New tonight amtrak trains on the northeast corridor are running on schedule again a day after a train hit a backhoe just outside of philadelphia. More than 30 passengers and the engineer were taken to hospitals after the collision which derailed the train. Now investigate rs are trying to learn why the backhoe was on the rails in the first place. Reporter its still unclear at this hour why that backhoe was on the tracks, but new york senator Chuck Schumer says it may have been clearing debris from the storm that night or was being used for regular maintenance since fewer trains run on sunday mornings. The train was heading from new york to savannah, georgia at about 8 00 a. M. On sunday when it hit a piece of equipment on the tracks. The impact derailed the lead engine of the train which was carrying more than 300 passengers and seven crew members. The People Killed was the equipment operator and u. S. Senator Chuck Schumer said the other was a supervisor and both were amtrak employees
Cyberattacks . The numbers are on the screen. Also send us a tweet or go to facebook. You can also email. We will get your thoughts in just a minute about whether or not the u. S. Should engage in a offensive cyberattacks. The five by five writer from rollcall joins us. Tim starks, what do we mean when we say going on the offense when it comes to Cyber Security and cyberattacks . Guest its a very good question. The line between offense and defense insider security is very narrow. Obviously, defending her networks makes it harder for people to intrude on them, but there are people who say part of the defense is offense. You know, you need to make it if someone attacks her networks, you can attack them back. It is a deterrent, if you will. There is no question the u. S. Has conducted cyber offense, you know, they would say in the name of cyber defense. You look at the attack on north korea probably as an example of that. After the sony breakin. But its difficult to define what cyber offe
Reporter heres what Security Officials are concerned especially about this and video shows the killers were dressed in black making their getaway. Now if we stop here you can see one of the men raising his arm in what appears to be a military style and sickle. Many Security Experts say this is not a lone wolf attack but the work of professional soldiers perhaps the veterans of the ices onslaught in the mid east. Pam following the terrorist attack in a packet and paris their thousands of people in madrid london all Holding Hands has papers and signs says that i am charlie all to signify this freespeech will never be silenced. Pam our report of a missing 10 yearold girl caused a flurry of Police Activity in santa rosa today. The girl was found unharmed about two hours later. Maureen kelly spoke to police and say theyre out reach of social media was the reason the story has a happy ending. Reporter this is video from our partnership abc seven news you can see the girl getting out of the P
Law enforcement. Just for example when i was in phoenix a couple of weeks ago to inspect the security of the super bowl i met with state and local law enforcement. It was pointed out to me that all the communications equipment, all although surveillance equipment there was funded by my department. As long as we are on this er we are unable to do these very important things for Homeland Security. So we need a fully funded department of Homeland Security especially in these challenging times. So thank you very much for being here. Thank you very much for coming to washington and we look forward to a good discussion. Thank you. [applause] last week washington journal visited several historically black colleges and universities to talk to College Administrators about the state of their institutions. We are replaying those interviews all this week on cspan2. Next the president of Fisk University in nashville tennessee. This is 40 minutes. Host throughout the month of february we are visitin