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But the conclusion the ntsb team leader says is premature. >> clearly he was reckless and irresponsible in his actions. i don't know what was going on with him. i don't know what was going on in the cab. there's really no excuse that could be offered literally unless he had a heart attack. >> i'll distance myself from such remarks. we are here to conduct a fact based non emotional investigation. to make comments like that is inflammatory at this point. >> you think the mayor was wrong in saying that? >> well you will not hear the ntsb making comments like that. we want to get the facts before ...

In the u.s. would have to get just slightly more modern not like, you know hydrogen powered cars and jet packs and futuristically hypermodern stuff, just some basic systematic safety upgrades that would take advantage of the fact that we are now a society that has things like computing machines and gps. this is not the most high-tech stuff. what they mandated for the u.s. rail system is something called positive train control. a very basic avoidance system that reduces stupid operator error or a train conductor having a heart attack at the engine. it reduces the chance that something unfortuna...

I'll just take a water... get your credit swagger on. become a member of experian credit tracker and find out your fico score powered by experian. fico scores are used in 90% of credit decisions. there is technology that can stop another deadly amtrak crash like we saw in philadelphia. it isn't always used. why is that considering taxpayers spend more than a billion dollars on amtrak? mike ashe joins us now. thanks for being here with us. explain to us what you see as the problem and what the solution could be and what we're facing on the heels of this deadly train crash? >> we all watched a...

A station so whom ever boarded at that station may not have been swiped in electronically, maybe that person missed the train, maybe that person may have been treated, walked away from a hospital, maybe never got to a hospital. >> that's one of the primary things that authorities say they're trying to get to the bottom of. >> so what did the mayor say effectively? one of the first things that stands out how little information we know? >> right now the focus is very much on this investigation. we know seven representatives from the ntsb arrived at the small hours of this morning, more on their ...

Carnage. one of those cars just mangled and bent in half. absolute terror on the rails there in philadelphia. >> we have talked about the train conductor being injured and there have been questions about the conductor but the conductor on the amtrak train, it's the tickets and tend mainly to passengers. the engineer is the one that drives the train and would be in the first car. we have not heard law about the engineer but we know most of the severe injuries are in the first, second, third car on your screen, will one with the most turnover. we will hopefully speak to a passenger who was on th...