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As if we could be so lucky. it is the week before christmas, but of course, it is all systems go. tonight we are following developing stories on a few different fronts. on the issue of voting rights in the upcoming election, the crucial, crucial, crucial, crucial, swing state of wisconsin is, as the president might say, going through some things right now. in a lawsuit brought by a conservative advocacy group, a state judge has just ruled that the state of wisconsin must immediately deactivate the voter registrations of more than 200,000 people who live in wisconsin. 200,000. more than 230,000...

State judge has just ruled that the state of wisconsin must immediately deactivate the voter registrations of more than 200,000 people who live in wisconsin. 200,000. more than 230,000. i mean, for context, the newly elected democratic governor of wisconsin, tony evers, he's pointed out in reaction to this ruling that he won the governorship last year in wisconsin by less than 30,000 votes. this new immediate voting purge ordered by this state judge sort of engineered by this conservative legal group will deactivate, will purge, the voter registrations of more than seven times as many voters a...

That will deactivate -- >> [ inaudible ] -- >> we want to know exactly what was in that car. >> let me call on you. i'll take a question right here. >> [ inaudible ] -- >> well when was the last time the rail was inspected? before accident and post accident? the rail geometry car went across the track yesterday. and as far as our thorough examination of the track you've got to understand, there's been a lot of activity out there right now. the cars have been piled up out there. so our real thorough examination of the car -- of the track will begin after those cars are thoroughly removed. i exp...

So we have called for positive train control for many many years. it's on our most wanted list. congress has mandated that it be installed by the end of this year. so were very keen on positive train control. we feel that had such a system been installed in this section of track, this accident would not have occurred. [ inaudible question ] is this train equipped with a dead man switch? some have it, some don't. oftentimes in place of the dead man switch they have an alerter. if there's no activity from the engineer within a certain period of time, their oral and visual alerter will activate i...