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People on that train described in some instances a feeling of going downhill, everybody has cell phones and so we can get reports from inside that train as long as people -- we know there are casualties and all of this. the train derailed off of part of that line and landed on interstate five southbound and came to rest. a part of that train as you can see is still dangling. casualties can mean injury or death or both, we don't know yet but we know the number of people on that train now confirmed at 70 at this point. let's go to jonathan hunt, he has been reporting what's happening at the scen...

Working on the line but what you are saying is important for people to hear. i know we have some confirmation of the ntsb and what they are doing now. >> sandra: they are launching a team to investigate the derailment in the state of washington. additional information to follow when available, that is an update from the ntsb. they are sending a team right now to washington state. if i could bring up one other thing, looking at the live pictures there, the weather. we haven't gotten any aerial images yet. it's been raining, it's foggy. we are told -- it's hard to tell in these pictures, it may ...

Talking about. eight people died. 185 others transported to area hospitals. as we go back and forth learning how this whole thing is played out, i'm going to bring everybody up to speed. in the middle of your screen is now a still picture, interstate five has been shut down, at last check in both directions but certainly southbound. this is around the collision point of the train falling onto the overpass. it is south of seattle in the tacoma area, south of there we are told. this line would've been carrying about 70 people at the time. one car flattened from eyewitness reports and officials o...

Train derailed at 18 miles an hour. that's a very low speed and that would indicate there was some kind of either mechanical problem or track problem. >> harris: i have made perhaps the jump based on things i've covered before that when you have a role out of something that they have the first day for this cascade train line, which was driving along the rather iconic viewpoint of puget sound, they were very proud to get this is one of their first pieces of spending, hundreds of millions of dollars after upgrading thek line. what kind of extra eyes would've been on this train of any at all? >> ...

Rail, it may have concretize, may have wooden ties. but fra has a track safety standards that save you are going to be running trains 79 miles an hour on this track, you need to have certain maintenance. it has to be inspected twice a week at a minimum if i am going to. >> harris: i was just going to say, we know this is a brand-new line and they spent north of $800 million on doing upgrades. purchasing equipment for this brand-new rollout today. but for the whole system, that amtrak is running in the region, in the area. we know those details, we would hope and all that spending they would've...