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Urban environment on the northeast regional trains by that time when theyre that far out of the station in either boston or providence or philadelphia, theyre heading up towards their maximum speed at that point. it sounds like this train was getting close to its maximum speed. >> exactly, yeah. they were making up time. we were a little bit late getting out of the washington station, about ten minutes or so. but this wasnt a bend or anything. thats why it was surprising. i dont expect how that ...

Over? are these huge electrical poles going to collapse in? so everybody was moving as far away from that t more and more people were filing out. >> and as youre on the train, pretty much all the luggage on an amtrak train is carry-on luggage. were people taking time to grab their stuff or were people rushing off and leaving their stuff on the train? >> i would say it was a mixture of both. my purse was right in between my feet. so i was able to pick up my bag and walk off and i saw another guy ...

In the street there watching ambulances pull away and they have absolutely no information about what happens to them next. if you were sitting there as a member of congress watching this, what else would you be doing? >> you know listen i would absolutely be frustrated lawrence. but not to play devils advocate, but i will tell you that the conductor and the william one woman who works for amtrak, they got pretty banged up. both were definitely wobbly. but their first and immediate course of acti...

Their plans are for the passengers left standing there. what the control room is telling me is a train is bend in half. i cant see it from the monitor im using here. but if you have a giant screen at home and you can illuminate it you might be able to see it. patrick, have you heard anything from anyone there about whats going to happen to the passengers who are now stranded in the middle of their trips waiting for transportation toward new york and north of new york? >> no. im still here on-sit...

And i was in complete shock. i think most people were. once i realized what had happened, smoke started to fill the train car. my first thought and everybodys first thought, i think, was how do we get off this car.. that was the first thing i heard people asking out loud how do we get off of this car. the people that were able to get up stood up and walked to try to find an exit. >> janelle you say the car you were on the last car on the train, was that half full? was that mostly full? i would s...

Actually crashed or derailed. >> philadelphia is normally the stop where more people get off than any other between washington and new york. but was it your sense, janelle, that this was a front end impact on the train? i know its very hard to tell that. >> its very hard to tell that but yeah i would -- i would actually think so. when i looked over to my left there was a woman in the aisle with blood coming down her face. but i also remember a lot of people -- or some people standing up. so it s...

Great. >> patrick, about how fast was the train going, do you think, when this crash occurred? >> approximately 60 70 miles per hour we were going at a healthy clip from the philadelphia stop off the train. we were coming from washington up toward new york when we were going fine and all of a sudden it went off the rails. and i was in one of the cafe cars and i was at a -- we flipped over to -- the other side of the car upside down. >> so patrick, in the cafe car, were you standing or were you s...

We dont have patrick murphy now. youre seeing live images from the scene near philadelphia where this crash occurred tonight. theres been reports of injuries. eyewitness reports of injuries. but no official reporting on that just yet and no word yet on what speed the train was traveling at. you can see what appears to be an ambulance in position there. we have very little information about this at this point. we do know that this was the -- this was not the higher speed train, the ophella train ...

>> thanks, rachel. were going to continue this breaking coverage right now. an amtrak train from new york to washington, d.c. has derailed not far from philadelphia. amtrak regional 188 and was supposed to arrive in new york city about 10:30. so it was going from washington, d.c. washington -- to clarify, it was going from washington to new york city. the crash happened about half an hour ago.. a witness inside the train says she saw people fly into the air and a lot of smoke. were told passenge...

He had to play by. this is a pretty powerful message. >> i thought it was. i remember riding down on the stra train when he was a senator. he said to me im the poorest guy in the senate. 100 senators and i have the least amount of money but equal power. it reminds me what hes saying. the 1% in this country -- ive said this on "mad money" -- doesnt play by the same rules. they pay far less tax. the 15% tax romney pays it should be an issue, again. i was a hedge fund manager. i didnt pay this. i t...