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Money. they have a point on one level; amtrak gets a ton of money. youve dumped so much money into it and still havent gotten the safety equipment you were supposed to get. that speaks to money maybe not being the answer. you keep saying you need more but maybe you just need to do better. >> well the federal government spends $1.4 billion a year on amtrak. and as i pointed out the northeast corridor, which is the busiest part of our nations passenger rail system the one that spreads from washing...

Medical situation. youd have a back up person in there. and another question is given the way these derailments took place, what happened to the passengers? we just heard one of them they went flying. why dont we have seatbelts? we have them in automobiles, trucks planes. as far as cars i said this last timen on the air, we have over 2,000 crashes a year on trains hitting automobiles or trucks and the irony is that many of these could be prevented if you had the automatic train system that i dis...

They plan to cut amtraks funding every single year and you cant draw a straight line between the funding and the disaster we saw the other night. what you can say, though, is that we have systemically done a terrible job funding not just amtrak, but american infrastructure. amtrak in particular you have incredibly strong ridership in that corridor. but because we have not figured out what with want that train system to be, we take money from the corridor and use it to subsidize. then congress ge...

The engineer was high on drugs. you can get all sorts of problems. the train system is getting more automated and thats positive train control. and that can eliminate a category of accidents but at the moment we dont know what category this accident is in. >> uh-huh. mary, you want to talk about that? >> and matthews exactly right. positive train control is something that gives the train and the conductor and the people working on the track, anyone in relationship with the train and track, gives...

Amarillo, texas! you you. >> you got it! >> i want to bring in meteorologist bill karins. are we seeing the worst of it there? >> it cant any more difficult. we have a hard enough time pronouncing everything around the country. as far as ocean side and san diego, youre the two next spots that have yet to see the bad weather in california. l.a. is starting to lighten up a little bit. the heaviest rain moved through. the threat of the mudslides will be getting reduced as we go throughout the rest ...

Now, saying about 52,000, what is the inflow and the kids subjected to. my background is in accounting. if you look at the request by president obama $3.7 billion, put it another way divided by 50,000 children is about $71,000 per child. i went online earlier today and their air fares as low as about $207 to return these kids in a very humane fashion. we can put them up in a hotel room, give them some food but do the procedures like in the configure gus countrieco contiguous countries, canada an...

Of everyone. honduras is a long way from texas. you have to walk through mexico to get there, thousands of miles, why doesnt the state department say to mexico, help us out here. >> exactly. thats one of the things we are working on, border security. but there are foreign relations that need to be handled here. for everyone watching, they may not be aware of the fact that there are train system that is go through mexico that a lot of the human smugglers are using to throw in the kids along the w...

Fantastically well? sn no, the idea that obamacare has fallen on its own has to be strenuously false. that doesnt mean we havent done anything about public education or the governments take overof the -- takeover of the train system, the train systems used to be run by private companies. this will say unless people vote for republicans that is the only way to repeal this. and republicans better pay take place to that and stop primarying our own guys. we have got to pick up every possible seat th...

From the city every day. to get all that traffic through a train travels each of these tunnels rough hi every 150 seconds, two and a half minutes. when something, anything goes wrong, when a train breaks down, when theres a significaal prob theres bad weather, when amtrak tries to add extra service around the holidays. anything like that happens, it sets off a domino effect of delays which translate into valuable lost hours and productivity productivity. officials thought they had a solution to ...

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