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A man has been arrested after he fired a gun on the interstate and then ran away from police.

An Alabama Department of Transportation worker died Monday after falling from a bucket truck while working on an interstate sign in Birmingham, according to the Jefferson County coroner.

>> reporter: four of the victims who died in saturday's crash attended the high school here. federal investigators now are going to begin sifting through the scene, trying to determine exactly what caused it. this tragedy is horrific on a number much different levels. not just the number much lives lost, ten, but the fact that nine of the ten were children between the ages of 9 months and 17. many of those children had already gone through so much difficulty in their own lives to die tragically. this incident happened around mid-afternoon on an interstate highway known as i-65. in the north bo...

I-65 north bound just south of montgomery, alabama. we don't know which vehicle or how it may have initially triggered. but if it was the intense rain which the area was having, the possibility is you could have hydroplaning, the once vehicle starts, the horrible thing about a chain reaction didn't hooik this is then the others come in after that. there isn't time to react, or when they do react they may be caught up in the same incident that triggered the initial accident. two tracker stillers were involved and seven of the vehicles caught on fire. there was one survivor in the ranch van. the...

Bountd on i-65. a lot of people, traffic coming back from the beach on that particular day, gulf shore. koss congested. you add into it the tropical system that passed through. there were torrential rains and heavy storms at times. the combination of course proved deadly. the investigators don't know for certain that it was weather. they speculate it could be an incident of hydroplaning of one vehicle that starts and the worst thing about a chain reaction like this is another vehicle hits, another vehicle, two semis were involved. and there was the horrific fire. eight people dyed that were in...