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An amtrak train in montana, and right now, at least three people are dead and as many as 50 others have been injured. one passenger described the derailment as extreme turbulence on an airplane. a 14-member ntsb go team is expected on scene in joplin, montana, toold, to figure out what caused the train and its cars to roll off the tracks. let s go to jake ward who is monitoring the developments. what do we know, jake, as i welcome you, about the derailment and the investigation thus far? reporter: good morning, alex. at this point, amtrak is saying approximately 141 passengers and 16 crew members were onboard the train, which was headed westbound towards seattle and portland. and at about 3:00 p.m. local time, went off the tracks. about eight cars derailed. now, this was outside montana, but outside is not the word. ....
For them, those investigators. what s the first thing they ll do when they get to the site of the deadly derailment? the first thing they ll do is talk to local authorities who were the first on scene. and gather any information they have from those individuals who were there and what they ll do is ask for any verbal information but also any physical evidence that might have been gathered, any photographs, and i know passengers have taken photographs. they ll begin to collect every bit of information that is available. they will the team will include not only ntsb members, employees who are specialists in rail but also representatives of amtrak, representatives of the department of transportation, the railroad branch of the department of transportation. it will include the manufacturer of the train, the track. there will be a whole team of people comprised of members who represent all aspects of the ....
Survivor. this one named megan described to us a feeling of feeling just extremely lucky to be alive and unhurt. but recordings on the ground and reports on social media from the ground suggest that people have been really, you know, thrown into a tailspin. they don t call it a train wreck for nothing. it s one of the most horrifically disorienting kinds of disasters. locals took in many of the survivors into a local high school. that s where the spent the night. today, about an hour from now, they would have been arriving at their destination. but as of right now, they re just trying to figure out how to get where they need to go and how to get the help they need at this hour. absolutely. just the basics for them, the survivors. jake ward, thank you so much for that. we re going to further the conversation with kitty higgins, a former member of the ntsb. welcome to you. so they have their work cut out ....
Renee, let me ask a question i know you don t have the answer to, but how did this happen? you know, brooke, when you look at those images so devastating of an amtrak high speed train just dangling there yeah. that is the question that everyone wants to know. i can tell you that the ntsb, they are going to be the entity to answer that very question. we do know that they are planning to put together a 20-member go team. that s huge, and that s because they consider this a major incident here. and these are the sort of numbers that you saw when you saw the amtrak crash happen in philadelphia. that was considered a major incident and because of that we see that the ntsb go team will be huge. again, a 20-person go team is getting ready to dispatch. i will say this. we all have to practice our patience because their flight which they re flying commercial will be at 6:55, and it will be ....
Seeing is a number of emergency crews are still on the scene. one thing that they will be looking for is in fact a black box. it s very similar to what aircraft have these days. whether or not the breaks were applied. a lot of information out of that. the ntsb go team being deployed and hopefully we will get an update tomorrow. thank you so much for being with us. we will be up after this break. ameriprise asked people a simple question: in retirement, will you have enough money to live life on your terms? i sure hope so. with healthcare costs, who knows. umm. everyone has retirement questions. so ameriprise created the exclusive confident retirement approach. now you and your ameripise advisor.. can get the real answers you need. start building your confident retirement today. ....