the enormity of the railroad system. within a few years, the industry was terrified at the changes it was seeing. this facility would see it within 20 years. it went heavily underutilized because things changed. if you wonder how this process began and why it was profound for smaller cities, as early as the 19 30's, it was clear that railroads were doomed. you could imagine why. this is new mexico. i put this in because they have the distinction of being one of the few cities that had a railroad with the standard gauge, which meant it could go anywhere in the u.s. they felt the future was in narrow gauge railroading and they shrunk the track gauge. by the 1940's and 1950's, it was evident that if you were to ship a rail car, it would have to be transported somewhere. bring it to grant johnson or nearby -- grand junction or nearby. they avoid that sort of thing. put it on a truck. the trucking industry siphons off business. but remarkably, this line hung on until the 1960's. i think we have 747s flying and development. cle

some died because they were by the railroads. we ended up with five or six transcontinental lines and more to come. the enormity of this and the land devoted to railroads when they start to retrench especially in the heartland, is astounding. let's get a sense for what the inevitable decline has meant for cities around the country. here we are in cincinnati. born in cincinnati. that is not why it is on the slide today. this is the very end of the expectation the railroad will last indefinitely. this is the cincinnati trend will -- terminal. this is a great showpiece. what architecture would you call that? art deco style. 19 3-d33, a little bit like the chrysler building. the reason i show this picture is often times when people think of railroads, they think of stations. they don't think of entire quadrants of city. you look at the cincinnati terminal, it was built away from downtown. you had underground parking under large parts of the facility, as well as the norm is -- enormous industrial facilities. 1933 was a bad time to open

the railroads manage to end the treaty system. they corrupt the treaty system which is correct enough to begin with. finally it is corrupted in such a way that congress aggregate's the treaty system and still have an agreement. the railroads also have a problem. the transcontinental into subsidies for two reasons. the first is they have to secure california for the union. the problem with that is the civil war is over in 1865, and they have not really started building the railroad. so you don't really, you can use the civil war as an excuse. what is substituted is the railroads as a way to subjugate. and in fact, they are. perfectly true. they bring about the rapid subjugation of indians by the ability to move troops, but my argument would be without the railroads there would have been no need to fight those forced to begin with. the settlement would have taken place much more gradually, and in the end much of the american west would look a lot more like the navajo reservation and the pine ridge reservation. that the kinds of deve

the case. with a few exceptions most railroads will not meet the deadline. this has happened for a few reasons. technology has been more difficult to create, spectrum has been hard to acquire particularly for commuter railroads that serve populated areas. and finally, the federal communication commission approval process for new telecommunication polls was not set-up to handle the tens to thousands of polls needed to deploy ptc. i am looking forward to hearing from you today, the witnesses, and where it stands, and your testimony will help consider how we move forward to deal with the mandate in an appropriate fashion. >> i will call on mr. defazlo for opening statements. >> thank you, mr. chairman. are you sure your microphone is working? jeff does not need a microphone. thank you, mr. chairman for holding the hearing. we will focus on the extension of the deadline. it is clear the class one will not meet the deadline and some passenger rails will not. this has been something that has been a very, very long time in the making. it was 45 years since ntsb firs

een sounding the alarms most railroads are not meeting the ptc. fra has dedicated resources to assist and guide implementation. we hired staff to oversee implementation and worked with the fcc to resolve spectrum issues and improve the process for communication towers we built a ptc test bed at the transportation technology center in colorado we have provided 650 million in grant funds to support ptc implementation including american recovery and investment act grants and amtrak grants and other annual appropations. we have requested $825 million to assist computer railroads and issue issued a loan to new york's met metro transportation program the largest in the nation. i have established a team that is managing and monitoring each individual railroad's progress tracking data, insuring we have the most accurate data and reporting to me multiple times a week. the team is working with many individuals at fra based here in washington and offices around the county already working on this challenge. but unfortunately, despite fra's financial support,

