FRANK SESNO, CNN ANCHOR: Turning now to a developing story out of Louisiana, where authorities are dealing with some hazardous conditions in the aftermath of a weekend trail derainment -- derailment rather. The train, carrying toxic chemicals, jumped the tracks Saturday near the town of Eunice, Louisiana, about 75 miles west of Baton Rouge. And CNN's Ed Garsten is there -- Ed.</s>ED GARSTEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Frank, authorities still say the situation is not safe. As a matter of fact, they are still keeping people away. We are at one of the roadblocks, keeping roughly a two-mile perimeter around the derailment site. We want to show you a plume of black smoke that is now hovering above the city of Eunice. That, ironically, is a good thing, that is as a result of a series of detonations that was set off overnight to breach one of the tanker cars to relieve the heat and pressure that's been building up inside of it. That tanker car is carrying potentially explosive acrylic acid.</s>TROOPER E.J. CHESNE, LOUISIANA STATE POLICE: The possibility of explosion at any undetermined time was a real possibility. We had had two explosions prior to that on day one. So they went in and did a safe, controlled and announced explosion at about midnight. And it was very successful and textbook from what I've been told. Now since then, the acrylic acid car has been vented, has been breached, and it is currently on fire right now.</s>GARSTEN: And within the last few minutes, a hazardous materials unit and a state police unit went through the blockade heading toward the site. We've been told by Union Pacific that they do hope to get the closest look yet at the derailment site so they can try to figure out exactly what caused this accident. We're told that the speed limit on the track at the time was 40 miles an hour. The train was going 40 miles an hour. But they want to know if indeed, conditions were right and safe for the engineer to have the train going that fast. Ed Garsten, CNN, reporting live from Eunice, Louisiana.
Explosive Chemicals in Train Derailment Still not Safe