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Reporter erika and ukee, good morning we now necessity just how fast this train was traveling right before it the derailed. It was speeding down the tracks at more than twice the limit. Big question this morning is why and how did this happen. Investigators will remain on the scene here for days for a thorough investigation. Take a look at the video. The we are getting a full scope of what has happened here at least seven people were killed and more than 200 injured when amtrak train 188 deraile...

Brought in a few minutes ago. Also happening very soon investigators want Start Talking to the trains crew as well as passenger. Take a look at a video taken by ntsb on the scene at the crash site. This is a very, very developing investigation right now. What we know at this point is just how fast this train was traveling before the accident. It was actually speeding down these tracks at more than twice the limit. Ntsb says train was traveling at 106 miles an hour coming in a sharp curve in the ...

Spots and we were able to find one of the passengers in the wreckage. Reporter meanwhile officials have identified two victims, one a maryland Business Executive bob guilder sleeve, the other an italian national. All of the individual that we believe that we were looking for or were trying to identify have all now been accounted for. Reporter but while search for victims is now over, Officials Say, that a criminal investigation into why the the train was going 106 miles an hour, more than twice ...

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See the sun today for the rescue workers though were looking at blustery winds building through the rest of the day and ill have more on that possible effect on the recovery and investigative efforts in Port Richmond coming up. Karen. The Train Derailment causing a big impact on your morning commute. Im going to have the very latest on the roads and the rails coming up. And right now when you go to the scene hundreds of fire and Police Officials are swarming that area of the amtrak derailment ri...

Jeff is thankful to be alive. Once it started it was kind of bizarre. It almost felt like we were flying. The cars flew off a left hand curve and at least 200 people were transported to hospitals and an additional body was found in the wreckage and the death toll rose to seven and they disabuse that project ecaisles were linked to the crash and that it was traveling as twice the posted limit. I cant confirm that and i done believe that the ntsb can confirm anything like that. They are still goin...

Know it referred to as the black box has been recovered. It the now in the Amtrak Operations Center in delaware for analysis. We have no information from that particular device at all because it is currently being analyzed by the experts. This deadly derailment happened around 9 30 last night off of frankford avenue. Amtrak number 188 just left 30th street station bound for new york when it derailed near a curve in the track. Many passengers were stranded here overnight. Some of the victims retu...

Philadelphia and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a. And good morning and welcome to a special split edition of today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer in the Port Richmond area of philadelphia. And what a scene behind you. I think phillys mayor said it best. He seemed visibly shaken by what he saw walking the length of the train saying it was an absolute disaster. Like something hes never seen before. Its a good description. It happened just down the road behind me about 150 yards down th...

Accident the black box says the train was speeding and the engineer put the train into a full emergency braking mode but it was too little too late. Maximum authorized speed through this curve was 50 Miles Per Hour, when the engineer induced brake application was applied, the train was traveling at approximately 106 Miles Per Hour. The ntsb knows the train was moving more than 50 Miles Per Hour over the posted stead limit but does not at this point know why. Our mission was to find out not only ...

Will return to philadelphia. He was in harrisburg earlier today, but he will come back to philly this evening. And well get more details on that a little bit later. As you mentioned, the ntsb will hold another briefing one hour from now with more information on the speed of the train and the cause of the crash. Were in a building overlooking the secure zone. You can see in the distance that investigators are still out there, crews are still out there, and police are securing this site. Now we wa...