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188 engineer brandon bostian moments before last year s tragic crash in port richmond. train experts we spoke to said radio interference has always been a problem. certainly it could have contributed to this accident. but nevertheless, it could have been preventable. reporter: but washington, d.c., rail safety expert larry mann says two things could have saved eight lives and kept hundreds of others unharmed. a second person helping in the locomotive to monitor the dispatch radio and positive train control. had there been positive train control along that route, this accident would have never occurred. reporter: mann says positive train control would stop the train if it was exceeding the speed limit. amtrak 188 was going 106 miles per hour when it hit the curb at frankford junction more than twice the limit. former ntsb chairman james hall says no matter the cause, he hopes amtrak takes steps to become safer. unfortunately just provides interference and a dis ....
love it. sue, we re doing weather right now too. you put your sunshine in your pocket and this is what you get, there is rain, there is no sunshine. and we have, some rain, heading our way but it is not here yet. we have quite a few included though and i think, even though yesterday we said rain would hold off until after the morning rush that may not be the case, so, just grab the umbrella because you will need it at some point today. it is 55 degrees, our sunrise at 5:44. southeasterly wind at 8 miles an hour, right now we have 45 in mount pocono, 53, trenton, 51, reading, and 54 in at atlantic city, 49, chillier in millville, these temperatures are way, milder then they were yesterday, at this time, when we re talking about frost advisory and freeze warnings, so, yes as much as 15 degrees, warmer then 24 hours ago. so there is that, and then we have have some southerly wind, 8 miles an hour in philadelphia and a high later on of about 62 degrees, on and off r ....