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Cnn national correspondent natasha chen is live at huntington beach, so, natasha, what do we know about how the leak started? >> reporter: pamela, we don't know a whole lot about how this happened or even exactly what time this happened. because people started -- people have said that they started smelling things perhaps late friday. officials today told us they got their first report of it to them saturday morning. so this has been going on for at least a day or two now with people in the area smelling something not quite right, and people on the beach actually getting tar balls and oil stuck...

Nobody is involved or caught up in that twisted metal. nobody is under nooeft these cars. so they've also had dogs on the scene sniffing the area smelling for any signs of human life or any signs of cadavers candidly right there in the wreckage. the ntsb go team is on the scene. this is a massive investigation. it's going to involve not only the ntsb but the federal rail authority and, of course you would expect that the pennsylvania state police will be involved. there will be all sorts of elements to this. they will look at the data from the black box on board the train. that will give them ...