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Falling into a park below. nearly 100 firefighters raced to the scene, as flames raced to engulf cars loaded with lumber, grain and other products. >> the fire is traveling north along the train bridge, which is making it extraordinarily difficult for our firefighters to fight. >> reporter: union pacific says tanker cars that fell off the bridge contain a hazardous and highly flammable chemical. the fire department says one tanker is leaking and is using heavy equipment to pull the car upright, ...

36. 27 of those fatalities coming in north carolina. eight in south carolina. one in virginia, a tornado-related death. more from miguel marquez. >> reporter: were on the person street bridge in fayetteville. they had to shut it down because engineers are concerned about the debris moving underneath the bridge. were on the bridge, thats the grove street bridge. that bridge nmay have to be shu down because of the cape fear river. the water is still rising, has a foot to go in the next 12 hours or...

This rail bridge just below us, the csx rail bridge. you see the amount of -- the waters hitting the bridge, the amount of debris thats gathering in the center of the bridge putting a lot of stress on it. we have a drone up overhead. person street. it can move over to the train bridge to show exactly how much debris there is gathered around that bridge and how much pressure there is on that bridge. i want to point out one other thing for you here. theres a street light over here. this is kind of...

With 276 those fatalities coming in north carolina, eight in south carolina, and one in virginia. lets get more this morning from miguel marquez. >> reporter: were on the person street bridge in fayetteville. they had to shut it down because engineers are concerned about the debris moving underneath the bridge. were on the bridge, thats the grove street bridge. that bridge may have to be shut down because of the cape fear river. the water is still rising, has a foot to go in the next 12 hours or...

Were on person street bridge. up there, that is the grove street bridge. that bridge may have to be shut down, as well, because the river here, the cape fear river, the water is still rising. has about a foot to go in the next 12 hours or so. they think that it wilcrest. the bigger concern is this rail bridge just below us, the csx rail bridge. you see the amount of waters and debris thats gathering in the center of the bridge, putting a lot of stress on it. we have a drone up overhead, person s...

12,000 homes along both sides of the river in fayetteville alone. one other thing to show you here is that streetlight. the water has been rising against that. that should be at the base of a boat ramp where the ground usually is. now its 20 or 30 feet over its banks. we have a drone up over the person street bridge. if he can fly over, you can see us here waving. the drone -- give you a better sense of that train bridge there and just what sort of debris is pushing up against that bridge. it se...

Even if russias north korea bot has that one train bridge and a bunch of miserable guards and nothing else. when president trump met with kim jong un last night, it was easy to be caught up in the strange spectacle of that meeting. when things happen that have neve hned before. hings happen for which theres no parallel in american history, it can be hard to sort of get your bearings in terms of what you ought to expect and what should be seen as a shocking departure from what you expected. it ca...

North koreas trade. but its both china and russia who both have a big stake in that country. china and russia are both literally neighbors with north korea. theyre abutters. even if russias north korea border just has that one train bridge and a bunch of miserable guards and nothing else. when president trump met with kim jong un last night, it was easy to be caught up in the strange spectacle of that meeting. when things happen that have never happened before. when things happen for which there...

Any first responders get there. walk us through what it was like? >> yeah, it was surreal in the moment. we were just driving south. i do the commute every day. i saw the train go by us on the right and i noticed it but didnt think anything of it, and then we get to the bridge and theres kind of a traffic holdup, and i look up to the train bridge and its hard to see because it was dark and foggy, but it looked like the train was hanging off of the side of the bridge and it kind of hit me all at ...

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