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Completely derailed. three cars on their side. one car completely ripped open. and the engine car north of those cars almost about 50 to 100 yards north of those other cars. >> when we look at video of that that engine car came very close to another set of train cars that were on the track. and they look like they may have been carrying some kind of lick wixted i'm not sure. wasn't a passenger train. i can only imagine had that crashes to the other one, and what that could have caused. for that engine to be so far away and then really break through the tracks. it shows you the force. >> right....

Brakes. they'll be looking at the speed of the train at the time of the crash. they'll make an effort to interview the conductor, take toxicology tests and that will all be part of the investigation to try to determine what happened here what went so wrong as this train came on this curve and completely derailed three cars on their side one car completely ripped open and the engine car, north of those cars, almost about 50 to 100 yards north of those other cars. >> and when we're looking at video of that just a little bit earlier, that engine car came very close to another set of train cars th...

Mayor and the governor, a devastating mangled mess. that's what it is. one of the train cars. it looks like a tin can was open. the front car. the engine car is at least 50 yards away from the other car. they're all turned over. all on the side of the tracks. complete mangled wreckage. we're kind of lucky that there were not more casualties. five deaths, six criticaler 65 were transported. the governor said they will do the best to work through night. it is dark. they have add light to the scene and there are still dozens of rescue workers on the scene, looking through the wreckage. trying to ...

Watching all this play out for many hours now. what is going on near that derailment site? >> caller: it's quieted down quite a bit. there are still dozens of firefighters, police officers on the scene, milling about between the different cars. just to set the scene, if the tracks are going north/south, the cars are on the west side of the track. again, repeating what we talked about earlier. it looks like a tin can that's been opened. and, again, the front car, the engine car, some 50 yards south of the other cars separated from the other cars when the train

The other train cars in this area. and you just see how this one completely went off the rails. let's pull back a little bit here. and i want to give you an idea of what's going on around the scene. you see some of the emergency workers who are around the area right now. this appears to be the area that is in focus at this point. where this train derailed. you see right here. this is the front of the train there. that would be the engine car. we pointed out a few moments ago how it went off the rails and so far separated from the rest cars that it came to this point here and jumped the rails a...