To try to figure out what happened to the other five people onboard who have not yet been located. Chris. Will thanks for staying on it. We do want to know more about the u. S. Marines who were aboard the missing helicopter. Heres what we understand at this point. Lets bring in cnn pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr. What can you tell us . Good morning, chris. This was a marine corps unit out of Camp Pendleton. They had deploy today japan for a sixmonth tour when the crisis erupted with the earthquakes and had been sent there to help. Our understanding from the pentagon when they went down they were on a Relief Mission delivering tarps and rice to a hardhit village. And at that point some other villagers came up to them and said wait a minute theres another village that needs help. They got back in their helicopter and they went off to the second village and were trying to get there to help those people as well when this happened. A couple of days ago the father of pilot chris snogre
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, im fine. I was discharged from the hospital about 30 minutes ago just with minor whiplash but im fine. With minor whiplash. All right. We are glad that youre 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
night. andy, thanks so much. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. on the phone with us now the chairman of the ntsb robert we are looking at this train crash between an amtrak train and a csx freight train that happened about five and a half hours ago in south carolina. chairman, thank you so much for being with us. what can you tell us about the situation there in casey, south carolina? good morning, christy and thank you for having me we will have a team arriving in colum a columbia, south carolina, they ll be leaving washington soon. team members will be arriving throughout the all right. i wonder, one of the things that if you re still with us, i heard a click there, one of the concerns we ve heard from our analysts both peter goelz with