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Duepo deponte dupont, washington, where this train derailing occurred. >> reporter: hauling people off, they've gone and a couple on standby. the ntsb is seassembling a go team, on the way. you can see the mangle the wreck of what was train 501 the inaugural run of this new added service between seattle and portland. a train that left, full of dignitaries and people from the media as they were trying to extol the virtues of this newly configured track. basically, they switched the track from the very scenic route along the waterfront, beautiful picturesque puget sound through this area that wo...

And we know there you multiple dead. brings in someone from the area who knows more about this new service. don anderson, make of lakewood, washington. thanks for joining me, mayor. you were one of the many people concerned about the speed of are trains that would travel through these small communities. you attempted to change the switch on this route. we're trying to establish the cascade -- the train's service hadn't been established a while. we don't know the rails are new. the idea amtrak would use rails burlington santa fe rails for this service is new. is that correct? >> first of all, i...

Investigation that just now is beginning. ali? >> thanks for your reporting. jim forman for us on the ground in dupont, washington. bring in joe lyin jo lynn kent. what do you have? >> reporter: different injuries, about 77 people transported to area hospitals. a number in a level red situation. about four of them last time we got an update from the hospital and about 20 people in serious and fair, but both stable condition across this area. now, what we do know is that the ntsb is launching this investigation. the investigators are heading there right now. king 5, our nbc news affiliate repor...

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Shortening. i don't understand why somehow a 33 year sentence goes to 8 years. i don't know. the one thing i learned from this sentence is that facts don't matter when you're a celebrity and have you got a lot of money and have you a lot of lawyers. nobody else could have gotten off that way. we excuse the brutality of famous people. look at what's going on with r. kelly right now. no music sites talking about that. and they knew about that forever. and with o.j. there was a lot of star power there. and that star power overpowered a lot of people. >> jesse: what did r. kelly do? >> greg: it's ...