yes. there s some people that have been able to walk off the train. transportation is coming. that s where they are in the tents. can you talk about what we re seeing behind us where people are being treated? we train for this all the time. we have air force bases and train tracks and ferries. this is a multiple agency response, very koords nacoordin response. they re all working in a pre-planned operation which is to get the survivors out. get the injured to the hospitals and obviously if there s fatales, they ll have to deal with those later. as a point of clarification, it s early on but when you say multiple fatality, does that means doe dozens. we re just told there s multiple. we re not confirming anything until somebody does it. do you know how many cars are involved? i want to show you here this
additionally as well with amtrak. that is our affiliate king. jo ling can he nkent out there . they don t think at this point there s no fatalities from those in the cars on the interstate. there are multiple casualties, correct? reporter: that s right. there s multiple fatalities in the train. those riding below in the car going southbound, the pierce county sheriff s office is saying that nobody, no fatalities in the car down below on the road. i-5 continues to be completely closed. this is major artery on the west coast in the middle of rush hour traffic. they confirmed the first report of the derailment happened at 7:40 pacific time this morning. they do not have any information right now about the condition of the rails.
breaking news out of washington state this hour where an amtrak train runs off the track off a bridge and onto an interstate. a local reporter was on the train before it derailed. very difficult to process that we were on that exact train about 10, 15 minutes before it derailed. that breaking news. good day. amtrak train 501 derailing on a southbound route between tacoma and olympia, washington. there are injuries and multiple casualties. they do not have exact numbers. emergency crews and first responders are rushing to the scene. national traffic safety board officials are gathering information as they told residents to avoid the section of interstate 5 in that part of pierce county, washington. one of the rail cars fell onto the highway which is the main route up and down the coast. a commuter called into our local
photographs, the lead locomotive seems to be intact and on the track. the other car is hanging off the overpass. the fortunate thing it s easy access for emergency people but i fear there has to be some casualties on this train. it looks pretty bad. i don t know. this is, as you said, the first day that they ran the new route but i highly suspect at least the initial indications are it may have struck something on the track. jon: the information that you are getting is that there was a truck or some kind of vehicle on the track? initially there was a transportation working on the track. he was tweeting along as he went and then he tweeted that they had just struck a truck and derailed. that was the last tweet that they had gotten from him. so that s all the information i m going by. it is so early to tell. i was just on my way down i-5 this morning and i had to
why this happened, what exactly went wrong when this train derailed. the cascades train 501 nose diving off of that overpass there. they do say that on the other side of the bridge and we do not seem to have pictures of that yet but you can see the wooded area behind the trains that several cars are also upside down in that area as well. some people were able to walk away from the accident and they are being treated in those tents. thank you so much. we ll bring you more as we get it. coming up, an nbc news exclusive. what he knew. exclusive new reporting about what candidate donald trump learned about russia s involvement in the presidential election in realtime. [lance] monica, it is absolute chaos out here!