CBS Evening News - 2002-07-29
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[0:00] Unbanked will be care.
[0:01] >> Minor miracle. How nine miners survived
[0:04] a disaster they say should never have
[0:06] happened. Bargain hunters rescue Wall
[0:09] Street with a wild shopping spree that
[0:11] sends the Dow soaring. And an incredible
[0:14] scene on a Cape Cod beach. Whales
[0:17] everywhere and a desperate attempt to
[0:20] save them.
[0:26] >> [music]
[0:29] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:32] Rather. Good evening. Dan is off
[0:35] tonight. I'm John Roberts. There's been
[0:36] another major accident involving an
[0:39] Amtrak passenger train. Scores of people
[0:42] were hurt, many quite seriously, when
[0:44] the train bound from Chicago to
[0:45] Washington derailed today in Kensington,
[0:48] Maryland. Investigators say the tracks
[0:51] may have buckled in the summer heat with
[0:53] temperatures near 100°.
[0:55] CBS's Thalia Ashurus reports on the
[0:58] derailment and its possible impact on
[1:00] Amtrak's future.
[1:03] >> Known as the Capital Limited, the
[1:04] passenger train from Chicago with 173
[1:07] people on board, derailed just miles
[1:09] short of the nation's capital in searing
[1:12] mid-after afternoon heat. and I saw the
[1:14] track collapse and I just heard a bunch
[1:17] of tumbling and noise and and smoke and
[1:20] then I just heard a little girl,
[1:21] somebody screaming, "Help me."
[1:23] >> At least half a dozen cars in the train
[1:25] jumped the track, snapping trees in a
[1:26] wooded area of residential Maryland.
[1:29] Eight of the 12 passenger cars were
[1:31] occupied. Local resident Harrison Long
[1:33] watched passengers scramble from the
[1:35] jumbled train, which he said resembled a
[1:37] toy train set knocked off its tracks.
[1:39] People were being pulled out of the
[1:41] windo