trusted to handle this all on their own. so the feds have now announced in the wake of this debacle, there will be new rules. whether conservatives complain about regulations, this is what theyre complaining about. this is what they hate. but this is kind of the reason that we have regulations. federal railroad administrator sarah fineberg said what this broken rail incident shows us is that we need to insert ourse...

We now know that this gigantic oil train explosion was caused by a defect on the tracks. specifically a broken rail that had been detected twice by a contractor hired by the rail company but even though it was detected twice it was never fixed. and then it caused this terrible accident in this terrible expolosion. we know this thanks to an investigation by the federal railroad administration. joining us now is sarah fineberg, the acting administrator. great to you have here. thanks for being her...

In february of this year a man named randy fitswater and his wife were at home in west virginia just outside charleston when they looked out their window and they saw this. he said the noise was so loud and the explosion was so big he was sure a full size jet line her crashed into the ground across the river from their house. he learned whether they got through to 911 that it had actually been a train derailment, an oil train derailment. a train with 107 tanker cars carrying crude oil had been f...

We now know that this gigantic oil train explosion was caused by a defect on the tracks. specifically a broken rail that had been detected twice by a contractor hired by the rail company but even though it was detected twice it was never fixed. and then it caused this terrible accident in this terrible xbloegs. we know this thanks to an investigation by the federal railroad administration. joining us now is sarah fineberg, the acting administrator. great to you have here. thanks for being here. ...

Are progress and good things. but heres the amazing part of the story. for having not fixed this flawed rail, for having detected that flaw twice and ignored it for having caused through negligence a giant fireball and evacuation of 1,000 people, for all that, under the old rules they were operating, csx and the contractor were both fined in this case. a grand total of $25,000. $25,000 which at least csx will presumably find in a couch cushion at company headquarters. it has been a really hearte...

This was one accident and one investigation but well justin to do more as we go along. >> is whats happening overall here, this is not first conversation weve had about oil train safety and not first time weve covered it. and its a concern to so many communities arent country whether or not theyre anywhere near oiled fields because so many towns have oil trains rumbling through, past schools and main streets. >> right. >> is whats happening here that were getting a slight reorientation in terms ...

A string of oil train apocalyptic crashes led the federal government to crackdown on things like oil train speed and beefed up standards for the tanker cars transporting the oil. but this crash in west virginia turns out this was not about speed or the rail cars. turns out this one was caused by something more galling. the federal railroad administration released the findings of their investigation into that mt. carbon, west virginia derailment. and what they found was that what happened there w...