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Down. you get the daytime folks into help. that really helped rest them. i sent a lot of people home purposely because i knew this is not a sprint its a marathon. and they need to be able to take care of folks for the next two to three days. >> how are you? >> im good. thank you. >> can you tell us the name of the patient that died it and where he was from? >> yeah james marshall gaines iii from princeton. >> last name if you dont mind. >> gaines. 49 years old. >> you said you had 23 patients cu...

Based on your location there at the hospital we got this latest information from one of the chief medical officers there at temple. and what he was saying was he was surprised at the number of rib fractures, because all of the patients that he had seen and that he was supervising had rib fractures. what are you hearing from where youre at? >> reporter: absolutely, richard. we are here in front of temple university hospital. and dr. cushing talked about the number of rib fractures, lung injuries,...

>> yeah, we still have eight in critical condition. that really hasnt changed. i expect it might not for another day or so. >> can you describe in general what sort of wounds and what tells you about what potential impact it had. >> the question is what types of wounds what does that mean about the impact. the rib fracktures tell me they rattled around a lot in the train cars. we also saw scapular fractures and long bone fractures of the leg and fractures of the arm. i think i told you this morn...

The volkswagen golf. starting at $19,295, theres an award-winning golf for everyone. back to breaking news out of philadelphia, the deadly crash of amtraks northeast regional train 188. at least six people were killed the sixth dying overnight from their injuries. more than 140 people were injured when the tracks went off last night. >> most of the injuries were fractures, rib fractures, leg and arm fractures. we have eight in critical condition still. three went to the operating room last nig...

Shoulders, all kinds of fractures. it was, it was -- there was nothing i could do to help. i had nothing except to talk to the people and try to help them. >> no word yet on what caused the crash. investigators from amtrak are on the scene. ntsb team will be there in the coming hours. the fbi is investigating. officials say it does not look like an act of terror. pennsylvanias governor also viltz visited the crash site. >> the human tragedy. the devastation. i, i cant imagine. we stand ready to ...

Manifest of what injured and what people are here in the hospital to cross-check that with the railroad manifest to find people who may be unaccounted for. kate? >> so thats where one focus is. eight people still in critical condition. hospital official earlier today said many injuries that they are seeing of people is fractures. a lot of what you think of in terms of injuries associated with people being thrown about, fractures to ribs, broken arms, broken legs. sunlen serfaty, thank you very m...

Sent a lot of people hope purposely because i knew this was not a sprint its a marathon and they need to take care of folks for next two to three days. im doing good thank you. >> can you tell us the name of the patient who died? >> james marshall gaines the third, princeton. >> gaines. >> you said you had 23 -- >> 49 years old. >> 23 patients currently 22 which were at surgery, can you say that again. >> 22 surgical one in medical services. >> what the difference in that? the surgical patients ...

>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome back, everybody. wed look to welcome our viewers in the united states. and youre watching cnn. im john vause. >> im rosemary church. lets check the latest on breaking news. five people are dead. 50 injured. after an amtrak passenger train derailed in philadelphia. traveling from washington to new york, when it left the tracks late tuesday. one woman on board is a nurse and she describes what she saw. >> one girl slammed into one of the seats. a...

Commander has just provided an update by radio and he says rescuers are still getting into the train cars. rescuers still going inside the train cars meaning they believe there are still passengers inside the train cars that have not yet been rescued. philadelphia has an emergency response frequency for the medics alerting hospitals that they are coming with patients, ambulance drivers are a lettering hospitals by radio of passengers with injuries consisting of lacerations, neck injuries and lim...

>> in terms of hours, minutes to hours. after the first 24 hours you probably know youre okay. the issues youll discuss with dr. ablow coming up later. post traumatic stress. >> we had a young man on 19-year-old college student. he was with his mom. the first thing is okay the second thing is where is my mom. his mom is more injured than he is. him and his family end up okay. >> thats a great point to bring up. people have underlying medical conditions that can be brought out at the time like th...