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If we could do those things now, we should be able to do them now. and we have to quit this defeatism and this lack of priorities in washington, d.c. it can be done. if other countries can do it, we can find the will and the way to do it here. >> but we have a country where people can complain, and communist countries like china, they just draw a straight line. whether it goes through your house or not, it's a straight line. this amtrak, i've been taking it for half a century. it doesn't go in a straight line. in this case it tried to make a turn and turned over because there are so many turns...

per hour. when the engineer induced brake application was applied, the train was traveling at approximately 106 miles per hour. >> there were 238 passengers and five crewmembers on board, and some of them used their phones to capture amazing scenes of chaos and survival. >> come on, man. >> i got you, okay? okay? keep crawling, okay? >> here. hold on. here. >> go, go, go, go. >> should i just get out? >> help me? >> yeah. >> meanwhile, authorities have released some of the initial emergency radio transmissions. let's listen to those. >> notify amtrak to shut down the entire northeast...

Democratic congressmen from pennsylvania, robert brady represents the district where we're stand right now in frankford, philadelphia. and brandon boyer represents parts of the philly area as well right nearby. congressman, you're the leader of the city politically, you are. what are you going to do about this? talk about this ptc thing? >> well it's positive train control is a device that if it's in the engine and it's on the poles, it would have stopped the train. >> so it's a deadman switch? >> exactly. amtrak had it in the locomotive but not on the pole. in 2008 we passed a law that all 10...

It's too complicated. it's too expensive. i said to him i'm glad you weren't around in the 1850s and the 1860s when we built the transcontinental railroad right through the rocky mountains. if we could do those things now we should be able to do them now. and we have to quit this defeatism and this lack of priorities in washington, d.c. it can be done. if other countries can do it we can find the will and the way to do it here. >> but we have a country where people can complain and communist countries like china, they just draw a straight line. whether it goes through your house or not it's a ...

Here, was just on talking about ptc and that system the deadman's switch basically is what it is. how do you make sure that's on every train going forward? >> you do it by simply investing. the reason that the ptcs aren't on every train is simply because of the money. congress passed a law saying you have to have the technology, but you figure out how to pay for it. instead of taking money out of the treasury to repeal the estate tax, we're doing permanent tax credits for special interests, put the ptcs on every train. it's a simple proposition. >> congress, thank you. you're making good hell ...