the railroads are currently investigating the matter. commitment along with the rest of the straight implements as expeditiously as possible. with that said they grant the authority to provide waivers on good faith that is in the implementation of ptc and i want to thank the committee are inviting me here today. i'd be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you mr. orseno. >> good morning chairman denham, ranking member term of the members of the committee. i misspoke erwin, deputy project manager for the rail authority a.k.a. metrolink. positive train control program. i appreciate the invitation to testify today to update the subcommittee on the significant investments metrolink is making to increase safety of our passengers ptc. scratcher report as of june 14 metrolink is wholly implementing ptc in revenue service demonstration after the 341-mile note work. the major accomplishment in the fra next week on june 30th and certification in accordance with the rail safety improvement act of 2008. they have seven roster six counties in sout

the case. with a few exceptions most railroads will not meet the deadline. technology has been more difficult to create spectrum has been hard to acquire particularly for commuter railroads that serve populated areas. and finally the federal communication commission approval process for new telecommunication polls was not set-up to handle the tens to thousands of polls needed to deploy ptc. i am looking forward to hearing from you today, the witnesses, and where it stands and your testimony will help consider how we move forward to deal with the mandate in an appropriate fashion. >> i will call on mr. defazlo for opening statements. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thanks for holding the hearing. we will focus on the extension of the deadline. it is clear the class one will not meet the deadline and some passenger rails will not. this has been something that has been a very, very long time in the making. it was 45 years since ntsb first recommended the idea of positive train control. you know they have had it on their most wanted list for many years and it was rem

the commuter railroads are currently investigating this matter. it is mattress commitment along with the rest of the rail industry the ultimate ptc as expeditiously as possible. with that said would ask congress to grant afford to broadway for space on good-faith efforts and the funding to support the limitation of ptc and i want to thank the committee for inviting me here today. i would be happy to answer any questions. >> good morning chairman denham, ranking member capuano and members of the committee. my name is russell crowe deputy project manager for the southern california regional rail authority a.k.a. metrolink. positive train control program. i appreciate invitation to testify today to update the subcommittee on the significant investment metrolink is making to increase the safety of our passengers ptc. i am proud to report as of june 14, metrolink is fully implemented ptc across the entire 341-mile network of metrolink owned lines. in addition to this major accomplishment we will submit our ptc safety plan to fra next week on june 30 see

i thought i would start looking at the railroads. i realize there are real roads in canada, railroads and mexico. initially i thought this was going to be pretty easy. i will look at how they operate. what i found out is it is one big railroad. whether they are in mexico or canada, whether they are in the united states, capital comes from the same place the technology comes from the same place. it is really an interlock system. at this point i realized i did not know what i was talking about and this became very different than the one i set out to right. i started out thinking these are going to be powerful efficient corporations. i did find the birth of modernity. it is just not what i expected to find. mine has as much to do with failure. >> you conduct a running argument. he is most well-known for the phrase creative destruction, the history of capitalism and modern economies it is all about creative instruction. you want to tell us a little bit about your regard for the way you have taken him on? richard: what i do see is creative

many of those new people came to work on the railroad. 1860, those 4400 people in kansas city or half the size of saint joe, almost half the size of leavenworth, kansas. slightly bigger than independence. but by 1870, we grab the railroads. the picture on the right-hand side is an iconic picture. i thought it was appropriate because on july the third, 1869, the hannibal bridge was dedicated as it crossed from the north land where i live today over the missouri river into kansas city. with the completion of that bridge, kansas city's economic explosion began to be solidified. all the railroads that were then built throughout the burnt district across kansas, across the united states. many of those railroads came through kansas city. the other thing that is important in terms of the metamorphosis is that the city itself literally, physically transformed. i bore my wife on a regular basis as we come across the ridge today and remind her that in 1869, when this bridge was completed, the missouri river bluffs were 120 feet high. and they are g

