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Is traveling to new york on business. we are told that they are working with the working to compare the manifest with the people at hospital. >> i want to talk about the treatment involved in this. and dr. gupta is a doctor in pain sque drexler university college of medicine. and sarah is the associate director at temple university ems. dr. gupta, to you first. as youre looking that types of injuries that doctors are seeing here what does that tell you about what happened inside of the train? >>...

Station at 9:10 tuesday night derailed ten minutes later at 9:21. passengers say it felt like the train was going too fast as it headed into a left hand turn then chaos. >> they were thrown out of their seats. one girl slammed into, one of the seats. and there were a lot of fractures, you know, arms, shoulders, all kind of fractures. >> i could see the blood on peoples faces. they cant move. and, their knees were out. it was -- so i just tried to do my best to help people get out of that car. it...

Fast. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]. >> the question is the folks in critical condition, what is the nature of the injuries? most are the rib cage injuries and lung injuries because of the injuries to the chest and fractures. you heard me talking about folks injured in that way, and these are folks that are a little oweder. >> reporter: old are they? >> 19 to 80. i believe strongly all the remaining folks will get better and go home. >> reporter: are you aware how they sustained the injuries? >> th...

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Approximately 106 miles per hour. three seconds later, when the data to the recorders terminated, the train speeds was 102 miles per hour. >> the train, scheduled to leave philadelphias union station at 9:10 tuesday night, derailed about ten minutes later, at 9:211. passengers say it felt like the train was going too fast as it headed into a left hand turn, then chaos. >> they were thrown out of their seats. one girl slammed into one of the seats. there were a lot of fractures, you know, arm and...

Of hospital records and other information. eight patients from the crash remain in critical condition at temple university hospital. the hospital said most have severe rib cage injuries and fractures from objects hurled at them as the train jumped the tracks. he is confident these patients will recover. >> one good silver lining were learning there. meantime ntsb says the initial data they have shows the train was barreling into the curve at more than 100 miles per hour before that derailment ha...

Actually able to walk away from the crash scene. a lot of people were treated for injuries and doctors say a lot of them are fractures and broken bones, but nothing that will have permanent damage necessarily. it is remarkable given the video that you see in those pictures of the train cars on their side that called the walking wounded for sure. a lot of people were dazed, upset but were relatively okay. t.j., marci. >> karen travers for us live there in philadelphia. thank you as always, karen....

Have clearance from dispatch in order to restart that train safely. >> joining me now, a man who helped treat some of those crash victims. hes chair of emergency medicine at area health. doctor welcome. >> thank you very much. >> let me just begin here with i know we heard from the director at temple hospital who said a lot of the victims, he was surprised there wasnt more head trauma. he did talk about rib injuries. he talked about victims suffering injuries after being hit by bodies that becam...

Concerned about them. we all wish them to get better very fast. >> reporter: doctor, the ones in critical condition can you tell us the nature of those injuries? >> the question is of the folks in critical condition, whats the nature of their injuries. most of them are folks that had the most severe of the rib cage injuries. on an occasional lung injury because of injuries to the chest and fractures. so you heard me talking about folks injured in that way. these folks that are just a little wors...

Hit by luggage and people thrown from one car to another and youve seen all manner of trauma? >> yes. most of the injuries were fractures. we only saw one skull fractures but there were leg and arm fractures. the patients that died with us mr. gaines had a chest injury. >> and obviously you are used to seeing trauma but to see this number of people all of a sudden? >> that is unusual. and that is why level one trauma centers like this personally prepare for an in flux of patients all at once. >>...