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Collision or an overspeed derailment. that technology is a lifesaver and should be on all of those routes now. >> it wasn't used here. we don't know if it was there and not implemented but it wasn't used by this train on this day. now, i do understand the track has undergone millions of dollars of improvements but it was still a track previously used for occasional freight and military transport. could that be problematic at all? >> so it's still too early to tell if positive train control could have prevented this crash because you have to know what the cause of the derailment was. but certai...

Installed on the track, but not yet activated. republican congress is ready to pass an extensive rewrite in the tax code today. the bill widely unpopular. we'll break down final numbers mean for you. welcome back to ear"early start." i'm christine romans. >> it was movie night at the white house. they watched "the darkest hour." we start though in washington state where a federal crash investigators on the ground in dupont, washington to probe the deadly derailment of a passenger train. at least three people were killed and 100 injured when all but one of the 14 cars jumped the track. over...

The ntsb. you used to do exactly what the folks are doing now. how can a train be going 80 miles an hour in a 30-mile-an-hour turn? >> well, in this particular case, since there was no positive train control, it's all up to the engineer. and if he's distracted, asleep, or medically disabled for some reason, there's nothing to prevent this kind of an accident. >> yeah. again, we can talk about positive train control in one second, it wasn't implemented here, probably would have saved a lot of lives or three lives and many injuries there. i still can't my head around the fact that on this train'...

At 80 miles per hour. much faster than the posted 30-mile-per-hour speed limit for the curved section of track. investigators already recovered the train's rear black box. and they also know this. life saving technology called positive train control, was not activated on this brand-new passenger rail line. p.t.c. forces speeding trains to automatically slow down. >> we're going to find out exactly whether ptc or positive train control would have prevented this accident. it's a great disappointment that positive train control has not been implemented in every single railroad across the country ...

Run down an embankment here it looks like they've been strewnq about and thatfá gives us a prey good idea that it was a speed-related incident. that speed on this curve, fori] whatever reason, caused the i've seen, of headed into the turn and reports now say perhaps that turn should have been taken at 30 miles per hour andxd other reports say th train might have been going as fast as 80 miles an hoe&r that would indicate, nothing is ever as simple as it sounds, buá the train was taking the turn far too fast. why is another issue. >> the last time we talked about philadelphia train derailmen...