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matthew l. wald who's an expert here on accident -- also peter goelz is with us an aviation expert and transportation analyst and also mary schiavo, who everyone knows is a former director general of the department of transportation. and we have a former police commissioner of new york city bernie -- bernard kerik welcome who's helping us out here. we came on the air at 10:00, just an hour ago. we had just gotten information, just as we were going on the air tonight, that there was a derailment in philadelphia. we were told it was near philadelphia in the northeast corridor and it was the frankfort section of the city. as we are awaiting now, it is in the frankfort section and it is in philadelphia proper. and you're looking at this as it unfolds now. are we looking at live pictures again? this is live pictures of our chopper, affiliate's chopper, kyw in philadelphia. and you can see those train cars have been tossed on their side. some of them appear to be badly damaged. earlier, all we saw, there w
matthew l. wald who's an expert here on accident -- also peter goelz is with us an aviation expert and transportation analyst and also mary schiavo, who everyone knows is a former director general of the department of transportation. and we have a former police commissioner of new york city bernie -- bernard kerik welcome who's helping us out here. we came on the air at 10:00, just an hour ago. we had just gotten information, just as we were going on the air tonight, that there was a derailment...
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matthew wald joins us now and he is an accident expert. math yo matthew, you said this is one of amtrak's worst accidents? >> yes. the railroad has a pretty good safety record and the northeast corridor generally has a good safety worker. they have occasional accidents where a track worker is struck. these accidents are infrequent and there's a reason. they are pretty well engineered and pretty well maintained. something has gone wrong either with the train or the track or both. they are both amtrak's problem, both amtrak's issue. in the past they have had a crash because i think it was back in the early 70s because the engineer was high on drugs. you can get all sorts of problems. the train system is getting more automated and that's positive train control. and that can eliminate a category of accidents but at the moment we don't know what category this accident is in. >> uh-huh. mary, you want to talk about that? >> and matthew's exactly right. positive train control is something that gives the train and the conductor and the people worki
matthew wald joins us now and he is an accident expert. math yo matthew, you said this is one of amtrak's worst accidents? >> yes. the railroad has a pretty good safety record and the northeast corridor generally has a good safety worker. they have occasional accidents where a track worker is struck. these accidents are infrequent and there's a reason. they are pretty well engineered and pretty well maintained. something has gone wrong either with the train or the track or both. they are...
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matthew l. wald you were talking about the train and we've been talking about the capacity of the tracks. there have been issues with these tracks. >> yes. i should say, also if this happened in the city limits of philadelphia most likely the train was going at a moderate speed. >> yeah right. >> that train, when it gets to the flat straight-out areas of maryland can go over 100 miles an hour. but in philadelphia the track is older, there are more curves generally it's going slower. and the faster it goes the bigger problem it will have if it derails. the track -- they've had every kind of problem there is with the tracks. it's an extremely heavily used stretch of track. it's got lots and lots of commuter traffic, even got a little bit of freight on it. i ride those trains every now and then you'll even see an oil train on the tracks. and they have trouble keeping it in a state of good repair. at one point, because the u.s. rail industry is in such decline, the steel mills have stopped making the hea
matthew l. wald you were talking about the train and we've been talking about the capacity of the tracks. there have been issues with these tracks. >> yes. i should say, also if this happened in the city limits of philadelphia most likely the train was going at a moderate speed. >> yeah right. >> that train, when it gets to the flat straight-out areas of maryland can go over 100 miles an hour. but in philadelphia the track is older, there are more curves generally it's going...
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former "the new york times" safety expert matthew wald said this is shaping up to be within of amtrak'sents. >> the railroad actually has a pretty good safety record in the northeast corridor generally has a pretty good safety record. they have occasional accidents, a track worker is struck. for both commuters that operate on the same track and amtrak trains, these accidents are infrequent. there is a reason, they're pretty well engineered. pretty well maintained. something has gone wrong here either with the train or track or both. both amtrak's problem. both amtrak's issue. >> you have been watching "cnn newsroom." i'm rosemary church. do stay with us. of my colleague john vause will join me for another hour of news. but it is not the device that is mobile, it is you. real madrid have about 450 million fans. we're trying to give them all the feeling of being at the stadium. the microsoft cloud gives us the scalability to communicate exactly the content that people want to see. it will help people connect to their passion of living real madrid. something we do to show resolve. to defen
former "the new york times" safety expert matthew wald said this is shaping up to be within of amtrak'sents. >> the railroad actually has a pretty good safety record in the northeast corridor generally has a pretty good safety record. they have occasional accidents, a track worker is struck. for both commuters that operate on the same track and amtrak trains, these accidents are infrequent. there is a reason, they're pretty well engineered. pretty well maintained. something has...