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WEBVTT HIS IS HAPPENING NEAR23RD AND VAN BRUNT.THAT'S WHERE KMBC 9'S BRENDAWASHINGTON JOINS US LIVE NOW. BRENDA: I WANT TO SHOW YOU THEDEBRIS LEFT BEHIND.I AM STANDING IN IT.IT IS ON THIS CORNER, THE CORNEROF THE STREET, AND THE MIDDLE OFTHE STREET.AT 6:15 THIS MORNING A SCHOOLBUS WAS PICKING UP STUDENTS.15-YEAR-OLD GIRL WAS ON BOARD.THE DRIVER OF A PICKUP CRASHEDINTO -- ONE FIVE-YEAR-OLD GIRLWAS ON BOARD.THE DRIVER OF THE PICKUP CRASHEDINTO THE SCHOOL BUS.A WOMAN AND HER MOTHER WERE ATHOME.THEY HAD TO PRY OPEN THE SCHOOLBUS DOORS.THE DRIVER WAS DISORIENTED ANDHAVING TROUBLE CALLING HISDISPATCHER.>> I CALLED DISPATCH AND TOLDTHEM THE BUSTER EVER WAS IN ANACCIDENT AND TO GET SOMEONE OUT.BRENDA: YOUR MOM WAS ON THE BUSTAKING CARE OF THE 5-YEAR-OLD?AIN'T'S YES.SHE WAS DISORIENTED AND SCARED,BUT MY MOM WAS ABLE TO GET HERMOM'S NUMBER AND CALM HER DOWN.BRENDA: THE DRIVER AND HISFEMALE PASSENGER WERE NOT HURT,BUT THE POLICE ARRESTED THEFEMALE PASSENGER.WE ARE TRYING TO FIND OUT WHY.AS FAR AS THE 5-YEAR-OLD, SHE IS