feinberg? ms. feinberg previously the fra : has not taken action on -- mr. mica: they have not taken action on any of these. ok, and then 2008 was also a recommendation. they did not take action on that, is that correct? ms. feinberg that is correct. :mr. mica: in fact, it's been very difficult. in fact since then, many freight rails have installed those devices. are you aware of that, ma'am? ms. feinberg: yes, sir. mr. mica: in fact, but it's been difficult. in fact, they had to go through lawsuits. i want this to be entered into the record. here's kansas city southern was attempting to put into cameras in the cab. they were sued mr. comstock and his group. not only will both unions fervently apose the lawsuit, they will ask the court to join them from going ahead with a plan. could we put that in the record, please? thoost cameras and history and nothing being done. let's talk about financing these and positive train control. you just recommended you're going to have fra financing available?

feinberg. billions of dollars in the cost. ms. feinberg: i would differ to amtrak and the actual cost. they have predicted it. how far they have to go to complete it. >> i am sorry, i did not hear the base question. >> you said that ptc is not implemented in all of the points? mr. boardman: it is installed but it is not activated. $100 million is where it is at the moment. >> thank you, my time has expired. >> thank you mr. chairman and thank you to the witnesses today. i know there are still a lot of facts and many more questions we have to examine you for we get some real answers. there are some things i want to follow up on. on may 12, my understanding mr. peters, is the engineer who was operating was doing so under a new controversial work schedule that began on march 23 of 2015. that included shorter turnaround times on most runs that happened before march 23. i guess i am just curious as to whether the union or the workers had been consulted prior to the implementation of this new work sc

feinberg. i have a question for you. just make sure i'm clear it's my understanding that the fra, and this come from testimony, they will use all powers including enforcement fines and adoption. we know how they would assess adoption. we know how they would assess the fines. would they be assessed a daily? is there a policy that's been defined regarding that? ms. feinberg: the goal of our enforcement actions and any safety regulators is to bring about compliance. >> i understand the goal. do we have a policy? ms. feinberg: as we discussed earlier we are finalizing that now. most of the policy is public and has been public since 2010. there are various signs and penalty and most of it has been public since 2010. we are in response to the congress' request finalizing our strategy now. we want to be completely transparent about what the railroads and congress can expect. >> and might be daily and might be otherwise? ms. feinberg: that's correct. >> so a few days after you were here after the terrible mishap in philadelphia,

miss feinberg and mr. boardman, can you speak to the future of amtrak and passenger rail if congress continues to use patchwork approach to continued improvements? >> well, i would like to say mr. sires that my concern has been the reliability of the railroad. the reliability of what we do for our hardware on our system. the reliability of our use of tunnels. whether it's in new york or through the baltimore tunnels. that our reliable on the portal bridge that's ready to be rebuilt that doesn't always shut properly. so the funding for infrastructure on the northeast corridor is absolutely behind the curve. in the last reauthorization of our funding in the pria act, there was a commission established out of all the states, the federal government and amtrak, along the northeast corridor, and that's where the $21 billion backtjt came from of the necessity for us to rebuild corridor corridor. we also have a requirement because of the growth of traffic on this corridor. we're handling over 2,000 trains% a day o

feinberg and mr. boardman can you speak to the future of amtrak and passenger if congress continues to use patchwork approach to funding britain's? >> i would like to say and i've said many times, especially to the chairmen i think that my concern has been the reliability of the railroad. the reliability of what we do for our hard work on our system. the reliability of our use of tunnels, whether it is in new york or whether it's through the baltimore tunnel, but our reliability on the portal bridge that's ready to be rebuilt that doesn't always shut properly. so the funding for infrastructure on the northeast corridor is absolutely behind the curve. in the last three authorization up our funding into pre-attack there was a commission that was established of all the states the federal government and amtrak along the northeast corridor -- pria act -- for the necessity for us to rebuild an equity investment in this corridor. we also have a requirement because of the growth of traffic on this quarter we'

