they ll basically dispatch you to the hospital to the appropriate hospitals. this train was supposed to arrive in new york city at 10:44 this evening. this is regional 188 en route from washington, d.c. to new york city when it was involved in this derailment north of philadelphia. we have peter goelz on the line matthew l. wald mary schiavo, and bernie kerik all on the line with us. we re also being told by our justice correspondent, evan perez, that the fbi, the fbi is now involved and will send people to the scene here. as mary skooif pointed out, the national transportation safety board will send go teams from the area. the fbi is saying at this point, there is no indication at this point, that it has anything to do with terrorism. they have ruled that out. but now the fbi is involved national transportation safety board, of course involved as well. the nibfbi said their initial
the national transportation safety board, of course sending a team. but, again, matthew l. wald no doubt of every possible piece of equipment at the scene. and don, you know there s a different reason that the fbi is there, which is nationally and it may not be relevant here but nationally the fbi shows up to identify the dead. they re mortician specialists. and in this case there may not be any dead. there may not be any. there may be some people unconscious. you may not need the fbi to figure out who they are. they carry identification. at plane crashes, the fbi always shows up. but the reason is, they re the ones who check the dental records. if necessary, they ll do dna testing, and they ll figure out who s who. official word now from mary you said they would be sending a go team.
injuries. we don t know how many injuries we don t know if there are fatalities and we don t know the severity of it but we see that it is obvious, a severe event, but just how severe it is we don t know exactly, the magnitude of this. one can only imagine if you are simply looking at the wreckage as we are looking at this wreckage that it s bad. we ve good mary schiavo on the phone with us peter goelz on the phone with us, and matthew l. wald all versed with helping us with these particular accidents and situations here. i want to get back to matthew l. wald. as we look at the images that are coming in skus. got official word from amtrak that there are injuries and they have shut down rail service, this is a big deal. yeah. and actually, it probably means that local commuter rail is shut down also and will be for some