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Two freight trains colliding in missouri. it caused the flames you see here. the overpass collapsed when one of the trains struck a pillar. seven people have been streeted. now to the bridge collapse on a major interstate. remarkably no one was killed when the bridge fell into the river after getting struck by an 18-wheeler. but there are many questions about how that bridge collapsed when that 18-wheeler rode by. cnn's dan simon has more. >> reporter: it happened after rush hour. the bridge was nearly empty. >> riverside bridge over i-5 just collapsed. we have people in the water. >> report...

And i could see that they were lighting up. so i realized that lieutenant dan was going to be more than a character in my life. with your help we've made positive changes in the lives of so many grateful heroes. >> even before he played a veteran, it was the passion of themmy award winning actor to help our nation's returning soldiers. the son and grandson of veterans, his wife comes from a military family and his nephew is currently deployed in afghanistan. >> i'm lieutenant dan taylor. >> but it was the role of lieutenant dan that launched sinise into the public eye as a fierce ally of veter...

Also in world, an unruly passenger got in an argument with flight attendants and threatened to blow up an airplane. that got a flight from pakistan to the united kingdom grounded. a british fighter jet escorted the passenger plane with 297 people onboard to a safe landing at a london airport. two men were arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft. authorities don't believe it was terror related. a nightmare for some washington state drivers. a bridge collapsed after a tractor-trailer with an over sized load struck part of the bridge sending two vehicles into the water dozens of feet b...

Bridge collapsed in washington state last night, and we're hearing gripping accounts from a survivor and witnesses, and we're also learning more about what went wrong. cnn's dan simon is joining us from mt. vernon in washington state, right outside of seattle. what do we know right now, dan? >> well, wolf, first of all, the question that many folks have in this community is how something like this could happen. how could a semi truck making contact with this bridge cause a major chunk of it to collapse. given everything that we've seen in oklahoma, and all the heart break and misery there, peo...

All survived, nonlife threatening injuries. listen to dan sly who was headed to a camping trip with his wife when he plunged into the water. >> i saw the bridge start to fall at that point. momentum carried us right over. and as you saw the water approaching, there's just one of those, you hold on as tight as you can and just a white flash and cold water. >> reporter: the depth of that water is 15 feet. also very cold. so hypothermia theoretically would have happened very, very quickly. those victims extremely lucky tonight. erin, they estimate that it will cost $15 million to fix this bridge....