feinberg?>> previously the fra has not taken action -- >> did not take action in 2000 it was also recommendation. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> it's been very difficult. since then many of the freight rails have installed those devices. are you aware of that? >> yes sir. >> that it has been difficult. they've had to go through lawsuits. i want this entered into the record. kansas city southern is attempting to put in cameras in the cab. they were sued by mr. comstock and his group. not only were both union to post, i'll be asking the court to join them going ahead with the plan. and we put that in the record please? that is the cameras and a little bit of history and nothing being done. let's talk about financing and positive train control. you just recommended you will have fra financing available. >> the program has financing available. >> since 2012 how many phones have there been? >> i believe there have been three. >> two up until this year. a total of three. the joke is we've ha

feinberg. again let me thank you for your response. the last committee meeting we did something somewhat out of the ordinary and asked you for a quick response with some of the questions this committee had on the amtrak crash but i think that those issues are important to resolve and understand quickly come in this committee thank you for your rapid response. we're getting the answers to those questions back out to committee members this morning. i did want to continue on exchange you and i had several times now. i pressed fra on positive train control is such a big priority, why are you not using california high-speed rail of dollars to upgrade not only the corridors of those connecting routes in california? california obviously we're ptc was started it is a big concern for those that ride the rail in california. it's a big concern for those who live by real in california. this is a national issue but in our home state were looking to provide leadership to resolve the safety concerns that people have quickly. and california high-speed

miss feinberg ms. feinberg said they are looking at having a two-person crew situation as an internal solution along with some additional backstops as well. until ptc is implemented for deadline after deadline. would you would you be supportive? >> well, i think it is not necessary. commuter side of the house. we have crewmembers in the train itself. >> operate with 1% in 1 percent in the cabin 2 percent of the money. we don't support that initiative clicks you currently have two people. clicks is already being done. what industry-leading support of having two-person crews as an interim solution? is just not necessary with respect to give him where we are in the stuff you would have to go through to remove one member clicks okay. thank you. the only thing i would ask the record is in addition to the other things ms. feinberg may or may not, she now has apparently sent him to the hospital which obligates me to have to go visit him. abcaseven with that my questions are done and i see no more from members

miss feinberg, do you agree with mr. boardman's comments that amtrak will reach the december 2015 deadline to get ptc in the entire northeast corridor? >> we see no reason they will not meet the deadline. >> and do you have an estimate of time frame for the rest of the corridor? >> well, beyond the fortheast corridor, other than in michigan, the amtrak decision will be dependent on freights implementing ptc. so that could take some time. >> do you have any estimate on the cost of that? >> the cost is in the billions. billions have been spent. they have billions further to go. >> multiple billions of dollars to the rest of the amtrack system? >> yes? >> and what about the rest of the class one freight railroads? how much would that cost? >> i actually thought that was the question you were just asking. so again billions. >> what about the short lines? are they implementing positive train control or just for the class ones at amtrak? >> it's for class ones and for passenger railroads. >> so the short freights will not be d

feinberg. i have a question for you. just make sure i'm clear it's my understanding that the fra and this come from testimony, they will use all powers including enforcement fines and adoption. we know how they would assess adoption. we know how they would assess the fines. would they be assessed a daily? is there a policy that's been defined regarding that? the the goal of our enforcement actions and any safety regulators is to bring about compliance. >> i understand the goal. do we have a policy? >> as we discussed earlier we are finalizing that now. most of the policy is public and has been public since 2010. there are various signs and penalty and most of it has been public since 2010. we are in response to the congress request finalizing our strategy now. we want to be completely transparent about what the railroads and congress can expect. >> and might be daily and might be otherwise? >> that's correct. >> so a few days after you were here after the terrible mishap in philadelphia, i asked you, joe the $1.3 billion

feinberg. regardless of whatever plan the fra chooses those mandates the use moving farther i hope the agency keeps careful tabs as i do on efforts in reports and submit your we already know they have released ambitious and aggressive timelines for finishing the ptc installations and some of the issues we've had with them which we have discussed. and i think we need to make sure we follow up and keep rails the safest possible. thank you. i yield back. >> assortment. if i could make one point in response to the back and forth. we've asked for a sum total of $2 billion to go toward tbc and fermentation and technologies. 825 million integral america but altogether 2 billion. we are in favor of the additional federal funding going to ptc of limitation. >> thanks, mr. lipinski. >> thank you, mr. chairman. good morning ms. feinberg. got a question here for you, start out to make chocolate packets may be sent to fra, and this comes from testimony, fra will use all its enforcement powers including warn

