about brandon bostonian, he was online ranting about the rail industry and the safety in the rail industry saying why don t they prevent this type of tragedy. he even talked about human error. i wish the railroads had been proactive from the get-go. the reality is they ve had nearly 100 years of opportunity to implicate some sort of system to prevent human error but with a few notable exceptions have failed to do so. it doesn t mean anything but it does stand out that this was a guy who was obsessed with safety, who was posting about it all the time. that something that makes you feel better or is that something that raise as yellow flag? it makes me feel that he is overconfident. and being overconfident, you kind of are not too careful when you should be. so the fact is that they have asked amtrak to put up speed limit signs means i m not sure whether the speed limits on the curve or not, but it could have just been an oversight on his
right now because the engineer says he doesn t remember. the question is, is it possible when the brick or whatever it was hit amtrak 188, did it so rattle the engineer that he lost situational awareness? he forgot he was supposed to start slowing down because the train at that point was speeding up? keep in mind, that engineer was only on that stretch of these tracks for three weeks. that s it. they had been having problem with rock throwers on this stretch of the track for more than 100 years. teddy roosevelt s train was hit by an iron plum in 1905. the federal railroad administration ordered emergency steps for amtrak to take. they have to put up more speed limit signs. believe it or not, there aren t that many. they have to add automatic train control, which is automatic braking. amtrak says it s doing all of the above. thanks very much. i m joined by corey booker of new jersey. senator booker welcome back to
the northeast corridor and increase the number and frequency of speed limit signs. adam reese is at philadelphia s amtrak station for us. good day to you, adam. what s the latest with the investigation into the crash? alex, good afternoon. the fbi investigating whether or not there s a pattern here, a link between three trains getting hit with projectiles minutes apart, miles apart. take a look at the three. first 905 tuesday night. the acela train. five minutes later a accept ta commuter train at 9:10. at 9:21 amtrak 188 hit by what officials call a fist-sized projectile through the front wind sheed killing eight people. engineers call this getting rock. it s very common along the northeast corridor. so common they actually protect themselves with grills in the front windshield so they don t get hit with projectiles. here s robert sumwalt of the ntsb. the this idea of something striking the train is one of the
take immediate steps to improve safety on its busy northeast corridor following the deadly derailment in philadelphia. order from the fra comes as service is expected to resume tuesday. the fra wants them to immediate use current technology to control train speeds assess risks on all curves in the corridor as well as increase the number and frequency of speed limit signs. msnbc s adam reese is at philadelphia s amtrak station. talk about the investigation. what s the latest in that regard? alex good afternoon. the fbi looking to see if there s a pattern here. a link between three trains hit by projectiles minutes apart just miles apart. let s look at the three. first we will an asell la train 9:9:05 p.m. tuesday night this ena accept ta commuter train at 9:10 of course, amtrak 1 8. officials say it was a fist-sized projectile that went through window killing eight people. engineers in this area call it getting rocked along the
speeding. they had it for the southbound but not northbound trains and the tragic accident happen. and now the administration is asking that they expand to the speed limit signs and so the engineers can so more of them. and amtrak assess all of the curves, in the northeast corridor, for amtrak to assess the risk of all of the curves and if anything can be done for it. there is good news temple university hospital who had 54 of the injured of the 143 people on the board. five critical and nine injured. and so people are improving physically in the days leading after the tragic accident. nearly a dozen presidential hopefuls. gathering in iowa for the annial lincoln dinner.