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So i bet there is a large percentage of people watching our show who has been on this track. as you said this is not asela. this is the original train for the northeast corridor. they do feel when you get on the regional one they feel old. inside and outside they look old. >> i mean. >> i remember watching a requested mad men" episode three, four years ago. they are all getting on this train. its supposed to be ret. >> reporter: my god, it looks regional. >> they didnt have -- but at the same ti...

To talk to you ability. i want to first talk about infrastructure, infrastructure investment. we talked about it on the show for five seven years, we shine and other competitors are doubling down, tripling down on theirs. it is i said it was the arteries of our economy and they are corroding and what do you see if terms of lost revenue, lost opportunity, because we failed to make the investment? >> 100% right. its billions of lost revenue every year our competitiveness suffers. and this is if th...

His life. its all sorts of tragedy, all sorts of significant incidents. for him to say that is its a horrible crash and it point out again, joe, how terrible our nations infrastructure is. these trains try to generate speed. but the track bends is curved and where the crash occurred, its a very curved section of track and you cant run any sort of speed trains on curved track. its the reason the asela only averages 80 miles an hour on its trips from washington to boston. the track is insufficient...

Nobody is involved or caught up in that twisted metal. nobody is under nooeft these cars. so theyve also had dogs on the scene sniffing the area smelling for any signs of human life or any signs of cadavers candidly right there in the wreckage. the ntsb go team is on the scene. this is a massive investigation. its going to involve not only the ntsb but the federal rail authority and, of course you would expect that the pennsylvania state police will be involved. there will be all sorts of elemen...

Arms, leg, made sure everything was there. i kind of pulled myself up because now the thigh is healing. who know i pulled myself up. i saw the guy next to me kind of knocked out i kind of grabbed his face to say, buddy, are you okay? i hit him on the side a bit. he came as to he was okay. he jumped up. i said we crashed. are you okay? just everybody was screaming and crying and you know its a lot of blood and like a mass humanity. >> so patrick was there any warning before the train buckle and w...

Suitcases and chairs thrown on top of them their faces were bleeding. people with broken arms broken leg, just everything you can imagine. >> willie we have all been on these trains before. this is how we move up and down the east coast. its how most people move up and down the east coast. we talked about it when we had the train crash up you know the north metro out there. sometimes you look at the trains before you get on these regional trains. its like you are living in a third world country....