eyes. the u.s. and uk are part of so-called five eyes. the reporting according to them says the cia and fbi were slow to appreciate the nature of the team trump ahead of the u.s. election that seems as if the u.s. agencies were asleep. tell us about this does this infer that to you? well, this is you know, what this demonstrate, the guardian story shows that the system actually worked very well. and as steve described it you know we have the very cooperate of relationships with the members of the five eyes. they are our allies. they are also nato allies, most of them. and they they acted here as whistle blowers which is exactly what we hope the system will do. this is what it s designed to help us appreciate, is toic pick up something that we may not actually get through our own signal system. the most interesting thing about the story is that they they
of them. and they acted here as whistle blowers which is exactly what we hope the system will do. this is what it is designed to help us appreciate is to pick up something that we may not actually, you know, get through our own signal system. and the most interesting thing about the story is that they were hearing these conversations. they were picking up this intelligence back in late 2015. so that raises the question of who? who in the trump world were they observing or hearing or listening to? you know, both carter page and manifort implicate in the middle of this doesn t join the trump campaign until later. and were not active until the march and may time frame. so these stories, the file on
immediately there to control the train s speed. talk about that. what exactly is that technology and how does it differ from what we ve been hearing about this past week positive train control? thank you, alex. atc is the traditional signaling system on the northeast corridor. uses track circuits and to determine train location. the signal system sends coded messages along the rails picked up by the locomotive that tell the locomotive the speed that the signal ahead is indicating. normally that system does not give speed. instructions for curves. what fra has instructed amtrak to do now and do it immediately is add another coded track circuit or a code message on the track to indicate a speed restriction for the curves.
in this case, not only involved the cutting out of that equipment, but then the reduced speed for the rest of the trip and a series of conditional requirements. the most important of which is that the rail side signaling system is the only signal system that remains active. and your understanding is is he navigated this appropriately from the trip from new york to washington? absolutely. but nobody relishes being in that situation. understood. now, let s talk about once he arrived, was he delayed because of the troubles and that trip south? and if so, how long? and how did that affect his downtime? yeah, well, the result and the primary, you know, practical result for the train schedule was because of the reduced speed. and because of that, it was almost a half hour lost time.
covered transportation for years and broke the news about just how fast that train was traveling. ted, good to have you back with us. when that tweet came across yesterday from your reporting that simply said 106 miles an hour, i think we all gasped. how can a regional train traveling on that track reach speeds of 106 miles an hour when it was supposed to be going 50? the speed is well within the capability of the train. it just obviously shouldn t be doing that in a section of a sharply curving track. we don t know why the engineer had the train up well over the speed limit, not just of the curve where it s a 50-mile-per-hour limit, but everyone above the 70 to 80 of the straighter stretch leading up to the curve. that s a critical question for the investigators to figure out. but these trains go that fast in other areas of the corridor very near where this was. the way this system works and the way signal system that was in place on that stretch of amtrak works is there is still a