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Signage with the speed limits for the engineers. amtrak has suggested on its website they said it has been 28 years since a fatality due to a derailment. they said the number of derailments has gone down from 80 to 28 annually since 2000 and emphasized they will be ensuring that they put in that next generation automatic train control system called positive train control on all their railroads by the end of the year as mandated by congress. the ntsb's lead investigator robert sumwald said they will meet with the fbi tomorrow as the fbi works to determine whether or not an unknown flying projec...

Season. who is on deck now? >> we are dealing with the upper mississippi valley today and will you believe that across portions of the northern plains several inches of snow on the way. yes. dynamic system. so the parent low pushing across the midwest. there is the cold front associated with this. and with that the potential of more severe weather including hail damaging winds, isolated tornadoes. the storm is weakening, which is great news. however, we're not out of the woods just yet, especially as we get into the afternoon hours as well as into the overnight. there is your severe threat tod...

Restaurant. >> jay gray live for us in waco. another developing story we are following amtrak trains are back running between philadelphia and new york for the first time since last week's deadly derailment. the first train left new york city just after 5:30 eastern time this morning headed to philadelphia. this is video footage from inside the second train which left philadelphia heading to new york. the tracks now have new safety upgrades in place including an automatic train control system. federal regulators ordered amtrak to expand use of this control system, which was already operating...