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Place. the deadline is the end of this year, december 31st, 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. seven years is too fast for them to implement that system nationwide. they want more time, more years. they have found a lot of sympathetic ears 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, 201...

Joining us now is samantha philips, director of emergency management for the city of philadelphia. her office has been coordinating the city's response to the derailment since last night. thank you so much for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> it's now almost exactly 24 hours since the crash. what right now is the most pressing thing that your office is working on right now? >> we're actually starting to demode a little bit. and so we're trying to get back into normal operation to the extent possible. we are still finalizing some reconciliation of the person data, so working with our ...

Lights from helicopters and flashlights and news cameras, but we couldn't really get a whole sense of the damage. when the sun rose today, we can see all seven cars. the engine derailed, one of the difficult questions that remains even at this hour is whether all the people on board that train have been found. the death toll from this accident as i said, it stands at seven people tonight opinion at least eight more people are in critical condition. as the day has gone on, a number of people killed in this accident have been identified by their families or employers. local officials have stoppe...

No signals, trains relied on their schedule, their schedule told them where they should be. if the schedule said, you weren't 130ezed to be there, the train that was supposed to be there just assumed you weren't. >> now we have signals, and those signals help -- it's a big improvement, and then, of course, we're evolving into positive train control, where we want trains to talk to one another. we want chains to talk to the track. >> i'm glad you brought that up. the ntsb, if we had train control, as mandated by the 2008 rail safety act. if we had that, flat out this wouldn't have happened. wha...

And you're going to see right here here. here we go. it is at this crucial juncture here that the train -- you can see just how sharp that bend is. i mean that is essentially just a right angle left turn there for that train. as close to a right angle as you can get. you can see the way in which it snaked the front literally at the highest rate of speed come off the track. you see the debris right there. wow! you can see the debris at the impact point at which the train jumps the rails. and this just glittering debris that's smashed by the force of the impact into just a rugged area of ground ...