strokes or they prevent having strokes with irregular heart beat and a variety of other reasons. but they also if you have a bump to your head can be a significant injury. you can have a significant hemorrhage, even a life threatening hemorrhage from something that looks like a minor tap on the head it is important to know what medications people are on when judging whether a minor bump is just a minor bump or whether it could be something more sandra: senator, i m going to jump in here because we have on the phone senator bill cassidy. not sure how long we can have you. but you are also a doctor as well. dr. bill cassidy republican from louisiana. you are on the train and we hear that you have been treating people on board. there are physicians on board who went and tended to on the train my wife and i got off the train because we figured the people on the truck were most likely the ones to be injured. when we got there, there was already several physicians from congressman who
25 emergency vehicles here. we have had several members who did need medical attention. and we are moving forward. we just checked each other. we immediately checked each other. we knew what happened immediately. we knew there was a problem the train probably went 100 yards and came to a stop. sandra: just to update anybody who may be listening now. we are talking to congressman pete sessions. he is on the train that collided with what you are describing as 18-wheeler. it s been described as dump truck or garbage truck. you are suggesting you were traveling about 70 miles per hour at the time on your way to the retreat. a combination of members of congress on that train as well as regular passengers on an amtrak train. crozet, about 12 miles west of charlottesville this happening. are any of your any of the passengers around you, any of your colleagues what is everybody talking about?
and they were afraid there could be an explosion and frankly it was so soon they didn t know i think there was some questions about what could what else could be out there. but, boy, we have some great congressman here. congressman mast and others saying i don t care. there is a guy on the side of the road. no you are not allowed to open the door. as soon as the left. the congressman, they were doctors went out to help. harris: i know have you your 8 children and we have heard from previous guests congressman who were with us by phone say there were quite a few people who are were traveling with their families. that is something you and sean often do. it looks like this is the kind of retreat and weekend where that sort of thing was going to be welcomed. did you see other families on board. yeah. all the kids are there. they were all coloring when this happened. kids are fine and unless you are looking out the window and could see exactly what devastation this train caused on t
on the plane on trains, et cetera. it s nice having physicians around who can have a cool perspective, level headed perspective. sandra: why weren t you on the train? you weren t supposed to ask that kennedy. i m playing hooky. i promised my wife i would take her to see hamilton tonight. it only took us three years to get up here to see it but she is excited to see it, so we are playing hooky. sandra: can you tell us a little bit about this retreat to which members of congress were going right now and making their way there attempting to at least? typically both parties have a retreat in january. it s sort of where they regroup. they relax a little bit. but they hear from party leaders on sort of what are our goals for the year? what are things we are going to try to get accomplished? this is a common thing. it happens every year. sandra: we want to bring in congressman pete sessions. he was able to get on the phone and call into our control room right now. is he a republican
[broken audio] doctor knows every single one of these people. he is one of our favorites. i mean, not every we aren t close to every senator but we are close to rand paul. rand paul knows the circumstances well. i don t think there s anything grave of an injury. i think what i would suggest to you it s sore, soreness, neck, back, arms, shoulders, the stress of simply hitting something moving 70 miles per hour. yes, karen my wife is with me. she is fine. i m fine. harris: so glad you are okay. once again, two people in this car that i am in did need medical attention. sandra: so, congressman, what is happening on your train? i would assume you are still sitting on the train car right now. is that the case? well, i don t need to tell you that obviously we