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Memorized. to think that a stone hitting or something distracted him that he would have hit that forward, there's a lot of safe guards that go in place as far as the training that go into this. although they can be improved as we talk about with the positive train controls as well. >> but where were they? we know he pulled brake just seconds before it hit that current and derailing. it took some time obviously to get up to the speed that it was unsafe before they got to 100 miles per hour? >> it did. there was obviously some kind of disconnect, whether it was in his mind, from the stone from w...

New york times." it talks about how amtrak is working feverishly to get this done, to get the positive train controls even on that section of track. the gear is. there the switch ain't on. effecti effectively, it's because the federal government did not give them the freedom to give those radio airwaves, just to talk simplistically by it. it forced them to go up by the mall for private companies. and not only that, there is also this technical need to make it homogenous, all railways need to be able to use the same stuff even though they don't have the same equipment and congress did not respo...

Talk about what matters right now and a total inability to focus on the thing at hand in this moment it is deal with what happened and come to conclusions. if we put the cart before the horse every single time guess what? real problems don't get solved because we're going to spend our time fighting over the phony stuff. >> great to see you, chris. >> you bet. >> joining me now, robert zimmerman a democratic national committee member from new york. as i look at this and in march the senate commerce committee voted to extend the deadline for implementing the positive train control and democrats ...

Speed the speed limit at that section of the track. at the curve, it was 50 miles an hour. the train was going 106 miles an hour. another thing they are telling us is this section of the track near philadelphia did not have positive train controls. that is an expensive piece of technology but mandated by congress to be placed on all rail lines in the united states by the end of 2015. it was not placed in this section of the track near philadelphia. what is positive train control? an automatic override system to warn the engineer if the train is too fast for a section of track. if the engineer ...

The ntsb is looking at the signals and mechanisms involved. they are saying the key component is speed. they say the train was going twice the rate of speed it should have been going at that section of the track. at that curve, the limit was 50 miles an hour. another thing they are telling us this section of the track near philadelphia did not have positive train controls. that is an expensive piece of technology but mandated by congress to be placed on all rail lines in the united states by the end of 2015. it was not placed in this section of the track near philadelphia. what is positive tra...