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Again, i'm still shaking but i'm going to be okay. there have been serious, serious injuries, obviously today. this is a horrific thing. but our doctors. and that's why i have the utmost respect for the medical profession. i'm a lawyer by profession and the like. but watching our doctors spring into action members of congress was outstanding. >> harris: you are moving again. >> right now the train is still stuck. >> harris: okay. we are looking at -- we're looking at moments ago video. and i looked up at the screen and thought okay, they are moving again. you are right, no, no, no. you are sti...

Truck, you wouldn't have known. like i said thank god physicians on board and they were brave and busted open the door. help the injured. and someone was on i could see the cpr going and sadly one of them they lost and the other got into the ambulance fairly soon there was frustration we couldn't get out of the train, physicians couldn't get out. we are not permitted to because they were worried there could be an explosion. boy, they didn't care, thank god, and they got the door open. >> sandra: hey, rachel, it's san draft i'm so happy to hear you are okay and your kids are okay. if many don't...

Life, it could have been as far as we know the details that we have so much worse. >> katie: when you talk about finding out on air the families. rachel campos duffy is part of our family. >> harris: we didn't know she was on that train. >> she actually talked about how she was going back to wisconsin to get her eight kids. they were going to this retreat this weekend. it was going to be a fun, family event with her husband who, of course, is a congressman. so, i didn't realize she was going to be on this train either. this was probably a very exciting day for her and her children. >> harris: ...

And i understand that you saw or experienced something pretty harrowing. >> yeah. well, you know, i knew we hit something. you couldn't feel it as much like how awful it was inside the train. we are a big train. but immediately i ran up the hall because my son had been walking, our oldest son was walking our youngest. and i was worried that he might have you know, stumbled with the jerk. so as soon as i ran up, they were fine. but looked out the window and it was a terrible sight. pretty traumatic for me to see the two unfortunate drivers on the side of the road. it was pretty traumatic to me....

Covered our train incidents. lunch hour on the east coast. there is lots of activity. it is unbelievable. many of them do involve things on the tracks. so what you are talking about is kind of an elevated sense of awareness either through our equipment or some kind of indication that you have got something coming up. because at 70 miles per hour, you just don't have a lot of stop time. >> yeah. you probably have to start stopping a half a mile in advance of that if the truck were stalled there and several minutes that's obviously a problem. if just pulled on the tracks and instantaneous. >> ha...