Rails between boston and washington. This is an aerial shot of the spot just to my left where a speeding northeast regional train jumped the tracks last night. There were 238 passengers on board and a crew of five. At least seven are dead, more than 200 injured. Investigators from the National Transportation safety board are here, and tonight crews are moving the train to a secure location. Hour after hour Police Firefighters and other rescue workers searched desperately for anyone who might still be trapped in the wreckage of amtrak train 188. Keep crawling, okay. Crawl forward, sir. Pelley as victims were carried to ambulances, survivors told their stories, among them beth davidz. Once the car started filling up with smoke, we actually climbed out the top. It was when i was sitting on the cl top of the car and we looked out, you could see the first. The engine and first cars just crushed. Pelley the train left washingtons Union Station just after 7 10 last night bound for new york city. It stopped at philadelphias 30th street station. Then at 9 21, about nine miles from the station where the track curves, the train derailed, the engine and seven passenger cars. First responders had only flashlights to cut through the darkness. Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter rushed to the scene. It is an absolute disastrous mess. Never seen anything like this in my life. Pelley you can see theel disaster most clearly from the air. The train was traveling on a track that curves away from downtown philadelphia. The curve it was on when it derailed is at about a 45degree angle with the rest of the track. A couple of the cars on the track are still intact, but i count one, two, three, four, five cars at least that have left the track. Most of them are intact, except for one car. It appears that it hit some of the support equipment around the tracks at a terrific speed and was split open like a can. The speed limit at the derailment site is 50mph, but the National Transportation safety board says the train, seen at the top of the screen in this Surveillance Video from a nearby business, was traveling at more than twice that speed. The camera captured the electrical sparks from the crash. Two event recorders, which keep track of the trains movements were recovered from the engine and are being analyzed. Among those who lost theirye lives, 20yearold Justin Zemser of rockaway beach, new york, a midshipman at the naval academy. Susan zemser is his mother. He was wonderful. He was absolutely wonderful. Everybody looked up to my son. And theres just no other words i can say. Pelley also among the deadne jim gaines of plainsboro, new jersey, who was a 48yearold father of two and a Video Software architect for the associated press, and 55year old abeed gilanni, a wells fargo executive. Rachel from a Small Tech Company still missing Bob Gildersleeve a 45yearold sales executive. Correspond chris van correspondent kris van cleave is with us tonight. Hes been following the investigation. Kris, what do you know . Reporter well, scott, it is still very, very early in this investigation, but late today, Robert Sumwalt from the nationalio Transportation Safety board, told us the investigation is increasingly focusing on the speed of the train in the moments right before the deadly derailment. Maximum authorized speed through this curve was 50mph. When the engineer induced brake application was applied, thewa train was traveling at approximately 106mph. Three seconds later when the da data to the recorders terminated, the train speed was 102mph. Reporter the n. T. S. B. Says it has not yet spoken to the trains engineer. Earlier philadelphias mayorr said the engineer was treatedin for injuries suffered in the crash and then taken to a policest station, but the Philadelphia PoliceDepartment Says he declined to make a statement before leaving the station with a lawyer. What he isnt saying the trains event recorder and front dash camera may reveal. Our mission is to find out not only what happened but why it happened so that we can prevent it from happening again. Ep reporter the engine and all seven passenger cars flew off the tracks in the violent derailment. A Law Enforcement official tells cbs news there is no evidence of terrorism or sabotage. Pe pennsylvania senator pat toomey toured the crash site this afternoon. Describe for me the scene. Its a horrifying scene. There are train cars that are completely unrecognizable as train cars. Theyve been destroyed completely destroyed. Reporter investigators will also be looking at the aging cars themselves. They date from the 1970s. Pictures from inside the train moments after the crash show luggage thrown from open shelving. Passengers were tossed as the train tumbled, raising questions about the need for seat belts on trains. Is it time to talk about phasing out some of the older amtrak cars . Well, thats certainly something we want to understand. Was that a contributing factor to either the derailment or injuries or deaths that followed . Reporter and tonight we have learned the identity of the engineer. Cbs news can now report his name is brandon bostian. But scott, we dont know much else about him. We do know that amtrak is in the process of installing Automatic Technology that would allow it to automatically slow down a speeding train. The deadline for that is the end of the year. Pelley kris van cleave reporting for us tonight. Kris, thank you very much. You saw Robert Sumwalt of n. T. S. B. In kriss report. We spoke to him a short time ago and asked him why the train was going so fast. We plan to interview the engineer at first opportunity that we can. We want to go back and look at the operation of the train. We want to look at the mechanical condition of the train. We want to find out exactly why this train got into the positionwe that it did. Pelley what else do you knowra about what happened to the train in the moments before it left the tracks . T for example, did the engineer hit the brakes . Just moments before themo derailment, the engineer placed the train into the emergency mode. That