Accident. Theres also new information from the lawyer of the amtrak engineer being investigated. He was at the controls tuesday night. Also theres no Amtrak Service between philadelphia and new york again today. We have live nbc10 team coverage. Were gathering new information in the investigation and new information on those killed. The search for the missing, were still at least one person missing in all of this. Were also looking again at how this is impacting a lot of commuters in the area. Lets start into the investigation into the derailment. Federal investigators are already poring over data taken from that train downloaded on the trains computer. Right. Theyre trying to gather enough information to find out exactly why the train jumped the tracks. Nbc10s matt delucia is live in Port Richmond. Youve gotten a better view. Explain where you are. Reporter chris and tracy, we moved on a rooftop so we have a Better Vantage Point of the scene. You can see from this height level, you ca
There, you might be able to see some of the workers there with a train at one of the railcars involved in the derailment tuesday night. The investigation has been under way for a full day. The ntsb is looking at the socalled black box of the train in an attempt to find out exactly what was going on leading up to the derailment. What we know from the investigation at this point, the amtrak train was going 106 Miles Per Hour according to the ntsb. Then an emergency brake was pulled. And then there was a crash after it came around the curve here at the frankford junction. The speed limit around that curve is 50 Miles Per Hour. The train was going more than twice that speed at the time of the crash. The engineer is 32yearold brandon bostian. Detectives have interviewed him, they took his cell phone, as well as a blood sample. However, the ntsb has said it has not yet done an interview with bostian, but they want to do that sooner rather than later. Also investigators are going to be lookin
Murphy. Reporter we have winds coming from the direction that would get us colder. The cloud cover that did pop up yesterday afternoon, off the maps now as High Pressure builds in. We have bright sunshine over the horizon. 50 degrees currently in philadelphia. Most suburbs in the 40s at this point. Allentown at 42. We as we take a look at the strap Storm Tracker 6 live app, 54. Noon 66 degrees, 73 degrees around 3 30 or 4 00 p. M. Before sliding back to 7. Low humidity and lighter wind and nice conditions this afternoon. Pollen count medium high, not as bad as earlier in the week. Looks like it stay in the same ballpark straight through under. Karen rogers what are the roads looking like this morning . Reporter we have a headon collision, four people injured northeast philadelphia. A serious accident that is shutting down welsh road blocked between alburger avenue and alton road. You can see the demolished vehicles and get a sense of how serious the accident is. Avoid the area in north
Investigators arrive back here at the scene. Im going to step out of the way. Just over here we have Philadelphia Police and emergency workers still out in the distance. At this point, they are making an effort to get those railcars out of the way and get them to wilmington where they will be processed for this investigation. They will be examined quite thoroughly. Meanwhile, the ntsb is also looking at the black box of the train. The event recorder. Finding out what was going on leading up to the derailment. What we know from the investigation so far is that this amtrak train was going 106 Miles Per Hour. Then an emergency brake was pulled. And then the crash after it came around the cub here at the frankford junction. The speed limit around that curve is 50 Miles Per Hour. The engineer of the train we learned is 32yearold Brandon Bostian from new york. The ntsb said its investigators want to talk with this guy. They tell us the event recorder will be very critical to the investigatio
Stealing more than 400,000 from suspects. They also planted evidence. Jurors had been deliberating for days. As soon as we know the verdict well bring it to you. An industrial train derailed within the last 30 minutes. It derailed near the hot metal bridge. Pittsburgh is about five hours northwest of the philadelphia area. Investigators say several cars are overturned. They say the cars are empty. Were looking at the cars now. Officials believe no one is injured. Well continue to follow this, monitor it and bring you any new information as we get it. Back to the deadly Train Derailment in our area. This is where it happened tuesday night along amtraks busy northeast corridor. Investigators will likely be closely examining Surveillance Video showing the seconds before and after the amtrak train derailed. The picture is very grainy but you can see the train as it approaches the curve tuesday night. The train speeds by and seconds later bright flashes right there light up the sky. We have