And good evening from philadelphia. Where federal investigators late today revealed the amtrak train that derailed here overnight was, in fact going more than 100 Miles Per Hour at the time of the crash. The speed limit on that curve, just 50 Miles Per Hour. You can see the cranes up over my shoulder lifting up some of the debris from that train. And tonight, we take you to live pictures from abc 6 over the scene here in philadelphia. As we learn the engineer on the train has met with police and federal investigators, not saying much. He has an attorney. Overnight, the devastation from above. Rescuers using what little light they had to find passengers. This morning, we were here as the sun came up revealing the true scope of the devastation here. And these new images coming in right now from the scene, from federal investigators, right there on the tracks. Tonight, the death toll rising. Now seven dead. Another body recovered today. Among them a young son, a Naval Academy midshipman a
Police tonight still focusing on the familys car. What we have been telling you about for the past 24 hours. Police saying the family 2008 porsche that was taken from the home. They are focused on that. It has a tag dk2418. Police recovered that car last night on annapolis road in prince georges county. Police tonight are asking for more information on anyone who knew where the car has been. We are asking anyone who may have seen the car between wednesday of the 13th. And thursday around 5 00. Anyone who has seen the blue porsche between the time call us with the information you may have. We understand that the car was also set on fire. You heard from the police they are expanding their timeline asking for information now. Wednesday and thursday. We are learning more about the events leading up to this. We spoke to a housekeeper who also works inside the home and she received a text message on thursday to not come to work. I still want believe it. She was very nice family. She was so n
President obama who offered the full support of the white house when it comes to the recovery and rescue efforts still under way this very minute at the site where amtrak train 188 derailed last night. We also learned the trains black box has been recovered and sent to delaware for analysis. Heres what else we know. Amtrak train 188 from washington, d. C. To new york city derailed at 9 28 last night. 238 passengers and five crew members were on board. Six of those have been killed, including a midshipman from the Naval Academy. Dozens more were sent to the hospital. Taking a look now at the crash site, the train had just left the 30th street station when it crashed in the Port Richmond section of town coming around what appeared to be a very sharp curve. Now investigators from the National Transportation safety board have been at the site since 4 00 this morning trying to figure out what caused this derailment. We just learned they recovered the trains black box now being analyzed at a
Location and would know the identity of the trains engineer as the investigation is increasingly focus on the speed of the train in the moments before the deadly crash. Maximum authorized speed through this curve was 50 Miles Per Hour. When the engineer induced brake application applied, the train was traveling at approximately 106 Miles Per Hour. The ntsb is analyzing the black box and investigators say the forward facing camera may have clues about what caused this terrible crash. The trains engineer is identified. Brandon bassian and the ntsb says they will speak to him. Philadelphias mayor says the engineer was treated for injuries suffered in the crash and taken to a Police Station but he declined to make a statement before he left the station with a lawyer. This person has gone through a traumatic event and we want to give him an opportunity to convalesce before we interview him. Amtrak was in the process of installing positive train control, Automated Technology to slow down a s
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