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amtrak northeast regional train, departed philadelphia s 30th street station at 9:10 p.m., bound for new york city s penn station. the train consisted of one locomotive and seven passenger cars and according to amtrak there were 238 passengers and a crew of five for a total of 243 occupants of the train. at approximately 9:21 p.m. while traveling through a left-hand turn the entire train derailed. just moments before the derailment, the train was placed into engineer reduced braking,
some of the cars flipped on to their side and sliding across the ground. others just twisted sideways. people falling on top of each other. this happened last night. the first call to emergency came in at about 9:28 p.m. amtrak 188 had just left the east 30th street station in philadelphia ten minutes earlier. believed to be at or near full speed when it reached a curve in the tracks and things went horribly wrong. 238 passengers five crew on board scrambling and falling into each other as the cars buckled. some of the people were able to climb out of the train cars by themselves. others had to be rescued. some had to be cut out of the train cars. the death toll has risen to six now. one more person who was critical has died. there are more than 140 who were treated in all. we heard earlier from the chief medical officer at temple university hospital about this incident. you mentioned a lot of police officer and firefighters. those numbers are over 200
1-800-523-9101 if you have questions, if you have a loved one on the train or someone you were waiting for, for interested in trying to figure out exactly what happened. but don t flood the lines if you have no connecion to this train. but if you have a connection to this train, please call amtrak. they re asking you to call 1-800-523-9101. we got word shortly before the top of the hour that the mayor of philadelphia michael nutter would give a press conference to update these numbers. and we re still awaiting that press conference. but we also are getting official word from amtrak 238 passengers were on board this train, five crew members, and there were injuries there are injuries and those people are being transported and now being treated at the hospital. this is just moments ago from the scene. look. we were in the front seat and this huge red suitcase just came flying at me. the car train was actually on its side so sit pushed me on to
there were 238 passengers, five crew members on board the train when it derailed. in addition to the five people that were killed, at least 49 people have been hospitalized including six who were critically wounded. one passenger described what she experienced. listen. i saw so many head injuries and, you know, bloody faces, people were really injured. they were thrown out of their seats. there were a lot of fractures. arm shoulders, all kinds of issues. there was nothing i could do to help. i had nothing except to talk to the people and try to calm them down. sara sidner is live on the scene and she joins us. we heard from the mayor saying that at this point it is too