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Couldn't afford to subsidize train safety. well, two weeks ago, they repealed the entire estate tax at a cost of nearly $700 billion to the treasury without a penny in offset. so instead of subsidizing special interests, we need to subsidize the safety of americans and their infrastructure. >> let me ask you about that train ride. everybody takes that train from d.c. to new york and loves it. but the problem with the train ride is it's the opposite of a bullet train. it doesn't go straight in a line. it jumps back and forth. it goes around every corner in every big city. it's a jagged line. ho...

>> yeah, engineers go through very intensive training. locomotive engineers go through months and months of training, where they have to learn every nook and cranny of the railroad. where every signal is, every speed change is. where every spich is that they can change from track to track, they have to memorize this stuff. in some cases, we have signal systems that will alert the engineer when speeds change. so that they can reduce their speed, they get in on the alarming side of the cab, they'llry deuce their speed. generally, it's ingrained in them, they test on that every year, they test on...

But, you know, like in any situation, we were all pretty banged up, but you've got to get through it and you've got to be there and you have to help people. it wasn't be every man for himself, you have to do it as a team, otherwise, you all perish. >> john, does ntsb have any recommendations for train safety that you think should be incorporated that would help guide people after these kinds of crashes? >> you know what really has to happen here? we have to stop treating rail cars the way we treat airplane interiors. we have standards for airplanes for seats, for seat belts, for what's on the ...

You've seen what could be the reason why this happened. robert, thanks again. i want to turn to frances rivera the results of our pulse question about train safety what are people saying? >> we're asking do you think trains should be required to have seat belts. let's take a look at our score board so far, how you respond. nos have dropped about little over ten points since we last checked in over an hour ago. 48% say yes. now we're seeing a pretty even split or getting closer to that. take a look at how you're voting in the last couple of minutes here in real time when we asked, the zigzag th...

Determination of what happened and what they can learn from it, all those crews need to get to work very quickly to try to get all their data together. the ntsb suggested earlier in terms of the information coming from the black box at least, they could have some of those facts laid out today. >> we learned from the mayor's news conference there's this forward facing video camera that will be so huge. i don't know if they will release it. i hope they will because it gives us the viewers and obviously the public so concerned about train safety a little more information. obviously at this point,...