these investigators are i going to try to keep the evidence in the areas where they need it especially at this point. it s a very critical point so soon after a crash like this to preserve the evidence where it is so that they can easily figure out what happened out here. right down here you see some workers out there with what looks like a camera taking pictures of one of the train cars and here s another thing i was mentioning one of the workers is going in and out of the cars and going underneath them just to make sure that there s no one still left in any of these cars. you have been listening to a local helicopter pilot trying to explain what is going on outside of philadelphia after a short while ago, a number 188 train,
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
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.
stations and she said she s a nurse and it was just chaos. there were people flying around there was luggage flying around. she was hit with a piece of baggage and she s a nurse and she felt like she had one of her lungs collapse. so in addition to these casualties that you have the five deaths there are going to be numerous injuries. we already know the federal railroad administration, the ntsb fbi, they are on their way to the scene. you can bet that they will be looking for the event reporters. those are the black boxes like you find on a train. this will give them information. how fast was the train going, did the brakes work when were they applied and so these are the things that they are going to look at as they try to determine what happened in this crash. we mentioned earlier there was a crash on sunday in new orleans, an amtrack train. so they are going to look into this and try to determine why
lot of people just sort of waiting to find out what was going on and where they were supposed to go. and it s the aftermath of what happened earlier. this is the staging area for relatives? no it s for people injured in the crash but don t need immediate care. putting together a manifest to find out exactly who was on this train, as you know, our viewers now know this is a train that is regional and makes many stops. people get on and off. correct. at this point in time we don t really know who was left on the train and how many and, therefore, not everybody is necessarily accounted for. people are still out there searching and hospitals are ready and you are in one of those staging areas that you say is quiet. correct. yeah. i think a lot of people there are people at hospitals now. these are just some of the people who are left behind and still waiting to coordinate i imagine.