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Route to new jersey. thank you very much. tell your mother we re thinking about her. give her our best. i will thank you for having me. let s take a look now. you heard the up close and personal about what happened 9:30 last night. we trying to find out the fate of the 238 on board. this is one of the busiest corridor line in america. 2,200 trains operating on the d.c. boston route per day. in 2015 it carried 11.6 million emergency on this line through amtrak. it s a ton of people that go this way each and every day. let s talk a little bit about how safe train travel is in this country. metro north here in the new york city area we told you about this. in the braungs four dead and 70 injured when a train crashed. remember the woman was stopped in the tracks. ....
Fox news alert now. we have breaking news. another confirmed death in the philadelphia train crash. six people dead. more than 140 injured after the seven amtrak train cars flew off the rails and broke into pieces. look. that s right. as the sun comes up we re getting a better look at the full scope of the devastation left behind. 238 passengers were on board train 188. there were five crew members when the train derailed in north philly. doctors say most of the injuries came from people flying around or luggage hitting them or other things. one man on board describes exactly what he saw. i got really lucky. ....
Looking to make sure they reached all victims of this crash. the investigative teams also waiting and ready to get going to try to find out exactly what happened in this crash. important at this hour we need to keep reiterating that at the moment not everyone is accounted for. the manifest from amtrak provided by amtrak and the list they have from hospitals and people who are injured, they don t necessarily match up. that s the latest information from the mayor. they are going through the tedious complex work of trying to make sure they reached everyone and they have everyone accounted for who is on that train. this is more of what we know at this hour. six people are confirmed dead. 200 people injured in this crash. there were 238 people onboard. five crew members onboard. those many people hospitalized. eight people in the hospital critical. this obviously was the train en route to new york city. this train crashing and derailing all of seven cars ....
Accident. the same token, it would have prevented the type of accident we are here to investigate. we think it s time to have it implemented. there was no positive train control outside of new york city in westchester when the train derailed going too quickly, is that right? that s exactly right. that was in the bronx. we have already made a determination that ptc would have prevented that accident. it s designed to prevent four things. one of the four things is prevent derailments due to overspeeding. that is what we are here looking at now. we are showing our viewers live pictures of the disaster area in philadelphia right now. it is horrendous. you pointed out earlier 238 passengers on those trains five members, five crew members, 243 people all together. as far as you know has everyone been accounted for? well i don t want to sound ....
It was carrying 238 passengers and five crew. seven cars and you can see them right now, seven cars in the train s engine overturned or crushed or torn apart by the force. the cause at this moment not yet known. however, officials say they do not believe there was any terrorism involved. cnn s renaye marsh live on the scene for us this morning, good morning, rene. reporter: good morning, john i can tell you all the survivors, they have been removed from the site so what this is right now is a recover operation. you can see this is still very much an active scene. you just saw a police van pull in through the barricade there, and through the distance you can see there s a fire truck. so it s still a very very active situation here. keep in mind this all happened around 9:30 last night. we did see a short time ago, the medical examiner s van leave. ....