feinberg, maybe you have covered this.in all, it has taken these railroads several years to get to the point where they are now and apparently there's still a pretty good ways to go. i am wondering, do you have any estimate of how long it will take your agencies to certify the railroad after this process? >> the status versus safety plan estimated to last. basically the railroads plan and how they will ensure the system is working. we have perceived one and turn it back around to the railroad. and you're in close consultation offering edits and changes to make sure the system is going to work. we feel confident as they roll and we will be able to turn them around in the kind that time periods that we've laid out for the railroad. as of now we've just received one. >> are you satisfied with the progress that the railroads have made thus far? >> i am not satisfied. i would not be satisfied unless the deadline were going to be met. >> you know, my dad told me years ago when i don't wonder what he was talking about the time bu

feinberg: the e.o. that went out last week or -- i'm sorry, ten days ago was aimed specifically at amtrak. we are looking beyond amtrak to see if we would take similar or other steps at other commuter railroads and we went directly to amtrak and others beyond that. >> only amtrak. ,s/ms. feinberg: for the emergency order. >> does that mean you have the authority to tell connecticut and massachusetts, are they able to be included with that. ms. feinberg: that would want work for the emergency order that's currently out, but that's what we're looking at right now for next steps. >> see if you can include them? ok. mr. boardman, positive training control. you said in your statement you're committed to getting it by the end of the year. the -- can you talk a little bit about the process that you've been talking to the last couple of months and i know you were talking spectrum and that was the last step of the equation and can you talk about the cost and the money? you have the mono sdpe can you talk about t

sarah feinberg made the comments during a hear on capitol hill. investigators believe the technology would have prevented last month's deadly amtrak derailment in philadelphia. feinberg said while she understands, the commuter and freight loons will struggle to meet deadline after december 31st she will have to find them for each violation. happening now a 13th republican is johning the tries the be the%'s nom the for president. vote 2016 news. louisiana governor bobby jindal is running for president. jindal announcing on twitter. in two hours, we share the first campaign event in louisiana. he is joining a crowded field of a dozen other major candidates seeking a republican nomination for 2016. >> today, the it? approved a bill. that means he will be able to negotiate trade deal on the own. congress can approve or reject the agreement but cannot change them. president obama plans toes sign the bill. >> still ahead tonight just ahead, her at 6:00, president obama define fens the plan to change hu the u.s. responds to the americans peg held hostage

neil: ken feinberg, thank you very, very much.hose just tuning in, this is part and parcel what this show will be about. it is about breaking news and about topics that transcend business and general news. in this case a major automaker is saying that 109 people directly died or whose deaths were directly attributable to a faulty switch. part of this show's motif, if you will to respond to news. will be on any news. we do not have script or prearranged segments that are sort of a gimmick. we follow the news of the moment, the news of the day, but when the markets are big we're on them. they are right now so we're not. we're looking at some of the crosscurrents like we had in gm and we have with politics with the railing against big money and big corporations. now in the case of martin o'malley campaigning for the presidency of the united states, on fat cats. which i think includes this very thin fat cat, paul mitchell. cofounder of john paul today juror yo. always good to have you? >> a pleasure. neil: with o'malley camp, or berni

miss feinberg ms. feinberg said they are looking at having a two-person crew situation as an internal solution along with some additional backstops as well. until ptc is implemented for deadline after deadline. would you would you be supportive? >> well, i think it is not necessary. commuter side of the house. we have crewmembers in the train itself. >> operate with 1% in 1 percent in the cabin 2 percent of the money. we don't support that initiative clicks you currently have two people. clicks is already being done. what industry-leading support of having two-person crews as an interim solution? is just not necessary with respect to give him where we are in the stuff you would have to go through to remove one member clicks okay. thank you. the only thing i would ask the record is in addition to the other things ms. feinberg may or may not, she now has apparently sent him to the hospital. which obble gates me have to go visit him. add that to the stack. with that my questions are done. i don't see any

