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78 people aboard. five crew members according to amtrak. andrea. >> there's a lot of questions but we were talking to a mayor of a nearby community who has been objecting to this train because they were repurposing some very old freight rails passages that would run ten miles an hour and turning into a high speed rail. it was 79 miles an hour. do we know anything more about what kind of test runs they may have had. this is the very first run of this rain. >> generally when the fra is classifying tracks, federal railroad administration, they will have it rated on what it's going to carry. if yo...

Nbc affiliate just moments ago. >> it was about 50 yards from just going under that overpass there. we all came to a sudden stop to try to avoid hitting one another. once we realize wd we were stopped, i looked up and super scary train had come off the overpass there and parts were kind of hanging. people running to try to help. >> jo ling, what are you hearing about casualties, injuries as well as the cause of this terrible accident? >> reporter: hey. right now we have no official report of the cause of this derailment. multiple eyewitnesss say it look like a nose dive seeing the train come o...

>> that conductor and for other witnesses. >> today and tomorrow, it will be attempting to interview them we hope that we will get more information about exactly what happened. speak out three of the 85 people on the train were killed. the identities has not been named. 72 others injured on the train or on the freeway below were treated at nearby hospitals. survivors are giving a lot of credit to first responders, who are on-site within minutes cap, as well as bystanders including some with medical training who rushton. heavy rain to lift train cars and other wreckage out of the way on the bus...

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