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Side-swipe wags. ordinarily it's a situation where the train is on the track and another train, you know, not very scientific, another train doesn't know it, particularly in the dark. and here i don't believe this track had positive train control on it. csx has 16,000 miles of train track that it has to put positive train control on. they have already spent 1.2 billion, according to their information on their website but a lot of train track they have to do. csx had to put it on -- has to put it on. the deadline has been extended to 2018. a as peter said with a possible extension two near year...

The day and investigators get on scene. of course, we do not know any causes or anything like that. but one of the things that we want to stress, because we do have passengers who are on board this train, is that if anybody out there had loved ones that they think might have been on board, they can call 1-800-number that is established by amtrak and that is 1-800-523-9101. gwynne that is 1-800-523-9101. >> derrec, you said we don't have the details about the cause yet but investigators will be on-site. >> exactly. >> do you know if ntsb has arrived? if amtrak investigators have arrived yet? ."...

That is on the engine and they will do that on both -- both the freight train and the passenger train. and they are going to want -- if the crew members have not been injured, they are going to want to interview the crew members right away. i don't think -- i don't think this will be a -- the investigation may take a year or more, but the preliminary indication of what went on will not take very long. probably within the week or so. >> so, peter, let me ask you about positive train control because that is something mandated by congress and is supposed to be on all trains, although it had been ...

Derailed. we have on the phone with us public information officer for the city of lexington, mr. cahill. thank you for being with us. can you help us understand what is happening there right now? >> yeah. just to point out, it is the county of lexington, not the city. but what we have right now is we responded to this train collision at about 2:39 this morning. law enforcement, fire, ems, all of them responding in unison and working great together. what happened is we have a passenger train and a freight train, obviously, our first mode of transportation -- or first thing that we are going to ...

Preliminary -- has -- has been perennially underfunded over the past decades, and the question is -- are we ever going to get serious about funding passenger service in the united states? >> peter, you mentioned that there is a camera on the front of the train, we will get that or at least investigators will get that. it's the middle of the night. actually, early morning now and happened in the middle of the more than at 2:30 a.m. how long do they get that and start to get answers about how and why this happened? >> well, when the -- when the ntsb get there and they will get there sometime thi...