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Most of america's rail systems have missed a critical safety deadline. the department of transportation says only four of the nation's 41 rail systems met the monday deadline to implement positive train control which can prevent derailments and collisions. others such as amtrak have applied for or been granted extensions. the chairman of the ntsb told congress last february 150 accidents which caused 300 deaths since 1969 could have been prevented by the technology. several water fountains shut down at cleveland hopkins national airport after passengers aboard a frontier flight became sick. ...

We are lucky about amtrak because what if the train hit a ball? we would have had a lot more injuries on that event. trains are essentially aircraft structures rolling on the ground. we need to have the same type of digital cockpit communication inside these engines like we have on the air buses, boeing aircraft. imagine if we did not have positive claim control, air traffic control come a we would be in a lot of trouble. rob: we have been working on the system, positive train control, for quite a few years, look at the deadlines we have passed, 2008 congress required installation of train con...

Control is the solution. this has been confirmed this week by the ntsb and it is all about traffic control systems like you see in the highway control systems invented by augustus morgan in 1923. he was the first to own automobiles in cleveland, black history month. the key thing is to stop these trains, automatically stop them when they see obstruction and feed control. had to slow the train down to negotiate the turn before it went into the interstate highway system. and need to look at if there is obstruction as control begins to break the system but more importantly positive train control ...

Policy, leaving the switch in the wrong position. late saturday or early sunday, csx turned that switch and moved one of its freight trains from the mainline to a siding. but that switch was not flipped back to the mainline. and when amtrak 91 arrived, heading south to miami, it was diverted onto that same side track, and in less than 700 feet, slammed into the parked freight train at more than 50 miles an hour. that switch should have been flipped back to the mainline, to save this amtrak train. >> well, i'll put it this way. that switch should have been lined, so that that amtrak could have ...

To acknowledge any wrongdoing. >> yet to acknowledge any wrongdoing. it is impossible to ignore this is the latest in a string of issues, crashes for amtrak, over the last couple of months. what is -- what is happening there? is there any connection between them? >> reporter: well, the ntsb chairman is saying you have to look at each of those four crashes on a case by case basis. because when you look at what happened in virginia and north carolina, those were both cases where drivers of vehicles went around the closing arm at the railway crossing. in one case in virginia, a garbage truck, in ...