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But that will be with the remaining rail. so, im told they have asked everybody to get back on board. >> harris: got it. >> they are moving pretty quickly. >> harris: all right. senator bill cassidy, they are asking you to board right now. >> oh, yes. everybody is back on. >> harris: okay. we want to go let do you that if you need to do that. we certainly appreciate your perspective on all of this. sandra, quick last word? >> sandra: to be sure, there is a lot more than 200 people on this train....

Our head right now and our neck and back. how did i do that? what did i do? it happened so fast but it was a double hit. >> sandra: as you were describing, congressman, you felt like you were going about 70 miles per hour at the time of the collision. a couple things that we can confirm at this point our producers on capitol hill are trying to quickly confirm who was on the train and who was not as far as members of congress are concerned. one of our reporters, mike emanuel is confirming that ho...

>> harris: from the pictures that we and our viewers can see right now from outside the train and you may actually not have this vantage point because you are inside the train, there is some movement outside, and it looks like people have been brought out. i mean, these dont -- all of them do not look like they are officially there to help out. some of these look like potentially they may be passengers. im curious to know if you are being given any sort of timetable as to when you can deboard or...

Equipment and track overhaul and things like that. and then have you others who say perhaps there is so much bureaucracy involved that we cant possibly expect government-run. >> sandra: just to be clear there wasnt a derailment. >> thats true. people will always jockey for position when it comes for things like this just as they did after the tragedy in washington state. what im curious is how many people -- how many members of congress were on that train? and does it make you pause for a second...

This train hit the truck and the truck is just mangled. but we are now as i say right in front of the impact site. >> harris: um-huh. >> the speed of the train, as i say, i was with my son, who was sitting down. he is fine because he was sitting down. unfortunately when i was up walking, and i got hit, or actually when the train made the impact, i was thrown forward. i still dont know how far i was thrown or where i landed. >> harris: wow. i was reading because our team took some notes from you ...

Truck and it looks like its in two parts. and its a horrific site. the train is backed up and stopped right in front of where the actual impact took place. >> harris: we actually have a live look now at crozet, virginia. i cant say whether or not thats actually your car, but there is a car sitting right in front of the wreckage so its potentially the one you are on. we did see it moving. we hopefully thought it was going forward. we have no way of knowing which direction is forward and back from...

Froze in place. nobody knew whether this was something that could be coordinated or just an accident that happened. we were all conscious, obviously, of safety matters. it does not appear that there is anything other than the talk. >> sandra: have medical professionals boarded the train to come check on injuries? >> yes, they have. yes, they have. and we have what i would call e.m.s., firefighter type personnel and we have house physicians. there are two or three of them on board. and we have ph...

But its chilly. its cold down there just as it is here. im wondering about your comfort level and whats being done to accommodate all of you. 200 people on a train are a lot of people to keep comfortable. >> i think everybodys fine with that they turned the engines on here five minutes ago or. so so the cars are heated. we just are waiting to find out what the next step is with regard to the retreat and whats going to happen. you know, obviously, there is some concern when you have that many mem...

Its being disseminated. you are in a unique position because you were able to deboard the plane. you were needed to tend to others. but there are many others and im looking now on twitter, representative martha mcsale, there are some who are tweeting from inside the train just to let people know that theyre okay. im on the train that crashed but im okay. please join me in praying for the health of those that are injured. tell me what people are being told right now and what the timetable looks o...

Administration may have sabotaged own governments efforts to stop the hezbollah terror group. >> hezbollah terror group put everything secondary so we didnt rock the boat with the iranians because of the iran deal. steve: right here, this is what santa left a letter in the christmas tree where the kids were told that they could get a dog. ♪ ♪ ♪ steve: we are sitting in midtown manhattan, there goes santa and the train and stuff like that. so many snowflakes falling on the big train. i keep...