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One of our priorities is to recover those recorders and begin a readout of them. ed: my recollection, sir, you are aviator by training but you have had in your position to learn a lot about the train system in this country. give us a big picture because i realize its early and i dont want to keep pounding about an investigation thats just started. people waking up and see this happen. i ride amtrak all the tile for work. i have to say its usually very safe. we have to give that context. people a...

Congressman zeldin was telling us. almost every republican member of the house and senate were on and are on this train that was headed from washington, d.c., to a retreat in west virginia and apparently hit a truck in crozet, virginia, just outside of charlottesville. at first blush, knowing the facts that we know, which is not a lot right now, and hearing the firsthand accounts, whats your sense of this? >> well, other than the train was full of, you know, a large number of members of congress...

Highways. i think this is the really critical thing, more importantly, safety is important at the intersection of these roads of transportation. we need positive train control because train separation and collision avoidance, ensures enforcement and that the temporary speed restrictions that are necessary for making wide turns and sharp turns and more importantly our train system -- as small as 30 miles per hour, thats a requirement. this is what president trump is calling for in that infrastruc...

Track miles and train stations that would need to be secured around the united states. this is not happening yet. it is -- the train system here in the northeast is what i would call partially secure. if we were actually going to make a move to fully secure it, it would cost billions of dollars. >> bill: 140,000 miles of rail lines. madrid, brussels, it can be a popular target. >> terrorist organizations would love nothing more than replicate the attacks in europe here in the united states. the ...

Overnight tonight and into your sunday. heres your overnight lows. you are seeing that were at them. 30 in detroit. so not a huge difference there. and it will have to warm up in chicago to get down to that early morning low for tomorrow. you begin to see the temperatures climbing just a little bit for you on sunday. running become down into the 40s, mid to upper 40s in some cases. the same will be true for us on monday. then more of a heat-up begins to pump in on tuesday and wednesday and well ...

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It is 2:00 in the morning in san francisco, thank you for coming in this morning. i want to talk about this. a very interesting story, this is a massive transportation system, one of the biggest in the country and it had a big rise in crime, up 41% in rape, robbery and assault on this train system. they have cameras everywhere like in most big cities, why are they not releasing tapes that would show the assailant in these crimes? >> a number of reasons were given. initially they did not release ...

>> reporter: well, this is separate from the rallies that were expecting to see tomorrow. but this is very much a city on edge. make no mistake about it, this comes just a week after that horrific double murder in the light rail train system here when three men came to the assistance of two young women including one young teenager and a muslim. they were being verbally being a cost accosted by jeremy christian. christian stabbed the men who interven intervened. two men died, a thursday was serio...

Speech. death to the enemies of america. leave this country if you hate our freedom. you call it terrorism. i call it patriotism. you hear me? die. >> he is charged in the deaths of two men, heroes, who defended two young women on a train last week. the girls apparently targeted because of her hue jab. so joining us now is portlands police chief. chief, thank you for being here. >> thank you very much for having me on. >> why was that suspect allowed to go on that diatribe in court? is that just...

Obamacare and i think if -- if president trump were to come to the congress and say lets work on those issues that need to be addressed in a sensible way he would find some democrats willing to work with him. i think if he approaches the question of infrastructure investments in a rnl way, hell find a majority thats in favor of that because we know the roads and the bridges of the united states are collapsing. we know our airports need major investments. we know our train system is antiquated so...