applies the emergency brakes to their full application. We know that. That was just moments before the derailment. We want to know, again, why was the train traveling at the speed that it was. Pelley is there any indication that there was any fault in the track itself . We will be looking at the condition of the track. Well be looking at the Traffic Control signals to see what they were displaying. Well be looking at the mechanical condition of the train. So nothing is off the table. Id say that everything is on the table right now. Pelley Robert Sumwalt, member of the National Transportation safety board leading this investigationry thank you very much. It turns out that one of the worst train wrecks in u. S. Y history happened 71 years ago on the same curve in the tracks at frankford junction, the site of last nights derailment. It was labor day 1943. An axle broke on the pennsylvania railroads congressional limited. 79 people were killed. And 117 were injured. Many of those injured in the wreck here last night suffered rib fractures and other broken bones, suggesting they had beenhe tossed around in the train. Heres a report from jericka duncan. You saw people being thrown out of their seats, luggage going all over the place. Reporter rajan shah says the t most frightening part of the derailment is when the lights went out. It took a few minutes i think for everyone to realize the amount of pain that they were in. Thats when you really started hearing the screaming. Reporter he fractured his vertebrae, a disc and ribs and will be at Hahnemann Hospital for the next few days. There was screaming. There was crying. Reporter passengers joan helfman and her son max were scratched and bruised when their train car flipped on its side. I saw head injuries, you know, bleeding. Broken arms, broken legs, anything you can imagine is what happened. They were crying. They were in pain. Reporter 54 of the most seriously injured passengers were rushed to Temple University hospital. Today about two dozen remain hospitalized. Dr. Herbert cushing is chief medical officer. Ur im surprised at the number of rib injuries. That surprised me in the relative few head injuries. And i think were fortunate there werent more deaths. Things could have been a lot worse. Reporter instincts kicked in for patrick murphy, who took these pictures of the aftermath. The former congressman and iraq war veteran treated theg devastating scene as a battlefield. I stood back and just told w the people who were bleeding towo put pressure on their wounds where they were bleeding from because you dont want to see those folks bleed out. Reporter did that training that you talk about in iraq come through in that moment when you didnt want to leave anyone . You know, we leave no one behind. I wasnt going to climb out when there were people still hurt. Reporter at this hour, there are 23 patients from the derailment here at Temple University hospital, and, scott, doctors expect at least six of those patients to go home tonight. Pelley jericka, thanks. Some of the injured were treated at Aria Health Systems hospitals. And earlier today we spoke to three of the doctors. In the emergency room, we spoke to dr. Gerald wydro, dr. Cynthia fusco and dr. Rob danoff. The patients that you saw, whatb were their injuries . We had broken ribs. We had fractured neck. We had spinal cord injuries. We had a pelvic fracture, some head trauma. There was a variety of what we say blunt trauma. Pelley rob, some of the t patients spoke to you about their experience. What did they tell you . One was a conductor. He was actually on the train going to his next job at the destination. He was in the cafe car. He said he was talking normally, all of a sudden, and this was common with people, they heard this loud screech. The next thing he remembered is he woke up spitting out dirt. He was on the side and remembers seeing a Philadelphia Police officer asking if he could help him. Another woman was someone who every week, four times a week shes on that same train. Shes always in the first car. T this time she said her secretary couldnt get it. Wa she was at first annoyed, why didnt you get me first car. When i talked to her, she had aus concussion but she was understanding. I said, you know, your life was t probably saved because the worst injuries were in the first ande second cars, so she was really grateful. El pelley what impressed you about last night . What did you see that you will never forget . Last night the parking lot where the ambulances come in was full of mass transit buses police vans, ambulances, and we had an orderly triage and treatment of patients, well over 30 at the same time. Pelley theres no estimate for when the trains will be back on schedule. E service between new york and philadelphia remains shut down in both directions. Ed thats disrupted travel for up to 85,000 daily riders on amtraks northeast corridor. Some of amtraks equipment has been charitably described asue antique, but despite that, a house panel today cut amtraks budget even more. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Reporter the 250 Million People who ride these rails eachs th year pass through tunnels and over bridges that are more than 100 years old and look it. Amtraks signal system was installed prior to world war ii, and electrical wires date back to the 1930s. According to a report by rail officials, on some occasions trains get tangled in the lowered wires and tear them down. David hughes is a former amtraks c. E. O. What amtrak has is among the poorest ive ever seen given the level of use they get. The accumulated deferred maintenance and lack ofat attention really makes it almost a thirdworld operation. Reporter amtrak estimates that maintaining and upgrading the northeast corridor would cost 2. 6 billion per year, but congress provided just 1. 4 billion this year for all of amtraks operations, from coast to coast. Next year funding will drop by nearly 20 . Despite an attempt by House Democrats today to boost it. Ye. