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To potential civil liability, and because as it stand ss right now, there is a $200 million cap on the single train disaster and so eight folks who have tragically died and countless, close to 170 or 180 other folks injured and 200$200 million poppy is not going to come close to compensateing them, but if it is owned by pacific union or someone else then the claimants can sue the private company, and there is an agreement with amtrak and other freight companies where amtrak would absorb all of the financial liability. >> which means in part the taxpayer. >> absolutely. so what that means, popp...

This goes to potential civil liability because as it stands right now, there's a $200 million cap on a single train disaster. so here we have eight folk who is have died countless, 180 other folk who is have been injured. $200 million is not going to come close to compensating these individuals. now if this track was owned by a private freight company such as union pacific or a company named csx, then the claimants could sue in addition to amtrak the private freight company and, guess what there's an agreement in place between a.m.mtrak and all these private freight companies where amtrak woul...

>> are you really going to ask? that's a stupid question. listen, they started this yesterday. it's all about funding. it's all about funding. obviously it's not about funding. the train was going twice the speed limit. >> that was house speaker john boehner snapping at a reporter there but also really going after democrats for what he says is playing politics over the train disaster in philadelphia. democrats are slamming republicans after a house committee voted to cut money from amtrak's budget by 15%. that's just what democratic congressman steve israel did on our show yesterday. listen to...

The sight of tuesday's crash in philadelphia was in the area the nation saw one of the deadliest train accidents in history. in 1943 a train from washington to new york went off the tracks killing 79 people. amtrak's deadliest accident in history occurred in 1993 in mobile alabama. a tugboat smashed into a river bridge causing it to collapse taking the train passing over with it. 47 died. moments ago, the ntsb national transportation safety board held a conference telling us the advanced civil enforcement should have slowed the train down could have. it's in most of the system but not this are...

After that oil train disaster in rinchburg, the transportation required information being given to local communities when they were moving through their areas. that requirement led to a spate of local news articles over the past year about how many oil trains were moving through your particular city or town. local newspapers were able to inform the public. states were forced to turn it over through the freedom of information act. the oil industry tried to prevent it but the states had to come ply with the record requests, so we got the local news. the new rule says the information has to be sh...