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As the sun goes down and perhaps well into the late night hours as this investigation is intense. It will go on for some time now. N. T. S. B. Officials earlier described conclusions as preliminary. They are described as robust. Heres what we know so far. N. T. S. B. Says that train, number 188, from washington, d. C. Union station was going 106 Miles Per Hour when it hit the curve last night. A curve rated only for 50 Miles Per Hour. As of now another body was recovered from the train today. That brings the death toll to seven. Eight people are still in Critical Condition from that accident. They are in philadelphia hospitals. The n. T. S. B. Says action tram train 188 was traveling in excess of 100 Miles Per Hour when it entered the curve where it derailed. Maximum authorized speed through the curve was 50 Miles Per Hour. When the engineer induced brake application was implied, the train was traveling at 106 Miles Per Hour. Reporter the trains black box has been found and is being sent to washington for more analysis. The passenger cars and locomotive will be moved to a secure location shortly. We should know i know you want to know what did the engineer have to say about what happened last night . He has not yet talked to investigators. They tell us today he lawyered up instead. Investigators hope to talk to him in coming days. In the meantime we can tell you that the federal Railroad Administration inspected the tracks recently. They found nothing at all wrong with the tracks. This goes on tonight. No defects in the tracks. We should also tell you the train has forward facing cameras, which could hold more clues about what happened. There are a lot of details developing tonight. Deborah is picking up the team coverage. Reporter this is a story that hit use in the gut. Many of us take the train from new york city to philly to dont you may know someone who does. All the people who live around here know what it was like to be here and to hear it and see it. They covered him over. Like you dont want to walk down there. There are bodies everywhere. Reporter tuesday nights plunge into chaos and darkness gave way to wednesdays search for passengers. Searchers looking for passengers still not accounted for. The brakes were applied before the crash. From train was traveling 106 Miles Per Hour where it entered the curve where it derailed. N. T. S. B. Have not spoke to the engineer of amtrak train 188 but they hope to. You are looking at video of the firsthand view of what investigators are seeing. Eileen washington who lives here says shell never forget what she saw last night. I seen them coming out with stretchers and people with all types of injuries, shaken up, bloody faces. It was like the walking dead. Reporter she was sitting on her stoop and shared what she saw. It certainly affected her. N. T. S. B. Investigators will be here quite a while. They are going to have their next press conference. That will be tomorrow. Certainly well be here live through the night and have updates for you here on the air and online and on our app. Well send it back to derek and see what is going on with you. Thank you very much. Reporter thank you, i appreciate that. Some of the neighbors are nicer than others around this part of town. Investigators are still trying to track down all of the passengers on board that train last night. If you know somebody or you have questions there is a number to call. 18005239101. Family members can call the number if you want to check on relatives. There is a Family Assistance Center set up at the Marriott Hotel 12th and Market Street in philadelphia. Within the hour we learned that a former rockville resident sadly is one of those seven victims in that crash from last night. He lived in new york. He was a senior vp with wells fargo. He was 55 years old. He was in town for his uncles funeral. He was on the amtrak going back home to new york. He leaves behind a wife and two adult children. There were 200 others injuried in the crash, some far more severely than others. Several hurt are treated at Temple University hospital. Thats where we find scott broom who has been there much of the day. Reporter derek, among the many lucky ones, survivors who walked out of this hospital treated and released today was a d. C. Resident. Well talk to him in a home. Lets talk about the catastrophic injuries. What happens to your body when you are on a train that goes off the rails at 106 Miles Per Hour. A few moments ago here at the hospital we talked with a medical director, dr. Cushion. Im surprised at the number of rib injuries. That surprised me. And the relative few head injuries. I think we are fortunate there werent more deaths. The more speed the more force you got. It did not help, certainly. Reporter among the lucky survives leaving the hospital a d. C. Red, caleb