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You can see, theres quite a bit of chaos and people are being rescued from inside of the train. i see someone -- looks like a fireman with a hard hat on. there you go. and according to reports, the bulk or the brunt of the impact was received by the quiet car in business travel on this train. and as we look at this hour now, we are seeing people rescue workers, emergency workers with flashlights, combing through the rubble of this train. i would imagine, trying to find people who may be stuck un...

Injured, and try to figure out what happened here. >> evan stand by. were waiting on the mayor of philadelphia to give an update a press conference shortly, at any time now, we were told about 15 minutes ago, that it would be 15 minutes. so they are preparing to do that. also from local stringers, as we call them which are independent people who are in the area and they are either independent emergency workers or independent cameramen, theyre telling us that amtrak -- that philadelphia police ex...

The engine car which was about at least almost about 50 feet north of the other cars that were completely turned off. the pictures youve seen in the aerials. the car that looks like it is completely mangled. the one car that is perpendicular to the tracks. complete devastation. five fatalities six critical. we talked about 243 people on the train. the mayor spoke to us about an hour ago. he said we cant be sure that everyone is accounted for. we saw a search dog go into the scene about an hour a...

Various local hospitals in the philadelphia area and we were told at the last press conference that some of them have already left and made their way to their home or maybe local hotels here. let me point out, you will see some of these emergency workers still coming out. we were there about two hours ago. there were still plenty of emergency workers. fire police on the scene. combing through that wreckage. >> even at this hour were approaching 3:00 a.m. eastern time. five people have been kille...

Up here in skyforce 10. and what we can see, all these overturned cars and the ones that have derailed. you see this one right here appears to be the most heavily damaged, just completely off the tracks here. i mean, right now, you can see some of the other train cars in this area and you just see how this one just completely went offer the rails. lets pull back just a little bit here and i just want to give you an idea of whats going on around the scene at the moment. you see some of these emer...

The other train cars in this area. and you just see how this one completely went off the rails. lets pull back a little bit here. and i want to give you an idea of whats going on around the scene. you see some of the emergency workers who are around the area right now. this appears to be the area that is in focus at this point. where this train derailed. you see right here. this is the front of the train there. that would be the engine car. we pointed out a few moments ago how it went off the ra...

Until they have had a chance to listen to the reporters and take some of the data from the recorders on the train. >> and quickly, for those passengers who were already checked out at the hospital and where do they go next? because i would suspect many of the passengers were probably new york or new jersey residents. >> reporter: right, 65 were transported to various local hospitals here in the philadelphia area and we were told at the last press conference that some of them have already left an...

Them and they have these drills. i wont say every year but they certainly have practice drills like that. the red cross and other agencies participate in these kinds of drills. and so you know, it looks like there are people crawling over everywhere but we can only assume at this point that they are trained emergency workers and this is very strong evidence if they had trained for such an emergency, the outcome is so much better. but most modern departments do have these drills and have trained ...

Damage where the train cars that crashed just completely went off the tracks. i also want to show you right around here, you see some of these emergency workers that are in the area right now. they have been out here with flashlights flashlights. weve seen them for at least the past hour, going up to each one of these train cars looking in looking in the windows, looking underneath, just trying to see what they can find in terms of debris, in terms of evidence perhaps, if there are any other peo...

I was just looking at a google map of this entire area. it is very dark. you cant see too much from this vantage point which is why they have police helicopters and the lights. i was looking at the map. you can see that the tracks do diverge in all four directions from this point. as the mayor said it is very soon and too soon at this point to speculate exactly what happened. you see tracks here as well. you see this is filled with train activity but right in this area here we have some of the d...