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>> we will have positive train control on the northeast corridor section by december 31st. >> to push you a little bit, some would say, congress says you have to have it by december 2015. why don't have you it now? is it a issue after cost? >> it is time issue and cost. >> now the hope is to reopen them by early next week. renee marsh, cnn, philadelphia. >> many experts are asking if the automated speed control system, the ceo was talking about in that report, also called positive train control would have worked. >> positive train control is the matrix of information about all of the trains ou...

Doesn't remember the crash itself even though officials say he applied the emergency brake in the moments just before it. now, speed is certainly the key factor in the investigation. at this point the question is why was this train traveling 106 miles an hour before it derail derailed? that is twice the recommended speed for that curve. and then the human cost of this situation, seven dead 200 hurt. that total could climb as the investigation continues and questions about whether this should have happened at all. why don't we have safety systems in place to stop a crash like this? that is some...

>> well i'm reminded of a bad derailment in england in 2000 derailed 115 miles an hour and everyone lived except unfortunately for one car that wrapped itself around that concrete utility pole. so now when you derail you can always get tossed around and break your neck like being in a car accident without a seat belt but those are kind of individual events, to kill a lot of people you have to have loss of survivable volume, in other words the car is crushed. >> so we have greater understanding what might have occurred if it turns out excessive speed was a factor in this derailment how is that ...

Everybody. michelle democrats, are they making this political? >> of course they are, they're politicizing this tragedy. when someone has a car accident and they're driving too quickly and they kill someone, we don't say, oh we need to fix the bridges, the roads in this country. we say, why were you going so fast. it appears as though this tragedy was caused by human error. wasn't caused by evil republicans on capitol hill. we give $1 billion a year to amtrak. republicans, there's nothing they could have done to stop this guy from speeding. they already authorized a speed control system. so it...

>> the asian gnaw airlines crash left people dead. they relied too much on automatic controls and the pilots were confused hue to use them when they hit a sea wall. the pilots unintentionally shut off a speed control system that might have prevented the accident. they are recommending better pilot training. >> the sudanese women sentenced to die and then was released is now detained again. meriam ibrahim her american husband and children were stopped at the airport and interrogated there. her lawyer says there's an irregularity with her documentation. she has a u.s. visa and is trying to come ...