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But that will be with the remaining rail. so, i'm told they have asked everybody to get back on board. >> harris: got it. >> they are moving pretty quickly. >> harris: all right. senator bill cassidy, they are asking you to board right now. >> oh, yes. everybody is back on. >> harris: okay. we want to go let do you that if you need to do that. we certainly appreciate your perspective on all of this. sandra, quick last word? >> sandra: to be sure, there is a lot more than 200 people on this train. you are talking hundreds of passengers of them. about 200 members of congress. this is affecting a...

Our head right now and our neck and back. how did i do that? what did i do? it happened so fast but it was a double hit. >> sandra: as you were describing, congressman, you felt like you were going about 70 miles per hour at the time of the collision. a couple things that we can confirm at this point our producers on capitol hill are trying to quickly confirm who was on the train and who was not as far as members of congress are concerned. one of our reporters, mike emanuel is confirming that house republican whip steve scalise was not on the train. he drove separately. so he is fine, we are t...

>> harris: from the pictures that we and our viewers can see right now from outside the train and you may actually not have this vantage point because you are inside the train, there is some movement outside, and it looks like people have been brought out. i mean, these don't -- all of them do not look like they are officially there to help out. some of these look like potentially they may be passengers. i'm curious to know if you are being given any sort of timetable as to when you can deboard or what that plan may look like. >> well, i'm going to guess here. simply guess. probably our opport...

Equipment and track overhaul and things like that. and then have you others who say perhaps there is so much bureaucracy involved that we can't possibly expect government-run. >> sandra: just to be clear there wasn't a derailment. >> that's true. people will always jockey for position when it comes for things like this just as they did after the tragedy in washington state. what i'm curious is how many people -- how many members of congress were on that train? and does it make you pause for a second and think perhaps that you should split up the carriage? >> every time i see another accident f...

This train hit the truck and the truck is just mangled. but we are now as i say right in front of the impact site. >> harris: um-huh. >> the speed of the train, as i say, i was with my son, who was sitting down. he is fine because he was sitting down. unfortunately when i was up walking, and i got hit, or actually when the train made the impact, i was thrown forward. i still don't know how far i was thrown or where i landed. >> harris: wow. i was reading because our team took some notes from you as they were talking with you on the phone and we were getting ready to come live to you that you c...