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Minutes so you can help get yourself out of where you are. thank you for helping us understand. thank you. thanks patrick murphy former congressman, remarkably from the area in which the train crash happened tonight, that remarkable anecdote that he just told in terms of having the first fire captain arrive. congressman murphy helping us to understand what is happening tonight. we re going to stay on this in terms of the basics what we know is 243 people were on board this train. you can see how mangled the train cars are. five amtrack crew among those 243 were told by philadelphia mayor michael nutter that there are at least five fatalities tonight. we re told there are six critical injuries. somewhere between 43 and 53 ....
And as you were saying and as we ve been reporting, we know the secondary search is continuing now at the crash site and so here at the emergency room, there are a number of people, a number of stretchers and wheelchairs that are still even now at the ready for additional victims. they have this entire stretch of germantown avenue in north philadelphia still shut down in case additional ambulances roll-up here bringing more victims from the crash site. have you been able to speak to any hospital personnel about how they were prepared for this and all of that? not directly. hospital personnel, obviously, telling us mostly it s just the number of victims that they have here which is more than two dozen. but i can tell you, what i have witnessed with my own eyes at temple university hospital this ....
These investigators are i going to try to keep the evidence in the areas where they need it especially at this point. it s a very critical point so soon after a crash like this to preserve the evidence where it is so that they can easily figure out what happened out here. right down here you see some workers out there with what looks like a camera taking pictures of one of the train cars and here s another thing i was mentioning one of the workers is going in and out of the cars and going underneath them just to make sure that there s no one still left in any of these cars. you have been listening to a local helicopter pilot trying to explain what is going on outside of philadelphia after a short while ago, a number 188 train, ....
Caused an accident. so a railroad can place whatever it feels may be the cause and fatigue is rarely used as the cause of an accident by the railroads but we know because of many studies and accidents that were investigated by the ntsb that fatigue is a major source of rail collisions and even derailments. well, we will certainly know more down the road. the ntsb as i mentioned, is on the way. larry, please stick with us. you are a wealth of information on a night that we don t have a lot of answers. for now, let s listen in to reporter keith jones from the nbc station in philadelphia. he s giving a report. we have a couple of pictures that we want to share. my apologies. i don t have that yet. larry, are you still there? i am. okay. if you can answer this or at least give us an idea, one of my ....
Major questions is of course we don t know what went wrong yet but on a route like this having just left the philadelphia train station, the major station there, the next major station would be new york city. it is a regional train. how fast on average, would it be going and just from the look of things, just looking at them on the screen and seeing this kind of damage okay. i m sorry. we have keith back. larry, hold on. let s listen to our local reporter right now. firefighters have said that this is bad. residents can also be seen on the corner. if you pan up a little bit, you can see them. they ve been gathered here all day. it s a different scene, though than when we first arrived. we were the first crew here because it was just chaos, we were able to walk all the way down to the mobile command unit. some firefighters and officials there are up on the rooftop. don t know what they are doing but they have been trying to secure a better vantage point of ....