many of those new people came to work on the railroad. in 1860, those 4400 people in kansas city or half the size of saint joe, almost half the size of leavenworth, kansas. slightly bigger than independence. but by 1870, we grab the railroads. the picture on the right-hand side is an iconic picture. i thought it was appropriate because on july the third, 1869, the hannibal bridge was dedicated as it crossed from the north land where i live today over the missouri river into kansas city. with the completion of that bridge, kansas city's economic explosion began to be solidified. all the railroads that were then built throughout the burnt district across kansas, across the united states. many of those railroads came through kansas city. the other thing that is important in terms of the metamorphosis is that the city itself literally, physically transformed. i bore my wife on a regular basis as we come across the bridge today and remind her that in 1869, when this bridge was completed, the missouri river bluffs were 120 feet high. and they ar

on the railroads. i stipulated that the single greatest contribution that my generations can make to the industry is to have aptc as rapidly as possible. and i promise you that by the end of this year the system which will dramatically enhance safety would be complete and operational on the nec. thank you. >> ms. feinberg, please proceed. >> chairman shuster, ranking member defazio, neighbors of the committee thank you for the opportunity to discuss issues related to me 12 amtrak accident in philadelphia, pennsylvania and the safety of passenger rail. we extend our deepest sympathies to victims of this accident and to their loved ones. i can assure them that will take every step we can to ensure an accident like this cannot happen again. i also want to thank the city of philadelphia, it's a mayor in its first responders for their heroic an incredible response to this accident their leadership was truly remarkable. let me say at the outset all of us at the fra are heartbroken about this tragic accident.

lanterns and assumes these guys are working for the railroad and that the tracks are washed out aheadop the train otherwise they might derail. >> got a nice train, mr. conductor. mind if i come up and check it out? >> one of the great aspects of cassidy was his avoidance of violence. and when he robbed the train, he would separate the engine and the coal car and express car from the people. >> move it! >> and that way they could rob the express car at leisure. >> loaded with cash, gold and other valuables from the east, it's a bank on wheels. >> last chance, kid. open up. >> when the express agent refuses to open the room holding the safe, cassidy uses his special master key. >> is it a dud? >> not a dud. [ laughter ] >> from this crazy heist, they wind up getting about $40,000. it was over a million dollars in today's cash. >> the wild bunch blasts their way into an incredible payday while striking a serious blow to the railroads making the gang a prime target for law enforcement. >> all right, boys. we're going to go. >> while cassidy himself may not have a taste for violence, his w

on the railroads. i still believe the single greatest contribution that my generation of railroaders can make to this industry is to implement ptc as rapidly as possible, and i promise you that by the end of this year this system which will dramatically enhance safety will be complete and operational on the nec. thank you. thank you, with that ms. feinberg, proceed. >> chairman schuster and ranking member defazio, thank you for the opportunity for discussing issues related to the amtrak accident in philadelphia, pennsylvania and the safety of passenger rail. we extend our deepest sympathies the victims of this accident and to their loved ones and i can assure them that we will take every step we can to ensure an accident like this cannot happen again. i also want to thank the city of philadelphia, its mayor and first responders for their heroic and incredible response to this accident. their leadership was truly remarkable. let me say at the outset all of us at the fra are heart broken about this tragic

on the railroads. i still believe the single greatest contribution that my generation of railroaders can make to this industry is to implement ptc as rapidly as possible, and i promise you that by the end of this year this system which will dramatically enhance safety will be complete and operational on the nec. thank you. >> thank you, with that, ms. feinberg, proceed. ms. feinberg: chairman schuster and ranking member defazio thank you for the opportunity for discussing issues related to the amtrak accident in philadelphia pennsylvania and the safety of passenger rail. we extend our deepest sympathies the victims of this accident and to their loved ones, and i can assure them that we will take every step we can to ensure an accident like this cannot happen again. i also want to thank the city of philadelphia, its mayor and first responders for their heroic and incredible response to this accident. their leadership was truly remarkable. let me say at the outset, all of us at the fra are heart broken ab

