families information about their loved ones who may have been on that train and reunify them. after sam i ll hear from the two senators. i ll come back with closing information. as we ve been doing, try to give you opportunity for questions and answers for anything we can answer. good afternoon. as we ve been saying all day, we are in the process of reconciling several different collections of data points. working with our hospital system working with our ems transports trying to account for those who we would consider walking wounded, those able to walk off the scene last night. those who visited our friends and relatives center which is at 3400 frankford avenue, coordinating with the medical examiner s office as well. we made really good progress accounting for the majority of individuals. we still have folks we would like to hear from. if you know of somebody who left the scene last night and is
because i don t want to tell you things it s because i literally don t have the information. we are not going to speculate on anything. while the search is very active as we literally left the scene, there are significant number of personnel from the fire department, the police providing security amtrak personnel on the tracks and now off the tracks because most of the train is actually off the tracks. we will not cease our efforts until we are absolutely sure that we ve gone through every vehicle. the search area has been expanded. there was expanded search area last night, also with canine dogs because it was dark. that search expanded this
korea, we have very little intelligence very little information about this regime. it s called the hermit kingdom for a reason. if these reports are true it indicates a couple of things. first of all, there could be some political chaos, upheaval within the regime and he is trying to consolidate power. send a shot across to anybody who might think about challenging him for power. the other thing is most of the global news has been concentrated on the iranian nuclear talks as on russia and vladimir putin s aggression. it could be now he is jealous, not the center of global attention. about a week ago he did a missile test. it got very limited attention in the west. now he is probably saying look i m still here. one of the way to try to get global attention is executing a member of his cabinet. unbelievable. we have so much breaking news. thank you for your analysis. the execution of north
confirmed of about 240, i think i said in previous pressers 243 total individuals we believe were on the train. we are still comparing train manifest and hospital records and matching up individually pieces of information we can glean. people buy tickets and don t get on a train. some amtrak personnel trying to get from one place to another may not have had a ticket or have been identified as being on this particular train. i am not going to get into the mathematical calculations of how many folks and how many did you transport. you are making progress? the answer to that, yes. [ question inaudible ] i have no information about that.
i need to correct something i said earlier. you often think of the conductor as the person in charge of the train or possibly driving it. that s incorrect on my part. it s the engineer. there is an engineer who actually drives the train and the conductor deals with issues of ticketing and customers, et cetera et cetera. i was incorrect earlier when i gave information about the conductor when i actually was talking about the engineer. the engineer was injured, received medical care. was then interviewed by the philadelphia police department. and made whatever statement he may have made. i do not know what his statement is. i m not in position to talk about that. that s the normal protocol process and procedure. a statement was given.