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say no. No. Reporter that didnt stop ars Bipartisan Group of mayorss b including new yorks bill de blasio, from begging lawmakers to invest more in infrastructure. It doesnt appear that increased funding for rail is coming any time soon, so what is the alternative . Practically speaking, were stuck because the infrastructure keeps aging, as were having this press conference, our citys infrastructures are aging. Certainly our rail system, as well. Reporter amtraks northeast line does turn a profit, but a lot of that money goes to prop up the rest of the amtrak system. There is a bill working its way through congress, scott, thatam would allow amtrak to use more of that money to makesi improvements on its busiest line. Pelley nancy cordes reporting for us from capitol hill. Nancy, thanks. In a moment, well have an update on that missing u. S. Helicopter in nepal. And californias endless drought is forcing wild animals into the city. 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Troops delivering relief supplies to some of the hardest hit regions, but after 21 hours of searching on wednesday, there was no sign of the helicopter or the eight people on board. There have been no new majorafte aftershocks following that massive 7. 3 earthquake that rattled nepal on tuesday sending people screaming into the streets. The tent cities that we had seen starting to get smaller wereer getting bigger once again as people were just too afraid to be indoors. Also resuming that search for survivors with people using cameras and dogs to try to sift through the rubble. Scott . Pelley seth doane reportingm be for us from beijing tonight. Seth, thank you. Many are stranded after heavy rains in texas, and well have that coming up. Natural gas producer. And we could soon become number one in oil. Because Hydraulic Fracturing Technology is safely recovering lots more oil and natural gas. Supporting millions of new jobs. Billions in tax revenue. 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Complaints about black bears in garbage cans and near homes have almost doubled in the last year, and coyotes looking for waterin are a common site in the most densely packed parts of los angeles. Several months ago this pack of coyotes were caught on a se Security Camera running across a burbank lawn. The coyotes chased nick mendoza while he walked his dog. Aw when i was walking, i saw thear four and the others started circling, coming around. Thats when i knew that i was the prey. And when youre the prey, thats very scary. Reporter Martine Colette runs a wildlife way station north of los angeles that rehabilitates exotic animals. C she now sees animals coming downng from the hills looking for something to drink and has started placing bowls of water around the property to help them. People have water. They have fish ponds, theyve got swimming pools. They have dog dishes filled with water. An animal in need of water is going to smell that water and is going to come down into urban areas. Reporter experts say the drought has hit small animals the hardest. He Diane Nichols has rescued and fed 191 baby deer in the last year at her farm in placer ye county, california. This rescue group nursed hundreds of starving squirrels back to life and released them into the wild. And north of san francisco, an owl looking for food was plucked off the interstate by thethe highway patrol. They will travel long distances not to die. And if that means traveling into a neighborhood and places like that, they will travel. Reporter to make thingsnt worse, california is enteringim its prime fire season. Scott, a bad wildfire only displaces more animals. El pelley Omar Villafranca reporting for us tonight. Omar, thanks very much. Well be back from the site of the train disaster here in philadelphia in just a moment. And we see no reason to stop. 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E at least seven people were killed when amtrak train 188 en route from washington to new york jumped the tracks. More than 200 people were injured. The n. T. S. B. Says the train wasmp traveling at more than 100mph, more than twice the speed limit. The engineer applied the emergency brake but much too late. No word yet on when service between new york and philadelphia will be restored. Cbs this morning will have the very latest overnight developments in this story first thing tomorrow. And thats the cbs evening news for tonight. For all of us at cbs news all around the world, im scott pelley in philadelphia. Good night. Captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. Now at 6 00 a plan for hundreds of new bay area homes may be in jeopardy. And its all because of the drought. Good evening, im veronica de la cruz. Im ken bastida. The proposed new development would sit on a 440acre site off 680 in san ramon but people who already live there tell our da lin that theres not enough water to go around. Reporter east bay m. U. D. Has been asking folks around here to cut back water use by 20 so neighbors say if you dont have enough water then you cant build more homes out here. Now they are asking federal and state officials to stop a city approved development right here. The feria Housing Development in san ramon sounded like a done deal. The city gave developers the green light to move forward but now some neighbors hope the mandatory water restriction will put a dry spell on the 740 unit Housing Development. Frustrated . Tell me about it. I have to take a fiveminute shower and they say bring in 2,000 more people. Reporter neighbors like Dale Williams let their grass turn brown and even put in droughtresistant plants to save water. Why do i have to save when you can waste . Why do i plan ahead when you wont think past next year . Reporter lawyers for the mount diablo group of the sierra club will send a letter to the army corps of engineers and the Regional WaterQuality Control board to stop the san ramon Development Citing the severe drought. We are talking out of both sides of their mouths. On the one side they tell their customers, we have to conserve and on the other hand we are octohave this hit on the