certainly, and we don't want to punish railroads further ahead for the behavior of railroads who have not done any work on implementation at all. so we're having an internal conversation. we have discretion within the statute on how we enforce against the deadline, it can include anything from very little enforcement to daily civil penalties. >> all right. thank you very much. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. duncan. with that, mr. serros is recognized for five minutes. mr. serros: thank you, mr. chairman. you know, i ride the amtrak just about every week. i ride the amtrak just about every week. and this accident really hit home. miss feinberg and mr. boardman, can you speak to the future of amtrak and passenger rail if congress continues to use patchwork approach to funding improvements? mr. boardman: 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 reliability

many in the railroad industry want to put the brakes on the breaking system. the federal railroad administration says it could cost 1.7 billion - not cheap much patricia the have vice president of the association of american rail roads says it's just not worth it. thank you for being with us. anthony foxx department of transportation says pneumatic breaking systems offer a higher level of safety than current systems. saying: sounds compelling. is cost the only reason you don't like the system. >> the freight rail industry doesn't like the e doctor. p braking system. dot could not make a safety case for the regulation. there's no data that warrants or justifies the regulation and people are not talking about the fact that trains today have sophisticated braking systems. brags have not factor into the crude oil accidents that occurred in the united states. frankly, ecp brakes do not protect accidents. and preventing accidents is what we have you focus on. >> we look at lac-megantic, and many times we see a car, train derailing we see cars backing up because they

the first one focuses on the underground railroad. and the reason he wanted to do that the college wanted him to do that, is that there is a strong connection by way of the american missionary association. they were the very outspoken very effective, very dedicated group of abolitionists antislavery folks, who among other things, were the backbone of the underground railroad. so, the first panel is dedicated to the underground railroad. an what you see is peopled being helped, being given guidance where they could go to hide out being given supplies to help them escape and run away and be successful in taking their freedom into their own hands. because that is a lot of what cycles are about is that agency. and i think so often we think of slaves people who are under the control of others as not being able to act for themselves. in both the case of the amistad and the case of the underground railroad, these are people who risk their lives but they decided like the amistad crew they are going to take that chance in order to try to escape

the tracks that went along the railroad tracks. nough police officers to secure an area that big and to get them out there quickly from all over the state, what is a very rural area that's a challenge, and again, we've talked about darkness is approaching. >> let's talk to our viewers joining us on this breaking news. tell us again what a credible sighting means. >> they talk to the individual who made the sighting it could be real. it's a person of relative -- someone is not trying to make this up or they're suspicious about why this person called this in or trying to be famous or they're not right. >> something they verified in person? >> i would say yes, at some point, before you're going to devote 1,000 officers to this area they're going to talk to that person directly and get as many facts as they can. what the suspects looked like what they were wearing, what were they carrying. how far away were they when they were spotted 37 what were the lighting conditions, did you see their faces. all of that would be considering that wh

he's accusing the railroad track of negligence and misconduct. in addition to the 8 people killed in the derailment, more than 200 others were injured. >>> a lawyer for relatives of people killed in the german wings crash says parent company has made a compensation offer. the company reportedly is offering 27,$740 in compensation per -- $27,740 in compensation. all 150 people on board were killed. >>> nearly 75 people are dead l going the crash of military transport plane. the ac 130 went down in the residential neighborhood just minutes after it took off from a nearby air force base. 38 bodies have been recovered from the crash scene so far. >>> breaking news at this hour, cnn is reporting the superintendent of the clinton correctional facility in new york have been placed on leave. this is the prison where o two convicted murders broke out the facility almost a month ago . captured killer david sweat is giving them a blow-by-blow account on his escape. the original plan called for them to escape to mexico but they had to improvise when prison wo

