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They modify the line to take the amtrak train running at through densely populated area. there's a substantial grade change. it was always a safety question. >> help under the circumstances orient ourselves. how close is lakewood, your town, to where this derailment took place. >> probably five miles. >> what are you hearing from first responders about casualties? >> preliminary reports seem to indicate there were casualties given the description of the

This was a stimulus -funded nearly $100 million diversion to run a passenger train down what had been essentially dormant lines. they had two or three spur freight train runs at 10 miles an hour a week. >> got it. >> and the project was to rebuild the lines and then run amtrak through this bypass positive to avoid the scenic portion around the sound. >> what caused you to raise the red flag on this? obviously, i can glean from what you're saying, a few spur lines running at 10 miles an hour freight is very different from an amtrak train running at up with regards of 75 miles an hour? >> and th...

Category 1 hurricane at this point, the motion expected to do a little loop out in the atlantic and turn and head back towards the u.s. you can see a final turn, it looks like it is turning away from the u.s. but any time you get that close we will be paying very close attention. this is a whole bunch of models plotting the potential movement of the system, you see it making that loop and running back up along the east coast. none of them having it going into the east coast but when you get this close to new york, boston, we start to pay attention to it. we have a little time for these to move...

Laura: a lot more ahead of us. adam? i'm looking at that behind you. what have we got? adam: still a long ways to go as we are looking at the center of circulation south and east of tampa. i wanted to show you, getting up into daytona beach, we have seen consistently heavy bands of rain running up in that area. we seen tornado spinning up. i have no doubt you are seeing big thunderstorms up there and strong winds on the outer bands in areas of central florida and northern florida. but from orlando to daytona beach there are big storms moving that direction. we'll continue to as we watch the co...

More. adam, what now? >> well, unfortunately, more rain right now. here's what we're looking at rainfall totals. this is the beaumont, port arthur area. 45 inches coming in the last 24 hours. it's insane. the last 48 hours, you can see this rain running on shore during that time. those were real downpours off the coast. backing out a little bit. here's how the season looks. we've seen this rain stretching across the gulf coast. the heaviest showers have been close to the circulation where we've seen landfall. the good news is, folks in houston as of recently, now looking at clear skies. so at ...