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harris: all right. john, how long have you been doing this? 25 years as an investigator, 10 years as an engineer. harris: so as i hear you and you say the crossing accidents are an epidemic, that s coming from a place of knowing. you have been there a long time. we appreciate your experience and you sharing with us your expertise. john hiatt, railroad investigator, thank you. you bet. harris: i want it turn now tore a spokesperson congressional institute spokesperson in a statement we just received. we had chad pergram on. our correspondent mike emanuel is also on the story. mike is sending this out. again, congressional institute quote a statement regarding the incident involving the train carrying members of congress. after consultation with leadership and the u.s. house and the u.s. senate, the retreat will proceed with an adjusted program. our thoughts and prayers are with those impacted by today s incident. that program will now include a moment of prayer for those invol ....
Preliminary indications are that the train was traveling at 80 miles per hour and a 30-mile-per-hour track. the train was a 12 car train, and he had a locomotive both in the front and the back. amtrak estimates that 80 passengers were on the train with three crew into service personnel in the cafe cart. jon: joining us now, railroad investigator. we are talking to you 24 hours ago when all we had some of the horrible pictures of those train cars still down on the i five from that overpass. what do we know now? yes, speed was a factor, but is there more to it? obviously it looks like the engineer may have come upon some of situational awareness, where he lost track of where he was ....
Washington department of transport said it spent and this is what the mayor of lakewood said. come back when there is that accident and try to justify not putting in those safety enhancements or you can go back now and advocate for the money to do it because this project was never needed and endangers our citizens. the mayor of lakewood, washington, exactly two weeks ago. chilling words. harris: do we want to ask our team to do what you are asking, get them to respond to each other maybe? sandra: let s bring john hiatt back in, one of the largest railroad networks in north america and a railroad investigator. we were just listening to this, what is your reaction to that? living in this area, i know there was quite an uproar over this. ....
About the number of injuries resulting from this derailment. they did put out this statement. amtrak is aware of an incident with train 501 cascade service from seattle to portland. emergency services are on the scene and amtrak management is responding. some injuries are reported. the pierce county sheriff s office now says injuries and even casualties are reported. so that is an update over the last couple of minutes. numbers to come on that. john hyatt is a railroad investigator and he joins us on the phone from seattle. john, you know, you have to think that somehow amtrak operating on this new stretch of track so they could open up this new station had to play a role in this accident. it s awful early to tell. there are also some reports the train struck a truck on the track and looking at the ....
Miles per hour, which is track running speed right through there. the state department of transportation person was commenting how they were passing trains on i-5 just prior to this and then they must have slowed down to come into the curve i spoke of and something terrible happened. jon: john hyatt is a railroad investigator and authority. our guest with us right now as we continue to cover this amtrak derailment on the first day of service in the tacoma area. there are casualties reported, injuries reported as well. how many we don t yet know. jonathan hunt is covering for us from our los angeles bureau and has a little more information for us now. jonathan. jon, this was amtrak 501. it had gone through seattle and had stopped, as we understand it, at the new station in tacoma and just south of tacoma this derailment appears to have happened near the town of dumont. now, as we have been looking at ....