130 million, that was promised to rebuild it and in afghanistan how men and women turned to dance to defy the regime he is 32 years old, lives in queens new york and may hold the answer to why the amtrak train he was operating derailed on tuesday in philadelphia. The engineer says he cant remember what happened that night. Others, of course, will never forget. Lisa stark is in washington with the latest. We heard from the n. T. S. B. And they said they have new information on the train and what happened in the minute before the derailment. It turns out that minute the train was actually speeding up, accelerating as it was approaching the curve, instead of lowering its speed to the 50 Miles Per Hour for that curve. The question is why. Investigators hope to find answers to that when they interview the engineer. Meantime amtrak insists that new safety measure for this part of the rail are on track. Shortly after the last body was pulled from the mangled first car of the train amtrak c c.
See the sun today for the rescue workers though were looking at blustery winds building through the rest of the day and ill have more on that possible effect on the recovery and investigative efforts in Port Richmond coming up. Karen. The Train Derailment causing a big impact on your morning commute. Im going to have the very latest on the roads and the rails coming up. And right now when you go to the scene hundreds of fire and Police Officials are swarming that area of the amtrak derailment right now and then theyre going to be joined by federal officials later this morning. All getting going trying to answer the question what happened here around 9 30 last night there heres what we know so far. At least five people are dead. 65 passengers were taken to numerous hospitals in philadelphia. Six of the patients are in critical condition. Now the train involved is train 188. It was headed from washington d. C. Up to new york city and then it derailed in the Port Richmond section of phila
And good morning, america. Lets get right to that breaking news. Take a look at the devastation this morning. There it is right there in philadelphia. The train was headed from washington to new york. Busiest line in america just around 9 30 last night, five miles out of philadelphia. All seven cars including the engine came off the track, three of the cars, you see one right there toppled on their side, one nearly upside down on its roof. 243 were on board including 5 crew members. About 200 have been taken to the hospital. Hundreds of Emergency Responders on the scene right now. Firefighters, Police Officers and federal investigators including the fbi. Amtrak service between new york and philadelphia is shut down this morning. We have full team coverage. World news tonight anchor david muir starts us off from the scene. David. Reporter robin and george, good morning. An incredible scene of destruction here in the overnight hours. You can see behind me the fire crew, the rescue crews
And good morning, america. Lets get right to that breaking news. Take a look at the devastation this morning. There it is right there in philadelphia. The train was headed from washington to new york. America just around 9 30 last night, five miles out of philadelphia. All seven cars including the engine came off the track, three of the cars you see one right there toppled on their side one nearly upside down on its roof. 243 were on board including 5 crew members. About 200 have been taken to the hospital. Hundreds of Emergency Responders on the scene right now. Firefighters Police Officers and federal investigators including the fbi. Amtrak service between new york and philadelphia is shut down this morning. We have full team coverage. World news tonight anchor david muir starts us off from the scene. David. Reporter robin and george good morning. An incredible scene of destruction here in the overnight hours. You can see behind me the fire crew the rescue crews still here on the sce
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