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You don't have? >> we have all the resources that we need, and we did get those -- what we call light cannons. we had to make sure the scene was secure and stable. that the train had cooled down and it was safe to have personnel at that part of the site but governor wolf has been here two nights in a row. we've had numerous members of congress both from the house and senate, the true bipartisan response to all of this, we have an incredible array of public

It's a project we as humans have been doing for over 100 years, right? >> without a doubt. it's evolved from train safety 100 years ago, where there were no signals, trains relied on their schedule, their schedule told them where they should be. if the schedule said, you weren't supposed to be there, then the train that was supposed to be there just assumed you weren't. now we have snams. and those signals help -- it's a big improvement. and then, of course, we're evolving into positive train control where we want train toes talk to one another. we want trains to talk to the track and tracks t...

Represents parts of philadelphia, that would have more than doubled amtrak's funding. instead the republican dominated committee voted to cut it by more than 18%. joining me now is a democrat from pennsylvania. i've seen a lot of folks say look, first of all, the train was speeding, and you don't know that more money would have fixed this problem, this is essentially just using an accident, a horrible accident to advance something you believed in two days ago anyway? >> well, first of all, it's not my amendment, it's not my number. this is the president and amtrak's proposed budget that was su...

That's smashed by the force of the impact into just a rugged area of ground there, off the track in between two lines of track. you see two lines of track there. in between those two lines of track, there's a little 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 one, two, three, four five, six cars still laying there. three of them more or less intact and upright. three of them laying on their sides as trains are operating, moving debris from the...

Country, it gets even more and more, because there's lots of little railroads and freight lines that operate all over the country that eventually are going to have to be integrated. >> one last question, you don't wear a seat belt in a train. you wear one in a plane, you put it on on a plane, geez, if we crash, we crash. i don't know what the seat belt's going to do. why don't you wear seat belts on the train? wear a seat belt in a train. you wear one in a plane, you put it on on a plane, geez, if we crash, we crash. i don't know what the seat belt's going to do. why don't you wear seat belts ...