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3 3 3 3 so many questions remain as investigators sift through train that derailed yesterday killing two college girls. girls.the pictures behind us show the scale of the wreck.21 cars from a c-s-x train jump the tracks... and investigators are trying to gather enough evidence to figure out what happened. happened. joel d. smith was

among the first on the scene yesterday after it happened and he is back there... there...streaming now... with the latest on why the emergenny brake is at the center of the investigation. good morning joel d. right now..... c-s-x crews are carefully up- righting wrecked cars.. and removing spilled coal.... but so many questions remain as to how we got to this scene... a wreck that killed two 19 year old girls. the ddrailment around midnight tuesday killed , elizabeth nass and rose mayy, bott college students. the railroad crosses over main street in ellicott city, and investigators now believe the students were sitting on the railroad bridge with their backs to the side of the train as it passed a few feet behind them.... you can see where the coal is pouring out there... this is where they might have

been, when for some reason, the train jumped the tracks, causing open cars filled with coal to tip over. police found the girls buried under a hill of coal.. dead. initially, investigators wanted to know if the engineer slammed on his brakes to avoid hitting the young women.. perhaps triggering the crash. but investigators say the crew members on board, including an engineer trainee, say they did not hear or see anything before the derailment. so many questions remain, and the answers could be anywhere. (southworth/ntsb) "it's looking at the locomotives themselves.. it's looking at the track, it's looking at any relationship up there, the operations of the trains, the signal systems, the communications.. everything." everything."a team of national transportation safety board 3 investigators is sifting through the wreckage.. including nearly two dozen of the csx trains's 80 cars that flipped over... an pnvestigation, they say, that will be a long process. investigators say the train is equipped with a video event recorder... they say it's one of the many pieces of evidence that the ntsb will examine.

live in ellicott city, joel d. mith, fox 45 morning news. 3 we're learning more this morning about the two teens killed in this accident.both young women were graduates of mount hebron high school in ellicott city and were attending colleges out-of- state. megan gilliland is here with more on what the girls tweeted before they were killed... that could play a key role in the investigation. good morning guys,the victims are elizabeth nass... a student at james madison university in virgina... and rose mayr... a student at the university of delaware. both of them were just 19-years old. old.voice only: (diane connolley)"how quickly things change in life." life."in the moments before they were killed... the girls tweeted this picture of themselves.the caption read... levitaaing.earlier tweets stated... drinking on top of ellicott city sign with rose petals and looking down on old ellicott city.now... there's a crowd on main street... looking up... watching the

clean up and speculating... (michelle suazo-mother of three)"trying to get that good shot was more important then thinking about what they were doing"(marlo geist-19 year old student in ellicott city)"i would assume if they heard the train coming which you can definitely hear from a ways away that they would have moved.. butt.(shrugs) i dont kn" know"some teens at the crash scene admit to us... the railroad tracks are a hangout for kids. we're told one pastor is already preparing.. for the funeral. so far, no details have been released about those services. i'm megan gilliland, foxx5 morning news. the crofton man accused of threatening to shoot up his workplace has been released from a psychiatric facility. facility.a prince george's county juuge released 28-year- old neil prescott to the custody of his parents tuesday. prescott was ordered to continue taking medication and attend counseling while he awaits arraignment. police say back in july ... prescott threatened to load his guns and shoot up his workplace. he has been charged with one count of telephone misuse. a special task force begins

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3 3 a dangerous dare... dare...nat sound from video on youtube of someone saying ouch ouchhow a reckless game can cause serious injuries...next in our cover story. ((bump out)) ((break 2))

3 table salt and ice cubes have becomes the latest tools for many thrill-seeking teens.it's known at the salt and ice challenge. crime and justice reporter joy lepola explores the dangers of this latest scars it can leave.. in our cover story... story...a chilling game. game. 3 ((pkg)) nat sound from video on youtube of someone saying ouch it's a dare that has kids

sprinkle an area of their skin with salt, press an ice cube ontop and see how long they can withstand the pain. 10:32:07 it's very disturbing doctor peter beilenson says this new trend called the salt and ice challenge is turning a chemical reaction into a potentially dangerous situation for countless people. 10:34:07 (cover beginning shot is pulling out)... i think parents of young kids young teenagers should be aware that this behavior may make it to their middle school or elementary school and so if they find or hear that kids are making these dares to let the kids know that this is very serious issue and can cause permanent bodily harm on line... this chilling game like youtube where challenge takers can upload their feat and compare their endurance to others. nat sound of another youtube video(stand-up) so we wanted to find out just how drastic of drop you would see 15:21:05 we wanted to see 3

exactly how drastic of a drop occurred in the temperature once you added salt to the ice 15:21:26 salt pours15:21:50 the temperature of the bowl of ice without the salt registers at 30 degrees15:22:19 cut to temperature appearing 15:26:05 now lets take the temp of the bowl of ice with the salt . it comes in at five degrees below zero that's more than a 35 degree drop and doctors say that could easily result in second degree burns 15:22:44 tight of neg 5(vaeth)15;13:51 look for these burns they are either very red in some cases not small doctor jack vaeth - (vaath) is a psychiatrist who is all too familiar with the ice - salt challenge and those who do it. 15:17:04 there is the psychiatric realm who do it because it relieves stress tension depression anxiety in my life and there is the attention seeking realm that is i'm doing it to be famouu because i can endure more pain then other people but regardless of which category a young adult or tween may fall in... the danger it poses and the severity injury remain the

same. a behavior teens themselves are being warned to watch for.10:34:41 if they see their friends doing this it is a reason to let a parent know about this... this is an attention seeking cry for hell :49 in baltimore county joy lepola fox 45 news at ten. you can learn more about this by watching joy's entire interview with dr. vaeth...go to our website, and click on raw news. the orioles try to bounce back against the rangers... rangers...see if it happens...next ii sports. ((break 3))

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coming up in our 6 o'clock hour... back to school shopping... will set you back a pretty penny.how much money... parents are expected to spend this year... on áeach child.á we are learning more about the victims in that fatal train derailment in ellicott city.what the young girls were doing just moments before they were killed.