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Victims is expected to rise. this collision happened shortly before midnight local time. the passenger train was heading from athens to greeces second largest city, thats the lucky. and cnns eleni jarvis is tracking this for us. she joins us live from dubai. a lot of, what is the latest on this deadly and tragic train disaster? >> yeah, absolutely, absolutely deadly and tragic. and ive just been monitoring state broadcaster at, theyve been giving incredible updates. and looking at some of the im...

This, if this drags on, as it has the last few hours, if this drags on, we have to think about the 7.7 million displaced. talk to us about the challenges those that stay within the country and the need for those inside the country. >> needs for women and children inside ukraine are massive. you have a movement of people west. its relatively safe there. and that creates a strain itself, on the medical facilities in cities that have doubled in size. its about providing the extra buffer of supplies...

From the train in the back. we were still connected to the locomotive at the front. as far as my understanding is, what i heard at the scene, the front train itself, the actual thing that pulls us, that didnt derail but my carriage did derail. it was quite violent. woe didnt flip over. >> so how violent? one person apparently said it felt like turbulence on an airplane. how would you describe it? >> i would say at first, as we were leading up to when we came off the rails it was turbulence but t...

Last on the old. i cannot tell that from this photograph. >> from the photograph, you know where this is, right? so what do we know about this route? >> well, the route -- the old route was along the waterfront. this is obviously away from the waterfront with an overpass over i-5. investigators are going to be trying to figure out whether there was a track failure or a failure on the train itself, of wheels and axles and so on. there could have been a misassignment on the bridge. there could hav...

Obviously, it happened in the heart of the rush hour. a small explosion from a device on the floor of a train car that wounded 29 people. sent many people running to safety. none of the injuries, fortunately, appeared to be serious. at this hour, british police have made no arrests. britains prime minister, theresa may, says the nations official terrorism level remains at severe and is not being raised to critical, not at this time. my colleague, nbcs keir simmons is on the ground in london for ...

The platforms and trainings are wide open. you dont even need a ticket in some cases. >> i think theres two issues, one the security on the train itself, which is very hard. you need the vigilance of the passengers. the other one is how free it is to travel across europe country to country, almost like within the united states, you dont get checked for documentation going from, say, you know, new york to washington, d.c. same thing in what they call the provinces, basically the european countrie...

Them to actually come through the windshield but it does happen. this is one of the many kinds of obstacles that engineers operating on the corridor run into. its an additional part of our -- the difficulties of our job, that most people dont know about or think about. but, there is safety glass. and the it works pretty well. it works pretty well to when you realize that the combined forces that would be involved with sympathetic that is thrown or shot at a windshield, plus the velocity of the t...

Unusual thing for things to be thrown at a locomotive. its somewhat more unusual for them to actually come through the windshield, but it does happen. this is one of the many kinds of obstacles that engineers operating on the corridor run into. its an additional part of our -- the difficulties of our job, that most people dont know about or think about. but, there is safety glass. and the it works pretty well. it works pretty well to, when you realize that the combined forces that would be invol...

Coming in. six people were killed in this. now were learning more about those who died. one of the associated presss key video people, key video journalists for them, was one of those who died in this train derailment. and jim gains his 8 years old -- 48 years old. father of two. on his way home to plains borrow, new jersey. pentagon official confirmed that a u.s. naval academy midshipman was among those killed on the amtrak train as well. we can tell you that the ntsb sent seven different teams...

Hudson rivers. new york governor andrew cuomo talked about the factors that could have caused the crash early this morning. >> there were three possibilities. that there was a problem with the track. there was quote, unquote equipment failure on the train itself, or operator error. that the engineer of the train, who was a long-time engineer made a mistake where human beings that could happen also. >> reporter: and we understand that were going to have another press conference with the ntsb a li...