CNN - Hector Mine earthquake and Hurricane Irene - 1999-10-16

Name: CNN - Hector Mine earthquake and Hurricane Irene - 1999-10-16
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[0:01] down doing some examinations and many of

[0:03] them are uh so busy that they haven't

[0:05] been able to break away from that really

[0:06] to give us any kind of a briefing. Uh

[0:08] firefighters have been here as well

[0:10] keeping an eye on the uh situation with

[0:13] evacuating the passengers which is going

[0:15] to happen uh eventually but they don't

[0:17] seem to be in a tremendous hurry to do

[0:18] that. Visually from being out here, I

[0:20] can tell you that aside from seeing uh

[0:23] the wheels of those cars uh off of the

[0:26] track just slightly, just by a matter of

[0:28] inches, there really don't seem to be a

[0:30] lot of external cracks in the ground or

[0:33] any other kind of uh damage to the uh

[0:36] earth or the infrastructure beneath the

[0:38] tracks that would uh be a dead giveaway

[0:41] as to what might have happened or the

[0:44] impact of the quake in this area. Uh all

[0:46] you can really uh tell is by looking at

[0:48] the cars of how they're slanted as they

[0:50] go back. You can tell that they're

[0:52] tipping slightly because they are uh

[0:54] their wheels are no longer evenly on the

[0:55] track. And that's why as you go further

[0:57] down the train, you can see that they're

[0:59] leaning to the side quite a bit.

[1:01] >> Yeah. Jay, real quick, uh I understand

[1:02] when this train first jumped the tracks

[1:04] that it took some time before word got

[1:07] back that the train had even left the

[1:08] tracks cuz you're in a extremely remote

[1:11] area. In fact, I heard a ham radio

[1:12] operator was the one who first reported

[1:15] this. Give us a flavor of exactly how

[1:17] remote this area is. I mean, what are

[1:19] you close to, if anything?

[1:21] >> Well, you can't uh get uh