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Made that curve safely. >> i mentioned a similar accident to our viewers a short time ago. there was an accident and i believe we have the video. and an accident on metro north tracks that are amtrak tracks north of manhattan a year and half oochlth and metro north commuter train missed a curv e and turned out that the engineer was taking the curve three times the posted speed and he was going much faster than that. >> is that the kind of thing we might be looking at here? >> positive train control is designed to prevent that accident. and since i believe there was positive train control syste...

Confirmed, of about 2403 total individuals we believe were on the train. we are still comparing train manifests and hospital records and matching up individually pieces of information that we can glean. again, people buy tickets and don't get on the train. some amtrak personnel try to get from one place to the other, may not have had a ticket or identified as being on this particular train. so we're tediously trying to two through that. i'm not going to get into, you know the mathematical calculations of how many folks and how many did you transport and what happened to the people in between. ...

There? >> there's one event recorder. and that's in the locomotive in addition to the event recorder there is a forward-facing camera. >> was the train equipped with any sort of system that could have or should have slowed a train that was going too fast prior to the curve? >> was the train equipped with any type of device that could have or should have slowed it down to keep it within its limits? amtrak throughout a good bit of the northeastern corridor has a system called advanced civil speed enforcement. that's called acse. it's installed throughout most of the northeast corridor for amtrak...

Correct, but the first thing they're going to look at is how fast was this train going for the track it was on. >> if it was going too fast around that curve, is that a human error, conductor, the engineer or some other problem potentially? >> it could be any number of things, but you start with human performance. was the conductor, was the engineer operating the train appropriately leading up to the turn was he applying the brakes ape lately was there any kind of failure in the braking system that would have prevented him from entering the turn at the correct speed. those will, you know the e...

You know the mathematical calculations of how many folks and what happened to the people in between? yes, if you want that answer yes. >> mayor, can you talk about the train control system? we heard there were gaps here in this corridor. >> i have no information about that and i'm not in any position to articulate on that. yes, ma'am. >> a lot of philadelphia may be looking for leader in washington about what your office is going to do to prevent these kind of disasters from happening. can you speak on that? >> let me deal with that. again, i'm going to ask for your understanding and your indu...