Transcript for 'Multiple fatalities' after Amtrak train derails near Tacoma

An Amtrak train just forty miles south of Seattle has. The Department of Transportation says at least 75 passengers were on board. And according to local news outlets authorities are treating the crash Eddie mass casualty incident authorities say no one on the interstate was killed. I fly southbound. We'll probably be closer. Quite some time. Just before 8 AM local time at the height of rush hour. The train overturned spilling on interstate five the highway is now closed in both directions as traffic comes to a standstill for miles at this point we're youthful looking multiple fatalities this was the first day for Amtrak train 501 a new line on the Amtrak cascades high speed route the travels further England. Maggie really ABC news New York.

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