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Mandy Lockaby, a BNSF conductor in Lubbock says, “It is not a man’s job because I do it every day, but it is a man’s world.”

Pennsylvania, is rural, 15 homes needed to be evacuated. >> they were sheltering in place initially, but more for peace of mind, we took them out of their homes. >> reporter: rail officials say the truck pulled in front of the csx freight train late-morning at this crossing, which is marked with signs, but no crossing gates. there were more than 2,000 accidents at crossings last year, more than 100 involving trucks. in this case, officials say a small amount of the acid remains in that truck. officials say it will take some time to empty that truck and clean up the scene. as for those who evac...

Soon. >> so the investigation's very much going to focus on whether this trash truck, for whatever reason, tried to beat the train, whether it went around the crossing gates that we believe were down. that will be part of the investigation. they will surely be looking at the outward facing camera that should have been on that amtrak train and should have captured the moment of impact. they'll be interviewing witnesses. they'll be doing the standard urine and blood test for any signs of alcohol or drugs. they'll be doing speed checks. at the moment, everything at this point suggests this garbag...

Two workers on board the train, an engineer and the conductor, are uninjured. ntsb investigators say the conductor gave three horn blasts as the train neared the crossing. the ntsb's report states in part that the access road is marked only with cross buck signs and nonstandard stop signs, and there are no active warning lights or crossing gates in place. eyewitnesses are still stunned by what they saw. >> about two weeks, that's all we were talking about was the explosion. i'm going, i'll always remember this. like never gonna forget this moment. [ explosion ] >> back up. >> [ explosion ] who...

And stop what you're doing and take a look at the shocking video of a heart-stopping crash. you can see right there as a double-decker train packed with people slams rights into a fedex truck and it splits it in half. crossing gates and flashing lights that normally warn when a train is approaching failed. this happened in salt lake city. and police there say they stopped working because of severe snow and ice. no one, amazingly, was hurt. those are your headlines. janice has been talking about the weather across the country. lots of snow and nor'easter up here. he. ainsley: the bars that save...