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Run of this, this service. but we want to check and make sure what that exactly means. >> reporter: an ntsb official tells cnn the investigation will focus on recovering the train's data recorders, to determine the train's speed. they'll also examine the tracks and signals and conduct extensive interviews with the crew and passengers. >> we went down an embankment. we had to kick out the window -- the emergency window. >> reporter: and while no one knows for sure what caused this crash, just two weeks ago, the mayor of lakewood, washington, warned state transportation officials that the tracks...

Get us out as soon as possible. they didn't want to do anything that would risk the bus to go over. >> did your parents show up to the bus? >> oh, yes. >> my parents showed up, and the police wouldn't let them go by, it was blocked off. >> every parent's worst nightmare. they managed to open up the back emergency door. how did they manage to get you guys out? >> actually they got us out the windows, like the emergency window they opened. i was closer to the front, because the back was actually in the water. it was going back first. and we one by one, they pulled us out of the bus and put us in...

And people were screaming, and you could get a sense of the -- people's luggage and things kind of flying all over the place. and in the flash second, everythi'g stops. in total darkness, i could feel the train was tilted a little bit to the right. and people were just try to compose themselves, gather their belongings. and i could hear a voice behind me saying you need to get out now. you need to get out from the back. and i just grabbed my stuff, make sure that everyone is okay. i was basically asking people, you know, whose cell phone is this? and someone asked for a flashlight to find a ce...

They didn't care about anyone else. they were getting off that train and stepping over people pushed out the emergency window. i had to lift myself up. kind of on the ceiling and lifted people up. people got out. >> with us to explain further martha maccallum you see her at 9:00 in the morning. so what do we know? >> he was one person who ha that kind of account. people stepping over people to get out. it would appear that happens in most of these situations where most people clammer to get out the door and knock other people over to do it. some people are called heroes. this man punched out t...

Little bit, slapped him in the face and said hey, buddy, hey, buddy. he eventually came to and there was a lot of screaming and folks flipping out. the first thing i did was pull myself up from the side of the train and pushed out the emergency window as far as i could and human nature, people are flipping out and they just had to get out, as if they were claustrophobic. i put my hand down and helped them get out and i made sure i put pressure on where they were bleeding from and i climbed over