Just before coming on air here, we have some breaking news out of Detroit, Michigan.

There's been another train derailment. This one outside of Van Buren, the township.

Here's the headline, train derail, and outside Detroit, Michigan with one car carrying hazardous materials.

So helicopter footage shows at least six cars were off the track.

One has been carrying hazardous materials. That one that was carrying hazardous materials has not been breached.

It's been pulled as the latest news. It has been set upright and moved away from the area.

I think the roads are still closed there, but there is no there is no leak at this time.

EPA officials are on the site. So that is a breaking news just to add to the story before we get into this.

How often, Jeffrey, how often is this? I mean, it's sort of like we watch this whole balloon story and you get the sense that once we all got attention to it.

What is happening all the time? How many trains are derailing in America? Do we have any stats on that?

Yeah, I looked up some of the numbers. The Federal Railroad Administration Safety Reporting shows over a thousand each year.

So the train accidents are over 1600 each year. That includes the rail elements as well.

So we're looking at well over a thousand each year. It's pretty consistent for the last, you know, maybe 20 years what we're looking at.

So this isn't something that's, you know, an anomaly. They do seem to be happening a lot more now that the question we ask ourselves is because of the Ohio train derailment.

Is everyone keeping an eye on every single derailment at this point or is there an increasing amount that's been happening recently and there's obviously two ways to look at this.

But we're just going to look at the facts here and just try to keep this is factual as possible.

And now last year we reported on a story when the COVID restrictions were lifted. The railroad systems had this surge of shipping out of nowhere.

Now everything moves again after this artificial stopping point and the fertilizer shipments were not getting out for the planting season.

And this is what our reporting uncovered at that point. We uncovered some weak points within the railroad industry. Take a look.

Just yesterday digging into this story, there was over eight hours of testimony in front of what's called the surface transportation board.

That's the United States government independent agency that governs over the rail systems and the maritime shipping lanes.

And again, over eight hours, here's just a slice of what was discussed at this at this board meeting. Take a look.

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