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
Urgency here because the busiest route of the country the the northeast corridor cannot get back on line until they finish this work in the Port Richmond section of philadelphia. Wednesday night, the the big story on action news tonight is the latest on americas deadliest train action in almost seven years. And tonight, one of the Big Questions surrounds this man he is Brandon Bostian, of queens, new york. Identified by his lawyer as the engineer, who was at the the controls of the train last night. The ntsb says his train was moving at 106 miles an hour, with a limit was 50. And the words of the mayor Michael Nutter today clearly the engineer was reckless . What was going on in the cab. There is no excuse that could be offered. The death toll now stand at seven, 200 people were treated at a total of ten hospitals. And at least ten people are still in critical condition. Standing by with the latest on all of this our action News Reporter Sharrie Williams Monica Malpass Kenneth Moton an
There, this is quite the undertaking. Reporter yeah and it is still busy right now. Were perched up on top of a roof to give you a good idea whats happening right now. There are workers gathered at the end of the street. The tracks are just beyond that. If we pan over, see a crane up on top of the Railroad Tracks and its been moving around trying to pick up those rail cars and while a lot of those rail cars and debris are gone the workers and broken up tracks remain. Amtrak hopes full Passenger Service will resume tuesday between philadelphia and new york, but there is a lot of work to do. We know that we have a team here that worked together to help us. Reporter today investigators used 3d laser scanners on the wreckage to help paint a better picture of what happened here. It takes several hours per rail car to complete. Our investigators have a lot of experience dealing with this. Each accident is unique. Reporter 11 million riders pass through the northeast corridor of track each ye
Justin zemser was remembered for his spirit and courage. Members of the academy gathered with friends and family on long island to say goodbye. He was coming home on leave when he died in the derailment. Also among the eight dead a wells fargo executive returning from a funeral, a wine and oil merchant from italy took the train after missing his flight. As well as an Associated Press Video Software architect from new jersey. He was coming back from the nations capital. Happening right now, working around the clock on the railroad. We saw an army of Railroad Workers laying down new track, signal, wire other equipment needed to get the trains up and running again. Nbc10s drew smith is live in Port Richmond. I understand amtraks time line may be changing a bit. Reporter we just got an update from a spokesman saying its hard to know a firm time when things will start to get going again. Electrical workers are working hard. Theres just lot of work to do. Four electric pole new wire 22 new t
And so far everything has come up negative. Twelve employees are being treated on the scene the the mayor says that they are all stable and they are doing okay. No one was taken to the hospital but as a precaution they have called in a new Jersey State Police hazmat unit, to bring in additional and more sensitive meters to check for anything in the air because so far they cannot find out what is causing this sweet, strong, odor. The right now lets listen to a little bit of the mayor kelly yeaty. Currently we have 12 employees being treated on the scene. There are in stable condition and, they are being treated at on the the scene as we speak, as a precautionary measures the the state hazmat team has been called, with additional meters, and to detect any a additional possible gas. Reporter now officials are saying that they have gotten a lot of calls, people are worried about dealing with their male, because remember, this was a site of the anthrax scare years ago. But officials tell us