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Recorded in the latest 24—hour period, as well as 161 deaths. thats those whove died within 28—days of a positive covid test. 81.1% of people aged 12 and over have received two doses of a covid vaccine, 37% have received a booster or third dose. earlier i spoke to our political correspondent ben wright and asked him how much pressure the government is currently under. the pressure is firmly on, there are political events moving at a breathless pace this week and as helen said this morning, t...

Cuts down your chance of having to go into hospital or dying from covid. now, there is one of these made by a company in the uk, initial trials were quite encouraging and they were cutting the risk of hospitalisation and death by 50%. later trial results are slightly less encouraging and that came down to 30% plus the other downside with these, you have to take them quite quickly after getting invited so ideally within three or five days. we are likely to hear more about the roll—out of these ...

You see the water here, kind of picking up in some of its furious nature. have said were not even allowed to walk there. theyre just concerned for everybodys safety. what well do, which is somewhat different, ill show you a device here. its going to help us for all the folks who want to get instant weather data, were going to be able to monitor that with things like the wind speed and everything else. so im standing right now with a building protecting me. im going to step out of the way. randy ...

Great care. i want to talk about what happens, theres been a huge debate for years, should there be seat belts on trains? i think there should be but again, when something like this occurs thats when i start to look right. the kind of injuries you are going to see our people flying through the air, hitting their head, damaging their spine and crashing. i hate to see this but we are talking head injuries, spinal cord injuries and fractured -- thats what they are going to be dealing with. >> harri...

Casualties. at least some injuries, potentially death. we dont have the hard and fast numbers yet. we do have the hard and fast facts on this. that train according to a web site that tracks it and what authorities are looking at right now, had it going at 81.1 miles per hour, just before this happened. it went around the curve you can see. at least one railcar right away when off that overpass and hit interstate five. you can see another dangling behind it and another. this gives us the perspect...

News warrants. if you are just joining us on "outnumbered overtime," they are getting a better view of all of -- look at the transport board on the yellow and green and white, the triage area they now have set off in dupont washington. this is a town along and amtrak line that derailed today. interstate five is the freeway you are looking at. you can see the car, we know potentially at a high rate of speed, cleared 481.1 miles per hour according to transit.com. that is a web site jonathan hunt w...

The information of this train was to going at 2.1 miles per hour over the speed limit for that stretch of track. it would be interesting to ask one of the many experts would be talking to this hour. >> harris: one of the things we were told early on was that 1-2 miles per hour can happen if there is a little unevenness. we will be talking with more people this hour. we are kind of guessing how fast anything may have been going, we had some change of number. we can look at what they are saying wh...

It never has to go under tunneled bridges, single-track, that can cause delays and doesnt have to go across those shrub currents that cause delays. where the biggest factors, it no longer would have had to share that train track with the old freight train that chugged along at 30 miles. they wanted to do faster, and this was the rapid everybody said it might be more dangerous $181 million to get this section of the train up and running, and that was the clear problem that a lot of people had. ev...

>> i want to get to something the ap is now supporting which is very significant in this. theyve gone to a web site called transit.com which was posting in real-time the speed of this train. according to the associated press, the train was traveling at 81.1 miles per hou hour, this has been from transit docs.com, web site using data from the railroads train. the maximum speed along the stretch of track where the accident happened, known as the point defined is 79 miles per hour according to wash...

Killed in this terrible accident. this official says the preliminary signs indicate the train may have struck something on the track before going off the track and as you look at those aerial pictures, its interesting to note that the engine appears to have gone across the overpass and the cars behind it have swung out over both sides of that overpass. we know there was one dangling on the left-hand side as you look at it right now with one on the ground and 3-4 according to the sheriffs spokesm...