bonham, a 28 yearold web editor. There is a lot of people hurting on that train. Im blessed. We were tipping. Chairs were rolling all over the place. Everything broke down in the train. Everybody on that train was helping people. There was some older people on the train that needed a lot of assistance and people stepped up. There is no doubt. Reporter other survivors echoed his recollections of passengers helping other passengers first. Im still here. Im still walking. I got really lucky. This is a nightmare. I saw so many head injuries and bloody faces. Reporter back here live at Temple University hospital, dr. Cushion told us he expects a. No the 23 people here at the hospital to be released tomorrow. Some could be kept six to seven days. 28 people here. 8 critical. This is one of the six hospitals that treated victims of the train tragedy last night. Thats the situation at the Temple University hospital in philadelphia. Scott broom reporting. Lets go to Stephanie Ramirez with thoughts about victims who did not make it. Reporter we know two people are missing. We have three people identified here. Im outside of the associatedelm and 13th street northwest. There was a 20yearold from new york studying at Annapolis Naval academy passed. Today a third victim has been identified. We confirmed with his rockville family through a colleague speaking with the family. He leaves behind a wife, son and a daughter. A 55yearold wells fargo Senior Vice President is the latest victim identified in the amtrak wreck. The other victim was justin zimmer. He was a a loving son who was communityminded. Reporter photos on her Facebook Page show a mother extremely proud of her son. The victim, 48yearold jim gains father of two and Software Architect on his way home from new jersey from meetings in d. C. Many people through our region deeply grieving and trying to come to terms with the tragedy. It drives home the fact that every moment is precious. We should wrap our arms around life as we have it. It was wonderful. Everybody looked up to my son. There is no other words i can say. Reporter the third victim identified as we know he was in town for his uncles funeral and headed home in new york. His family in maryland now mourning and deeply grieving. We spoke to people today who are able to find their loved ones who got off the train with injuries but they are alive. They are breathing a sigh of relief today. They are offering their deepest sympathies and condolences to all of the victims involved here. Stephanie ramirez in northwest d. C. Im going to give it back to my colleague derek live in philadelphia. Reporter terrible, terrible tragedy in philadelphia. Seven lives lost. Dozens, perhaps scores of lives changed forever. The n. T. S. B. Now trying to clean up this mess. Im going back to the words of the mayor Michael Nutter who says this is a disaster mess. No more press conferences are scheduled tonight as far as we know. They expect to come back at us tomorrow, perhaps around the same time, maybe late tomorrow we should know what they find out then. Reporting live from frank fort avenue in philadelphia back to you. I heard a train expert say today that ten miles above the posted speed limit for a train operator could get that operator decertified. N. T. S. B. Seems to not be wanting to go there. Have you heard anymore conversation about what it means this train was going 106 . Is that wreckless endangerment . Reporter that speed the thing everybody is look at. It seems painfully obvious to us lay people that that has thing to do with what went wrong. N. T. S. B. Cautious in drawing any conclusions at all, except what they can tell you from the black box data hard numbers, 106 Miles Per Hour around a 50 mileperhour turn. They are waiting to talk to the engineer. Their investigation will go a week. They are not here to cast blame. They want to know how it happened and what happened. They will take their time and do it right. Well know when they know. Thank you very much. Thousands of passengers were stranded in d. C. By that crash. A whole lot of northbound trains out of georgia and florida stopped at Union Station and ordered the riders off. Scores of passengers were trying to board buses to get home to new york, new jersey and massachusetts. Some were mad about the chaos and confusion. They pulled them ahead of us. Why they didnt say get in this first line. They said get in the second line. Now we are waiting two hours where these people just came up and they are getting on the bus. N. T. S. B. Has to release the crash site back to the railroads before amtrak can start to begin putting together a schedule for service between new york and philadelphia. It is not clear when that will happen. Well continue to look at any developments through this newscast and the rest of the evening. You can get breaking news alerts using wusa 9 app. Amtrak was on the agenda today on capitol hill where a push to increase the budget by a billion dollars failed. A democratic representative offers an amendment to the gop bill to give amtrak the full 2. 