Two people are dead. Dozens more injured. Right now, were learning new information about this deadly accident. Good evening everyone im Natasha Brown thanks so much for joining us. In of the last hour the ntsc held a press conference here is what we know. The crash happened shortly before 8 00 this morning at six and booth streets in chester. Investigators say the train crashed into a backhoe with two workers inside. In addition to the two fatalities there are 35 injuries tonight. They were taken to local hospital. Some service is affected on north easter corridor. And the train has not yet been moved off the track. We have live team coverage. Lets begin with Eyewitness News reporter a knee too oh at the scene with it latest on the investigation. Anita. Reporter hey good evening natasha. After that deadly crash this morning, still few answers but a lot of questions remain of the biggest one being if amtrak dispatch must november workers where and when trains will be passing why was anyone on the tracks . Like most days you hear the amtrak train rolling through pennsylvania. But sunday shortly before eight a. M. It was the sound of a crash that startled the near 305 people on board the train. All you could see is a lot roof dirt and debris. A couple of fire flashes. And then came to a stop. Reporter Officials Say the train traveling from new york city to savanna georgia collided with backhoe. People actually jumped off the train. Reporter derailed injuring 35 passengers on board and killing two workers on the ground. What is not clear is why the equipment and the employees were on the traction. It does concern me. It has to concern me. Something like this, you know hitting a backhoe on a track, i mean, how could that, dont they know that trains come by here. And there had to be some kind of communication failure. Reporter thats what they are trying to figure out. Investigators covered video and data reporter that will show how fast it was moving before the crash. We will be looking at mechanical operations, signal, track, argue man performance, and survival factors. Reporter back here live service between philadelphia and wilmington was shutdown for several hours here along the northeast corridor. Limited service has picked back up. Keystone service between new york and harrisburg have not been affected live here in trainer im anita oh cbs3 Eyewitness News. Thank so you much. The men who died are identified as backhoe operator and a supervisor. Eyewitness News Reporter joins us live from the collision scene with more on the victims tonight. Reporter right, were told that this accident happened at this bridge west sixth and booth street you have just above me. This is an active scene 10 hours after the. Weve seen a number of trains passing through in the past hour or so. You can see police have booth street blocked off at this intersection. You can see a few oaf those ntsb investigators working on the track. They are trying to get work done before night fall. They say the victims families have been notified but Transit Agency is not releasing their names. Heres what we do know about them they are amtrak employees. 40 year veteran an 20 year veteran. Congressman bob brady believes they were doing scheduled maintenance on the track. New york senator told reporters that the two employees were a backhoe operator and a supervisor. He says its likely that human error was involved and that no equipment is ever to be operated on an active track. He says amtrak has a 20 step protocol for anyone to be on the track, that was likely not followed. He called for amtrak to review their safety procedures. Now the lead investigator on this accident offered his condolences to the victims families. Said only local agencies will be able to release their names to the public. We are learning that at the autopsys on the two victims will be performed tomorrow. Im live in chester cbs3 Eyewitness News. Thank you very much. 35 people were taken to area hospital for treatment. A thumb of those patients were treated in media. Eyewitness News Reporter alexandria hoff is live 3 with more information. Alexandria. Reporter well in a tar sharks the numbers weve gotten both from the hospital buts the total number of passengers transported and treated at actually 36. At this hour almost all of them have been treated and releaseed. Of the 16 southbound amtrak passengers transported only one remains in treatment but it expected to recover. The rest were either seen out of precaution or suffered only minor injuries and have been released. It was the same cases win the croucher medical system the spokesperson says among four facilities they saw 19 passengers in total. Two of which are still being treated at Taylor Hospital with injuries that go beyond minor. Too early to consider them serious. Into. Reporter when you check out photos just into cbs newsroom. They show after math from inside. Cars with not only twisted melt but collapse frame insulation. In one photo you can see a window had fallen into and a seat. These you are astounding images when you consider 340 passengers, just 35 or 36 were taken to hospital and at this hour only three have been admitted for further treatment. Reporting live in media alexandria hoff cbs3 Eyewitness News. Really incredible pictures of the aftermath. Many passengers a board train 89 say they are happy just to be a live. A number of them were taken to 30th street station following the crash in search of a new way to get to their final destination. Cherri gregg spoke some of them about this experience. Reporter it was vair are very startling, it felt like, enough we