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I made sure i helped people get out, you know, at first i checked to make sure i had my arms and legs. it was pretty violent. >> youre checking to make sure you were still in one piece? >> yeah, yeah, because theres blood. and i was deployed over seas twice with the army, i was okay, and then the guy next to me was unconscious, i got him up, said, get up, brother, get up. he came too, i yanked him up, and i had to pull myself, the ceiling was the side window, so i pulled myself up on the bench a...

Our initial coverage we had lights from helicopters and flashlights and news cameras, but we couldnt really get a whole sense of the damage. when the sun rose today, we can see all seven cars. the engine derailed, one of the difficult questions that remains even at this hour is whether all the people on board that train have been found. the death toll from this accident as i said, it stands at seven people tonight opinion at least eight more people are in critical condition. as the day has gone ...

And i look up what i see are two huge wire poles leaning in over the train, and im thinking. could these collapse? as im looking at that scene, i realize that it looks like the train has been pulled apart, i dont know if it was. >> did you go to the hospital? >> yeah i did, badly bruised but okay. >> janelle richards thanks for sharing your experience and please take care of yourself. >> nbc news has confirmed the name and a photo of the engineer of that train. i believe we have it up now, his n...

We want to look at the signal. we want to take a holistic approach to understand why this train ended up in the situation that it did. when you look at the crash site as i did in a helicopter today, the physics are pretty apparent. you guys dont have a lot of mystery in terms of what happened. how did it get to that speed? >> yes. >> let me ask you a legal question. my understanding is that the nature of the law, the ntsb can legally compel testimony from people involved in crashes, including in...

Railroads because we share track. amtrak trains have to be able to recognize septa trains and vice versa versa. as you spread out across the country, it gets even more and more, because theres lots of little railroads and freight lines that operate all over the country that eventually are going to have to be integrated. >> one last question you dont wear a seat belt in a train. you wear one in a plane, you put it on on a plane, geez if we crash, we crash. i dont know what the seat belts going to...

Place. the deadline is the end of this year, december 31st, 2015. and you know, the rail industry like every industry, they dont like being told what to do, theyve been lobbying hard to push that deadline back even further. seven years is too fast for them to implement that system nationwide. they want more time, more years. they have found a lot of sympathetic ears in congress. even if congress doesnt extend it, if the existing 2015 deadline holds, the existing 2015 deadline was still too late ...

Joining us now is samantha philips, director of emergency management for the city of philadelphia. her office has been coordinating the citys response to the derailment since last night. thank you so much for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> its now almost exactly 24 hours since the crash. what right now is the most pressing thing that your office is working on right now? >> were actually starting to demode a little bit. and so were trying to get back into normal operation to the exten...

Lights from helicopters and flashlights and news cameras, but we couldnt really get a whole sense of the damage. when the sun rose today, we can see all seven cars. the engine derailed, one of the difficult questions that remains even at this hour is whether all the people on board that train have been found. the death toll from this accident as i said, it stands at seven people tonight opinion at least eight more people are in critical condition. as the day has gone on, a number of people kille...

No signals, trains relied on their schedule, their schedule told them where they should be. if the schedule said, you werent 130ezed to be there, the train that was supposed to be there just assumed you werent. >> now we have signals, and those signals help -- its a big improvement, and then, of course, were evolving into positive train control, where we want trains to talk to one another. we want chains to talk to the track. >> im glad you brought that up. the ntsb, if we had train control, as ...

And youre going to see right here here. here we go. it is at this crucial juncture here that the train -- you can see just how sharp that bend is. i mean that is essentially just a right angle left turn there for that train. as close to a right angle as you can get. you can see the way in which it snaked the front literally at the highest rate of speed come off the track. you see the debris right there. wow! you can see the debris at the impact point at which the train jumps the rails. and this ...