toure, good afternoon, back on track here in philadelphia. service resumed early this morning. mayor nutter was here seeing people off to new york telling them this is a safe and secure way to travel. now, as far as the investigates, the ntsb says their investigation is wide on the floor. the fbi, on the other hand looking at a pattern. there? fact a link between three trains hit by projectiles. you have a septa, and others. engineers called this getting rocked. it happens so often along the northeast regional corridor that some of them actually put up window guards to protect them from these kind of projectiles. adam reece in philadelphia, thank you for that report straight ahead prosecuting crime in america s largest city.
estoring full service this morning six dis after that derailment in philadelphia that killed eight people and injured more than 200. the bad news the railways are still not up to snuff. we are staying who is responsible. we have information next and we will be tracking these first rail journeys since the accident. the exact cause of last week s deadly crash is unknown. the fbi is damaging the windshield after the engineer told the ntsb something struck it before the crash. we have this story covered from every angle. alexander field is waiting for the first amtrak train to arrive and leave from philadelphia s 30th street station. what are you seeing alexandra? hey, good morning, alisyn commuters are here they re ready to go. they were visited first by philadelphia s mayor, mayor nutter. he came out to the station. he said he wanted to greet these passengers on the first trip to philadelphia to new york. it s been a week now. he wants to let people know this is perfectly safe.
about, the engineer possibly facing criminal charges, i d say that s a criminal issue. we want to find out what happened so we can learn from it and keep it happening again. you were very strong today about positive train control. i think it surprised people a little bit. i was talking to mayor nutter about that, why do you feel so strongly about it, why do you think it s applicable in this case? i m strong about it, because we believe that train control will prevent accidents like the one we re here investigating. we felt strongly about some form of positive train control since 1970. the technology is mature now, it can be implemented. congress has mandated this system be installed by the end of this year. real safety act passed by george w. bush, mandates that by the end of this year, 2015 the inspector general looked at this and said, there s no way that mark is going to be made. in march, senate committee says we got a delay.
conductor. i think there was some confusion even among earlier reports saying that the engineer, mr. bastion, had not spoken with authorities. that was cleared up somewhat when mayor nutter said he may have spoke with officials just to say i want to speak to an attorney which, of course is his right. we did also hear earlier from authorities that it does appear that at some level, at least, the engineer applied the emergency brake. it didn t do much. it didn t slow the train down very much but that the brake was applied. and as you said there s going to be a lot of scrutiny now on what the engineer did as he came into that turn. certainly if the wcau report is correct, that he has given a blood sample we ll know everything about what was in his system, if anything and that indication about the break brake being applied indicates that he was alert enough at that moment to do that.
couple terms. hopefully that will get better. again, i want to get back to the issue of budget. i used to be a county executive where we had over 800,000 people. i did a budget every year. we couldn t have everything they wanted but you pick your priorities. transportation clearly a priority. you talk about the post office people have relied on that years ago, years ago. now we have to make that a priority and we have to oversee it and manage it. that s part of what a job is mayor, county executive, president, governors, that s what they do. it s a matter of working things out. resolving issues and pibbing priorities has to be done. that s the way our government has run for years. right now unfortunately the climate in washington isn t that way. maybe this negative incident that just occurred will make sure people come together and work these issues out. we ll see. congressman dutch ruppersberger, thank you very much. i appreciate it. i ll be right back. when you set out to find new