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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 06:04 PM
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Update on DC Metro crash: 42 taken to hospital, at least two dead.
According to WUSA-TV (CBS affiliate), unofficial numbers.

I ride that train every day, but just happened to catch a ride with a friend today. Astounding. Wall-to-wall coverage here in the DC area. No cause established as yet, but terrorism not suspected at this time.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 06:06 PM
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1. so very glad you weren't on that train today. n/t
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 06:10 PM
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2. Thanks, cali. Me, too. Astounding stuff.
Nobody ever thinks of anything like this happening. I will be surprised if the fatalities don't go up. One train went right up over the top of the other, and was sheared.

Still unsure whether the train was northbound or southbound. If northbound coming out of DC at rush hour, the cars would have been packed. If southbound, the number of passengers would have been very light.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 06:11 PM
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3. Glad you're OK bro
but according to some people this does not deserve national coverage since M$Greedia is preoccupied with Iran.
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 06:12 PM
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4. Quick! Play the lottery!
Today was surely your very lucky day, and I'm glad.

Whew.

Even Chris Matthews did a live intro of his 7 pm segment - which is usually a re-run of his 5 pm show - did a bit with Norah O'Donnell doing phone coverage from the site of the crash.

One train jumped the tracks. That's bad..................
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 06:19 PM
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6. Bravo Tweety
This is bad.
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DebbieCDC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 06:18 PM
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5. I rode the red line for years
From Silver Spring to Metro Center. Metro was always safe, up until a few years ago.
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Dennis Donovan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 06:20 PM
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7. Wow! Glad to hear you're safe...
Kinda like standing on the quay watching the Titanic sail away, eh?
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 06:25 PM
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8. Thanks. Sorry for those involved. Thank God the train was inbound at p.m. rush hour.
If this had happened on a packed outbound train, wow.
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Suich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 06:28 PM
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10. FOX (Shepard Smith) just reported one train rear-ended
the other stopped train, then ran up over the top of it. Is that what you're hearing?

:shrug:
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 06:25 PM
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9. "Terrorism not suspected"
Edited on Mon Jun-22-09 06:26 PM by TheCowsCameHome
Gee, who would have thought that was a even possibility......talk about paranoia.

Unreal.
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 06:37 PM
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11. I hope this isn't another "texting" deal.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 06:41 PM
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12. Ooooh boy - let's hope not.
The cause will be known before long, whatever it may be.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 06:42 PM
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13. Who knows
What we do know is that a female operator died. We'll find out if she was texting.
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 06:45 PM
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15. The operator of one of the trains
is one of the 4 dead...........
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 07:39 PM
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16. The whole thing's so sad, and should never have happened,
whatever the cause turned out to be.
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 06:44 PM
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14. It's not paranoia -
you're talking about a place just a few miles from the Pentagon.

Remember 9/11? The Pentagon?

You're talking about a place just a few miles from the Capitol and the White House.

Around here, anything that goes loudly haywire is always going to be suspected terrorism, at first.

Memories die hard ................
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Ocracoker16 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 07:47 PM
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17. Update- death toll climbs to 6
There were 70 others injured. Some had less serious injuries and were bussed to George Washington University Hospital. They called these the walking wounded. There were some people taken by helicopter to Washington Hospital Center. The search of the trains continues with trained dogs. There may be bodies that are in between seats that slammed together.
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