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Fatality count might have been higher. tragically, the train was running about a half hour late due to the stop to repair the air conditioning. had the train been on time, it would have crossed the bridge before the "mauvilla" ran into it. >> i think this investigation just confirmed for me a couple of longstanding philosophies that i've had. one is that every accident is kind of a chain reaction. there is five or six links in the chain that all have to happen in order for an accident to happen. >> they never did put in the same amount of tie-downs at the ends of the bridge to hold it in place...

Stopped on the bridge, or the fatality count might have been higher. tragically, the train was running about a half hour late due to the stop to repair the air conditioning. had the train been on time, it would have crossed the bridge before the "mauvilla" ran into it. >> i think this investigation just confirmed for me a couple of longstanding philosophies that i've had. one is that every accident is kind of a chain reaction. there is five or six links in the chain that all have to happen in order for an accident to happen. >> they never did put in the same amount of tie-downs at the ends of ...

Landed and had all the problems. >> arthel: what is remarkable, if you had 291 passengers on board, 16 crew members, remarkable that the fatality count, we're not confirming exactly -- it's extremely low. we don't want anyone to perish but considering what could have happened, in, indeed, remarkable. if you have flown from other continents you know you have been on a twin engine 777. it's one of the most popular aircraft chosen for long distance travel. flights up to 12 hours or more or traveling from one continent to another. it is capable of 246 to 300 passengers. close to capacity would w s...

Wichita show up, rescue crews from texas show up. they set up a command post here at the target parking lot as well as u.s. marshals have set up a command post, as well. helping put search and rescue in the right places, going grid by grid, helping heavy machinery get in here, front-end loaders, power crews, all those types of things they need in a mass effort as large as this. i've got to tell you, brian, i've seen a lot of tornadoes in my life covering these storms for the weather channel. the only one that even compares is joplin, missouri, two years ago, almost to the day truly. this is wh...

They have entered the area and are cutting off the main flow of gas, they're cutting off power so we don't have secondary fire from electricity. so we're currently still there. many agencies are here assisting west pd. i can tell you that the mayor has been here earlier tonight. he's also a firefighter for this city. it has taken a toll on him, because he knows potentially he's lost some firefighters. i can confirm there may be firefighters that are unaccounted for, and potentially a law enforcement officer, as well. we're still trying to determine that. obviously they were there on scene dire...