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This picture but again, the eyes can be deceiving so at least one car left dangling and another car apparently flat on the highway and perhaps straddling the guardrail or so it would seem the guardrail in the median separating the traffic flow in the north and south directions on i-5. this all happening again on the first day of service for the amtrak cascades tacoma dome station. the cascades train had just departed that station when the accident took place. >> melissa: conflicting reports. if you listen the reporters and look at reports online as to what may have happened you can see there i...

Running from seattle down to portland. this incident taking place 40 miles south of seattle or so. we're told about 70, 75 people were on board the train at the time. there was this great sense of excitement in the morning because this was the day the inaugural day for this new line. people who were on board to begin with were telling our local affiliate they were excited about this new line, helping to relieve congestion and open up major commuter line, high speed commuter line on the pacific coast and have this happen on day one is a real shocker. that leads to a lot of questions. whether th...

We're working with joint base lewis, using some of their access roads to detour traffic as well. we hope to alleviate some of the backup soon. >> jon: a huge military base in that area. the traffic camera that melissa was alluding to appears to be at dupont where officers are slowing down what should be a four-lane interstate and taking them all off the dupont exit. that will tie up traffic for quite some time. >> yes, it is. folks, i'm sorry to cut you short. i have to go meet with my command staff. >> melissa: thank you so much for that. so jon, one thing that jonathan hunt pointed out to us...

Continuing our breaking news on that derailment in washington state. joining me by phone, former chair of ntsb and jo ling kent. bring us up to date. >> reporter: 75 passengers were aboard and five crew members were aboard going from seattle to portland. this happened south of tacoma where the train derailment happened. a bit more about what kind of train this cascades train is. it seats about 250 passengers. the train was relatively empty at the time. only 78 people were aboard. the baggage car, two first class coach, seven standard cars and a cafe car, lounge car and the service car that pro...

>> yes. there's some people that have been able to walk off the train. transportation is coming. >> that's where they are in the tents. can you talk about what we're seeing behind us where people are being treated? >> we train for this all the time. we have air force bases and train tracks and ferries. this is a multiple agency response, very koords nacoordin response. they're all working in a pre-planned operation which is to get the survivors out. get the injured to the hospitals and obviously if there's fatales, they'll have to deal with those later. >> as a point of clarification, it's ear...