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we re still waiting for more information. they re going to have a press conference in about 20 minutes. mark, how close have you been able to get and what have you been able to see over the course of the day? the closest we were able to get was on the iowa side of the river. where this is at is rather remote. it is about four miles south of galena near the river. from the iowa side, we could not see the tracks because there is a lot of trees, it s part of the upper mississippi wildlife refuge. we saw the huge plume of black smoke. while we were getting video, we did see one of the big explosions that you saw on the west virginia crash that was just amazing video. we didn t expect to see anything like that.
conference in about 20 minutes. mark how close have you been able to get and what have you been able to see over the course of the day? the closest we were able to get was on the iowa side of the river. where this is at is rather remote. it is about four miles south of galena near the river. from the iowa side we could not see the tracks because there is a lot of trees, it s part of the upper mississippi wildlife refuge. we saw the huge plume of black smoke. while we were getting video, we did see one of the big explosions that you saw on the west virginia crash that was just amazing video. we didn t expect to see anything like that. we knew that one car had been on fire, and my sources are telling me there was at least another