joseph boardman is that -- is our guest.ving in vietnam, he served in many positions on the new york or to transportation, now he is the president and ceo of amtrak. we have a special line for amtrak riders. stafford, virginia, good morning. the same question people used toat travel on greyhound, and there was only one greyhound bus service those days. $60 one way charge to new york. once they had competition on the road, now new york one way is $20. monopoly on the basis of amtrak. i wanted to give you one more thing -- why amtrak is not spending money in the service because i just happened to drop off one of the past -- one passenger at quantico the other day. i saw something that is happening in third world's now a day, even they have a better service. down a sort of bench to stand up and then go to the train. this is [inaudible] -- there was no platform, and this is a waste of money that amtrak is getting from the government. it is tomuch politicized and they should have competition. guest: you are right. there is 100-ye

"amtrak president joseph h. boardman was very upbeat about the new program saying, 'so now you can have all the great service of amtrak plus a car loaded with random dogs [ laughter and applause ] up next, some college news, editorial. "sorry, malia obama." so brown university student newspaper issued an apology to malia obama after it published a photo showed the next daughter standing next to a beer pong table during her college visit. let's go to the last line of the news story. "in closing, the editorial board of the 'brown daily herald' would like to reflect on how weak-ass and ratchet it was to publish those pics. it is our firm belief that the privacy of every student is mad important. as we continue to promote campus life that is fleek as hell, sometimes when you're on that journalism grind, you make mistakes. in conclusion, swerve, swag money, and turn up. those solo cups, doe. the 'brown daily herald.'" [ laughter and applause ] it's nice of them to apologize. in science news, gene editing could make pig-to-hum

the: we're joined during most busy time of the year for amtrak by the ceo, joseph boardman.riders,mtrak 202-748-8002. we want to go to the crash earlier this year. i we enter closer to knowing what happened in the seconds before the crash? they have investigated and look at everything. know what occurred here and why this tried to go around the corner at the speed they went around and derailed. host: what's the status of the engineer? guest: he is still out and under investigation. host: one of the issues they came out was positive train control, how far along the implementation was for the system. can you explain what the system is and how it would've helped? guest: positive train control is a way that you can stop trains if your overspeed, way to control train speed--a way to control train speed if you're in a work zone. it's a technology that has been around for a while. it is in the north section from new haven all the way to boston. it has been there for a considerable. o period of time. deadline by the december on our mainline services, 363 miles of the northeast corri