miles per hour, which is track running speed right through there. the state department of transportation person was commenting how they were passing trains on i-5 just prior to this and then they must have slowed down to come into the curve i spoke of and something terrible happened. jon: john hyatt is a railroad investigator and authority. our guest with us right now as we continue to cover this amtrak derailment on the first day of service in the tacoma area. there are casualties reported, injuries reported as well. how many we don t yet know. jonathan hunt is covering for us from our los angeles bureau and has a little more information for us now. jonathan. jon, this was amtrak 501. it had gone through seattle and had stopped, as we understand it, at the new station in tacoma and just south of tacoma this derailment appears to have happened near the town of dumont. now, as we have been looking at