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Washington, 13 of 14 cars leaving tracks and the train was making inaugural run faster route seattle to portland, oregon, there were 80 passengers on board and 40 crew members. And at least three are confirmed dead. Accident investigators say there are kawrz that have been too unstable to search. These are a couple cars that are not safe enough to search. We know theres nobody alive in them at this point and theres other fatales well find. We dont know until they can shore up the train cars and get up there and search them. Well, the tracks for derailment happened and are owned by sound transit. Bnsf Railway Company dispatches trains over bypass. Operators say there was extensive test here before opening day. Ntsb investigators have said that its going to take time before they can say why that train was going so fast. We can tell president told reporters positive Train Technol ....
Good morning from the studio 57 news room at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie greene. The National Transportation safety board says preliminary data says the amtrak train that derailed was going 80 miles an hour in a 30mileperhour zone. At least three people were killed as it hit a new bypass just south of seattle. More than 70 were injured when 12 train cars and a locomotive jumped the rail, some cars falling to the road below. Immediately after the derailment, the conductor called for help. We were coming around the corn eaer and we went on the ground. Is everybody okay . Im still figuring that out. We got cars everywhere and down on to the highway. The ntsb says its not known what caused the train it was going so fast. Kenneth craig is in washington with the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you, ann marie. Still a massive scene out here and this is where it all hap ....
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Ntsb go team arrived in Washington State and came forthwith shocking infor information. That train going 80 miles an hour in a 30 mile an hour zone and we got that information from the trains event data recorder. As you mentioned, really stunning images from the scene. Showing 13 of 14 rail cars dangling over interstate five. And this is about 50 miles south of Seattle Washington and the train was making its inaugural one on faster route seattle to portland, oregon, 80 passenger where on board and five crew members and dozens were injured and many very seriously. And at least three are confirmed dead and accident investigators say there could be more. Theres a couple cars not safe enough to search. We know theres nobody alive in them at this point. And but there are we just dont know until they can shore up the train cars and get in there and search them. The tracks whe ....