. this morning search and rescue crews are combing neighborhoods near new orleans that were devastated by a huge tornado. the robin neighborhood was hit last night. it ripped some homes off their foundations. at least one person was killed, multiple others injured. let s go to derek van dam. he joins me from the parish. they don t have a final count yet, but still, one life lost, it s horrific. i m surprised it s not more. reporter: also saying to cnn this morning that it s a miracle more people weren t injured, there weren t more casualties than has been reported. when you look at the extent of the damage we re seeing behind us, we have to use the words that the parish president used as well, where the tornado actually struck.
with businesses to clean up. they are shocked by what they witnessed. people decide violence and lawlessness is what they want to do and that s the part that gets scary. amazing that more people weren t injured and several people got arrested and 12 made in total. that s the part that gets scary here. what could happen next? that s what everyone is waiting to see. ryan reportedly yesterday part of the motivation behind some of the demonstrations and the locations that were selected. it was a no justice no profits campaign. that was the motivation to and did that message resonate and what came from that campaign to
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and people weren t injured without seat belts and with that standard, it makes sense they had a hard time saying, well, no, he probably didn t buckle the seat belt and call for a medic but was that a crime? they couldn t make up their minds on that very tough question. julie with the washington post thanks so much. let s go back to joy reed here in the studio as we start to see some pictures, not sure, are those live pictures coming in, guys? okay. those are live pictures, joy, coming in from baltimore. keeping an eye on that. as julie just said, there were plans in place that once some kind of verdict came down there might be those to demonstrate just to have their voices heard. yeah. as she said, that is hung jury, a mistrial. not the same as not guilty. the plans became a feature in the trial because william porter s attorneys argued that a letter that was sent by the school district home to parents and essentially saying that they would not permit any walkouts or demonstr
when the chaotic moments when rescue crews were trying to get the passengers on board. each train, one traveling eastbound, one westbound, had one had 300 passengers, the other 400 passengers, about 60 in all, as you message ntioned, reports of injury, they were treated at the hospital and released. officials saying they feel that they were very fortunate that more people weren t injured and that no one was killed in this. so, what will the ntsb be looking for? when they get on scene, they map out the whole entire thing, not ruling anything out. they are look at mechanical issues. they will be interviewing witnesses. they will be checking with the data recorders that they said that were on boarder and they have already sent back preliminary data to washington, d.c. to be analyze there had, so they will be able to glean some information from that but they will also be checking just the physical area around these tracks. there was construction that was going on here and they had talked