the southbound side, the speed limit is very different than on the northbound side. >> reporter: feinberg and the federal railroad administration are counting the days until automatic train control can be replaced by the modern day speed safety system known as positive train control. by december 31st congress has mandated ptc be operating on every passenger railroad in the northeast. >> it's hard to say if amtrak should have actually predicted that this could happen but look any time there's an accident like this we are going to take all the steps that we possibly can to take quick action to address any issues immediately. >> reporter: an amtrak spokesman says the railroad is reviewing today's safety order and will take appropriate steps to implement the recommendations. we also checked with septa, who says the older automatic train control system is active on all 280 miles of its railway. both say that they will have that positive train control system in place by the end of the year. i'm mitch blacher, nbc 10 news. >>> a jury is deciding whether a bucks county man right here will be sent

feinberg or anyone else. at the same time once we do it how do we avoid a bad actor from simply ignoring it again for any reasonable for a time. two years come in three years five years 10 years without a stick. mr. orseno. i don't want the fines, but how do i do it any other way? >> as his brother. many occasions i believe that beyond that for me 2000 safety act that was a date agreed upon. once we got into the significant challenges -- >> i understand how we are today. today right now if i say to you write a law that says in some. of time to three five years we will have this done. how do i enforce it if i don't have lines? >> i think we need to look at it at that time. the key issue is right now we are going to meet the deadline. it is not for lack of buffer. >> the bottom line is i don't know any other way. this is why fines are in place. you have contracts with suppliers to with suppliers that gave been fines if they don't meet their requirements. we have to have the same thing if we think the ptc is imp

feinberg? >> we're happy to get that to you all. >> you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. mr. boardman the $800 billion of stimulus funds isn't it true amtrak got $1.1 billion total? >> i'm sorry, sir? >> of the $800 billion stimulus funds, $240 billion was tax cuts not spending isn't it true amtrak was allocated $1.1 billion not $800 billion? >> i think it was 1.4. 1.3. >> 1.3. and the total cost of -- that was basically congress instructed you to spend that on projects that were ready to go as fast as possible, infrastructure projects, is that correct? >> that's correct and you spent it on what in broad terms? >> night an tick river bridge and some additional infrastructure -- >> infrastructure bridges and so forth, which i assume had you not spent on those it would have been safety problems? >> yes. >> so the basic -- okay thank you. amtrak has requested for fiscal year 2016 now does this go beyond finishing the implementation of ptc by the end of this calendar year? yes, it is o

feinberg: two person crew is something we've been taking a close look at. it's less relevant in passenger service because there are multiple people on the crew. amtrak had five people on the crew, i heard six people on a crew on this particular train. it's usually discussed separately. but following the metro north incident, one thing we required is for the engineer to be in almost constant conversation with the conductor to make sure that they are talking back and forth signals and make sure the conductor had access to an emergency brake which is another good approach. mr. sanford: i hear my gentleman's tap, tap, tap. i get the message sir. >> i'd like to change the chairman for being expedient today and yielding back so much time. mr. behalfen. mr. behalfen: last but not least, hopefully. thank you, witnesses for your time and efforts this week to try to reach answers to this great tragedy that occurred in the northeast corridor. it's been interesting to listen to these lines of questioning. it's hard to imagine why it's so complicated to get the answer t

feinberg you are recognized with that. >> thank you, charman denham ranking member capuano, and members of the committee, thank you for allowing me to appear before you. ptc is the most important safety development in more than a century. elements of ptc have existed since the early 20th century. regulators and safety advocates have been calling on the rail industly to implement some form of the ptc for decades. the rule is fully implemented by december 21st 2015. ptc is required on lines where hazardous material is transported and required on any railroad where inner city or computer rail passenger service is conducted. following passage of the ptc in 2008, railroads submitted their plans in 2010. these plans laid out a path forward that would allow each railroad to meet the deadline. safety is the federal railroad association top priority. the rail system is not as safe as it could be without the full implementation of ptc. a safe rail system requires the full system of positive control and that is why we will enforce the 2015 deadline for implementation just as congress mandated. faa

