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Can take a long time to get the injured to a hospital. fortunately if you can say that in this kind of a situation, there are local hospitals rather close by because columbia is a major city will in south carolina. rachel: deputies on the scene right now trying to help those off the train, trying to help those get to the hospital, those that need it. so, yeah, very, very tragic. and you are right. when these kinds of accidents happen in a more rural area, time is of the essence. ed: hearing there might be multiple go teams. i mentioned one before. sheriff's deputies in the area responding to t...

Heard earlier. when harrison cahill, the state emergency management division, they didn't know whether there were no life threatening injuries. he said they would look into it. we do know of scrapes and broken bones. but when asked are you officially saying there are no life threatening injuries he? couldn't answer that. rachel: he can't answer that because if you are on blood thinners and you break your leg, that is life-threatening injury. todd: great point. rachel: that's something we thought about often. a small injury for somebody on medication could become very serious. listen, this happ...

This week. train on train consequences can be deadly for presumably at this point people on board. rachel: again, happening at 2:30 in the morning. that means it's dark in the train. people are being jolted from their sleep, trying to find out what's going on. makes it harder when it's dark and cold outside. ed: now, we have got some numbers here and some details just to make sure to recap what we have been telling you. a statement coming in from amtrak. what they are saying is this amtrak train number 91. operating between new york and miami as we noted. came in contact with a csx freight tra...

With that we want to wring in ntsb chairman robert sumwalt. sir, what's the latest that you can tell us? >> good morning, and thank you for having us. we will be having our teams arriving in columbia early this morning, and we will begin immediately with our investigative process. ed: what are the early stages now? we had a news conference, sir, with local officials in south carolina last hour. and they were sailing it's too early to tell, which is understandable about how quickly the speed both trains were traveling at before this collision. and they were also saying it was too early to say w...

But then they want to let the public know because there is, you know, 139 passengers as you mentioned, 8 crew members. a lot of people in the winter time are going between new york and miami, florida. vacations. there are other people who have jobs up and down the east coast. but there could be a lot of families that are traveling. rachel: or elderly people on the train as well. you have to imagine, i mean, this is happening in the middle of the night. 2:35 in the morning there are no seat belts on amtrak train. being awaken with a jolt. the sound is just scaring. todd: you were on one. three ...