Suitcase just ceag flying at me. Reporter this came flying at me. Reporter this passenger described the horrific scene after their amtrak train violently veered off the tracks. A lot of people were in shock. They couldnt believe what was happening. Crawl forward, sir. Reporter cell phone video captured rescuers trying to rescue people from trapped. Train 188 from d. C. Heading to new york derailed around 9 30 last night in philadelphia. 238 passengers and 5 crew members were on board. Its an absolute disastrous mess. Never seen anything like this in my life. Reporter philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter and emergency officials briefed reporters overnight as First Responders flashlights pierced the darkness looking for any signs of life. The amtrak northeast corridor, a train has rolled over. Reporter the federal Railroad Administration says an engine and all seven cars derailed in the accident. More than 300 firefighters, police and other Emergency Personnel responded to the mass casualty
Leaning to one side here. Several power lines have been pulled down as well. The Fire Department amtrak they set up lights here so they can continue their work with the benefit of some artificial light. You can see as we understand it all seven of the rail cars and the engine went off the track here about 9 30 has night as the train pulled out of the philadelphia station. 238 passengers on board. Five crew members as well. This was an amtrak northeast regional train. Number 188. That left from d. C. About 7 00 or so. As the accident happened here and First Responders started to arrive on the scene, we saw a total of 120 firefighters here at one point. Some 200 police officers. And at this point we understand 140 of those passengers and possibly crew members as well were taken to area hospitals. Every hospital in this area we know was put on high alert. They brought in extra staff to deal with injuries, there were head injuries, other injuries to different peoples bodies. We havent hear
Eun . Aaron gilchrist live in philadelphia for us thank you. Well check in with you throughout the newscast. Now lets turn our attention to the weather. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein, we can feel it already. You can see it in the storm team 4 tower cam with the sunrise occurring as we speak. The clouds cruising through. These kind of look like spring clouds coming in. Unlike yesterdays summaryery clouds floating over us. 50s northern and western suburbs. And Reagan National now is at 65. And Going Forward here each hour through the morning, temperatures by 7 00 much of the region will be down into the 50s. And right in washington not changing much. Well be in the low 60s by 8 00. Still hovering up near 60 by 8 00 a. M. Then up around 60 degrees much top region, not much of a warming throughout the rest of the morning. Then by 11 00 much of the 60s. Next weather and traffic on the 1s, amelia with your weather what to wear forecast. Now melissa with the commute. Looking at this
Newtown that left 20 children and six adults dead. Reporter four days after this shooting the school and shooters home remain a crime scene. Police say they have recovered a significant amount of everybody from both locations that could help them piece together a motive. Police are also now confirming that there was actually a second victim who survived that shooting and is recovering. L police saying if not for the First Responders, this shooting could have been so much worse. I can tell you that the faculty and staff in that school did everything that they possibly could to protect those children. I can tell you that the First Responders that got to that sceneh shooter team, entered that school and saved many human lives. I can tell you it broke our hearts when we couldnt save them all. Reporter later this afternoon the first two funerals for those victims who did in the survive will be held. The first is for noah pozner. Also jack pinto, a 6yearold who was a big new york giants fan.
Courthouse with an update. Tracee . Reporter if you look behind me you can see they have the command buildings out right now. But employees for the ward wing will not be going back into work today. Let me show you what it looked like earlier. Were talking about 500 people evacuated from that wing of the courthouse. They did this as a safety precaution. Now, they had several dozen folks, about 45 people to 50 who were checked out and some trucks they had set up out here to just make sure people were okay. They set up a triage unit and tested all of these individuals, people who work within the courthouse, and everyone tested just fine. No one was transported to the hospital. This is the crazy thing. Starting at 8 00 a. M. This morning, employees were complaining about coughing. Feeling nauseated, some dizziness and a strange smell in the courthouse that smelled like something was burning. They were evacuated shortly after 1 00 p. M. And a lot of employees who i talked to told me that th