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 A freight train overturned on waterlogged tracks Saturday morning in Texas as heavy rains pounded the region for a third straight day — with remnants of Hurricane Patricia threatening to keep a large part of the state under a flash flood watch. 
 
 One person, a man walking his dog in San Antonio, was missing as a result of the floods, authorities said. 
 
 Patricia was downgraded Saturday to a tropical depression after making landfall in Mexico Friday evening. But many parts of Texas were still expecting significant rainfall. 
 
 A train overturned in floodwaters in Navarro County, Texas. NBC News 
 
 Houston Mayor Annise Parker warned that 8 to 10 inches of rain were expected overnight. 
 
 In addition, Houston, Corpus Christi, and other portions of southeast Texas were under a tornado watch until 10 p.m. CT, according to the Weather Channel. 
 
 Two train crew members were rescued after a Union Pacific train derailed around 3:30 a.m. local time in Navarro County south of Dallas, officials told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth. Union Pacific spokesman Jeff DeGraff told the station that one locomotive and several rail cars were partially submerged, but no one was injured. 
 
 Both crew members "swam to high ground" and were pulled out by a high-water rescue team, DeGraff said. 
 
 The 64-car train was en route from Midlothian to Houston when it got caught in floodwaters, which have closed major highways throughout North Texas. 
 
 Related: Hurricane Patricia to Intensify Heavy Rains in Texas, 10M Under Flood Watch 
 
 The train remained on its side on Saturday, about 4 miles north of Corsicana, as authorities waited for the water to recede before attempting to right it and remove it from the tracks. 
 
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 Eric Myers, emergency management coordinator for Navarro County, told NBC News the tankers contained cement. He said that the county had received 20 to 21 inches of rainfall in the past 24 hours, and said authorities had performed 72 swift water rescues. 
 
 Interstate 45 near Corsicana was closed for several hours Friday night, creating traffic backups that were miles long. 
 
 Elsewhere in Texas, heavy rainfall was causing power outages and flight delays. In San Antonio, emergency responders were searching for a man who was swept away Saturday around 3 a.m. local times (4 a.m. ET), The Associated Press reported. The man fell into a flooded drainage ditch while trying to pull his dog back. 
 
 The dog was found, but firefighters had to suspend the search for his owner due to the weather. 
 
 Strong thunderstorms dropped more than 7 inches of rain across Dallas-Fort Worth, NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported, with flash flood watches and warnings in effect in many places until Sunday. 
 
 The remnants of Patricia — which made landfall Friday evening in southwestern Mexico as a Category 5 storm — are expected to reach Texas by Saturday night and exacerbate the flooding, forecasters said. 
 
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 "It should start to move out Sunday night, but East Texas is going to still be in the rain Sunday night, even Monday," Jon Rowe, senior meteorologist for The Weather Channel, told NBC News. "There will be some lingering rain showers even by Tuesday." 
 
 The heaviest of the rain should be done by Sunday night, he added, "but they're going to have flooding problems in South and East Texas at least through tomorrow." 
 
 Hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed on Thursday and Friday at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The airport got 3.24 inches of rain on Friday alone — a daily record. ||||| The first two cars of a commuter train transporting people from Silicon Valley to the Central Valley derailed in Sunol Monday evening, injuring 14 on board, four of them seriously, police said. Ian Cull, Terry McSweeney, Jean Elle and Jeff Ranieri report. (Published Tuesday, March 8, 2016) 
 
 The first two cars of a commuter train transporting people from Silicon Valley to the Central Valley derailed in Sunol Monday evening, injuring nine on board, four of them seriously, police said. 
 
 The leading car of the 214-passenger Altamont Corridor Express train No. 10 plunged into Alameda Creek after ramming into a tree near 5500 Niles Canyon Road between 7:15 and 7:30 p.m., authorities said. 
 
 According to Steve Walker with the Altamont Corridor Express, the train’s first car, which weighs 120,000 pounds, has 130 seats in it. It was carrying six passengers and one crew member when it struck a tree that had fallen onto the tracks and fell into into the water. 
 
 At the time of the accident, officials reported that it was raining heavily in Sunol, a rural area of Alameda County, about 45 miles east of San Francisco. Passengers believe the wet weather caused a mudslide and downed a tree, which triggered the crash. 
 
