Plus give the cspan capitol tour continues. We are at our fifth up outside the statehouse in Richmond Virginia and joining us on the cspan bus is former Virginia Governor doug wilder who served from 19921994. Governor wilders the grandson of slaves the first africanamerican governor in the u. S. Since reconstruction. Governor wilder in your recent autobiography you write that you are product of the state, the good, the bad and the ugly. What did he mean by that . Well as you pointed out being the grandson of slaves one would never expect that person to be the governor of the state to occupy the same seat as Patrick Henry and thomas jefferson. So to the extent that those travails overcome it was a testament to show what the people of virginia had gone through in making sure that image didnt continue. I like to think and i would like to say we are the old union rather new union rather than the old union. Im a product of that and i represent what the people of virginia brought forth and c
Veteran rail workers rolled their backhoe on to an active rail line on sunday. Cnn is quoting a source that called it a colossal mistake because the workers their lives and injured scores of people on an amtrak train south of philadelphia. Bruce leshan is live at Union Station recovering after a crash that jammed thousands. Reporter most of the tr ains are running on time. The ntsb is trying to figure out exactly how this could happen and how to keep it from happening again. Trains are moving through a stretch of track in chester, pennsylvania. Speeds can hit more than 100 Miles Per Hour. Amtraks palmetto train gathered speed on sunday when a railcrashed into cc1 based backhoe mistakenly on an active track. It killed one worker and a supervisor on the Construction Equipment and sent 3035 people on the train to the hospital. Im lucky to be alive. I called my Church Members and asked them to pray. s reporter the impact blew out windows on the train and passenger said they saw flames and