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Automatically. amtrak's ceo is apologizing profusely. he calls this a wake-up call. >> we have to continue to improve and evolve the safety culture at amtrak. none of us want to ever happen at a site like this. we owe a greater duty and responsibility to our passengers and the communities we serve. >> reporter: and we do understand that ptc, the positive train control, that could have automatically slowed this train was installed on this set of track but not set to go into effect until the second quarter of this year. it was still in the training and testing phase. we do have a live look at th...

Dupont, washington with breaking developments from overnight. >> reporter: the question is why amtrak launched its high-speed passenger train service before activating special technology, control technology that might have prevented what we saw here, positive train control, slowing a speeding train. >> huge supporters, positive train control, capital allocated to get it done, putting all the resources on, no one wants positive train control more than amtrak. >> railroads are under government orders to install technology by next year. it is expected to be completed on the span where this train

We have all our capital allocated to get it done. >> he said the system should be in place on this stretch of track by next spring. congress has ordered the nation's railroads to install this technology but under pressure from the railroad industry, a 2015 deadline was pushed to the end of next year. >> national transportation safety board has been begging the railroad industry to implement positive train control. every time it gets close our congress pushes it back. it pushes it back and keeps doing that and realistically thousands of lives we've lost because we don't have this positive train...

The 30-mile-per-hour limit. >> the emergency brake was automatically activated after -- when the accident was occurring, rather than being initiated by the engineer. >> reporter: the train was making its first passenger run between seattle and portland on newly upgraded track, filled with rail lovers like zach willhoite and jim hamre, two of the three people who died. >> it was like being inside an exploding bomb. >> reporter: beverly and charlie heebner were excited for that maiden run, too. >> i saw her legs, i reached down and i shook one, and she shook it back. i said, "oh, boy, are you al...

A new kind of network designed to save you money. call, visit, or go to xfinitymobile.com. confusion and contradiction in the wake of that deadly amtrak crash in washington state that killed three people. officials say the stretch of track where the train derailed did not have positive train control. a system that automatedly slows down and stops a speeding train. a different safety system was in place, one that most likely would not have prevented the derailment. >> we have confirmed that ptc