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>> interesting to note. u.s. safety authorities are in the process of implementing an ought matting speed control system on rail lines. that technology called positive train control was supposed to be in place by the end of 2015. the stretch of track where this crash occurred did not have it installed offs yet. u.k. rails meantime are operating a lower tech version of this kind of braking system. later in the show, phil black will explain exactly how it works. yes has taken control over government buildings from iraqi forces in ramadi. [ gunfire ] >> big push for the key city started thursda...

Washington. the ntsb the reconstructing the train as part of their investigation. in addition, amtrak is hoping they can get service back up and running between philly and new york on tuesday. alex, back to you. >> tom, what is your read on the ntsb's report of their talk with the train's engineer? because didn't they say he was very cooperative? >> reporter: very cooperative and offered to come back. he was sitting with his attorney, and that's very common in these incidents. he also turned over his cell phone to the police immediately after the accident. and this is also a guy who had been v...

>> we feel that had such a system been installed in this section of track, this accident would not have occurred. >> congress mandated that the system be installed throughout the nation's railroad system by the end of 2015 after a commuter train in 2008 collided with a freight train just outside of los angeles killing 25 people. and only a fraction of the nation's rail lines have it. but trains here in los angeles do. we accelerate the train in a simulator to over 90 miles an hour. it doesn't just slow you down, it stops you. >> if the engineer was incapacitated slowing it down doesn't do any ...

Train control, which is an expensive, necessary new system for train control both freight and passenger across the country. i just want to go back to a word you threw out, fraud and corruption that's not what i've heard about amtrak's operations in the last few years. i've been a senator five years. and as i've served on the appropriations committee the last two years, we haven't had hearings in which the idea somehow amtrak is a massive fraud and corruption has been incredibly advanced or proven. there are questions about the operations of rail and rail safety nationally. and that includes bo...

Second or third line to put these rail lines onto. there are three airports in new york. there are three airports in d.c. but there isn't another way to get up and down on the trains. >> of course the government subsidizes amtrak everybody knows that. there's a question the government should get out of the railroad business. i'll discuss that later in the newsroom. it's something hanging in the air. >> said nothing since last night about when they will be able to restore service of as these days go on it becomes a bigger headache for people traveling, whether they can know if they can make pla...