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Walking right on the tracks. we're just steps away from the tracks where this deadly derailment happen. amtrak police officials tell cnn for them securing the rail lines is now priority number one. >> four passengers have now filed a federal lawsuit against amtrak citing serious and disabling injuries. errol? >> britain's prince charles begins a two-day visit to ireland which is set to include a meeting with jerry adams. he says it would be the first public meeting ever between adams and a member of the british royal family. it's designated to promote reconciliation and healing. it would come ...

And you could get around this corner at 80. >> reporter: at the crash site, new steel fence hag been put up alongside the tracks but just a few blocks away -- there's a lot of fencing but might as well not be. this is wide open. you can see the fencing isn't helping or keeping anyone from walking right on the tracks. we're just steps away from the tracks where the deadly derailment happened. not far away yet another open gate. this is what we saw at multiple points along the track. open access and no shortage of things to throw either. amtrak police officials tell cnn for them securing the rai...

Maneuvering the curve where 188 derailed without problems. technology called automatic train control is now in place to slow northbound trains before the curve. >> if they were able to put atc in over the weekend, some are going to say, if it was this simple why not before? >> from the north to the south, you ear coming from a high rate of speed, 110 down to 50. you had to have it there. but from the south, the maximum speed was 80 and you could get around this corner at 80. >> reporter: at the crash site new steel fencing has been put up alongside the clocks. there might as well not even be f...

Putting in the measures in, it was deemed the risk was lower on the northbound side of the track, and maybe factors were not considered, but that is what they did. >> knowing this, are their routes on your radar that raise red flags elsewhere about the safety of amtrak? >> i think amtrak's safety record has been improving. in my days at the ntsb, we had lots of accidents with amtrak and lots of fatalities. so it has been improving, because it's high-speed rail and we are trying to run it on rail lines that were designed 100 years ago, there are concerns in there that wouldn't exist, say, in eu...

Improvement for sure. >> but there are -- nothing that pops out? >> nothing that pops out at the moment. >> if there are these places there might be some vulnerability as we talk about this particular corridor, what makes them problematic and risky? >> well, because it's high-speed rail and we are trying to run it on rail lines that were designed a hundred years ago, there are turns in there that wouldn't exist, say, in europe. if you've ridden the train in france, you notice no sharp turns in that track at all, but they had benefit of laying out their tracks after the world war ii where we ha...