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The kendall, the nook, the competition among e-readers is serious business, and it's getting even tighter with the introduction of apple's ipad. megan hughes has more on the high-tech book battle. >> reporter: when you hit the beach this summer, what kind of book will you bring? old-fashioned paper back or high-tech e-trader. while some prefer not to hop on the e-train. >> there is something about holding a book in n my hands. i'm looking at the cover and turning the pages. >> reporter: others have grown to love the edge the devices have to offer. >> not needing to ship around dead tree bark. ...

Beaches, a lot of coastal flooding, but here in long island, problems in the new york city subways, where people were having a hard time even getting in some of the subway stops, also flooded. here you go no ac or e-train downtown, that's a bummer for me, those are the trains i use. two to three inches across parts of new england, maybe another inch or so by the time we get towards tomorrow night in across areas of new york because the entire system is going to take about two more days before we push it out of here and get the sunshine back, all right, guys. >> thank you, sunshine. if i'd aske...

It was a very big day for amtrak. very well planned out. what happened, we don't know. at this point, though, we can say that at least six people are dead. the hospitals have received 77 people. 4 of them, i've been told, are in the most serious condition. no one on the ground was killed. this is a stretch of i-5, the major route between seattle and portland, right at the start of the rush hour around 7:40 and it's an early rush hour out here, because a lot of people actually work an 8:00 to 4:00 shift, and the train came crashing down on to the tracks below, and at this point, everything we'r...

Duepo deponte dupont, washington, where this train derailing occurred. >> reporter: hauling people off, they've gone and a couple on standby. the ntsb is seassembling a go team, on the way. you can see the mangle the wreck of what was train 501 the inaugural run of this new added service between seattle and portland. a train that left, full of dignitaries and people from the media as they were trying to extol the virtues of this newly configured track. basically, they switched the track from the very scenic route along the waterfront, beautiful picturesque puget sound through this area that wo...

And we know there you multiple dead. brings in someone from the area who knows more about this new service. don anderson, make of lakewood, washington. thanks for joining me, mayor. you were one of the many people concerned about the speed of are trains that would travel through these small communities. you attempted to change the switch on this route. we're trying to establish the cascade -- the train's service hadn't been established a while. we don't know the rails are new. the idea amtrak would use rails burlington santa fe rails for this service is new. is that correct? >> first of all, i...