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Truck. officials say there are no arms, no warning lights, and were no bells. two boy scout troops were among the hundreds of passengers aboard the chicago-bound train and they put their training to use to help the injured. one of those scouts described his efforts after the train cars toppled. watch this. >> it kind of kicked in and something took over and i knew what to do. we were just getting people out windows and carrying them down. i know had to carry a couple kids in my arms, two at a time. we were just running around doing as much as we could. >> carley: that boy's father says his son...

Thank you. federal investigators are on their way to a deadly train crash in northern missouri. an amtrak train derailed after it hit a dump truck at a crossing. one person in the truck and two on the train were killed. at least 50 injured in this incident. many passengers had to climb out of windows after their train cars derailed and flipped on to their sides. pete muntean joins me now. pete, how did this happen? >> reporter: you know, poppy, investigators from the ntsb are just now arriving on the scene. and they have already made a pretty key finding. you know they will look at a speed o...

His hand and had to break some window to get others out. another scout went and comforted the driver of the truck that was hit. and tried to stabilize him. they were tandem working on that gentleman when he expired. that scout is pretty shook up. >> reporter: investigators will not only be gathering so much video from passengers on board the train, but also train cameras that are hardwired into the train itself. amtrak trains have these cameras that look at the tracks, that will give investigators some pretty key clues here. what is so eerie is this train crossing was identified by the missour...

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Today we are looking at rain crossing most of the uk at some stage and it will be pretty breezy as well. this first front is weakening. the second one will be with us for a couple of days, bringing in rain as it moves from the west to the south—east. the rain clearing western scotland. for scotland, northern ireland and later northern england, it will brighten up northern england, it will brighten up with some showers will do it you can see where we have heavy and persistent rain, breezy in the south—west with gales in the north west. the south—west at the moment remaining dry. these oth...