can take a long time to get the injured to a hospital. fortunately if you can say that in this kind of a situation, there are local hospitals rather close by because columbia is a major city will in south carolina. rachel: deputies on the scene right now trying to help those off the train, trying to help those get to the hospital, those that need it. so, yeah, very, very tragic. and you are right. when these kinds of accidents happen in a more rural area, time is of the essence. ed: hearing there might be multiple go teams. i mentioned one before. sheriff s deputies in the area responding to the scene. i m noticing on social media a lot of people tweeting us that it s pronounced kay-see. we have more fox & friends right after this. wil
this week. train on train consequences can be deadly for presumably at this point people on board. rachel: again, happening at 2:30 in the morning. that means it s dark in the train. people are being jolted from their sleep, trying to find out what s going on. makes it harder when it s dark and cold outside. ed: now, we have got some numbers here and some details just to make sure to recap what we have been telling you. a statement coming in from amtrak. what they are saying is this amtrak train number 91. operating between new york and miami as we noted. came in contact with a csx freight train 2:35 a.m. iron time case, south carolina. the lead engine derailed according to amtrak as well as some passenger cars there were 8 crew members as we noted. approximately 139 passengers. they say there were injuries reported and local authorities are on the scene responding. more information will be provided as available. that is an official statement just coming in to our news room. i was on t
todd: when it s a diesel situation, do you have hazmat on scene. absolutely. just to make sure everybody is safe. hazmat crews. everything is safe at this point. there is no danger to anyone in the nearby area of lexington county of cayse, of pine ridge it actually happened about a mile away from the south carolina state emergency operation center. so, we re functioning in sort of a supporting role for those local first responders and making sure that they if they need any resources, we can get it to them very quickly. ed: derrec, thi this is ed henry we have rachel campos duffy as well. you confirm that we had heard there were two dead you raised the number from 50 injured to at least 70. i want to ask you a little bit more about that. it sounded like some positive news that i want to
the nbc and re ntsb and red croe on the scene. we will bring you the latest details as we get them. todd? todd: all right, ed, thank you very much. president trump touting the real impacts of his tax reform bill. take a listen. roughly three million workers have already received tax cut bonuses and raises totaling thousands and thousands of dollars per worker and that s just over the past six weeks alone. todd: take a look at this headline from the associated press reading. tax bill beginning to deliver bigger paychecks to workers. joining us now, one of those seeing a bigger paycheck, lee and shirley ann do you pray and also joining us cpa pointers on how to use your if youly found money. lee, i want to begin with you. if you don t mind, i don t mean to get too personal here. can you tell us how much money you are seeing in your paycheck? a little over $49 a week. todd: tell me what that means to you living in connecticut right now? oh, as we all know, we are one of the higher t
country as you are just waking up, getting this horrible news. this tragedy. two people killed at least 70 hurt. we are at least hearing from decker becker who you mentioned a moment ago, rachel from the south carolina emergency management team was kind enough to hop on the phone and say out of those 70 hurt. they believe most or all are nonlife threatening emergencies. cuts and scrapes, some broken bones. don t want to manipulate mize it obviously still very serious. but we are hoping that that number on the left of the screen in terms of the number killed is not going to climb. todd: hazmat team on scene to deal with the diesel that was in the csx train and set the geo graphic call seen for you where this happened. cayse, south carolina. borders in richland counties in that general area. columbia, south carolina is the main city in and around this region. that is fortunate. in a situation like, this because presumably the