commute from d.c. to new york put 238 people on board a derailed amtrak train at the center of a national disaster. there were at least five journalists on board. in some ways these trains are like a media express. and some of the journalists immediately started reporting from the wreckage like my next guest, paul chung. he took these dramatic photos for the associated press. this disaster also put those journalists at the center of a media frenzy since they all became part of the story. paul joins me now here on the set. he s the director of interactive and digital news production for the a.p. thanks for being here. thank you. how are you doing personally? were you injured at all? minor scrapes and bruises. you know i think now, coming off my adrenaline so i m processing everything that has happened. yeah. but you were able to pretty quickly help other people off the train. and then at what point did you transition into taking photos into reporting? well the minute i jump of
found in a mangled meadow of that car. all 238 people on board have now been accounted for. the tracks are now being accounted for and service on this very busy line should be partially or fully restored which monday morning. on a political front here at home, jeb bush had a week in which he came public. saturday, he recorded the interview with megyn kelly and it airs on monday and tuesday. one question everybody focused on was his answer to the question which he really misunderstood. knowing that there were no weapons of mass destruction, would you have still authorized going into iraq. he originally said yes and walked back a couple of times and finally got it right. listen listen. knowing know what you would have done? i would not have engaged and not have gone into iraq. that is not to say that the world is safer, because saddam hussein is gone. it is significantly safer.
crash. there were terrifying stories from those who were on board. cnn s anderson cooper takes a look at what we know starting from the very beginning. wait judges university before 9:30 tuesday night when the amtrak train derailed. the passenger train has rolled over. catapulting passengers and sending seven train cars and the engine off their track. shoved down. the entire northeast corridor. amtrak 188 departed philadelphia s 30th street station at about 9:10, bound for new york with 238 passengers and five crew on board. less than 15 minutes into the ride, passengers say they felt something was wrong. you feel this boom and you don t think that much except the train doesn t bump. and the next thing is a harder shape shake. then by the third time, you knew there was the train was derailing.
per hour. when the engineer induced brake application was applied, the train was traveling at approximately 106 miles per hour. there were 238 passengers and five crewmembers on board, and some of them used their phones to capture amazing scenes of chaos and survival. come on, man. i got you, okay? okay? keep crawling, okay? here. hold on. here. go, go, go, go. should i just get out? help me? yeah. meanwhile, authorities have released some of the initial emergency radio transmissions. let s listen to those.
new york. and the engineer put the brakes on moments before and that investigation is in the early stages. there are questions and the possibility of more victims, as i said, at the crash site and that has not been ruled out at this point. over the next hour we ll hear from survivors and get the latest on the investigation and explore whether more safety is needed but first more on the devastation that occurred here last night. take a look. it was just before 9:30 on tuesday night before the amtrak train derailed, catapulting passengers and sending seven train cars and engineers off their tracks. notify amtrak to shut down the entire northeast corridor. amtrak 188 departed the 30th street station at about 9:10 bound for new york with 238 passengers and five crew on