traffic slowed in both directions as the fire burned between university avenue and gillman street. lots of smoke in the air as well and you could see the flames for miles. >>> we're continuing to follow another developing story this morning. the head-on crash near red bluff that killed ten people, five of them students. investigators continue to comb through the wreckage left behind. the bus was brand new, only on the road for about a month before the crash. the driver of the bus tried to stop ahead of the crash, leaving 175 feet of skid marks leading to that final crash site. investigators, federal investigators say the driver of the fedex truck that slammed into the tour bus did not appear to brake. they say the truck left no skid marks as it careened across the median and slammed into the bus. >> the initial inspection, the mechanical condition of the vehicles has already started. it's extremely difficult due to fire damage. >> it was already in flames? >> yeah. it wasn't coming from the front or the engine. it was more from behind the cab. >> they say they were lucky to survive