the ntsb now has the black box. it has been sent to delaware and will be analyzed at amtrak head quarters to tell them things like speed, bumps in the track, throttle. when the brakes were used nbc is reporting that the train was going 100 miles per hour and mayor and other investigators would not respond to that at the press conference whether or not the train was going that fast and whether or not that was an appropriate speed for this turn in the road. now in terms of the manifest they do have a manifest but still trying to match up people who may be at the hospital who may have left the scene without telling anyone. maybe someone didn t even get on the train. mayor nutter spoke just about 15 minutes ago. here s what he had to say. the search is very very active, as we literally just leave the scene. there are significant number of personnel from the fire department, police providing security and amtrak personnel down on the tracks and now off
occurred what does that mean? well it s called access on amtrak and what it is it reads the speed of the train and it compares it to what the mandatory speed is and it will stop the train in the fact that the engineer is speeding. it was not on this track at this time. jim 71 years ago, some people have been comparing it to one of the worst train accidents in our nation s history, 1943 killed 79 people and injured 117. it just so happens that the crash last night was almost an exact place of this crash in 1943. it sounds like the track has not been updated much. has there been a concern that something like this might have happened? that s up to the ntsb to answer. one of the most wanted recommendation is positive train control and positive train control had it been in effect in this area it s now man damted
top of the initial 5 medic units i m going to need another five tore a total of ten medic units at this location. incident commander struck out the third we need an additional five medical units at this staging area. we have over 50 patients we still have multiple rescues to be made. still pulling out a lot of patients and the area on the tracks are still hot. you ve been listening to the philadelphia emergency radio transmission as the amtrak tragedy played out. the train version, a big black box, data recorder has been recovered from the scene of the derailment and noup the ntsb tries to determine what happened in moments before the train went off the track sending passengers flying through the cars. more than 200 people have been
well, the senate baseically needs to focus on it a little bit. this an authorization bill foran track. one of the things it does do it concentrates the money made in the northeast corridor. precisely where this accident happened and it takes the money made and leaves it there. that means the infrastructure upgrades that need to happen must happen along the corridor. there s an entire commission that put them together and they ll have more money to do that. this has been a priority for republicans for micah and bill shuster. i don t think there s any objection to this in the senate they need to focus on it a little bit. the committee that it sits in in the senate chaired by john thune who has other priorities he s working with on freight rail. but both he and the ranking democrat on the committee said today they want to move forward with their own amtrak bill. i think we ll see action it s just they haven t lawmakers have been worried about other issues.
upsidedown. the ntsb and federal railway administration are on the scene. we re looking at the track, the train signals and the operation of the train, mechanical condition of the train, human performance. we re setting up a multidisciplinary investigation to try and understand the factors that led to this accident. the derailment is impacting travel across the country and raising questionings today about the state of our nation s infrastructure, we ll dig into that as well as what the ntsb is looking for and more of those amazing stories of survival. in fact that s where we begin here in philly with msnbc s adam reiss. rmt tour e as you mentioned earlier, we re now at seven fatalities this is a parallel search and investigation. a search for people who might still be unaccounted for and the investigators are still combing this site.