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We've got crumbling infrastructure in this country. the american society of civil engineers say we score about a "d" on our physical infrastructure. >> problems with our infrastructure that cover our rails, cover our roads, bridges, water supplies, our natural electric grid have been preceding a pace in a terribly negative way. no president, no congress, nobody has shown the political will or leadership to tackle the complexities of theess projese . and there's no silver wand to wave. everybody can say i'm going to fix this and put money into it. but unless you get into it with the people who ...

Using positive train control. the system uses gps, wireless radio, and computers to stop trains from colliding, derailing, and speeding. >> the slightest oversight and you are in this jackpot and that's why we really, for 25, 30 years, the national transportation safety board has been begging the railroad industry to implement positive train control. every time he gets close, our congress pushes it back. >> many of the dozens injured are still hospitalized tonight. ten are said to be in serious condition. we know the identities of two of the three people killed in the accident. both were big a...

That was just upgraded. i'm just a short distance away from where this crash happened. this is the first day of this corridor running, and this was upgraded to handle amtrak trains traveling at a higher rate of speed, a max speed of 79 miles per hour. now, amtrak did tell cnn that at this point, they can confirm that the positive train control, that it was not activated, so there are going to be a lot of questions about this technology, why wasn't it activated? and amtrak also released a statement. if you know somebody aboard this train, if you are connected to this train crash, here's what am...

But they have said that the train wasn't using the latest safety system, which is a system known as positive train control. had positive train control been in effect, that system might have been able to slow down the train remotely if in fact it was going too fast for that curve. so interstate 5 in washington is still closed and it will be. this is a huge accident. a terrible derailment. we'll let you know more as you learn more over the course of this hour. this is still very much a developing story. so we woke up to that major news this morning. shortly thereafter we got? lower-profile but f...

I know it's early in the investigation, but isn't that what it looks like? >> yes. we are going to find out exactly weath whether the positive train control attributed to this, it can prevent these exact types of accidents which are over speed derailments, as well as other types of accidents, train to train accidents and work zones, and it's a life-saving tool that should be implemented nationwide. >> i know you have not interviewed the engineer yet, and i know you need to rule out personal failures and i know you have to do all that, but i have been having this conversation and reporting on t...