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One of our priorities is to recover those recorders and begin a readout of them. ed: my recollection, sir, you are aviator by training but you have had in your position to learn a lot about the train system in this country. give us a big picture because i realize it's early and i don't want to keep pounding about an investigation that's just started. people waking up and see this happen. i ride amtrak all the tile for work. i have to say it's usually very safe. we have to give that context. people are waking up in the united states this morning and seeing that we have now had three crashes jus...

Congressman zeldin was telling us. almost every republican member of the house and senate were on and are on this train that was headed from washington, d.c., to a retreat in west virginia and apparently hit a truck in crozet, virginia, just outside of charlottesville. at first blush, knowing the facts that we know, which is not a lot right now, and hearing the firsthand accounts, what's your sense of this? >> well, other than the train was full of, you know, a large number of members of congress, this actually is a typical accident. the problem in the united states is our trains that intersec...

Highways. i think this is the really critical thing, more importantly, safety is important at the intersection of these roads of transportation. we need positive train control because train separation and collision avoidance, ensures enforcement and that the temporary speed restrictions that are necessary for making wide turns and sharp turns and more importantly our train system -- as small as 30 miles per hour, that's a requirement. this is what president trump is calling for in that infrastructure bill. rehabilitate our crumbling infrastructure. you are right, you and i were pointed out and...

Track miles and train stations that would need to be secured around the united states. this is not happening yet. it is -- the train system here in the northeast is what i would call partially secure. if we were actually going to make a move to fully secure it, it would cost billions of dollars. >> bill: 140,000 miles of rail lines. madrid, brussels, it can be a popular target. >> terrorist organizations would love nothing more than replicate the attacks in europe here in the united states. the reason they haven't done it so far doesn't come down to rail safety standards in the united states, ...

Overnight tonight and into your sunday. here's your overnight lows. you are seeing that we're at them. 30 in detroit. so not a huge difference there. and it will have to warm up in chicago to get down to that early morning low for tomorrow. you begin to see the temperatures climbing just a little bit for you on sunday. running become down into the 40s, mid to upper 40s in some cases. the same will be true for us on monday. then more of a heat-up begins to pump in on tuesday and wednesday and we'll bounce back into the 50s. and things will be feeling more comfortable after dealing with cool wea...