was teetering from the bridge. the mayor of lakewood washington, a city just north of the crash site, expressed grave concerns about the new train route prior to the accident and the city of lakewood actually sued the washington department of transportation over the new rail route citing safety concerns. don t come back when there is an accident and try to justify not putting in those safety enhancements, or you can go back now and advocate for the money to do it. kyung lah is on the phone with me right now. you ve been talking to the madigan army medical center. what are you learning? reporter: most of them were sent here, john, because this hospital is just four to five miles away from the crash site. it is the closest one. so that s why so many immediately were taken here. but there were so many patients transported that they went all
between 70 and 80 miles per hour when he knew something went terribly wrong. we felt a little bit of a jolt and then at a certain point the we could hear crumpling of the train car and we were catapulted into the seats in front of us. emergency responders transported crash victims to hospitals all along i-5 including mad began army medical center which took in 20 patients. the worst off in stable condition. the recovery process got slowed down because some of the train was teetering from the bridge. the mayor of lakewood washington, a city just north of the crash site, expressed grave concerns about the new train route prior to the accident and the city of lakewood actually sued the washington department of transportation over the new rail route citing safety concerns. don t come back when there is an accident and try to justify not putting in those safety enhancements, or you can go back
my community has been concerned about this modification of the rail route for several years. either stopping it or having some modifications for safety that we were concerned about it implemented. the speeds were supposed to be up to 79 miles an hour. those are not super high speeds. we get up to 110, 120 miles an hour on the old amtrak lines here. this particular line only had two or three ten mile an hour line, freight deliveries a week.
a booming state of mongolia has slipped into economic crisis the country stood on the brink of bankruptcy earlier this year that compounded the pressure to quickly process exports to china yet there s no improvement in sight in fact fear that smugglers will try and enter the country has led to even stricter checks and jews are dwindling finances the building of a rail route has now been put on ice it seems the only ones who can move on hindered around here are the camels. and why it s why there is other means of transportation like thailand s iconic longtail boats those might now get quieter and more environmentally friendly. they might be iconic but they can be quite a nuisance as well on bangkok s canals and floating markets longtail boats are not only a familiar sight but a familiar sound as well. david
the once a booming state of mongolia has slipped into economic crisis the country stood on the brink of bankruptcy earlier this year that compounded the pressure to quickly process exports to china yet there s no improvement in sight in fact fear that smugglers will try and enter the country has led to even stricter checks and juta dwindling finances the building of a rail route has now been put on ice it seems the only ones who can move on hinted around here are the camels. and why it s why there is other means of transportation like thailand s iconic longtail boats those might now get quieter and more environmentally friendly. they might be iconic but they can be quite a nuisance as well on bangkok s canals and floating markets longtail boats are not only a familiar sight but a familiar sound as well. david