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Killed in a gruesome bus crash. mourners paid tribute with releasing dozens of balloons in the sky. neighbors and friends trying to make sense of an unimaginable tragedy. we get more from cnns martin savidge. >> good morning, good morning, christine. investigators will be going over the crash site itself trying to determine not just what happened, but also why it happened. a lot of the focus of their investigation is on the bus driver, 24-year-old johnthony walker. it turned out he only had this...

Investigators say in september 24-year-old johnthony walker failed to yield the right of way and sideswiped a car. no one was seriously hurt. now this young man is facing five counts of vehicular homicide as well as reckless enendangerment charges. his arrests say he was speeding down a winding road, he lost control of the school bus, swerved outside and hit a tree just outside one womans tree. >> i ran out and all i could hear was kids screaming. and i mean they was screaming. one little boy, t...

>> reporter: one father told abc news hed had concerns about the bus driver before. >> there has been times where ive seen him going a little faster than he probably should be going. thats when i tried to be there in the mornings when hes pulling up so i could get a rhythm for what he was doing. >> reporter: i the drivers mother told cnn her son was "terrified" when he called her after the crash saying he tried to pull children from the wreckage. she says he is the father of a three-year-old son...

Broken arms, bleeding kidneys. our hearts have been going out to these families. >> reporter: 37 school children ranging from kindergarteners to fifth graders were riding the bus with walker when it crashed. a dozen remain hospitalized, some being treated in intensive care. >> there are no words that can bring comfort to a mother or a father and so today the city is praying for these families. >> reporter: one father told abc news hed had concerns about the bus driver before. >> there has been t...

City of chattanooga last night. mourners released dozens of balloons into the night sky. neighbors and friends try to make sense of this unimaginable tragedy. we get more from cnns martin savidge. >> reporter: good morning, christine, good morning, boris. investigators will be going over the crash site itself trying to determine not just what happened, but also why it happened. a lot of the focus of their investigation is on the bus driver, 24-year-old johnthony walker. it turned out he only had...

School bus crash. the bus full of elementary school students had just left school yesterday afternoon, no students had been even dropped off yet when this crash happened. now the ntsb investigation has just begun. martin savidge reports. >> a school bus flipped off the roadway. it is occupied children. they believe there are ejections. >> reporter: a drastic accident. according to his mother, thats how she described the school bus. >> in the back i can see an arm moving. >> the driver, 24-year-o...

The screams, i can still hear them. i woke up this morning with some chilling sounds, you could just hear the screams. they didnt know what to do. they was grabbing, holding on to myself and other chaplains and ministers, asking is my child really gone, are they coming back. you dont know what to do with that. but just lay on the floor with them, cry, hold on to them and you know, it makes you reflect on whats important in life and how much we take for granted. >> reporter: you could hear just h...

>> thank you, mr. president, for showed the class that george w. bush showed. >> i have to get to other headlines now. federal authorities are investigating the deadly school bus crash in chattanooga, tennessee. according to an affidavit, the 24-year-old bus driver johnthony walker was driving well over the 30-mile-per-hour limit on a narrow winding road when he lost control of the bus. five children were killed. six children remain in icu. durham school services, the private company that owns t...

Sideswiping a vehicle. no injuries in that accident. but investigators are no doubt going to be looking into his history. we are waiting hopefully some toxicology tests. were not sure if those have been done. we are hoping to get more information about this suspect, an individual, all of this will be part of the investigation. >> such a difficult time in chattanooga. nick, thanks so much. so conflicts of interest, no way suggests donald trump. hes going to be the president and the law protects...

Chairman earlier today and they could not confirm that. one of the things that will come up when they review the three cameras inside that school bus is the audio from the bus moments before the crash. so once ntsb is able to review that footage and it will take them a couple of days to do that, well know whether or not that really happened. for now, the police chief cannot confirm it. other important things that were mentioned in this press conference, the investigation is still in the early st...