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 want to take you back to that ntsb video, this new video that shows the investigators at the scene surveying the damage. We also know this afternoon that mayor Michael Nutter spoke to us within the hour. He tells us the majority of the crew and passengers have been located. But investigators are still trying to make sure that all victims and survivors are accounted for. The mayor says that president obama called him earlier today to be briefed on the details of what happened. The mayor says the pr
Whole story here of whats left behind, this twisted mass of metal, glass, luggage. 243 people on board. Some just tossed around. You heard one woman was found hanging upside down. Others were crushed as the carriages tipped over. One passenger says he watched as women were launched into luggage racks. Another sat helpless as people were crushed under a row of seats. Most of the passengers were rushed to hospitals, some are still unaccounted for. We heard the mayor saying that the search operation there on site continues. We also know the number of those who lost their lives is now at seven. Cell phone video showing what it took to escape that mangled train. Watch. Here hold on. Hold on. Go go go. Should i just get out . Hold on. Help me. So many people jumped into action if they could, helping others. Prying open these doors. Others crawled through all this jagged metal. Come on man. I got you, okay . Keep crawling okay . Where am i crawling to . Crawl forward, sir. Keep crawling. We j
if the train was speeding there are still questions about why. the mayor of philadelphia says the train s engineer has spoken to police. the engineer was injured, received medical care was then interviewed by the philadelphia police department and made whatever statement he may have made. also tonight, emergency crews digging through the wreckage hoping to locate anyone still trapped underneath the debris. the death toll now at seven, with hundreds more injured. and at least two passengers are reported missing. today newly released footage from surveillance cameras showed the images from the crash. you can see the train falling off the tracks surrounded by flashes of light. tonight big questions about exactly how and why that happened. as the search in the wreckage continues. we start on the ground in philadelphia with nbc s ayman mohyeldin who is near the crash site and msnbc national correspondent joy reid who is at temple university hospital. let s start ayman. what
it looked like we were going to flip. we never flipped went over the side and back off the side then raised my arm against it. i was stuck in what was probably a near upsidedown position and had to extri indicate myself from that. i was one of the last people to crawl out. i was behind a woman who broke a leg. i started to see light in the sky, which were from the helicopters so i knew that someone knew where we were sparks were flying from the fence as they cut it down to get us. there were people screaming and bleeding and we helped them out and they are okay now. i m just when it hit me hard and hit my knees last night and prayed for them. amazing stories there. there s no official word on what caused the seven-car manhattan bound train to jump the tracks. one of the cars landed upsidedown. the ntsb and federal railway administration are on the scene. we re looking at the track, the train signals and the operation of the train, mechanical condition of t
onboard described what it felt like before the crash. it felt like it was going fast. is that because it really was going fast or because of the consequence of what happened i really can t say. but it did feel fast. and it did feel like it was could have been speed that caused the liftoff that i felt. teams of investigators are on the scene in philadelphia with the ntsb set to hold its next briefing at the top of the hour at 5:00 p.m. eastern. this photo shows the train s black box, which has been recovered and is being analyzed by experts. today, cranes are at work lifting those massive cars. investigators are combing for evidence as trained dogs search for any more people who may be trapped underneath. this afternoon, the death toll rose to seven confirmed fatalities, with more than 200 injured. those killed in the tragic crash include 48-year-old associated press staffer jim gaines and 20-year-old justin zemser a navy midshipman on leave. the crash occurred along the