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Bay bridge. People also been smelling the smoke. You can see this video here. This is sort of a good look at what weve been seeing out here throughout the its also drawn a lot of spectators, people that stopping jumping out of their cars on the a overpasses here seeing whats burning again. This is that the snitzel steel area and this is that port of oakland firefighters have several crews that have been out on scene here, of course, with all this smoke up in the air, theres some warnings tonight e from the bay area, air quality district and letting people know to expect smoke, especially as the wind has been sort of blowing in this western direction. But its also going to start moving more south. So people alameda island, southern oakland, san leandro, hayward, fremont those areas, theyre probably going to be selling smelling the smoke at at some point tonight if they havent already been. So, of course, its a advise that you close your we talked with a couple of people who actually cam ....
Scene seeing the amount of smoke just. Looming through the air here. Of course, we were able to get pretty close to the scene here, but it is private property. So weve been getting booted quite a few by security, but we try to get the best visual that what were looking at nets, what was that were looking at is a large pile of scrap metal that was on fire. Im sort of the smell that you could get from just being in. This immediate area, though, was mostly sort of like a plastic e sort of smell. That was what was able to be we know that air district inspectors are going to be looking into just how bad the air quality is here in this area. Of cours , people are being advised to close their windows and try to avoid being consuming any of this zeroed in on some specific communities, including alameda southern parts of oakland, san leandro, hayward and also possibly fremont has the evening here progresses. We caught up with a couple of people that were out here because it definitely drew peop ....
Learned that the train derailed. Is everyone okay . Im still figuring that out. Reporter one car flipped up side down. Another dangled precariously off the overpass. Still others piled up, wreckage strewn over a wide area. Of the 14 cars, only one, the lead engine, remained on the tracks. No motorists were killed from the crash. I was scared, you know, i was really scared. Reporter Adrian Thompson was en route to see his mother for the holiday. I grabbed on to the chair in front of me for dear life. My laptop went flying, phone went flying. Reporter within minutes of the derailment dozens of emergency crews rushed in, as did drivers who westbound witnessed the crash, like trevor colby, who helped pulled shrivers to safety. I saw smoke. Next thing i know, myself and a few others are trying to get people medical care when we can. Reporter this was first trip for the new seattleto expressed concern these tracks werent safe enough fo ....
Glor good evening. The first run of a new amtrak commuter line in the Pacific Northwest ended in tragedy. The 14car train jumped the tracks this morning south of seattle and most of the cars flew off an overpass, some hitting vehicles on the road below. Others still dangling in the air tonight. The train carried 77 passengers and a crew of 7. At least three people were killed. There are dozens of injuries. The n. T. S. B. Is on the scene, and so is cbs news correspondent john blackstone. Reporter the accident scene is a jumble of derailed train cars, trucks, and automobiles. When you see the pictures, its pretty horrific. People were screaming. It was crazy. Reporter an amtrak commuter train on a new, higherspeed line between seattle and portland, derailed. Amtrak 501. Emergency. We ar on the ground. Reporter this radio call captured the moment it was first learned that the train derailed. Is everyone okay . Im still figuring t ....
It was oval yous that there were some fatalities and there were a lot of injuries and some people were able to get off the train. Reporter those people taken away in ambulances or standing wrapped in blankets along the road. About 40 miles from the seattle amtrak station where they boarded the very first run of a faster new route. Multiple cars and trucks were struck by train cars that left the train tracks and went down on to the road. Its a terrible thing. Very upsetting. Even though when you see the pictures, its pretty horrific at this point nobody in any of the vehicles is a fatal. The fatals are all contained to the train. Reporter but train cars and passengers, vehicles and motorists were tossed everywhe everywhere. What youre seeing is what it is. And on the other side of that bridge theres three or four more cars that are upside down on the road and in the woods. Reporter early information clocked amtrak train 501 traveling more than 80 miles an hour when it derailed at the du ....