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With matt lauer live from philadelphia and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a. And good morning. Welcome to a special splitedition of today on this wednesday morning. Its 7 00 on the west coast. Its 10 00 here in the Port Richmond area of philadelphia. And as the sun comes up, matt, you are seeing such an awful scene there. Philadelphias mayors going to take part in a News Conference at any moment, including other officials as well, but i think he really put it best overnight. He walked the length of those trains. He saw the scene, and he said it was an absolute disastrous mess, the worst thing he had seen in his life. Thats right. Its a pretty accurate description. That News Conference, by the way, will happen just feet from where im standing. Meanwhile, look over my shoulder. About 150 yards down that road, thats where this all took place. Also, we can take you above. Well go to a live look from our philly stations helicopter, and you can see just what the damage is, the tangled me
Philadelphia and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a. And good morning and welcome to a special split edition of today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer in the Port Richmond area of philadelphia. And what a scene behind you. I think phillys mayor said it best. He seemed visibly shaken by what he saw walking the length of the train saying it was an absolute disaster. Like something hes never seen before. Its a good description. It happened just down the road behind me about 150 yards down there. If you look closely, fire engines, First Responders still on the scene. As we come on the air this morning, weve now been told six confirmed dead from this accident. Lets go up above and take a look from our chopper. This morning you can see the tangled mess of cars tracks power lines. One car nearly flipped over another ended up almost perpendicular to the other cars and to the tracks. Amtrak train 188 derailed in the area behind me about 9 28 last night. One passenger said there was a ver
There are revelations we are waiting for a briefing from the ntsb and the biggest revelation today occurred 90 minutes ago with the information from the ntsb that the train was traveling in excess of 100 Miles Per Hour through a significant curve. At a News Conference scheduled to start shortly, the head of the ntsb says the train was traveling at more than 100 Miles Per Hour, that is more than twice the posted limit for the curve where the train jumped the tracks, today they discovered an additional victim bringing the death toll to seven. The city continues to struggling for the 240 plus that were suppose to be on the train at the time of the crash. We are still waiting to hear from folks someone that left the scene and who is doing well have them call to the amtrak 1800number that is 18005239101. Again, 18005239101. Back live now we are waiting for the ntsb News Conference to begin. It looks like it will shortly. Back to you all. Thank you john. The trains engineer and his attorney
The train speeding by and seconds later, the bright flashes lighting up a sky. And then from another angle, you can see what looks like an explosion. Taking a closer look at the sight of last nights deadly derailment, this section of amtraks northeast corridor runs through philadelphias Port Richmond neighborhood. Nbc 10s jacqueline london once again, live for us jacqueline. Whats the latest there . Youre awaiting a briefing, right . Reporter we are awaiting a News Conference expected to start shortly at any minute now. The ntsb says the confirmation that the train was going in excess of 100 Miles Per Hour comes as there is a very very active search for answers. We can show you where we are down this road. It is entirely blocked as the investigation continues. They are trying to get further answers about the contributing cause to this wreck. If there is anything other than speed or thats the sole contributing factor. That discovery of the box just as officials started that tedious job