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This large a land mass if it was going at the speed that was suggested for this curve. >> not only that. i saw a little earlier where the actual track was bent. i mean that's a lot of force to bend a train track. i'm no expert but i would assume that takes quite a bit of force. >> reporter: absolutely. to reiterate what i saw when i went to the scene. that one car that you were describing earlier looking like a tin can. the other cars, upside down. one perpendicular to the track, and then the engine car, a good, at least 50 yards away. no way to describe how it is that far away, other than it ...

Saying that five american citizens were among the injured. the train jumped the tracks last night. eight cars separated from the engine car, some of them piled up one on top of the other. the casualty numbers are still fluctuating. we're hearing now that 80 were killed and as many as 178 injured, 247 were onboard and at last count we had 95 are the still in hospitals. dozens among them in a critical condition. area hospitals were overwhelmed with people last night who were offering to give blood. many of cars burned through the night and are covered today in a layer of ash as investigators try...

Authorities know how truck and it up on the tracks in front of a heavily guarded train. >> we don't have a full understanding yet as to what happened, but it was a train hitting a truck going at a pretty, pretty good speed. and we will have a full report. speaker at the point of impact, the badly damaged engine car was eventually removed and the remaining cars were towed backwards to a train station in downtown charlottesville where republicans were quickly loaded onto buses for a drive to their retreat. >> it's certainly a somber mood. thinking about those who were seriously injured, the dece...