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great extent the manifest information with hospital personnel and our eoc, and then when people call the number that sam phyllis gave you they ll be able to get more information about their loved ones. we would expect since the train had already passed philadelphia and was a washington to new york bound train, many of those passengers are probably either washington, d.c. residents, new jersey residents or new york residents. obviously, some people may have gotten on the train at philadelphia, but given the time of the evening and the usual type of service for this type of train, most were potentially new york bound. i ve reached out to both mayor de blasio in new york city. we ve been in communication. and i also talked to mayor muriel bowser in washington d.c. both colleagues. both folks that i ve worked with.
temple and the area and a couple others. we ve received tremendous support from all of our agencies and departments, and obviously, and now introduce governor tom wolf is with us. we talked on the phone, i talked to him and his chief of staff. he s expressed tremendous support for us and more importantly, we ve received that support on the ground. governor? thank you. i really. here in support of the city of philadelphia and the mayor and really just to let him know and everybody here that anything the state can do to help, we stand ready to do that. the state police are here to help. but if there s anything, i think, you know that you can count on the commonwealth. absolutely. sam will give some final information. i ll come back. we ll talk about where we are this evening.
obviously, you know we re continuing our operations here. then we ll talk about tomorrow. sam? where are you? good evening. the most important thing right now is that the incident has been placed under control. so we re starting the family reunification process. we re working with amtrak our hospitals, all of our human services agencies. so, again, if the public is looking for someone, a loved one, start that process by calling amtrak s number. that s 1-800-523-9101. again, 1-800-523-9101. we re working out of the city s emergency operation center to match all of that information against what we have with hospital records, amtrak and manifest information and again call that number, and we ll start the process. hospital personnel are at our emergency operations center which is why that s the central coordinating place. so we re able to match to a
right here nearly split in half with a large section of the track mangled underneath. the train was traveling north from washington d.c. to new york city. how the ntsb has been activated and is investigating. here s what we re still trying to figure out even at this hour. first of all the cause of this. what caused this accident? officials are still not giving us any word as to what that is and they are not going to speculate for good reason but msnbc has spoken to many witnesses. and many report shabking before a stop. one person we spoke to was sitting in the back of the train, and he said suitcases hit passengers. when it all happened around 9:20 eastern time there was no light outside, it was dark outside. rescuers were initially using flashlights before asking helicopters to shine will lights bright enough to do the search. the death toll as it stands right now is five. it is still an active scene. and, as we went through the evening watching all of this play out watchin