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There are, given the condition of that first passenger car that i saw today. do we have a sense of how passengers were distributed through the length of the train at this point? >> that's certainly one of the things we'll want to do. the best that we can. it's not like airlines where you have assigned seating. to the best of our ability, we want to go back and firth out where everyone was seated and correlate to the injuries sus and i think that will tell us about the crashworthiness of these cars sxp survivability issues. >> this is a hard thing to figure out. unlike an airplane you have no a...

This idea of the train going over 100 miles an hour, down the tracks through northeast philly, we almost intrinsically knew as americans that that spelled catastrophe, that something was wrong with that, 100 miles per hour? 106 miles per hour? clearly that was the problem, we knew it. between the cities of barcelona and madrid, the average train speed is 154 miles per hour. trains between tokyo and asaka go 200 miles an hour. for us, the richest, most powerful nation on earth, the average train speed on our northeast corridor which is our show piece for our high speed trains, our average speed...

A little while ago i had a chance to talk to the chief officer for system's safety for the southeastern transportation authority or septa. scott, you're the chief safety officer for septa, these tracks here, we're walking by, we're walking by amtrak's tracks. they're all using -- at certain times, the same sets of tracks, right? >> that's right. there's a lot of shared use, amtrak's a big owner of track in this area, and septa, and a lot of freight lines use the track to move freight back and forth through the area. >> tell me how speed works. the train is going to slow down coming into the st...

>> you sort of look around. the train is dark. >> i hear people first. >> what do you hear? >> people screaming, asking questions, how do we get off of here, what happened? not complete chaos, but more so shock and fear. and i looked to my left, and there's a woman in the aisle and she's bleeding from her head, and i asked her, i said, are you okay? she said, i'm okay, i'm okay, i'm okay. >> and then what happens? >> and then i see smoke starting to come into the car, and then that's when i got scared. i was just thinking, can this car catch on fire? can something blow up? why did this happen?...

Don't rush them what's the hurry? the american people are voting with their feet people want to ride the train, amtrak ridership has been going up and up and up setting a new ridership record every year since the year 2000. even as an amtrak fan, i can tell you, the service has been getting worse, less on time more expensive with each passing year, because the system is starved of funds and not getting any younger, and is a complicated moving piece of infrastructure, and we keep not investing and fixing it but americans want to be able to travel this way, because we need this form of travel as...