You know all types of injuries shaking up shaken up and bloody faces like walk dead. Reporter a neighbor describes the scene last night. This is today, you are looking at rid wrote ntsb just released giving us a firsthand view of what investigators are seeing more than 20 hours after amtrak train 188 careen odd off the track apps plunged into darkness and chaos. This happened and came out of nowhere and where i was sitting it felt like the train was lifted off. Reporter the bump on jeff cutlers of brooklyn new yorks head is where he bounced around hes sat in the second car. The ntsb is down loading info from the event recorders. They are like black boxes. The hope is they will tell investigators anything they can about amtrak train 188 as it rounded the sharp curve where it jumped the tracks tournament turning a simple commute into play kate complicated chaos in seconds. The speed limit is 50 miles an hour. Thats from the federal Railroad Administration and tonight the ntsb is sail pre
The event recorders. They are like black boxes the hope is they will tell investigators anything they can about amtrak train 188 as it round the sharp curve where itup ped the tracks. Turning a commute into jumped the tracks turning a simple commute into playcations. The speed limit is 50mileper hour from the federal Railroad Administration and tonight the ntsb is saying preliminarily, that the train was going faster than 100 miles an hour when it rounded the curve. And thats more than twice the speed limit. This thing happened and came out of nowhere and where i was sitting, it felt like the train one was lifted off. Reporter the bump on jeffs head is from where he bounded around as he sat in the second car. I heard a thud and thats all i remember. Reporter the ntsb says a video camera in the trains front end could shed light. We have suffered a tragedy here in our city. Reporter absolute lay tragedy at this point. The tragedy still unfolding as we speak. Certainly that search is goin
As the sun goes down and perhaps well into the late night hours as this investigation is intense. It will go on for some time now. N. T. S. B. Officials earlier described conclusions as preliminary. They are described as robust. Heres what we know so far. N. T. S. B. Says that train, number 188, from washington, d. C. Union station was going 106 Miles Per Hour when it hit the curve last night. A curve rated only for 50 Miles Per Hour. As of now another body was recovered from the train today. That brings the death toll to seven. Eight people are still in Critical Condition from that accident. They are in philadelphia hospitals. The n. T. S. B. Says action tram train 188 was traveling in excess of 100 Miles Per Hour when it entered the curve where it derailed. Maximum authorized speed through the curve was 50 Miles Per Hour. When the engineer induced brake application was implied, the train was traveling at 106 Miles Per Hour. Reporter the trains black box has been found and is being se
Area hospitals and half have been released and northeast number 188 had more than 200 people on board and many of these people took the train from d. C. To new york and over the next hour ill speak with survivors and people who made it out of the wreckage and trying to help others and still shaken up and looking to make it out of a clearly chaotic scene. Take a look at video inside of the train that one passenger took. Cmon man. I got you. Shes crawling. Crawl forward, sir. In a moment well hear from the governor and the mayor of philadelphia who said the city of brotherly love is heartbroken and has not experienced anything like this in modern time. But first drew griffin is here with me about the investigation. We have learning about the engineer. At least who he is and this is a person that can answer questions as to why this train was going 106 Miles Per Hour in a 50 mileperhour zone. Hes been with amtrak about 9 years and the last 4. 5 as an engineer and he has some engineer exper
Alisyn good morning, everybody. Thanks so much for joining us bright and early on this very Important News weekend. So much is happening now that investigators have left syria, anything could happen at any moment. Lets get to a fox news alert and the latest on syria for you. The u. N. Team investigating the chemical attack has left the country as the Obama Administration the syria carried out a chemical attack. Elizabeth prann is live for us in washington. Completed four day investigation. The team collecting and carrying various samples for lab analysis to determine if chemical weapons were used to kill Syrian People this while secretary of state john kerry made it clear yesterday u. S. Officials already have the answer to that question and there will be action against the rogue regime after telling the American Public the administration has classified intelligence which is both clear and compelling and shows the Regime Forces are behind the latest chemical attack which is said to hav