to veterans and to the public. our political correspondent helen catt has this report. seven representatives of the seven biggest parties in great britain. missing from the stage were the two men who were vying to be the next prime minister, but they weren t missing from the debate itself. within minutes nigel farage had raised rishi sunak s absence from part of thursday s d day celebrations. respect our veterans, including those with an average age of 100, who were deserted by the prime minister in normandy yesterday, which i think was a complete and utter disgrace and shows us we actually have a very unpatriotic prime minister. it was dreadful. it was cabinet minister and naval reservist penny mordaunt who had to answer for her leader. what happened was completely wrong and the prime minister has rightly apologised for that, apologised to veterans but also to all of us because he was representing all of us. penny mordaunt was keen to take the fight to labour s angela rayn
minutes ago with derrec becker with south carolina emergency management. the update since that conversation is that we have learned from the sheriff there that all passengers have been removed from that train. one of the passengers is on the phone with us now. derek pettaway. how are you? are you injured at all? no, i m fine. i was discharged from the hospital about 30 minutes ago just with minor whiplash but i m fine. with minor whiplash. all right. we are glad that you re okay, derek. can you kind of walk us through what happened? where were you on the train? we were closer to the rear of the train in one of those sleeper cabins and just when the accident happened. i mean, i was dead asleep and i was awoken by the impact and then the crew came through really quickly and got everybody detrained in a really calm fashion and then first responders showed up within, you
new york to miami. do we have paul kirby on the phone with the lexington ledger some we are waiting to get paul. he is there on the scene and he is trying to get more information for us. you can see the route there. you just saw the route there from new york to orlando. we know this train was traveling south because we talked to d derrick pett away and he was on a sleeper train and he was sleeping when he felt the jolt. his passenger car had derailed but was still upright. and we talked to him just a short time ago. take a listen. no, i m fine. i was discharged from the hospital about 30 minutes ago just with minor whiplash but i m fine. with minor whiplash. all right. we are glad that you re okay, derek. can you kind of walk us through what happened? where were you on the train?