there. reporter: officials say at least three people have been killed with more injured as rescue crews work to help passengers of these overturned train cars. the empire builder 727 had taken off from chicago and headed towards seattle, a trip amtrak says on its website that allows passengers to experience the rugged splendor of the american west, including major portions of the lewis erik clark trail and instead around 4:00 p.m. mountain time on saturday near joplin, montana, the idyllic scene turned to tragedy. probably 10 to 15 seconds of rocking back and forth and tons of noise and then we came to a stop. robin vander vest was taking a rest in one of the sleeper cars that did not derail. amtrak said there were approximately 114 passengers and 16 true members. the train had two locomotives and ten cars in total, eight of which derailed. i would describe the experience as extreme turbulence on an airplane but like louder and there was kind of a lot of smoke smell.
the votes to pass a bipartisan trillion dollar infrastructure bill tomorrow as promised, but pelosi says she is confident democrats will pass that bill sometime this week along with the president s massive $3.5 trillion reconciliation budget bill. we have a team of correspondents covering this for us. arlette saenz of the white house and let s start with melanie zanona on capitol hill. this could be a consequential week for the democrats. what are they doing today? not just a consequential week for the democrats politically but also a consequential week for the economy. speaker nancy pelosi said in a letter over the weekend that the house must pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the massive economic package as well as a bill to fund the government because government funding runs out at midnight on thursday but it s not clear that democrats have the vote to pass either of their priorities. just take a listen to what some of the key players had to say this morning about
Trump obviously at the time. maybe there were no two international leaders at that time who were more opposite than angela merkel and presume and one of the big iconic pictures that so many people remember very vividly is one of president trump s g-7 summits in 2017, president trump sitting there with angela merkel across from him trying to get thundershower talk to him. who can report. and one of the things that personified is trying to gain multiculturalism while others were working for it. fred pleitgen, thank you so much. we ll check back with you throughout the evening. thanks so much for joining me. i m fridayfield. we re entering a make or break week for president biden s domestic agenda but already today house speaker nancy pelosi conceded she doesn t yet have