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Over is because the prior railroads were unprofitable. the frailty railroads owned the passenger lines were and begging for congress to take it off their hands. they were big money losers. passenger rails has been a big money loser. i don't think that -- we probably have no trains at all if the private -- public sector hadn't take ten over. there's certain areas where the public sector is more than happy to spend a lot on transportation infrastructure. between sort of for highway and for airlines basically through taxes and federal subsidies, they're get being 50 times more in federal funding ...

Sequester with the decrease in overtime. that has already resulted in the beginning of seeing a longer passenger lines when they are clearing international flights. we've already seen news reports of that. and of cargo containers having to wait for four and five days in the ports of new york and new jersey to be cleared to come into the country. so the furlough notices, as you mentioned, will require 14 unpaid furlough days. and they have not even started yet. so the slowdown of the commercial traffic coming into the country, as well as all of our seaports, airports and land border crossings, ...

Laborous process because we've all seen the wreckage and one of the cars is hanging over the overpass. state officials say this stretch will be closed through at least the morning rush, likely longer than that, because once those train cars are removed, they have to check for any damage on the roadway that was left behind. as for the latest on the victims, the numbers haven't changed much since last night. three people confirmed dead. 72 people were taken to the hospital to be evaluated and treated. we do not know the identities of any of the three people killed yet. that may come today. steph...

Costello who covers transportation for us and joins me now. tom, we've got the technology. it can save lives. why isn't it there? >> there are a number of reasons. first of all, this is like automatic braking in your car. if you get too close to the car in front of you, the computer slams on the brakes. with transponders buried in the tracks, and then you've got computers guiding and watching every position of every train so when it goes into a speed reduction zone it slows down. if it doesn't, it slams on the brakes. it doesn't allow you to slam into a train ahead of you. now, congress mandat...

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