hit something. Reporter the ride from new york began as a fairly normal one. Cory snyder, she was headed to dc for work until train 89 got to chester and hit a backhoe lodged on to the track just before eight a. M. Definitely felt it. It was very jar ring. In one of the cars some of the seats actually moved reporter snyder was one of the passengers and seven crew members on had on board the train. She like most are luckily will lucky with no injuries. Being in the third car i saw flame comings toward me i dipped down to try, i was worried about the windows breaking what have you e educate passengers say there was calm in the after math. Commented officials for keeping order and orb shinning inpatient passengers who exit the train back on for safety. Amtrak workers, two duct terse kept everybody calm. Reporter red cross volunteers escorted passengers to a near by church. Some taken to the hospital. The rest were buffed to 30th street station, where they received, food, water and blankets. Given the lost of two lives most say they are grateful. I was a little shaken up at the end of the day day im blessed im still alive. What do you do in a situation like that you thank god you are okay you hope everybody else is as well e septa Officials Say many of the un injured passengers were placed on buses and driven to wilmington. Of course their next step is to catch another train to their final destination. At 30th street station cherry greg, wyw news radio Eyewitness News. This was not the first time an amtrak train has crashed in this same area in chester. On january 29th, 1988 a train with 130 people on board slammed into happen maintenance vehicle. The track was supposed to be closed at the time. 24 people were hurt. None seriously. The ntsb says the fault fell on both amtrak and a Tour Operator who fled his post after the crash. Then resigned. Its been less than a year since the deadly amtrak derailment in philadelphia on may 12th 2015 a train flipped off the traction while rounding a curve, eight people died more than 200 injured. The train was traveling more than a hundred Miles Per Hour when the accident happened. Stay with Eyewitness News for complete coverage of this ongoing 12 pink story. Well have the latest and Eyewitness News at 10 and 11 00 tonight. And of course, on our website cbsphilly. Com. Our area was hit by damaging winds overnight and well into the morning. This picture was sent to us by lydia in cherry hill, new jersey, you can see the huge tree down in the yard across the street there tipping a car. And in west filial tree came crashing down into a local home this happened at the corner of fiftyfourth and arch streets one person was home but luckily no one was injured. Lets get over to lauren case with update on the high winds. They record well into the night and into the day, lauren. Absolutely. Incredible weather over the last 24 hours. Delaware valley kind of a double wind whammy. First we had the wind incredible wind speeds with storms severe storms that rolled across the area last night. On the backside of the system we had sustained winds last night all through the first half of the day today but first up lets talk about those wind gusts. Cape may count 71 Miles Per Hour, thats nearly hurricane force. Northeast physical 60 miles, new castle 55, marlton and Burlington County visit miles 50 Miles Per Hour. These winds associated and the backside of the system today. Those winds were whipping last night. And through the day today check out high wind gusts amazing up to 51 Miles Per Hour today in mt. Pocono, 52 at the airport in philadelphia. Winds starting to relax a bit breezy but certainly not the kind of wind we were dealing with the first half of the day. Winds gusting into the 20 mile per hour range. Cold air settled in across the area. 46 degrees right now in Center City Philadelphia feeling more like 39 degrees. We do have a freeze watch in effect for a large portion of the area. Well talk more about that and what we can expect weather wise going into the next couple of days coming up. Thanks so ouch had. Straight ahead tonight and snooze snooze villanova prepares for the National Championship game in houston and brotherly love becomes brotherly competition. Leslie van arsdale introduces us to two brothers who will be facing off with the, when they take on North Carolina t after the morning crash that killed two workers and injured dozens offer passengers. Train 89 was head to do savanna georgia when it struck a backhoe on the track in chest. Ntsb and amtrak continue to investigate this crash. Still a very active scene out there. Were going to have the latest on Service Interruptions for the morning commute on Eyewitness News at 10 and 11 of course on our website as well. Switching gears National Championship game much better knew here. We are talking sports. We are talking about villanova wildcats, villanova and North Carolina tomorrow night. One family the National Championship game will be an emotional roller can coaster no matter who wins. Leslie van arsdale is with the wildcats she joins us live from houston leslie. You said it don. Basically like a movie two brothers that grow up together, they may basketball watch the tournament on tv now they are playing against each other with a National Championship on the line. Chris and his brother are not blood brothers but the brits have been his legal garden. She sent him to baltimore. His father a basketball coach. Every since then its been the greatest decision thats ever happened in my life. And you know for us to compete against each other tomorrow its Something Special for our family. We