 "It just shifted the gravity all of a sudden and we were all just panicking," Rad Akhter said. "There were two people hurt, pretty badly. One was just under the mudslide so we were trying to dig her out while the train was hanging so it was a pretty crazy experience." 
 
 Passengers told NBC Bay Area that they were terrified to find themselves in the water, forced to save fellow passengers and trek to safety through complete darkness. 
 
 "We knew we were in a pretty remote area so we knew we had some hiking to do along the train tracks," said a passenger identified only as Kathy. "I'm grateful that it wasn't worse." 
 
 Crews had to fight the creek's fast-moving currents to pull riders from the partially submerged rail car, Alameda County Sheriff's Sgt. Ray Kelly said. Images posted on Twitter by the Alameda County Fire Department show the train car on its side and half-submerged in water. He said that the train car landed in the water on its side and the car began to fill with water. 
 
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 The leading car of the 214-passenger Altamont Corridor Express train No. 10 plunged into Alameda Creek after ramming into a tree near 5500 Niles Canyon Road between 7:15 and 7:30 p.m., authorities said. (Published Tuesday, March 8, 2016) 
 
 "It was dark, wet, it was raining. It was very chaotic,'' Kelly said. "This is an absolute miracle that no one was killed, no passengers or first responders.'' 
 
 The second car behind it also derailed, but managed to stay upright while the three cars behind them, including the locomotive, stayed on the tracks, Walker said. 
 
 Five of the wounded passengers sustained minor injuries while the rest suffered serious, but non-life threatening injuries. They were rushed to Washington Hospital in Fremont and Eden Hospital in Castro Valley. Earlier in the night, officials reported that 14 people had been wounded, but later clarified that a few with minor injuries had been treated at the scene and were feeling better. 
 
 As of 10 p.m., all the passengers were removed from the train and were being assessed, officials said. ACE sent buses to the crash site to transport uninjured commuters to the Alameda County Fairgrounds where they were reunited with anxious family members and friends, officials said. 
 
 Around 10:15 p.m., however, commuters said on social media that they were still at the crash site, hungry and cold. Buses were not expected to reach the passengers till nearly 11 p.m., they said. 
 
 "This is beginning to look like that Harrison Ford movie #TheFugitive derailment scene," Twitter user John Wong wrote. 
 
 Multiple agencies, including the Fremont Police Department and Alameda County Fire Department responded to the scene. Police shut down Niles Canyon Road and expect it to remain closed until further notice. 
 
 "Once we get some daylight, we’ll be able to really see what’s going on and walk the tracks," Kelly said. 
 
 The ACE train was traveling from San Jose to Stockton, according to its website. The train — the last one othe night — was en route from Fremont to Pleasanton, Walker said. 
 
 Railway officials said after the derailment that there will be no ACE train service Tuesday. 
 
 "We are working with our partners to restore service as soon as possible pending a complete investigation and assurance that the tracks are safe," ACE train officials said on their website. 
 
 ACE officials also provided taxis for the commuters stranded in Pleasanton when the train derailed. The taxis took them to their destinations, people said. 
 
 The Associated Press contributed to this report.
– Two crew members had to be rescued when flooding in Texas overturned a 64-car Union Pacific freight train on its way to Houston early Saturday morning, NBC News reports. Navarro County, where the train was derailed around 3:30am local time, had received nearly 2 feet of rain in 24 hours, and more was expected with what's left of Hurricane Patricia heading into the area. According to the AP, a creek overflowed and washed away the train tracks. "[The crew] escaped the train after it stopped and swam to high ground," a Union Pacific spokesperson tells the AP. "A Navarro County rescue team was able to get in and pull them to safety. They are back safe on dry ground." Despite several rail cars and a locomotive ending up partially underwater, no injuries were reported in the train crash, NBC reports. The train—which is carrying cement or gravel—was still on its side hours later, with crews waiting until water levels drop before they attempt to remove it. After three days of heavy rains, Navarro County has carried out five dozen water rescues. According to the AP, only one person is missing so far in the recent Texas flooding. A man walking his dog in San Antonio fell into a flooded draining ditch and was swept away. His dog was later found safe.