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A train carrying ethanol derailed, leading to several cars erupting in flames and local residents evacuating.

Derailed and as you can see many of the car ours actually caught fire. the goal, the governor says, is to get all of these raymond residents back into their homes by around 11 a.m. local time that's in about 30 minutes, and we're also getting a lot more information about both the derailment in the spill. we now know that it was a train carrying ethanol and corn syrup and according to an update that we've gotten from the epa, there were four cars containing ethanol that ruptured during the derailment, and that's what actually led to that fire, which continues to burn at this hour. our there are...

Shortly. thank you. >> john: another alert now, fiery train derailment prompting evacuations in northern minnesota. 22 cars from a train came off the tracks overnight. 14 were carrying hazardous materials, including ethanol tankers. garrett has more, how are local officials working to contain the scene? >> well, john, the fire is largely contained and a lot of the ethanol has burned off. as things stand, there is no risk of toxic exposure and they can come home without a safety relief. last night nearly two dozen train cars derailed, the small town of raymond, minnesota, two hours west of the ...

Line. temperatures will be in themi os really is the middle of the afternoon, targeting areas in the midwest and the south in particular for some very intense tornadoes that forms a squall line as we go through the nighttime hours and any areas at risk for straight-line winds right through the night on friday. >> norah: mike bettes, thank you. now to this other developing story, a freight train of residents in a small minnesota town about 100 miles west of minneapolis. the bnsf train was hauling ethanol and corn syrup when it crashed and caught fire around 1:00 a.m. last night. official say th...

Coming from fort rucker, nearby fort rucker in alabama that will be investigating this. hopefully we'll get a sense of exactly what happened. we also still don't have any idea of who these nine individuals were we probably won't get a sense of that until tomorrow. we heard a little bit from the pentagon from brigadier general pat ryder, the spokesperson there. he explained there's a 24-hour waiting period after next of kin notification after the names are released publicly, chris. >> courtney kube, thank you for that. another evacuation after a train, this time carrying ethanol, e railed and...