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Phone ynumber, 1-800-523-9101. that's all i have. thank you, guys. >> rail cars, again the numbers affected? >> 12 cars and 2 engines. 13 cars jumped the tracks. >> inside the cars potentially -- >> potentially, we cannot make those statements to check that out. working on that right now. >> i'm sorry and -- >> 13 jumped the tracks. >> is the portion of the track where the train derailed, is that the new track that -- >> i don't know. i'm sorry. yes, sir? >> [ inaudible ]. >> how long have i been a trooper? >> since 2010. >> seven years. have you ever seen anything like this before? >> i've ne...

Just this hour we obtained the audio of amtrak 501, the engineer moments after the train derailed. >> track 501 -- emergency -- emergency -- emergency. we are on the ground. we are on the bridge -- 5 -- in the -- >> [ inaudible ]. >> on the freeway. need ems as sap, looks like they're starting to show up. >> northbound 101 coming up. >> dispatcher, 501. come in. >> amtrak 501 answering control north. over. >> hey, guys, what happened? >> coming around the corner to take the bridge over i-5 there -- right north and went on the ground. >> okay. are you -- is everybody okay? >> i'm still figuring...

Amtrak had 12 cars involved, plus two engines. 13 of those cars jumped the tracks. >> [ inaudible ]. >> there are multiple casualties. at this point we cannot confirm how many. unfortunately, the priority right now is making those cars safe and so we haven't had a -- rescue teams haven't had an opportunity to go through all the cars and confirm a casualty number. we will confirm there be casualties. 77 passengers were onboard and 5 crew members. five motor vehicles were struck by the train when it jumped on i-5 and an additional two semis. we are diverting traffic now. beginning at 12:30 and n...

Income, before none. if you took the same group of people who had jobs at the beginning of reagan and at the end of reagan, their average incomes went up enormously. it's just you had all of these people coming in at the bottom where we need the help today. >> we have to get to an end of the conversation. looking below 5% unemployment that should solve most of our problems. the world we're in, it's not actually doing that, art i beg your forgiveness. have to call you back. about to go to the train derailment. i have to cover that. >> thank you, ali. >> art laffer, chairman of laffer associates...

Heard about the coming around the corner. listening to a media briefing led by amtrak president richard anderson. jo what do we know? >> reporter: pretty big news out of this. tom from nbc news asked a question about positive train control, whether or not it was implemented, and there was a one-word answer, no. and the reason that that is interesting and that matters in this situation is ptc or positive train control here can prevent train collisions, prevent derailment caused by excessive speed. ptc cannot prevent accidents caused by excessive speed or train operator error. we're getting news...