shock. the city was due to celebrate the biggest religious festivals of the year, but they have been canceled and spain has declared three days of national mourning. the scale of the tragedy, absolutely huge. at least 1/3 of the passengers on board that train are now dead. more than 100 still in hospital, and a third of those are still on the critical list. so that death toll, we are told by authorities, could rise even further, wolf. what a horrible, horrible tragedy. carl penhaul, thanks for the reporting. up next, the woman at the center of the new anthony weiner sexting scandal speaking out. and one of the original sexting partners tells me what she thinks about the fact that weiner was still sending steamy texts after he got caught.
monica linstrom is a former prosecutor. just hearing this for the first time, have you ever heard of a case like this, monica? no. and when i did first read about it and hear about it, i could not believe that it was actually going forward. just because it seems so tenuous. we know that if you re driving lek lerecklessly, you hit someby and kill them, you could be tried for their death. driving recklessly you hit someone else s car, you could be held liable for the damage that was done. you would never think if i was driving recklessly, i hit something, someone comes to save me but the power pole went down, lines in the water, i mean, there are so many things you just wouldn t even think of in this particular case. because on the one side, you know, you think of the driver. it s not like the driver, who had just crashed into this pole or this hhydrant, had asked thee people to come help him, right? these people do it on their own volition. you know, the most unfortunate
they say will be summers tough love. who is to blame for the deadly train crash in spain? tonight, the driver of the train has been detained by authorities who are trying to figure out if his zest for speed played a role in wednesday s derailment in which at least 78 people died and that number will go higher. the conductor whose face, as you ll see in just a second, was covered in blood as he was taken away from the scene. you can see him there. he is no longer talking to police, but that s pretty amazing that he was on a cell phone with just blood on his face when he was in that front car. carl penhaul is out front. is arrest the next thing for the conductor? reporter: well, he is under former detention, the police chief said, and he said he will accused of crimes relating to the accident. when he was asked what that meant, the police chief muttered, recklessness. but that s still short of a
power. we still don t know where he s being detained. the interim government, however, is releasing a few details about morsi. carl penhaul is joining us from cairo with the latest. what do we know about the former egyptian president? wolf, those details are still very scant. we re hear aing both from the foreign ministry and the briefings we had over the past few days with thejipgz mi egypt military. they say mr. morsi is being treated well and in good condition. they are not giving more details than that. what they have said is so far he has not been charged for any crimes and very much they re trying to characterize this as mr. morsi being held for his own protection. but a week and a half into this military coup, a president and a man who is democratically
early on in that time frame. he s back fresh off of a flight yesterday, sir, to share the compelling stories behind the stories behind the stories. being a reporter, this is the stuff i love. some of the viewers do as well. job well done, friend. nice to be home. take me back. you fist got down there. you spent 43 days basically in the desert. an assignment of the lifetime. one of the most inhospitable places you can imagine. chile is a desert. no reason to be there except for this story. everything has to be brought in. high-tech stuff that goes down. we toughed it up. a lot of people came in at the end. swapping off, like our colleague, carl penhaul. there he is. we didn t know what we were in for. it connected so many people across the world. for a lot while, you were flying solo. [ speaking spanish ]