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Metro north crash north of manhattan where the tired train conductor zoned out and four people died. and what happened in philadelphia, for some reason heading into that 50-mile-an hour curve that train was being driven at over 100 miles an hour. the cars flung off the rails. yeah positive train control would have prevented this crash too. but the system is not in place yet. amtrak has been slowly getting that system in place piece by piece, doing this here and that there. they have positive train control on on some of the tracks but not in philly where the plane crash happened last night. and...

It a positive train control system. that type of system it is designed to enforce the civil speed to keep the train below its maximum speed. and so we have called for positive train control for many, many years. congress has mandated that it be installed by the end of this year. so we are very keen on positive train control. based on what we know right now we feel that had such a system been installed in this section of track, this accident would not have occurred. >> had the system been installed, this crash would not have occurred? this is not a history and this is not hard. this is not rock...

Site. what is the latest on the investigation? >> reporter: good morning. it's been a very busy scene here throughout the course of the evening and early hours of the morning. you can probably see over my shoulder an oversized flat bed truck has brought in a new set of tracks. they released a part of the track back to amtrak allowing to begin to lay new tracks in order to try to get traffic back up and going. they have a lot of work to do here. in terms of the investigation though, we have heard from ntsb officials saying they are looking at all possibilities. obviously speed is going to be a ...

Embankment. you can see -- let's see if we can see this, that looks like one of the front cars, essentially sheered down to a third -- only a third of it -- there are trains on that, you can count six cars still laying there. three of them in tact and upright. three of them laying on their sides as trains are operating, moving debris in the crash site. you can imagine a train traveling at a speed the train was traveling. in excess of 100 miles an hour. as it takes the curve, the force is too much to keep it on the rails. pulls it off the rails, as they come off the rails, that first car hittin...

Place. it's the end of this year, december 31 2015. and you know the rail industry like every industry they don't like being told what to do they've been lobbying hard to push that deadline back even further. 7 years is too fast for them to implement that basic system nationwide, they want more time more years, they have found a lot of sympathetic years in congress. even if congress doesn't extend it, if the existing 2015 deadline holds, the existing 2015 deadline was still too late for these poor people. this is a metro north commuter train crash that happened december 1st 2013. i remembered ...