5 million the president requested. That included 56 million for the northeast corridor. Committee rejected a plan and passed another budget to give amtrak a billion dollars, which is less than this years budget. In more news, we have a new request today following the death of a rockville, maryland couple what investigators want neighbors to give them that could help crack the case. What a difference 24hours makes. Check out this map. We are 23 degrees cooler now than we were at this time yesterday. Well come back and you might be surprised how cold Montgomery County states attorney is requesting video from the glen Hills Community in rockville where a couple was murdered this weekend. Police hope home video captured a suspicious person or vehicle residents dont recognize. The 65yearold and 67yearold were found dead on mothers day with trauma to their upper bodies. Police say this was a burglary and the suspects crawled into the home through a window. We are not talking about immediately in the area of ridge road. We are talking about lake wood country club, and this entire community. If you have exterior cameras we are interesting in looking at your footage. There is a 10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. It is now up to a jury to detide the fate of the Boston Marathon bomber. Jurors wrapped up deliberations 45 minutes ago. The prosecution showed Graphic Photos of the aftermath of the explosion calling it terrorism. Saying his goal was to murder and mutilate. His lawyers asked jurors to chose life for a shy kid who fell under his brothers influence. That 12 member jury must agree on one of the 17 capital counts for him to be executed. Otherwise hell be sentenced to life in prison. Keep those jackets close by. Topper is tracking a cool start to your did the midnight temperatures save us . At 11 00 well let you know. It is nice. I would grab a light jacket or sweater. 64 at national. Winds a factor north northwest at 16. Theyll diminish tonight. That will lead to a chilly night with 40s in the suburbs. Bus stop temperatures 44 to 62 6 00 a. M. To 9 00 p. M. A great finish to the week. A few clouds on friday. Still a nice finish. The weekend will be warmer. More humid. With that will come the threat of thunderstorms. It is not going to be a washout. 10 00 tonight upper 50s low 60s. Nice night to walk the dog. 6 00 a. M. We have temperatures in the 40s. Frederick 40. 49 manassas. 49 culpepper. 9 00 we are still looking at temperatures in the upper 50s to 60. Then we get into the 1 00 hour and we are looking at temperatures near 70. A Beautiful Day tomorrow. Sunshine. No wind to speak of. That is a good thing. By 6 00 mainly low 70s across the board. 72 in frederick. By 9 30 tomorrow, generally we are looking at temperatures in the low to mid 60s. It will not be as chilly tomorrow. If you are out late, youll need a sweater. Tonight clear and chilly. Open the windows, but not too far. 44 to 52 for lows. Day planner 55 at 7 00. 60 by 9 00. 65 by 11 00. 70 by 1 00. Next three days cloud and milder on friday. Temperatures in the upper 70s. Respectable finish to the week. Warmer and more humid on saturday. Isolated storms. We are in the low 80s. Next seven days. Mid 80s on sunday. A few more storms. Still not a washout. Monday we are looking at mid 80s and a few storms. Nats back in town tuesday and wednesday. Early shower on tuesday. Cooling off wednesday with highs in the mid 70s. With a win capsuwill advance to the conference finals. It will be the first time in the alec vetch era. We are at Madison Square garden with a preview. Reporter in a matter of moments the pucks drop for game seven. Winner take all. The caps would love to do it. It will be the First Time Since 99. First of alexs career. This is the back of the New York Post today. It says rangers big chance to silence o and cap the come back. The caps looking to silence new york okay, i need a better pizza. One made with only real cheese. A pizza my family will love. announcer freschetta naturally rising crust pizza. Freschetta. Made better to taste better. No. Not possible. Were the settles when we go on vacation, its hard to find, like, those little activities that are kind of fun and educational. I think with williamsburg, you have all of that educational part rolled into the fun. Its already here. This is probably the most fun ive had all summer. Recapping deadly Train Derailment in philadelphia. This is a live look at crews working on the scene. Seven people confirmed dead. Eight people still missing. The train was going 108 Miles Per Hour in a 50 mileper hour zone. Thank you for joining us. 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