shuttles out of laguardia to washington. it s just it was packed for obvious reasons. no one really knows, brian, how long it will be before service is restored. i think that s the key, yeah. i was planning on taking the train on friday. lots of people make their plans, especially business people media people and politicians. these are the kind of trains where if you re on the train, you sometimes overhear politicians talking to people. it s very much a train line used by people to commute really between new york and washington with philadelphia in between. as we learned today, sadly, one of the people we know died was an associated press staff member one of the biggest news agencies in the world, mourning the death of one of their staffers. another one of their staffers was able to survive, walk away and described what happened. just goes to show you had a lot of people trying to commute home. you had journalists and other news people. as we know politicians taking the train home
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each one had a different focus, but one of them was talking about a three-point harness, whether it s worth it. they said no, it s not. you have to question was that the right question to ask? should it have just been a lap belt maybe that s something they should have looked at more in depth. i ve read all these of three reports. the other thing about these reports is they were really focused on whether or not someone would be ejected from the train. you mentioned earlier there s dogs out sniffing looking for possible people that have been ejected from the train. now, the strength of the window glass has been something that s brought into question there. if you strengthen the window glass to keep people from exiting the train, then you risk the make an inability to get out. as with any safety feature, it can also cause vulnerabilities. that s one of the things they looked at in this as well. the idea that the seat belts are needed or not needed is really kind of ruled out by the fact
forward and really kind of plow its way through things. you wouldn t get those abrupt stops you would expect in smaller vehicles. but in this case you can see clearly this had an abrupt stop. clearly there were bodies flying through the air, debris flying through the air. this was something that was not looked at in any of those three studies, whether or not a person not attached would cause injury to another person on board the vehicle, which is i think what we ve seen here. there s head and neck injuries from other people running into other people, not actually from the person moving themselves but from someone running into them. you actually become a projectile. there s bodies above and below in these types of accidents. and also the luggage. luggage isn t secure when you hop on an amtrak train. you put it under your seat or in the compartment ahead of you. things to think about. david soucie thank you very very much. we re going to stay on this. we re watching and waiting for tha
out whether they ve left anyone behind. they also said canine dogs involved in this and that they have expanded the search area. the mayor got real specific about that too, saying that it is entirely possible that someone may have been thrown from this train during this wreck. so the canine dogs hard at work. we can t get anywhere near this location at this point. the location i went to was sort of a high point atop of a building in which i could look over this rail. i couldn t see any visible scarring before the bend. i couldn t see anything that would have indicated that train derailed anywhere before the bend. naked eye only. again, i m a layperson. but it certainly looked as though the derailment and damage came to the midportion of the bend or afterwards. also want to make a huge correction that the mayor himself had to correct. he reported to us at 10:00 that it was the conductor who was injured and treated and released and debriefed by the police here in this city. he s now corr