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To take us on. it is a horrific scene, actually far worse than i was expecting. right here. and it stretches for quite a bit from the lead car to the last car. when you're the ntsb standing where you are saying if this system were in place, if we had the ptc, this would not have happened and seven people would still be alive today and 200 wouldn't be injured. >> why hasn't it happened. >> you take the train every night home. and you take it as well. you know it's rickety. the it's like the wild west some parts of that route. do we need to have a better right of way? can we clear a straight lin...

If we could do those things now, we should be able to do them now. and we have to quit this defeatism and this lack of priorities in washington, d.c. it can be done. if other countries can do it, we can find the will and the way to do it here. >> but we have a country where people can complain, and communist countries like china, they just draw a straight line. whether it goes through your house or not, it's a straight line. this amtrak, i've been taking it for half a century. it doesn't go in a straight line. in this case it tried to make a turn and turned over because there are so many turns...

Is what it, let's be smart enough to put a system in place that we know exists that we can prevent something like this from happening. >> before the 2015, delay cost lives. just like what happened out here. delay costs lives. >> thank you. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> brandon boyle, the irish. strange situation here. i shouldn't be kidding. what a sad night. but i'm so impressed by this city and the way you saved 200 lives, probably. the triage, the hospitals, the willingness of people to help in the neighborhood. >> a lot of constituents from your old neighborhood in the northeast, law enf...

Zone that was only 50 miles an hour. >> what is the margin on a train and rails? is there any way to say there is always going to be a give like a race car driver know there's is a certain margin of danger that he is willing to accept. is there a certain margin you can go over the speed limit. say it's supposed to be 50, the you had been going 70. but he went 106. it seems like that would be well beyond any kind of margin. >> yeah, train engineers are tested periodically and randomly. they don't even know they're being tested. sometimes their there are speed guns, like highway patrol officers....

Mechanics. was there some mechanical malfunction in the braking system, for example that might have contributed to the accident or some other failure. >> now, the ntsb investigator also talked about a so-called deadman's switch which can stop a train if an engineer loses consciousness, for example. listen. >> oftentimes in place of the deadman switch they have an alerter. so if there is no taitt from the engineer within a certain period of time the aural and visual alerter will activate in the cab of the locomotive. >> what role could that play in alerting an engineer to a problem? >> well i t...