CBS Evening News - 1995-10-09 (partial)

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[0:05] is off a bridge in the Arizona desert.

[0:07] Evidence suggests possible domestic

[0:10] terrorists. Another key Senate Democrat

[0:12] calls it quits. Bob Sheeper reports on

[0:15] the shifting balance of power on Capitol

[0:17] Hill. And eye on America as the Simpson

[0:21] camera comes down. A new debate over

[0:24] cameras in any courtroom.

[0:26] [Music]

[0:30] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:33] Rather. Good evening. 6 months after the

[0:36] Oklahoma City bombing, officials are

[0:38] investigating what could be another case

[0:40] of domestic terror aimed at innocent

[0:43] Americans. Sometime after 1 this

[0:45] morning, an Amtrak passenger train

[0:47] derailed and plunged off a bridge in

[0:49] southwestern Arizona. Officials say

[0:52] someone had tampered with the tracks and

[0:54] evidence points to possible terrorists.

[0:57] Our coverage begins with John Blackstone

[0:59] at the crash site in the Arizona desert.

[1:04] It was on a trestle over a dry riverbed

[1:06] that the Amtrak Sunset Limited traveling

[1:08] from Miami to Los Angeles jumped the

[1:11] track. The train derailed early this

[1:13] morning as most passengers were

[1:14] sleeping. We looked out and we saw that

[1:17] half of the train was missing. I was

[1:19] sleeping with the back of my head

[1:21] against the bulkhead and wham and then

[1:25] really wham. What followed was a story

[1:28] of mutual assistance among the 268 on

[1:31] board. Passengers helped each other.

[1:33] There was little panic and lots of

[1:35] comfort. Everybody was helping

[1:38] everybody. I didn't have time to be

[1:40] scared. Not until we got out. Then I got

[1:45] scared. For a half hour or more in the

[1:47] desert darkness, those on the train were

[1:49] on their own. At least