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Completely derailed. three cars on their side. one car completely ripped open. and the engine car north of those cars almost about 50 to 100 yards north of those other cars. >> when we look at video of that that engine car came very close to another set of train cars that were on the track. and they look like they may have been carrying some kind of lick wixted im not sure. wasnt a passenger train. i can only imagine had that crashes to the other one, and what that could have caused. for that en...

Brakes. theyll be looking at the speed of the train at the time of the crash. theyll make an effort to interview the conductor, take toxicology tests and that will all be part of the investigation to try to determine what happened here what went so wrong as this train came on this curve and completely derailed three cars on their side one car completely ripped open and the engine car, north of those cars, almost about 50 to 100 yards north of those other cars. >> and when were looking at video o...

Mayor and the governor, a devastating mangled mess. thats what it is. one of the train cars. it looks like a tin can was open. the front car. the engine car is at least 50 yards away from the other car. theyre all turned over. all on the side of the tracks. complete mangled wreckage. were kind of lucky that there were not more casualties. five deaths, six criticaler 65 were transported. the governor said they will do the best to work through night. it is dark. they have add light to the scene an...

Watching all this play out for many hours now. what is going on near that derailment site? >> caller: its quieted down quite a bit. there are still dozens of firefighters, police officers on the scene, milling about between the different cars. just to set the scene, if the tracks are going north/south, the cars are on the west side of the track. again, repeating what we talked about earlier. it looks like a tin can thats been opened. and, again, the front car, the engine car, some 50 yards south...

The other train cars in this area. and you just see how this one completely went off the rails. lets pull back a little bit here. and i want to give you an idea of whats going on around the scene. you see some of the emergency workers who are around the area right now. this appears to be the area that is in focus at this point. where this train derailed. you see right here. this is the front of the train there. that would be the engine car. we pointed out a few moments ago how it went off the ra...

This large a land mass if it was going at the speed that was suggested for this curve. >> not only that. i saw a little earlier where the actual track was bent. i mean thats a lot of force to bend a train track. im no expert but i would assume that takes quite a bit of force. >> reporter: absolutely. to reiterate what i saw when i went to the scene. that one car that you were describing earlier looking like a tin can. the other cars, upside down. one perpendicular to the track, and then the engi...

Saying that five american citizens were among the injured. the train jumped the tracks last night. eight cars separated from the engine car, some of them piled up one on top of the other. the casualty numbers are still fluctuating. were hearing now that 80 were killed and as many as 178 injured, 247 were onboard and at last count we had 95 are the still in hospitals. dozens among them in a critical condition. area hospitals were overwhelmed with people last night who were offering to give blood....

Authorities know how truck and it up on the tracks in front of a heavily guarded train. >> we dont have a full understanding yet as to what happened, but it was a train hitting a truck going at a pretty, pretty good speed. and we will have a full report. speaker at the point of impact, the badly damaged engine car was eventually removed and the remaining cars were towed backwards to a train station in downtown charlottesville where republicans were quickly loaded onto buses for a drive to their ...