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Months old. >> eight of the victim were traveling from a van from a home abused of neglected young girls. they were headed back from a beach trip just a couple of hours when the crash occurred. martin savidge is live for us. >> this is devastating. >> reporter: it is. the ranch where many of the victims were from. it is horrific on so many levels. loss of life and many of those children suffered traumas in their own life which is what brought them into this foster care program. this accident occurred at 2:30 in the afternoon in alabama. we don't know the exact cause. that's why ntsb is joining...

Witnesses pulled one survivor. a woman who lost her own two children. we are outside the ranch where a majority of victims lived. this is so sad. what more can you tell us about the girls and what happened? >> well, you know, what compounds the tragedy here, it's on so many levels. nine of the people that died were children, and on top of that many of the children came from this ranch. it was a foster care program. in other words, these were children that had been taken from situations where they may have been abused, where parents may have been addicted to drugs or where they were in other ki...

9-month-old daughter in a second vehicle. and as we say, we know that there was that tropical system that was moving through the area. there were storms and heavy downpours that day. so that's where investigators are going to begin. poppy and jim? >> martin, you mentioned what hardship most of the children that died had already faced in their life, or the reason why many were living in this home. what do we know about them? do we have their names yet? >> reporter: no, we don't. it's complicated out of the fact that many of them were in a foster care program. and that, too, is another hardship....

Because catholic social services places foster children but does not place them with same sex couples because of catholic church belief on that point. a couple justices notice there was never a same sex couple who went to catholic social services and said we would like to be part of the foster care program and turned away. it was a situation that hadn't happened. what the court found was the city of philadelphia could not say you can't be part of this because of a religious issue. it was a 9-0 decision and for a lot of people that was very surprising. a little bit of what chief justice john ro...

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