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Say it was a loud bang that is happened to suddenly. these are people used to living nearby train tracks. so jim, jacqueline up to this point were right up against this mobile command center. they are hard at work. you can see people coming back and forth. perhaps relieving each other just because there are hundreds of officers out here. you can see some of them wearing those yellow vests. the right hard hats out here in specific capacity trying to aid this investigation. >> and its going to be ...

Midshipman. the loss of life could have been a lot worse. >> its amazing, its incredible that so many people walked away from that scene last night. i saw people on the street behind us walking off of that train, and i dont know how that happened but for the grace of god. >> reporter: and were still a ways away from knowing exactly how many people died or may be missing because a manifest of passengers provided by amtrak has not been synching up exactly with names of investigators and rescue wor...

All of this just unfolding. the people in philadelphia the emergency workers, the city officials, all of them trying to get their information together and trying to get help for the folks who were sadly on this train when this happened. again, we are told it is northeast regional 188. it was heading from washington, d.c., to new york city when this all unfolded. there are multiple injuries here. we dont know of any fatalities. bedont we dont know the severity of any of the injuries. but we are s...

Hour as rescue workers work feverishly at the scene to try to make sure that everyone is out of that scene. the fbi is investigating as well. so far there is nothing to indicate the derailment was an act of terrorism. that information is coming from the fbi. amtrak has cancelled all service between philadelphia and new york. and the railroad asks people with questions about friends and family members on board to call this number. here sit for you. its 1-800-523-9101. again, 1-800-523-9101. the m...

Amtrak to figure out with all the ticket information that they have the electronic ticket information and all of that thats on these trains and the firefighters were would, of course, need that number, 211. the rescue workers would need to know the total number of passengers so they could account for everyone who was on that train. patrick, what is your sense of how many reinforcements on are on the way. have you seen this group of firefighters and police expanding? >> theyre definitely expandin...

Mayor and the governor, a devastating mangled mess. thats what it is. one of the train cars. it looks like a tin can was open. the front car. the engine car is at least 50 yards away from the other car. theyre all turned over. all on the side of the tracks. complete mangled wreckage. were kind of lucky that there were not more casualties. five deaths, six criticaler 65 were transported. the governor said they will do the best to work through night. it is dark. they have add light to the scene an...

The best to work through night. it is dark. they have add light to the scene and there are still dozens of rescue workers on the scene, looking through the wreckage. trying to determine what happened. the ntsb, the fbi, from various investigations are on the way already. theyll be looking to find out the speed. were the brakes applied. this is a curve in the tracks right here and theyll try to see if the train was going too fast. that might be why. >> that will be a key piece of information as t...

>> how long did it last? >> i guess about -- i dont know maybe less than that but there were -- it sort of i guess, petered out but maybe about 30 40 seconds. there was another aftershock a large one about 30 minutes after that. >> patrick, what about the emergency response? >> you know on the ground -- im just getting an idea of that right now. i follow the group of nepal army and police to the site. one of the bigger sites in the city anyway. there was a huge response. there were mexican and s...

Take their chances in the tonle sap river. >> these young men and women who were willing to jump off of a bridge that they didnt know the depths to, and a lot of whom didnt even know how to swim, just to make room for other people to have a better chance at catching their breath. i thought that was pretty extraordinary. >> as the minutes pass, panicked faces begin to look exhausted as the rescue workers and journalists gather around them. >> i try to apologize to all of the victims. this is the ...

And lift people from the pile. after that, i just asked somebody, why, what has happened? nobody can answer that. >> after hearing rumors of what is happening, journalist carmichael races to the scene to file a report. by the time he and his friend, daravuth arrive, survivors and the dead have nearly all been removed by rescue workers. >> we were on the bridge, dar is shooting some video and taking some images to help me out. there were just hundreds and hundreds of personal possessions lying on...