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Know, with the speed that or with the energy that we can see here in this crash, it tells us they weren t going at a low speed. you always want the cars to remain upright. that s the best outcome for passengers. but in this case, falling from that bridge or going into the woods where they can hit other things, again, those are all not outcomes that you want to see, especially train cars flipped over. there s been a lot of talk about ptc, positive train control. can you explain exactly what that is and how that might have been able to make a difference in this crash? so, positive train control has been around for decades. this is not new technology. and in fact, in 2008, after 25 people were killed in a metrolink crash in southern california, congress required that all passenger lines and high hazmat lines install positive train control by 2015. and so they gave the railroad seven years to do it. ....
Control. can you explain exactly what that is and how that might have been able to make a difference in this crash? so positive train control has been around for decades. this is not new technology. and in fact, in 2008, after 25 people were killed in a metrolink crash in southern california, congress required that all passenger lines and high hazmat lines install positive train control by 2015. and so they gave the railroad seven years to do it. congress pushed that deadline back when it became evident that many of the railroads weren t going to make it and so the concern from a safety perspective is not having positive train control, which is a gps-based system that backs up the engineer if they re fatigued, if they re distracted or incapacitated and slows or stops the train before a ....
Of the crash. also a reminder that there is still no positive train control as required by congress. that s the bicker issue of safety. there is news on train 188 specifically. the fbi is betting reports the train s windshield was hit by a projectile before the wreck. let s go to alexander field. she is live on that first amtrak train to leave philadelphia s 31st street station since the crash. everything all right? sure is. chris. we have passengers getting on as we have just stopped right now. we have been making the ride from philadelphia to new york. also this morning, trains left headed for philadelphia. this is the first run on this stretch since that deadly derailment. at the slow speed we were moving that bend in the track almost imperceptible for riders waiting to see it as we passed. amtrak told us they worked ....
Now, they ll say because the fc hasn t done what they need to do with the frequencies and the technology as needed. that s government also. so shouldn t the buck stop with accountability that government and its agencies didn t get this done? well that s a part of the problem. big government whether fcc or amtrak doesn t do it. we also had policy in the past. actually, a few weeks before the crash for the first time republicans in congress separated the money between the northeast corridor and other huge money losing routes. so we actually put money dedicated for the first time since fine 71 when they created amtrak and also revenues instead of spending to under write huge losses some of those tickets actually are underwritten more than $300. in fact last year every ticket on amtrak was underwritten by the federal government $42. ....
Happen. i have worked many cases where right after a crash, ptsd and they cause memory difficulty, they come back on occasion. that s interesting. how is the fbi going to figure things out? i have worked on cases where the shattering of windshields can be significant and the fbi can examine that particular pattern and the pattern of lines emanateing from the impact point and they can get an idea of the shape of the projectile the force with which it was coming. since it s kind of an uneven pattern, that impact is probably not a bullet. but their forensics lab is pretty good about analyzing those sorts of things and they will talk to the two other trains that happened. cluck one with an impact on the side not the front. which makes you think it was not a drop from an overpass. mary over the weekend, speed controls were added to this stretch of traps that has had ....