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 just separated from the other cars when it derailed. yeah. it is hard to piece together exactly how these train cars got in the position they are. and what caused that. you mentioned a little bit earlier that they had brought in flood lights and lighting to help. as rescue crews and emergency
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 to work their way through that rubble. now it is a recovery mission. the railway line had only been inaugurated in 2011, and spain, by the way, has led the world in high-speed train manufacture and has been widely praised for its high-speed train networks. canadian train and plane maker
political appeal at this moment right out of the election. but it is not just good politics but good policy. when you look at a mile long freight train from a distance and try to identify the engine car it could look like a small piece and it could look like half of 1 percent of the entire length of the train but it is what is driving the train and that is how i look at earmarks and that is how congress needs to look at earmarks. and you want a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. is that correct? that is what you have to push for, one of your aims to get out there on the books, correct? guest: that is correct. there is a group called balanced budget amendment now that released text of a proposed amendment i support and we need that on the books, we need to decide to balance the budget. that is a long term prospect because you need agreement with x number of states and legislatures across the country and you are talking aleast 10
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 deceased, some who were pretty bruised up. someone had a cut on their hands. it was quite a jolt. they transfer from train cars