place. the deadline is the end of this year, december 31st, 2015. and you know, the rail industry like every industry, they don t like being told what to do, they ve been lobbying hard to push that deadline back even further. seven years is too fast for them to implement that system nationwide. they want more time, more years. they have found a lot of sympathetic ears in congress. even if congress doesn t extend it, if the existing 2015 deadline holds, the existing 2015 deadline was still too late for these poor people. this is a metro north commuter train crash that happened december 1st, 2013. i remembered that date, i didn t have to look it up today. one of the people who died in that train crash was a sound engineer who worked here at the today show, he was on the train that morning coming to work early, because he was going to be helping set up the