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In tack ohm -- tacoma, washington the first day they were providing the service. we are going the pause for one moment now to let our fox stations join us. this is fox news coverage of an amtrak train derailment. i'm jon scott in new york. this on the 18th of december amtrak was crowing about its new service to the amtrak cascades tacoma dome station and it looks like a terrible train derailment within a mile or so of the new station. you can see an amtrak train left dangling over interstate 5 right there along the river in washington we can't tell for sure from this still photo how many cars ...

From the department of transportation that said they had struck a truck. now how he knew that being back in the train, i don't know unless he got up there and spoke to somebody. but you know, it is unusual if they did strike something that the engine stays on and other cars derailed. there are so many things involved in what took place here. i don't know exactly if that -- what the track speed is right there. it looks like they must have been going at a slower rate of speed, otherwise i believe that car probably would have gone all the way off. >> melissa: we know they were heading on a new ro...

That i believe tom was speaking of minutes ago. we don't know if it was a portion of new track where the derailment occurred but obviously there's a lot of questions on the first day. the very first train that left on this early service and now there's a derailment with many people injured. >> alex, can you tell us what was the maximum speed they were hitting along this route? they want eed to show off a hig speed train. what speeds did they get up to? >> caller: i don't have that information in front of me now. hopefully we'll be able to provide a live picture. we're walking up to the scene f...

The map here, it appears that it was taking a curve near the eagle's pride golf course. out of that curve it goes across i-5. that's the picture you are looking at there. you can see the bridge it was crossing. that's where the derailment happened. what we don't know and what ntsb investigators will be looking at very closely is the speed of the train. now, we do know that on that particular part of track it could reach speeds around the 80 mile-an-hour mark. we don't know at what speed it was traveling. we don't know the condition of the engineer at that time. all of those things are things t...

Cancel. >> jon: these cars are very robust liability so that still picture we showed earlier that showed one end of the car still up there, there is the photo, one end of the car still essentially attached to the train and the other dangling down on the tracks you have to imagine that it is similar to a human being jump off that bridge and landing on the concrete below. that's the kind of impact that train car would have had as it hit the highway. >> yeah, the fortunate thing is the one end stayed connected to the train. otherwise you lose the entire car. that would be much worse. but just loo...