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Philadelphia five people five people killed. officials say another 53 hospitalized. there are six people six of those passengers right now in critical condition. amtrak northeast regional number 188 from washington, d.c. to new york crashed around 9:30 last night, derailed around 9:30 last night, carrying 238 passengers and 5 crew. seven cars and the train s engine overturned crushed and torn apart by the force. the pictures really really spell out the devastation there. now, the cause not yet known. this is how the city s mayor and fire chief described the scene. we do not know what happened here. we do not know why this happened. there is no information about that. we re not going to speculate about it. i ve never seen anything so devastating devastating. they re clearly in bad shape. you can see they completely completely derailed from the truck. ....
Last evening amtrak 188, an amtrak northeast regional train, departed philadelphia s 30th street station at 9:10 p.m. bound for new york city penn station. the train consisted of one locomotive and seven passenger cars. and according to amtrak there were 238 passengers and a crew of five for a total of 243 occupants of the train. at approximately 9:21 p.m. while traveling through a left-hand turn the entire train derailed. just moments before the derailment the train was placed ....
So it s you know it s a lot of people. and that picture that you have on the screen right now, you can tell this is the current picture, you can tell they re focusing on those two cars right there so i would expect since now the lights have moved into that area that they have cleared some cars and they re still working on those two. so it s possible that the mayor will have, when he speaks will have a really good count, because if we can judge anything by the number of flashlights, they really are on those two cars. mary i can tell you now, exactly, official word coming from amtrak that there are 238 passengers onboard this train, five crew members. that s a lot of people. it is. absolutely. so it was pretty full for ten cars that s a lot of people. so full of folks and like i said in the picture now, you can see, it looks like they re still trying to extricate people from those two cars the ones they re focused on right now, that are on the screen. ....
Is active and that the mayor pointed out they expanded the area. we do know the event recorders also known as black boxes, they are in the hands of analysts back in wilmington delaware. he said that the engineer that s who drives the actual train was injured, received medical care and was interviewed. one thing he would not get into the specifics about was the number of unaccounted for. but we do know this train was carrying 238 passengers and five crew members. so with the mayor talking about the confirmed deaths plus 200 plus transported and treated, there is still a fine line of trying to figure out who s unaccounted for and amtrak is putting out a 1-800 number talking about the walking wounded. tom costello has been covering this story. he has been above it in the air, seeing this as an eyewitness himself and tom, the mayor said ....
Smoke and they were trying to get us out of there. i could see the blood on thes faces. they couldn t move. guarantees were out. it is an absolute disaster mess. never seen anything like this. joel waldman live on the ground from philadelphia. as you mentioned, six did, eight critically injured but officials are staying quiet about whether any of the 238 passengers are unaccounted for but clearly they are taking no chances. look at what is going on out here. amtrak brought in heavy machinery to scoured the crash scene. philadelphia mayor michael nutter as you mentioned said the conductor was injured and treated but he is getting information to police. the mayor talked about how the black box was recovered. ....