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Them personally. i met their wives. it was truly an honor to be in their presence these guys are true american heroes. >> reporter: one is still critical this morning a spokesperson with union pacific railroad says the crossing gate and the lights were functional at this crossing. but some eyewitnesses, martha, say the gate was not operational. martha: was the gate down, casey, at the time? >> reporter: that's what is really unclear right now. you know how sometimes the gates go down, we've all been at intersections and they get stuck and there is a way you can maneuver around it. we do not kn...

Accident. casey stiegel is live in midland. so, casey, what's the latest on this. >> reporter: martha, it is a very active scene right behind me this morning and i will hop out of the scene to let you see investigators at work. investigators with the ntsb, national transportation safety board back there. more are on the way. of course everyone this morning trying to figure out how the heck this happened. the parade float was carrying 26 people total. 12 veterans, 12 of their spouses and two civilian escorts t was heading to a hunt for heroes banquet when it went through a railroad crossing. th...

Gates ever came down. in any event, what happened was that the train actually collided head on with this, what was serving as a parade float which was a flat bed 18 wheeler. you can see the chairs that are kind of up on that flat bed and the military veterans and their girlfriends and their wives were sitting on these chairs kind of going by like a parade float would do and for some reason, it got stuck on the tracks and then a lot of the military veterans, witnesses say, tried to get off as quickly as they can and they clearly, many of them, did not make it. they have just upped the number of...

>>trace: and a horrific train wreck involving military veterans yesterday evening in midland, some 300 miles west of dallas-ft. worth. investigators say a freight train slammed into this flatbed carrying the vets and their families to a banquet. four servicemen died and more than a dozen other people got hurt. one of victims, army sergeant michael, his mother-in-law says the purple heart winner pushed his wife out of the way possibly saving her life. other witnesses say they saw folks panic and jump from the parade float. casey is live with more at the scene in midland, texas. this was one of ...