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Great extent the manifest information with hospital personnel and our eoc, and then when people call the number that sam phyllis gave you theyll be able to get more information about their loved ones. we would expect since the train had already passed philadelphia and was a washington to new york bound train, many of those passengers are probably either washington, d.c. residents, new jersey residents or new york residents. obviously, some people may have gotten on the train at philadelphia, but...

Temple and the area and a couple others. weve received tremendous support from all of our agencies and departments, and obviously, and now introduce governor tom wolf is with us. we talked on the phone, i talked to him and his chief of staff. hes expressed tremendous support for us and more importantly, weve received that support on the ground. governor? >> thank you. i really. here in support of the city of philadelphia and the mayor and really just to let him know and everybody here that anyth...

Obviously, you know were continuing our operations here. then well talk about tomorrow. sam? where are you? >> good evening. the most important thing right now is that the incident has been placed under control. so were starting the family reunification process. were working with amtrak our hospitals, all of our human services agencies. so, again, if the public is looking for someone, a loved one, start that process by calling amtraks number. thats 1-800-523-9101. again, 1-800-523-9101. were wor...

right here nearly split in half with a large section of the track mangled underneath. the train was traveling north from washington d.c. to new york city. how the ntsb has been activated and is investigating. heres what were still trying to figure out even at this hour. first of all the cause of this. what caused this accident? officials are still not giving us any word as to what that is and they are not going to speculate for good reason but msnbc has spoken to many witnesses. and ma...