what they are seeing. a lot of lights have been brought in. when we first got to this scene, we saw passengers about deep bruises, with cuts broken arms and legs countless stretchers and ambulances. here s what some of the passengers we talked to said about the moment of impact when the train derailed. we are listening to local coverage in philadelphia about the amtrack crash that happened just a couple of hours ago. the local northeast regional train number 188 on its way from washington, d.c., to new york city derailed just outside of philadelphia after stopping at the philly main station. it was on its way to new york city s penn station and then onward and upward. the northeast corridor is now shut down to the thousands and thousands of passengers that use amtrack. we were told 238 passengers and 5 crew member were on board at
well they pushed us back from the scene. so we can t really show you live from this location what it lookslikelook like right now. investigators have been there throughout the night and are there this morning trying to piece things together and get through the cars and figure out what went wrong. you mentioned the curve. we ll hear a lot about that curve. that s where this accident occurred somewhere in the curve. it s described as a long curve. the train was at or near full speed. the question is whether it was going too fast to handle that stretch of track. seven cars went off the tracks and there were 238 people on board and five crew members. mass casualties, five killed 6 critically injured. mayor michael nutter was here last night. took a closer look at the scene and spoke to reporters right after. we have train cars that are
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we can now say that it is estimated that seven people may have died in this accident. we understand that there are patients in every single hospital in philadelphia. this is amtrack train 188 that was on its way about three hours ago from washington, d.c., to new york s penn station. it was just outside of philadelphia. for reasons unknown, it left the tracks. you are looking at the aftermath with ambulances. it was a huge response. but it was a response in the dark earlier. when we first saw this we were trying to make out what had happened and you could barely see a thing. the first light we saw on the scene were the flashlights of all of the emergency responders. we are told that this has been called a level 3 mass casualty incident which means about 33 agencies responded to this. we do know that about 238 people were on board this train. we don t know that for sure because they were trying to put
carrying 238 people and crashed and derailed. adam reece is joining us. as we were trying to make sense what was happening out there, there was no light at all. all we could see was the flashlights of the flood of the emergency responders out there. tell us what you know. reporter: i want to add to what we were hearing from the chopper pilot. right after the crash, you could tell that they were hampered by the fact that there was no light. there was literally over 200 police and fire responders on the scene, all of them using their flashlight. this is an area of philadelphia called port richmond. it s an area mostly townhouse and this is on the delaware river so there s no lights to assist them.