control you may need. as we continue to follow developments in the wake of the deadly amtrak crash in philadelphia also developing right now president obama just welcomed saudi arabia s crown prince and deputy crown prince to the white house accord of the persian gulf security state summit. he ll host that beginning later today. meanwhile, the white house is reacting to a stinging rebuke from senate democrats who yesterday blocked trade legislation pushed by the president with just one democrat, tom carper of delaware siding with the president. nbc news senior white house correspondent chris jansing joins us live now. what s been reaction today from the white house and yesterday? reporter: this isn t over yet is what white house officials are saying. it really started last night after the vote which was clearly a stinging defeat for this
cranes have now been brought in as authorities try to determine if anymore people are under that wreckage. we know at least six people were killed and more than 200 people were treated at local hospitals. officials say 243 people were onboard the train headed from washington to new york. ntsb investigators on the scene now and the train s data recorders or black boxes as we know them have been recovered. joining us now from a helicopter over the scene, nbc s tom costello. from your vantage point, what can you tell us regarding reporter: yeah, good day, we are 2,000 feet above this train wreck, and it is awful to see it from this altitude. you get a real sense of how terrible and how fast this event occurred with the trains literally twisted and broken and lying on their sides. we ve got major cranes big cranes coming in today. they are going to lift up the trains and they are going to be trying to look for anymore victims. they want to do a full accounting of everybody who s on tha
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happened in an instant. what they want to try and figure out is was there anything that might have led up to this that they might be able to use as they try to piece together what happened here and also try to prevent this from happening again. we talked to people who were on this train, including one of our own nbc news producers, janelle richards who told me that it was a very normal train ride until suddenly it wasn t and she found herself being thrown out of her seat and trying to find a way out of that train. i talked to former congressman patrick murphy who said pretty much the same thing, he had taken that train because he wanted to get home to see his two young children so he could wish them a good night and luckily he was able to do that. he will join us a little bit later, as well as one of the images that he took from the cafe car, the area where many people stop to eat and kind of hang out on the train, his picture was on the front page of the new york times.
earthquake victims. it s now about 9:30 p.m. in nepal and the search is suspended for the night. so is the search for victims after the second major earthquake in three weeks causing new building collapses and landslides. we get more now on the search for those marines from nbc s katy tur who s in nepal. reporter: the search has resumed this morning for the missing huey helicopter like this one carrying six marines and two nepalese soldiers. the chopper suddenly lost radio contact yesterday while dropping supplies and evacuating earthquake victims in a remote village. there had reportedly been brief radio chatter from the helicopter about a fuel problem, but then total silence. the rugged terrain makes rescue efforts difficult, putting search crews at risk. the missing marines are part of 300 u.s. military personnel who began arriving just after the first earthquake on april 25th. this latest quake forces thousands once again to spend the night out in the open as dozens of aftershock