scalise is being treated. hans, i know one of your basketball buddies was one of those injured, matt mika. reporter: for all the talk of partisanship, it s actually a community. matt mika was a basketball player, now he s a lobbyist. and there s been a community around talking about prayers and hopes of cross party lines because he has been hit four to five times, including chest wounds. he could be in bad shape. one of his friends said he was in critical condition. another said stable. so there s uncertainty on what sort of shape he s in. but four to five shots does not give you an indication that h s he s there is a sense here, and you look at what both nancy pelosi said, as well as what speaker paul ryan said. it seems to me that all parties are trying to all sides are trying to use this as a unifying moment. as a moment to get past some of
who have been in critical condition since tuesday have been downgraded. this leaves six patients in critical condition suffering from major chest wounds punctured lungs and broken ribs. citywide there are 30 passengers remaining in the six hospitals. we are hearing the confirmation of lives lost. eight people have been killed. seven people identified. among them italian national who was visiting the united states on business. 47-year-old laura finimore and bob gildersleeve his body was found at the crash site discovered by cadaver dogs. this leads to an ongoing fight over rail service. president obama says we need to
traffic? absolutely. there were triage unit at the crash site that directed patients to each of five area hospitals, including temple area hospitals, which is a level one trauma unit. so they got the largest overall number of patients. so essentially, triage units that were on-site at the crash decided where people should go based on the expertise of the various hospitals and based on the severity of the injuries. so dr. herbert cushing said here earlier, somewhat luck of the draw, somewhat based on what hospitals were capable of doing in the moment. some of the most severe cases did come here, including one of the fatalities, the 49-year-old gentleman from new jersey who unfortunately did pass away of a massive chest wound. what dr. cushing was saying was they did see a lot of chest wounds. most of the what they saw was
did come here including one of the fatalities the 49-year-old gentleman from new jersey who unfortunately did pass away of a massive chest wound. what dr. curbing was saying was they did see a lot of chest wounds. most of the what they saw was what you would see in a high speed car crash. attention is being turned to the engineer s cell phone because in incidents like a car crash, you look at things like was the person paying attention to a phone. the injuries that we re seeing here were akin to a high speed crash. one other interesting note that dr. cushing made earlier was that what they also saw when people came here to temple were a lot of john and jane does. as you can imagine, in the moment, people weren t having time to grb their bag, their purse, their identification. a lot of people came here without i.d. without being able
thanks for that update. joining me now is msnbc s national correspondent joy reid, who is at temple university hospital. what can you tell us about the injuries and those in the hospital at present? i can tell you, it was just a press conference here earlier in which they talked about the eight people still in critical care. they also talked about one of the patients that they treated who unfortunately did not survive. his name was james marshall gaines, a 48-year-old father of two, survived by a wife of two children, age 16 and 11. he was a software architect for the associated press, who we understand was likely sitting in the quiet car, which is typically the second car back in the train. and the understanding we have here is that people who were sitting further forward in the train seemed to have suffered the greater number of injuries. james marshall gaines suffered massive chest wounds and did die