minutes so you can help get yourself out of where you are. thank you for helping us understand. thank you. thanks patrick murphy former congressman, remarkably from the area in which the train crash happened tonight, that remarkable anecdote that he just told in terms of having the first fire captain arrive. congressman murphy helping us to understand what is happening tonight. we re going to stay on this in terms of the basics what we know is 243 people were on board this train. you can see how mangled the train cars are. five amtrack crew among those 243 were told by philadelphia mayor michael nutter that there are at least five fatalities tonight. we re told there are six critical injuries. somewhere between 43 and 53
an amtrack ticket they will honor it and get you from penn station or metro park up and down the line that they can get you to. they will help you out. all right. this is the first car. you can see that the track is clearly bent mangled, actually. the front of the train, which you can t really see because it s so dark as we have been mentioning, light is a true issue out there tonight. there is not a lot of light around it. they have set up some floodlights. they are asking police helicopters and otherwise to shed lights on this. as you can see sort of at the head of this train, it is just mangled and you can see the damage to the tracks and you can also see that this one car and there are about seven or eight that derailed there are no
the major causes as well. we have a curve and until they get the event recorder analyzed we will not know what the speed of the train was. underlying all of this is fatigue. this has been a major concern for congress the ntsb and certainly the workers. they are not able to get sufficient rest throughout their workweek. those are the meajajor areas that i think will looked upon by ntsb and will probably know by tomorrow whether there was a track defect or a wheel failure. that is something they will be able to determine almost immediately. all right. larry mann thank you very much.
i want to show everybody a picture. there is a train that is literally bent in half. see, you that brings to my attention a study conducted by the railroad association as a result of a side collision with a truck out in arizona, as i recall. and the study demonstrated that the side impacts on amtrack cars shows that it cannot withstand any kind of direct impact. so what we have here is from being looking at your tv screen another car must have struck the side of this car or that s the only explanation i can think
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,