the most part. a couple of class very railroads in kansas city and the other in st.louis believe we need the ones to implement train control and those communities. the rest is primarily the class one railroads and our part would be to implement in locomotives and we will be ready we believe when they had their positive train control available. >> amtrak in california, you say you are not responsible they are? >> if it is not powerline, we are not responsible. >> okay. this feinberg, in terms of implementation, are there any penalties that would be imposed for railroads that have not met the implementation? >> we have significant discretion in how we would impose penalties but we are having an internal conversation now about how we will go about enforcing the deadline. >> and when will you complete the task and the public what now? >> in the coming weeks i would say. >> in the coming weeks. this feinberg i also wanted to follow up with you just in terms of your opinion and blew a full implementation of ptc. do you think a two-person crew is something that would be an

i mention the railroad because we know all this information comes 24 hours after the leads had gone cold there was a lead from last weekend, two unconfirmed reports of sightings of men walking along railroad tracks matching these two men's descriptions. the police are taking the leads seriously based on the witnesses on the ground telling us how many police officers have converged on the area. >> tom fuentes, former fbi. you heard what sarah just said, and i am going to take a look at what the scanner said, and it's saying scanner traffic again, how much greed kwrupbs do we give this, but they spotted two females in the front seat of a car and two males that matched the description of the escaped prisoners -- >> the two males in the backseat, and they were able to see their socks. >> that strikes you? >> that strikes me that this might be a madup broadcast by somebody to give that to the police to fool them. because for them to have seen all of what they are wearing they would have had to get out and walked around and if they know they are being hunted, they are going to -- it just soupd

but the railroad tracks they said you could see them out of the get-go. but others who disagreed said dad is the other track is ugly. and i was astonished that i made that mistake often so they just snap the photos if there was nothing behind it but one girl was sitting in a large share issue was swelled and was taking a picture of the toilet in her school. and i thought here is another one. so i said why? and if she said look at what we have to put up with. nobody cleans the said they played mitt on us. how interesting. i've learned a lot from them and it was challenging the matter what they think to do so those who do not know them as these criminals who that there are in gangs during these kinds of things and i thought that was amazing that no matter how hard they work to take part in this program of those get no thugs the resonates so they had a chance to challenge that. this is the way we live in because of the gain members and according to the program they cannot associate and they will be expelled from the program so they got so much out of it they

the prison where they escaped from. they had officers walking trails and along railroads. t that led up to this this is day 16 of a manhunt that like i said until friday night was concentrated around this area. but on friday the public received word that there had been two other unconfirmed but possible sightings of these men also close to the new york/pennsylvania border about 80 miles east of where that press conference was just moments ago. these two towns, irwin and lindley, new york both of them along railroad tracks and both of them near the border with pennsylvania. but police even though that sighting was supposedly last weekend, police didn't learn about it until midweek and didn't obtain surveillance video to verify whether or not it was those two escaped inmates until friday and they're still today working on enhancing that video to determine if it was in fact those men. but that's part of what led to this massive search yesterday because that area is not that far away from where they began to search around 4:00 yesterday afternoon. very intense, active search in

we have perceived one and turn it back around to the railroad. nd 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 but he said everything looks easy from a distance. i was reading over the testimony. the task force is still a monumental. csa do a complete airborne laser imaging survey of our entire 21 dozen mile network to make all assets -- have all assets mats within 7% and installation of 5202 wayside units replacing signals along 7500 miles of track and 1285 basins, equipping 3900 locomotives, trades with 16,000 employees. these tasks monumentally have been conservativ

my mother was sitting on the other side of the railroad and we took off and the next railroad stopped at west holland. i looked out the window, ensure and sure enough, there they were waiting for us. we went back to amsterdam. when i got back to amsterdam, i got on the phone and i called my teacher, the only person i knew -- not the only person i knew, but the only person i knew who might be able to help us. and the teacher, i called him on the phone and i said here we are. this is what happened. my father was arrested. my mother and i are here. and again, without thinking for one second, he says, come right over. so this is 1943. we are walking clear across amsterdam. from the railroad station. and we wind up back at mr. in'thout's house. here again, this little apartment. it is a city apartment. we were there. and we stayed in one room. my mother and i stayed in that room for two and a half years. never left the room. never saw fresh air. and it is a strange feeling. even a prisoner is allowed every day to exercise. we could not exercise. we were in that room. and so here we are. th

