outfront tonight, new evidence, january 6th committee abruptly scheduling a hearing for tomorrow. last week, said no additional hearings until next month and then suddenly a hearing scheduled for tomorrow as the committee released only a brief statement, including quote, recently obtained evidence and witness testimony. this is a very sudden reversal for the committee and it comes at an important context. we just learned federal agents seized the phone of trump s election attorney, john eastman, man who presented trump a road map for overturning the election. someone who was right there, front and center, in trump s ear in the days and weeks ahead of the deadly insurrection. and someone who was working the phones for trump. so his phone is now seized. here s just some of the testimony we ve heard so far about the importance of john eastman. and what it, dr. eastman want you to do? that we would in fact vote, take a vote, to overthrow, or i shouldn t say overthrow that w
when it struck that dump truck which was blocking that public crossing, erin. wow, so i know we understand that there are multiple fatalities, at least, you know, many injuries so far. what else are you hearing from people on the train? yeah, at least 50 people injured now and at least three people killed as a result of that fatal accident. other three people transferred to the hospital and just hearing these harrowing stories of survival including from the man who shot that video we showed a moment ago, we talked to him shortly after the incident and could tell he was still in shock. decided to take a nap before my lunch reservation and then i heard like a, i don t know what i heard, and then everything started to go in slow motion. i was afraid the windows were going to smash, so i shimmied myself up against an exit to the room and then we slid and then we came to a stop. you can see from
nightingale s video, several people literally standing on top of those overturned train cars. one image showed a passenger which appeared to be a passenger being extracted from one of the broken windows of the train cars. it happened in a rural area, erin, as you can see, really nothing around there which is why this public crossing was uncontrolled. this is the second time in as many days an amtrak train collided with a passenger vehicle and as you mentioned earlier, this is an active and fluid situation, working on gathering more details. obviously, incredibly remote. two hours outside kansas city, and very rural as you can see looking at the live pictures. nick valencia, thank you very much as we get more on the developing stories, fatalities, injuries, will keep you posted throughout this hour. next, though, vice-president kamila harris in an exclusive interview with our dana bash with this warning tonight about contraception and same sex marriage.