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Briefly the run down of who is going to speak largsson kay hill public information officer for lexington county. then captain adam myric and langley from the red cross. i will turn it directly over to harrison. >> good morning, everybody. just give you a brief statement on what we have got going on here. lexington county emergency management as well as their fire service and e.m.s. responded to the charleston highway, pine ridge intersection in reference to a train derailment. at about 2:45 this morning, when we arrived on scene, we immediately began assessing the situation. what we found was ...

Was search mode, search and rescue mode. we were able to begin to extract and assist passengers off of that train. at this time all passengers are off of the train. that is very important to put out there. unfortunately, there were two fatalities as a result of this collision. we're working with the coroner's office here in lexington county, very closely with that. at this time we have transported about 70 patients with various injuries to local area hospitals. one thing that i would like to point out is the extreme cooperation about -- between all of the entities you see here, including -- th...

Tom, malaysians say if the bluefin comes up empty we have to regroup and reconsider. what might be the next step here? >> at this point, it's almost absolutely certain the pingers have died. they had a 30 day lifetime guaranteed. there's margin in that, but as we move out, there's just no chance you will get an acoustic signal from the wreckage field. what that means, you're into search mode. the bluefin is a very good search tool. probably the only other way you could go would be a deep towed vehicle that has either a bathb -- baththy metric sonar. those are even rarer than the bluefin type v...

The debris slide zone is about the size of some 500 football fields. that that mud and debris has been like quicksand over the last several days, so it's very difficult for them to search that area. but at sunrise, they do expect to re-enter that area, go into location where is they can. some 30 homes have been destroyed. they will go into that area to look specifically for any possible survivors. but certainly they say as more time passes here, they are still in a search mode, but that search mode may turn to a recovery soon. luke? >> our top west coast correspondent miguel almaguer, thanks s...