we have an exclusive interview feinberg doerr and set -- john doerr.oming up, the singapore air is to reclaim the longestitle from the flight from singapore to new york and we will also show you the longest flights currently available. pimm: and california courts decided yesterday that uber drivers are employees and not independent contractors. we will also look at a separate suit in boston. scarlet: and janet yellen urged investors not to focus on when the central bank raises rates but instead at future increases. with matt miller spoke merk investments about janet yellen's comment yesterday. >> i think the term coming out of yesterday's meeting was watchful waiting. there is the thought that a september high could happen. they probably could hike that this year, but they gave no indication that it could be september. matt: is her plea that they are data dependent at odds with the implicit promise that they will raise rates a tiny little bit sometime this year? richard: they want to have it those ways, they want to stay independent, but they want to g

jon: from former white house communications director dan feinberg he writes he finds himself in rare agreement with karl rove and the growing size of the 2016 republican field is actually a good thing. what do you think about that? some of the republican side said they are concerned that this field is going to cannibalize all the candidates cannibalize one another. >> it is a good thing for the gop because they have no next in line. the field is wide open, gives a lot of people chance to get in, to move the party in which direction they want to move it and when you have competition it really does help the eventual general election candidate because they have to prove themselves and carve out a big section of the gop collect for it. the fear is if it is up too much, it is too bruised for the general election but i don't see that happening with so many candidates. there is only going to be a lot of fighting going around and that won't hurt the eventual nominee because there will be so many candidates taking pressure off the eventual nominee. jon: if hillary clinton is the democratic no

plus, why feinberg says real time train data won't be included in this. keith? >>> it was a moment that put big smiles on people's faces today. a local group that helps homeless veterans gets a big surprise. more accurately that would be 35,000 surprises. we will explain next. >>> plus new at 6:00 what led to an insurance fraud bust that landed these people on your screen behind bars. >>> the new jersey legislature is deciding on a bill that would require school districts to develop marijuana policies for students. the bill was inspired by 16-year-old jenny barber of maple shade. she was diagnosed with severe epilepsy and uses cannabis oil. her mom has to pick her up at lunchtime, drive her home so she can take that medicine. the bill would allow her to stay at school and have stunomeone there administer the drug. >>> in south jersey a medical marijuana facility gets the green light. it received a state permit today. patients will have to wait at least three months to buy anything. it will take that long for the crop to grow. >>> smoking rates in philadelphia ar

ken feinberg told us in charge of the composition fund he sees nothing deceitful on the part of the companyoes not envision the count or expense to make good on the families of victims to go prohibitively higher but there is nothing deliberate going on here, deliberate going on here, maybe just more of a lack of understanding. whether that removes a cloud over gm is anyone's guess, but for now a reprieve in the federal government. >>> based on a jobs report that was good, better than good, but it fueled speculation echoed by the new york fed head that we see interest rates hiked this year rather than next year. whether that would be a good or bad thing and whether everyone is feeling what they are talking about? >> i think one of the numbers that is revealing is the number of people working part-time for economic reasons that they would like to work full-time but can't find that job, and need more work in order to pay their bills. that number rose to 6.7 million from 6.6 million. you have to ask yourself about the quality of these jobs and the pay of these jobs and could be why you see the

feinberg, you're not as old as i am. when i was a kid, you know we didn't have is thes in the car. we had them but -- i take that back, i'm not sure that we had them. i was thrown in the back of the station wagon and played all day long and run around in the back until my mother or father turned around and made that threat, sit down, i'll stop this car, you know, every kid my age heard that yet we put seat belts in the cars. you restricted my freedom! you have seat belts in airplanes. you restricted my freedom. yet, i can still get up and go to the bathroom in the back. i understand the structure of current trains make it not much use. i get that. i get the fact it could take 15 years to get where we. to be on seat belts but at some point, again, on the presumption that seat belts help, assume they do because the automobile and airplane industry instituted them, and some people do not wear them. i'm not perfect myself. i did not start wearing a seat belt until i screamed at my own kids to put a seat belt on and then i realized i was a hypocrite, so i wore my own seat belt, which li