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That at all. >> paul, do you know how many trains were on the amtrak train? how many cars there were? >> i do not. >> and you mentioned that in the front of the train is where most of the damage was, the front of the amtrak train. do we know how many cars derailed in this? >> no, they have not released that. you cant see down to the front. our emergency workers are walking that way. they did eventually get vehicles in there. they did bring in the collapse team, which is part of our fire service,...

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Neighbors racing in to help and abcs eva pilgrim is outside philadelphia on the scene. >> reporter: tonight authorities in a desperate search for those unaccounted for in the massive inferno that ripped through this assisted senior living facility outside philadelphia. police asking for a mass casualty response with many additional ambulances. >> reporter: more than 400 emergency workers scrambling through the night to save the elderly residents, many couldnt escape on their own. blanket-wrapped...

A.m. local time. the force of the explosion collapsed several nearby buildings. >> more than 30 people were rushed to hospital and emergency workers combed through the wreckage looking for those injured. the cause is under investigation. there has been several explosions and deadly accidents at industrial sites in china in the past. egypt is in mourning after the worst terror attack ever on its soil. authorities say over 300 people were killed when gunmen stormed the crowded mosque in egypts n...

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Island of barbuda is damage aid cording to the prime minister. the vast majority uninhabitable. puerto rico narrowly avoided the worst but a local official tells the "new york times" the storm was terrible. an experience out of this world. emergency workers say hurricane irma knocked out hower to more than one million people on the u.s. territory of puerto rico and left nearly 50,000 people without water. the national hurricane center reports this category 5 storm remains extremely dangerous. th...

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Investigators scouring his home said they found pounds of slows explosives and several weapons. >> we had no knowledge of this individual. >> officials say paddock had more than ten rifles in his hotel room, where he shot out at concert goers from two broken windows. it took swat teams an hour and 15 minutes to get him there. he was found dead there a self-inflicted gunshot wound. nbcs reporter on lockdown inside the hotel. >> meanwhile emergency workers poured in. the wounded flooding full emer...

Victims still trapped in their homes. one after another, air lifted by u.s. coast guard choppers. theyve saved or assisted more than 6,000 victims. on the ground, emergency workers and volunteers are combing houstons hardest hit areas. going door to door in areas that had been inaccessible. those with nowhere to go continue to pour into shelters. >> the shelter mission is the biggest battle we have as well right now. >> reporter: with personnel stretched to the limit, a call to the public for he...