alternates in case and speaking of 202 here it is in norristown, 202 right at main street where the railroad gates were stuck in the down position earlier. they got them fixed so traffic moving normally now through the intersection. just to the north watch out for a broken down vehicle along trooper road at germantown road; pike. tam. >> thank you matt. >>> this story is developing this morning. firefighters in chester were called back to the same city block for the third time in five days. of course the question is are all of these fires connected? "action news" reporter katherine scott is live along bickley place. that's where we find her right now with the latest. good morning katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam. and we are expecting a press conference later on today so we're hoping to learn more about what exactly is going on here but last night firefighters were back on this block again. this latest fire started in that end row home but in recent days, some of these homes which were -- some of them were vacant or under renovation caught fire. three homes in the last four days. nei

. >> the railroad companies of america. it was founded in 1862 with the pacific railway act. so it combined several railroad companies to make union pacific and then they were charged with building the trancescontinental railroad. so they started here and moving west at central pacific started in on the west coast and was moving east. and they met up in utah. and that's really what propels us even farther. we become that point of moving west. the gateway to the west. >> see all of our program from omaha saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's book tv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 on american history tv on c-span3. >> it was in december of 1938 that two german scientists split the uranium atom. no one had done it until late 1938 and then the germans did it. and that just fueled the fire of the fear. >> oakridge national laboratory is a major research institution and oakridge national lab has been around since right after the second world war. and is a major and perhaps in some senses the premier research institute in the entire united states. and some people would contend the worl

the railroad is in violation considered an amusement attraction. adult entertainment. >> is with the issue lies. the children were coming off the train and add their pickaxes and were smashing the ground and breaking rocks up that can be considered some of the corey work. but these but these stones are actually brought in from somewhere else given to the children. they can leave and have a memory. they don't consider that to be part of the ordinance at all. >> six and a half years. all of a sudden we have one neighbor complains. the local government is a bill they said they were working with continue working. they been working against us >> i try to catch up with 24 -year-old mayor to see what his big issue is. basically held a couple town meetings without notifying the railroad company so that they can present themselves in front of the board. he said this. >> folks get off the train across the street and began participating in some of these activities that were not approved by the township there is a liability concern bill: is he just a coward? h

we've asked the railroad shut the camera off if there's no safety sensitive duties being performed and -- >> what about about -- >> right now they run 24/7. the parts we have taken exception to, i'm trying to identify we haven't said that there should be an outright prohibition, we said that the implementation has been done in a way there are disputes over it. >> do you believe there's a sound public policy in favor of having an inward facing camera on the operating engineer at all times during the moving of the passenger rail? >> i know that's where the industry is headed -- >> that could be a yes or no answer. >> just so you know all of the activities of the engineer are already recorded on an event recorder through the technology of the control stand. all we get is a picture of what it does. we already know with the exception of the cell phone use what he does. >> my time is up. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman, just to round out the point on funding -- well first of all congratulations on being named the future administrator. i want to point out throughout this p

>> well it depends on the commuter railroad. many commuter railroads have atc. some of them have it in some locations and not in others. >> reporter: the nbc 10 investigators first confirmed automatic train control was not operative on the northbound section of track taken by amtrak 188 as it derailed. amtrak has said experts didn't think a train could gain enough speed between 30th street station and the frankford curve to derail. amtrak's ceo explained this to congress in a hearing last week. >> it was a reasonable decision reached by reasonable experts under reasonable circumstances. >> reporter: should the federal railroad administration have mandated that automatic train control be implemented everywhere so that it would have been on that northbound section of track? >> well again, atc was implemented on that part of the track. it's just that on 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

