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Onto the southbound lanes of the northwests busiest travel court order, interstate 5. im ready state was going more than 80 miles an hour, about a quarter-mile before it entered a curve for the speed limit was much lower. amtrak issuing a statement, tweeting "theres a thorough investigation underway to determine what happens. will not speculate about the cause and we encourage others not to speculate as well." take you to dan springer and dupont, washington, with the latest. >> more than 12 hour...

They could to get in the train cars as they hung over the trustle. three people were killed. we dont know how many are critical. everyone that survived is grateful to be alive. >> after getting myself upright and my legs and i saw her legs and i shook one. she shook it back. i thought oh! i said are you all right? she said i think so. there was a body lying there. he hardly had any clothes on. the clothes were ripped off. he was obviously dead. >> just terrible stories. stories of heroism from p...

Had been used by freight trains for years had recently undergone upgrade to high grade passengers service washington and portland. although the software not used for stopping speeding training on tracks. with trains traveling so close to traffic and pedestrians. amtrak said at this time we will not speculate about the cause and we encourage others not to speculate as well. and back here live you can see huge cranes are now lifting away the wreckage. tough going in steady downpour this morning. i...

Transportation, which is interstate 5. >> do we know whether the conductor or engineer has been tested for drugs or anything like that? i would imagine thats a routine follow up for something like that. >> that is what the the ntsb is being very careful about. that human factor is a critical thing for the fra. the soaked most factor of crashes in derailments. >> neil: why would somebody be going that fast? lets say it was something mechanical or they couldnt control it. the other obvious issue, ...

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Between 70 and 80 miles per hour when he knew something went terribly wrong. >> we felt a little bit of a jolt and then at a certain point the -- we could hear crumpling of the train car and we were catapulted into the seats in front of us. >> emergency responders transported crash victims to hospitals all along i-5 including mad began army medical center which took in 20 patients. the worst off in stable condition. the recovery process got slowed down because some of the train was teetering fro...

Find your awesome, and change the way you wifi. good evening, im john burman in for anderson. we begin with tragedy in washington state. a deadly amtrak passenger train derailment near the city of dupont has killed at least three people and sent dozens to the hospital. the derailment left part of the train dangling over an interstate 5 overpass. 13 of the 14 cars jumped the tracks. the ntsb is sending a 20-member team to investigate as we speak. joining me now by phone is brooke with the washi...

>> laura: two failures, one embarrassing, one tragic. the first at atlantas hartfield jackson airport the busiest in the world which was completely shut down for 11 hours by a power outage. and then this morning, tragedy struck at the washington state amtrak train derailed plunging off a bridge on to interstate 5, killing at least three people, injuring more than 100. investigators are still looking for the exact cause with attention on the trains high rate of peed as a candidate president trump...

But they have said that the train wasnt using the latest safety system, which is a system known as positive train control. had positive train control been in effect, that system might have been able to slow down the train remotely if in fact it was going too fast for that curve. so interstate 5 in washington is still closed and it will be. this is a huge accident. a terrible derailment. well let you know more as you learn more over the course of this hour. this is still very much a developing st...

Derailment that left passenger cars dangling onto a highway this morning. more than 100 were taken to the hospital. cnns kyung lah has more on how this horrific accident unfolded. >> amtrak 501, emergency, emergency, emergency. we are on the ground. >> reporter: alarming words. the 911 call from the conductor of an amtrak train cascades 501 on its first ever run from seattle to portland on this route. >> we were coming around the corner to take the bridge over i-5 there right north of nisqually ...