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Kelly: a wisconsin state trooper is nearly crushed during a routine traffic stop, and it's all caught on dashcam rid video. take a rook at this. you can see trooper jim reese, wow, watching -- walking, rather, back to his patrol car when a semi truck sideswipes the vehicle. reese says it took some time to realize just how close he came to being hit. >> it was kind of surreal. it almost happened in slow motion. i guess your training kicks in, and you do what you're train to do. it wasn't until later that night, actually watching the video back and seeing my family, that it was kind of impactful...

A passenger telling the associated press the train was going about 120 miles per hour before it hit a tight corner and flew off the tracks. the conductor now under police guard as part of the investigation. meanwhile the father of an american woman killed in that crash is speaking out about the tragedy. greg palkot joins us live from our london bureau with more on this. greg, what is the latest on the crash that you know of. >> reporter: hey, kelly, as you can imagine the investigation continues full bore moo this horrific train wreck. among the casualties one american killed. five americans i...

Concerns about the high-speed rail system coming here to the united states soon. california is working with amtrak on an accela-like train. it would be a railway that would carry passengers between l.a. and san francisco in less than three hours the trains would be at speeds of 220 miles an hour and that makes people wonder now if this is safe? the state agency building the railway, says, yes, it is safe. they point to japan's high-speed rail system as a prime example. construction is set to begin on this in sent september. >> victims families and survivors of the asiana airlines crash are law...

Find on a plane with telemetry inside. this should explain what happened but focus is on the excessive speed of that train. account from the driver, admitting he was going 50 miles an hour. he was going at 120. he is now today under detention, under guard by the authorities. he is yet to be questioned, kelly. >> you're talking about that driver. there was even a report that he, while he was admitting that something was going on, that he was traveling too fast, he thought he might derail but heae american survivors as well, greg. what can you tell us about that story? >> reporter: gripping tale...