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The crash scene. a lot of people were at area hospitals treated for injuries and doctors say a lot of them have 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. our coverage...

Trapped in the ceiling of the amtrak car and she was unable to free herself and had to wait for rescue crews to come in and get her, which for her seemed to take forever. >> sehe was hanging upside down -- >> and fractures and traumatic injuries. >> do you know what happened to her? >> when she got to temple hospital she was severely injured, but alert and oriented and conscious and aware of her surroundings so thats obviously good for her but im unsures to how shes doing tonight. >> and daniell...

The seat and keeping my head ducked low because the train started to roll this way. things were -- cell phones were flying laptops were flying. i didnt even see these two women were catapulted up into the luggage rack. >> i saw so many head injuries and bloody faces. people were really injured. they were thrown out of their seats. one girl slammed into, you know one of the seats. there are a lot of fractures, arms, shoulders, all kinds of fractures. there was nothing i could do to help. i had no...

102 miles per hour. >> reporter: the train, scheduled to leave philadelphias union station at 9:10 tuesday night, derailed about 10 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. there are a lot of fractures. arms shoulders, all kinds of fractures. >> i could see the blood on peoples faces. they cant move. their knees were out. so i just ...

Patients that had rib fractures. >> what does that tell you? >> lots and lots of rib fractures. that there was a high-energy crash. >> would you have expected more with the reporting that the train may have been going 100 miles per hour? >> yes. my little glimpse ive had of how crumpled the train cars were suggest to me that i think we should be happy there were as few deaths as there were. >> you have a busy day ahead of you. what sort of surgeries are on tap for the people still remaining? >> ...

Pretty regularly. temple is a level one trauma center and expected to be able to respond to this sort of thing. so theres regular drills. >> when is the last time you drilled? >> we have drills every month. last time we had something this size, i dont know. someone asked that this morning. [ indiscernible ] >> the trauma center was open all through this and taking other patients and are today. >> what was the nature of most of the injuries the ones you were able to treat? >> fractures, impact fr...

Good morning. im carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. we begin with breaking developments out of philadelphia. any minute now the mayor, michael nutter will speak about that deadly amtrak train derailment. well bring that to you when it happens. daylight is bringing a horrifying view of the deadly amtrak train derailment. the violent impact throwing one car on its roof. several tilting to the side. others zigzagged across the tracks. were learning that mid shipment from the u.s. n...

Condition, i expect it might not change for another day or so. [ indiscernible ] >> the question is what types of wounds, what does that mean about the impact? the rib fractures tell me they rattled around in the train cars a lot. we also saw xap you lar fractures and long bone fractures of the leg and fractures of the arm. i was surprised i think i told you this morning, surprised to seem we did not have much head injury. i thought a lot of folks were going to have head injuries. there was one ...

They were thrown out of their seats. one girl slammed into one of the seats. there are a lot of fractures, arm, shoulders, all kinds of fractures. and there was nothing i could do to help. i had nothing except to talk to the people. >> those are some of the stories of people who survived. we also heard just about an hour ago from the mayor of philadelphia mayor michael nutter speaking about just walking through some of the wreckage firsthand, confirming that seven people thus far have died sayin...

Folks to make sure the families are taken care of. and amtrak i know helped out last night. they helped with transportation and housing. >> how about the extent of the injuries? >> yeah most of the injuries were fractures. so rib fractures, leg and arm fractures. >> how many remain in critical condition? >> we have eight in critical condition still. three went to the operating room last night. immediately. [ inaudible question ] many folks came in on their own. and we called in extra surgeons an...