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Been a good day since. i'm turning it over to chris hayes, "all in" takes over right now. >> all right. >> thanks chris. >> thanks for joining us. i'm chris hayes taking over we are live as you see from philadelphia at the scene of amtrak train's 188 catastrophic derailment last night. where investigators are continuing to probe through the wreckage, the crash killed at least seven people eight are listed in critical condition. more may still be missing. the federal investigation has only just begun to probe what happened. here's what we know according to preliminary information from the train...

Implementation of something like positive train control, that has to be done with the tracks, which the private companies have to do, amtrak can't do that by themselves. >> absolutely not. absolutely not. >> and, you know, i don't blame amtrak. first of all, our rail bed from boston to washington is so bad because it's curved everywhere, curves are inherently dangerous when you're going any significant speed. to give you an example, the acela can go 150 miles an hour on a straightaway. but from boston to washington, it averages 80 miles an hour, because of all the curves. because of all the cu...

Suddenly derailed and crashed while rounding a curve on its way out of philadelphia. seven people confirmed dead at this point, more than 200 people injured. as to what happened and why. what we've learned substantively about the derailment has largely come from that data recorder. investigators confirming that the recorder indicates in a the train at the time of the derailment was traveling at more than 100 miles an hour, through that curve. more than twice the posted speed limit for that stretch of track. ntsb officials say the train reached a peak speed of 106 miles per hour, the train's en...

Covered three bodies on the wrecked train, and two bodies from nearby. people who had been thrown from the train. one of the critically injured patients who had been taken to temple university hospital succumbed to his injuries. they discovered another body on the train, it brought the confirmed death toll from the train 7. this man was a senior vice president at wells fargo, jim gaines, justen zemzer, a young midshipman at the u.s. naval academy, he was heading back home to queens, new york where he was from. also, rachel jacobs, who was ceo

>> here. hold on. hold on. here. go, go, go, go, go. >> hours after amtrak train 188 went off the rails, it had already become a political football on capitol hill. by sheer coincidence, the house preparations committee was scheduled to take up a transportation bill today that includes funding for amtrak. >> the budgets that this majority continues to present consistently subsidize more and more special interests what we should have been doing is subsidizing the safety of those passengers on the train yesterday. >> you have no idea. no idea what caused this accident. and to use that as a means...