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    Nearly a dozen sightseers injured in Chicago

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We're done with the -- we were coming back and we could see that the ball was coming in pretty fast towards the docking area.

And I saw the -- coming.

-- Fleischer says she was on that though they could -- land in this area along the Chicago river near the Michigan avenue bridge.

When seconds later the boat was crashing into that -- You know update at ten under control and apparently not hit the cement and everybody fell forward there were 150 people on the architectural tours aboard the lead lap when Dallas newest vessel.

Nearly a dozen people were injured about 630 when the local time.

Seven people taken to nearby hospitals.

Break.

When you're coming and most people are thinking hey we're getting ready to get off.

So they're standing and that's sitting down so he probably hit some balls -- loses.

The front end of the vote was damaged as well the red paint chipped and missing and onlookers along Michigan avenue stopped long enough.

Ask what happened.

Believe I just started touring last Friday when it was Christian it was -- from a company in Rhode Island.

And since then company officials here say it's made nearly a dozen tourists up and down the Chicago river.

Mandela as well as -- Coast Guard will be out here tonight trying to figure out what went wrong.

We don't know.

It was that equipment malfunction of some sort.

As they were coming around the docked the boat and it -- the -- And we don't know what happened to the engine.