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Hour. >> do you have trains that go up that high? >> amtrak can go faster than septa at 70 miles per hour. >> i got to see from the helicopter today, that turn which is -- it basically is close to a right angle as you can get on a train. obviously the track curves, it's doing this essentially. >> what's the -- the protocol when you're making a sharp turn is the turn rated for speed also. >> the track speed will be downgraded based on the curvature of the track or other factors such as inclines and declines, the track is -- track speed will generally decline in a curve. depending also on super ...

It, they don't mind things the way they are now, despite the occasional apocalyptic fireball, 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 ...

Consistently subsidize more and more special interests. what we should have been doing is subsidizing the safety of those passengers on that amtrak train yesterday. >> you have no idea, no idea what caused this accident. and to use that as a mines of supporting the last amendment. support it if you want to. >> that's appropriations committee marking up a transportation bill that cut amtrak today. we're back live from philadelphia. here with me now, ed rendell, former pennsylvania governor, philadelphia mayor, and co chair for a group called -- this is something that's near and dear to your hea...

Just north of manhattan at a curve in the river, it's called spiten ivel, it's technically in the bronx. a lot more people could have been killed in that crash, the aren't tracks curve is because of how close the rail line gets to the river there. when that train derailed, those cars -- see the water at the bottom of your screen. those cars went spilling toward the river. had they gone into the river, we may not just have seen blunt force trauma. we may have also seen drownings. both the metro north train and amtrak crash was on a sharp curve, in both of those cases we had trains traveling alo...

Hospitals. many were treated for rib fractures from being tossed by the train's violent motion. nbc news has confirmed that the train's engineer was named brandon bastion. he was reportedly injured in the crash and later released from the hospital. the ntsb has not yet interviewed bastion or the train's crew. which means while we have some idea of what happened, we still don't know why. joining me now, tom kos tello. tom, the engineer has been identified. what do we know about him? what kind of legal situation does he find himself in this evening? >> 32 years old. he's been an engineer for fiv...