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Nelson. >> i'm vinita nair. it started as a day of fun for a missouri high school marching band. instead they ended up in a mangled wreckage of a freeway pileup. >> the crash killed two teenagers and the ntsb has put together a team of 14 investigators to find out why. robert pinto shows us what happened in gray summit, missouri. >> reporter: it happened in a matter of seconds. a school field trip took a tragic turn. >> it was all very, very quick. really quick. >> reporter: more than 50 students from john f. hodge high school were rushed to area hospitals. interstate 44, a tangle of mangled...

Even more information out of gray summit, missouri. an accident on i-44 eastbound. we now know who was inside the school buses. here's what i'm getting from k plmpb ov, our affiliate out of missouri, the buses were full of eighth grade band students headed to six flags. eighth grade students, 50 people involved, as many as 50 injured. two confirmed fatalities. i want to go over to ines ferre who i know has been trying to sort through some of the affiliate websites and glean some information. hopefully what are some tweets, maybe some information on this horrific, horrific scene. >> some people...

Martha: very tough fox news alert for you today a deadly school bus trash in gray summit, missouri. two people are dead, several students were taken to area hospitals. apparently the bus was headed to a six flagg's trip when it slammed into another bus. trace gallagher joins us live in los angeles. what a mess and a sad scene this is, trace. >> reporter: you look at the big picture of this martha and this really is awful. what happened is one of the school buses apparently hit the back of a tractor/trailer. another suv was involved and the second school bus hit the back of the first school bus...

Hearing from our affiliate, kmov, that about 50 people were involved in this accident, were they children? were they adults? where were they headed? what sorts of injuries? we're working on it and making phone calls, as soon as we get that information we'll pass it along. happening in gray summit, missouri. clearly the incident and the rescue process under way. stay with us, you're in the cnn news room. ♪ [ woman ] when i grow up, i want to take him on his first flight. i want to run a marathon. i'm going to work with kids. i'm going to own my own restaurant. when i grow up, i'm going to sta...

Accident like this. these are sort of the considerations that the paramedics on the scene, the ems and the doctors and nurses taking care of the patients once they get to the hospital. >> sanjay, you hit on something there, i was going to follow up on. which is what a kid, we're talking about eighth graders here as well. dr. sanjay gupta, what they're looking at and what they're seeing and where this is just outside of st. louis, 40 miles, gray summit, an accident involving two school buses full of children, eighth graders, an accident on the highway involving a semi truck and also an suv. two...