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This week Matter of Fact heads to Pittsburgh to talk with advocates and rail workers worried about train safety after recent derailments in other states. Plus, a community group teaches community members how to treat gun victims in Chicago neighborhoods with slow emergency response times. And we look at how rising sea levels are turning stretches of Maryland land into “Ghost Forests.”

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