firefighters vehicles of all shapes and sizes descending on this area. a fairly large crowd has gathered across the street to see what they can see, from this vantage point is not a heck of a lot. but again the helicopters of overhead we ve been showing you the sky fox video. multiple cars overturned. i have travelled that amtrak run on any number of occasions heading from philadelphia to new york and back and forth, it s something that you don t give a lot of thought to the idea of a derailment. something terrible has gone on here tonight. a couple more vehicles passing us right now. another police car coming by right now. and an incredible number of emergency first responders nothing like i ve seen before at least in this city. they are continuing to flood into the area there of the frankford junction yard the 2200 block of east butler to see what they can do to help.
area and north philadelphia and so forth. and frankly it s a rather depressing sight as you come into the city many factories have been vacant for many years, this is a similar scenario here in terms of industrial commercial not as much residential, not a neighborhood per say in the immediate vicinity. this is tragic a tragedy, anyway you cut it bruce. i guess at least there s no row homes being taken out and people being taken out. i don t know how close you can get to the scene, you don t want to get in the way of first responders saving people s lives, what we re looking at from sky fox, let me just tell you, one of these things we have just zoomed in, it s a complete mangled mess of metal. i mean it s twisted to the point that you cannot even recognize it. i m wondering if that was a train car or it s some other
area and moving in this area. so they can do the best job they can to help the folks on board that train. i don t you are to see the actual trains we ve been seeing some stuff from sky fox. is there anyway that you can see how many cars are on their side or how many cars were on this train? i m not close enough to be able to give you that perspective at all. i m on the street probably a block and a half from the railroad line there. we re back a ways where police are keeping us as they keep the media in this section here. not wanting us to get in the way of what s going on down there. i ve not been able to get a clear look on the tracks i can see the overheadlines from where i am i m not that far from what i m talking about, i have not seen any other officials, the mayor, the police commissioner or fire commissioner yet. we will hear from them and get
get them off the railroad crossing and down here to this area. just an incredible scene as we re seeing a lot of ground i think you re seeing as well. we have sky fox. i m going to get back to you in a minute. we re going to check in with you in a minute. i understand we have a railroad reconstructionist expert on the phone. i hope you can hear me, i m sure it s speculation, any idea what might have happened here? i ve heard reports that there may have been an impact with a csx freight train of some type. we don t know any details of that we have reports of significant damage to the front end of the passenger train. and one of the only things that would be likely to cause that would be impact with something very substantial most likely another train. something like that happens, if and i understand you re just hearing these things we don t know if it s factual as of
there. we ll check back in with you in a few minute ss we hope. we are back to sky fox, looking at a grourntd view. we re back on sky fox, it looks like one car here on its side. and then as lucy talked about, there s something else inside that i don t know if that s another train car or another vehicle vehicle. it s hard to tell in the dark of night. just to recap quickly, this was an amtrak train on its way from washington, d.c. to new york when it derailed. there could have been up to 240 people on board, and it could change that up to 50 people have been injured. it s rather amazing. whenever there s a train