did pretty much share everything besides a toothbrush when we were living together. To say there competitive thats an under statement. Theres nobody in the world that i want to beat more than my brother. We competed a lot in middle school and high school. In high school i won gator raid bellaire won the next two years we were always competing i expect the game to be super competitive between us. Who do the parents root for. I think mom has the route had right idea. Tar heals on this arm and wildcats on this arm. So this is what i will wear on monday. Route for the best guy whoever wins then support the guy that has his head down at the end. Well win or lose it is just a great story, a fun story and so special for this family to be playing against each other at national him 81 ship. Don back to you. That is an amazing story. Leslie thank you so much. All right lets rewind to mid january keystone state had two disappointing hockey teams not either one in the playoff picture. Both flyers and penguins hottest teams now they hookup with the post season hanging in the balance. Flyers they are 8th in east right now. First period flyers shorthanded. Said the kid crosby, lighting the lamp pittsburgh on the scoreboard right now all over the flyers on top three to nothing. End Second Period full highlight tonight at 11. Opening day for phillies tonight in cincinnati. Jeremy will take the mound first pitch at 4 10. Fills and reds two worse teams in baseball. Now, coming up tonight in the sport zone a big time preeve between nova and tar hills Leslie Van Arsdale going oneonone with jay wright. 94wip mark will join us in studio to talk about that and much much more. I have a question for mark, i dont know if hes watching if you know him tell him whose got the bigger up side the better future, the sixers or the flyers . Were going to talk about that or the six hers and the phillies for that matter, so big time conversation tonight. Thats a loaded question. Thank so you much. This, lets talk about this win last night and into today. Some of us havent seen whether like that ever. A strong system that moved through and wind behind the system for much of the day today. But now we are getting a break from those winds. Still a little bit breezy wind speeds up to 1512020 Miles Per Hour. Temperatures chilly in the 40s. And 30s. We did have severe thunderstorms that raised across the Delaware Valley moving at about 60 to 70 miles an hour. We did have a lot of damage reported transformers proceeding in west chester due to down power lines. Structure fire in new castle delaware because of lighting. Melt container just blown across the road out of a parking lot. Cumberland county new jersey, tract trailer blown over in delaware, these winds meant business. Some of us, most of us dealt with storms last night. Some of us dealt with snow. Got to love spring whether inch and a half fell in mt. Pocono a little bit more snow is in the near future in the Higher Elevations as we head into the night. Storm scan 3 showing us snow trying to push into the northth west in advance of next weather system. Future weather going to show you us increasing clouds overnight tonight a chance af snow up towards the poconos maybe a few flakes down into the lehigh valley. We will not see snowfall in philadelphia. Warm front tomorrow morning, we could see isolated showers as that boundary moves in. Cold front in association with the same system moves in afternoon hours. That will give us a better bet of wets weather maybe thunderstorms as we medicine into the afternoon and evening. Late evening clearing out and setting us up for assign knee but again a chilly tuesday. Future snow amounts maybe a dusting to an inch in mt. Pocono. We certainly have the cold temperatures to support snowfall 31 degrees in mt. Pocono, in the 40s in philly 40s do you know the shore. Temperature drop off. Order of about 15 to 20 degrees over the last 24 hours. Were going to see a brief warm up during the day tomorrow but then cold air moves back in tomorrow night. Freeze watch in effect for a large portion of the area. This is tomorrow night into Tuesday Morning cold air settles back in once again. Overnight tonight down to 37 degrees. Clouds increasing much less winds. But then windy again not as windy tomorrow. Up to 60 degrees but rain develops as we head into the sector half of the day. Take that 60 in as you can tomorrow were chilly once again into tuesday. 46 degrees we start at 29 degrees back up into the 60 by thursday. But another round of rain and storms. Welcome back everyone. Nearly two weeks after suicide bombers attacked, they are Brussels Airline flight took off today one of three flights scheduled to depart. Starting tomorrow the airport will be operating at 20 percent of capacity. 32 people were killed in the march 22nd attacks at the airport and subway station 270 more were wounded well be into well are you ready for something new in the morning starting tomorrow weak up for morning people. Thats Eyewitness News for now. Im Natasha Brown for lawn, thanks for joining captioning funded by cbs and ford. We go further, so you can. Bill whitaker i think americans think, crime and punishment. You say punishment is not even part of the goal. No. In a german prison. No, not at all. So life inside prison mirrors life outside as much as possible. Germans call it normalization. This place is reserved for the worst of the worst murderers, rapists, career criminals. It is unbelievable. You are in for murder and you have a key to your cell. Leslie stahl an american in paris is a love story. But also a valentine to dance. All kinds