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Driverless, runaway train. >> reporter: there is a lot of questions on how exactly it happened, whether or not they weren't hook properly or if there was some sort of other mechanical error going on. we are hearing reports that there was a fire on the train earlier that evening and something may have happened when they tried to put out the fire. the operator of the rail cars, the owner of them, says that the engineer of the rail cars wasn't the last one to touch it so there are a lot of questions right now. certainly a lot of unanswered questions. but firefighters and investigators are trying ...

But officials say they have no choice. >> everybody knows you need to keep the system up and running. we are going to do our very best to do so. but someone has to figure this out. >> air traffic controllers are being forced to take unpaid vacation day off every other week. the faa says it could cause 90 minute delays on 7,000 flights every day. president obama is among those expected to attend a memorial service thursday for victims of the texas fertilizer explosion. families got their first look at damage to their homes on the outskirts of the blast zone. some of them devastated to find pe...

That sparked this whole thing. >> extremely difficult, because the blast site was cleared by the explosion, how much debris and investigative evidence is left. a media crew at long last was allowed up close to the site, and that's why we have the pictures we do today. you can see a train car there carrying ammonium nitrate. that explosion fused the rail tracks right there. 50 or so investigators trying to call across a 36 square-block blast zone. they haven't discovered where the fire started, and aren't able to discover what could have started it. that's a difficult job. the authorities sayin...

Building that was hit, for example. there was obviously a lot of people inside that building with this blast. and it was turned to virtually rubble without there being a single spark. the cars, we're seeing so many people injured in their vehicles driving around that area not even getting to see the flames from the fertilizer. but when the explosion happened, all of their windows were blown out of their car. getting people informed because everyone on the outside looking in, we see the video, we're hearing about the weather. the people at ground zero of this lab don't have that luxury right no...

Appears to be what was a home over here, completely just obliterated, smoking, charred. if we keep moving around, i'll show you over here, you can see some remnants of the home. watch out for this power line here. watch your head here, juan. over here there's a hot water heater. and you can see the bathtub. this is, obviously, the bathroom of this home that is now gone. the heat from this fire or whatever was so hot over here on the side of this structure, which is still standing, this looks like fabric, this is, i believe, the vinyl siding. that's melted off the side of this building. and som...