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Sped up and flew across the room there. it flew across the ferry because the impact was so great. you described from what you're seeing, it doesn't look like much damage. give me more of your vantage point and just what you are seeing with this ferry, how it's come to rest there at the ferry dock. >> it might just be a matter of my vantage point. it's a small part of the ferry. there are other parts that are extremely damaged. i'm just not seeing it. these ferries are very large and access is being limited by the first responders who need space to do the job that they need to do. i've run from...

On it. 250 people on board and of those 60 were injured. you're seeing some of the injured and some of them walking wounded, some of them just shaken. it's been described that the boat actually sped up as it got to the dock and then, boom, we heard people describing it just like that, a loud bang as people flew across the boat. another ten are injured seriously. a u.s. coast guard, barbara miller, joins us now by phone. are you hearing some of the same accounts that we are, some people saying that it seemed as if the ferry, at the very least sped up? >> the coast guard has received conflicti...

18 crew members. the mayor's office, mayor bloomberg, says that there are 60 people injured. we're not sure if it's serious. we're hearing the majority of the injuries are minor, which seems amazing when you think about the words that you've heard. the witnesses describe basically that the ferry not only did not slow down but seem to speed up as it was coming into dock. and it threw people clearly from several feet off their balance and that's coming from two different vantage points. that's coming from someone who rides the ferry every saturday. this saturday, no different than any other. he'...

Off. so it was chaos in there. >> again, take me back to the moment before it happened. as you were approaching the ferry, right? >> everything was usual. smooth sailing. went back inside. sat down. and then all of a sudden as we approached the dock it just started speeding up. literally fast, like what's going on here? and then as soon as like it was maybe 20 feet away, it was like, this boat ain't going to stop. and it pushed the whole dock in. the bridge and everything. and then that's when all of the cops came running down and all of the ferry -- i guess security started coming down tellin...

Happening and those are the people we're trying to get as many answers as possible and look at the pictures to see what we can figure out on the types of injuries involved. we're trying to get you more information on this and what a week it's been in new york, t.j. what a week it's been. there was the attempted bombing last weekend, yesterday. people are on such heightened alert that a lunch cooler would clear times square. everything ended up being okay. some folks have to take it every day to where they are going. now, no doubt, their nerves are a little rattled. from everything that we're h...