there were canine searching in the woods and along railroad tracks. s of searching, police called it off saying the investigation in this county is wrapped. they are keeping patrols in place as a precaution. we're watching the search effort intensify in new york and another development in the investigation. officers have been speaking with a corrections officer who they believe received a painting from richard matt. that corrections officer has been fully cooperative with police but the attorney maintains that the officer had no knowledge whatsoever of that escape plan carol. >> another question about the search. i'm curious. a number of these sightings have taken place around the railroad tracks. are investigators looking into whether the two men are following the railroad tracks through the state of new york and into pennsylvania perhaps? >> yeah it's a good point. something that police have been talking publicly about. initially you remember they were focussed on the area around the prison. they were doing grid searches in the area where they expect

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tracks and the search scene right now is also by a set of railroadracks. tell us how these two come together. >> reporter: that's right. one of the reported sightings, hadn't been confirmed from last weekend was that these two men were in a town called irwin, p.a. one county east from where the search area is right now. this is near gang mills rail yard is where the sighting was. of course that's a railway. we tracked that railway on a map. it actually connects to the area where police are searching now. those same tracks that go through one town where there was a sighting lindley, new york and the gang mills rail yard in irwin, new york go through friendship new york to the very spot just a few hundred yards away from where the man who we talked to who is the caretaker at the cemetery who sees the chopper overhead and patrol cars going up and down a hill he said that is very close to the same railway that we can see on the map that leads that way. you know theirinking these men might have traveled along the railway, police were following trails foll

along the railroad tracks. this is very significant. to the credibility of the current report. >> hard to know if it's their footprints. how many false sightings are there simply because there has been such expensive media coverage in the faces of these individuals everywhere and people may be telling people yeah i saw a red headed guy when in fact they really just sort of seen it on television? >> that happens quite a bit especially when the reward money is so high like it is in this case. people call in all the time. but we do have to do our due dill against and follow up on every lead. >> thank you very much. >>> new moves airlines are making sending money flying out of your wallet. when they're denying online agencies access to price information. >>> and taylor swift standing up for her fellow musicians. what she's saying. before i had the shooting, burning, pins-and-needles of diabetic nerve pain, these feet... ...served my country... ...carried the weight of a family... ...and walked a daughter down the aisle. but i couldn't bear m

. >> reporter: we're seeing a torrent of water flying over the railroad on the state road down below. as i talk about this it's not happening. there, that's what i am talking about. we'll talk about accidents and situations coming up after the break. >> authorities release the picture of what the two escaped killers look like now they've on the run for nearly two weeks "action news" will be right back. i'm whoopi goldberg and new york is my home. there's no place like it in the world and no better place to lean about the people who shaped who we are today. hear about the lives of slaves in colonial new york and about the fight to abolish slavery. pick a stop on the underground railroad and visit the home and grave of one of new york's most controversial citizens. a journey in new york is a journey through history. plan you next trip at iloveny.com/summer. there's something for everyone. >> welcome back you're taking a live look here, sky6 live hd out across a hazy, cloudy, center city right now. 5:44, 67 degrees we'll get to 79 today. >> how rough is it out there matt. >> reporter: it

the country. regulators want all passenger railroads to identify the most dangerous curves. also post speed signs along their routes. they also want to make sure a speed safety system called automatic train control is in fact working. the nbc 10 investigators first confirmed automatic train control was not operating on the northbound section of track before amtrak 188 derailed. the acting federal railroad safety administrator says passenger railroads need money to upgrade safety. >> i don't know how much louder i can be in my call to action than standing in front of -- sitting in front of a congressional committee urging them to take action on funding the commuter railroads desperately need. >> amtrak is reviewing today's safety order and will take appropriate steps to implement the recommendations, it says. regulators asked congress for $825 million to help passenger railroads upgrade safety. >>> police in delaware say they found the suspect who has been spray painting graffiti across several businesses in downtown wilmington. officers tracked down brian barton of elkton ma