Train Wreckage News Today

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Following live. what do we know? >> reporter: good morning. there are a lot of unanswered questions. it is less than 24 hours since the wreck and kept as a distance but you can see a big cloud of dust and heavy machinery where the train wreckage is. theyre starting to clean up a little bit. still unanswered questions. three people killed in the crash. dozened injured. among the three dead two on the train and the third was the driver of the dump truck. it happened around 12:30 yesterday. close t...

The philadelphia inquirer report, i think at the sheer number of passengers that remain unaccounted for. i expected one or two, but the philly inquirer says its a dozen. >> reporter: yeah. and i think again, were going to have to wait to hear more from authorities about that. we know that they have had this very active search that has been expanding in the recent days. they have people out looking for potential passengers, possibly they say, thrown from the train wreckage itself. its also possib...

>> yeah. ede, thank you. >> thank you. >> there are amazing stories, really survival stories that are just unbelievable. but what was the cause? and are we as safe on trains as we think we are? and joining us is author of the warnings doctor. when you see this train wreckage as we look at these live pictures right now, theyre removing a lot of it what does that tell you? >> first of all, don, we know this was a perfect storm of an ant quated instrustructure and we have a possibility of human err...

Richmond area outside philadelphia to find everything they can in this mangled mess of train wreckage. it is a shock that the death toll is not ten times as high as it is right now. as we said ntsb investigators are going to be on the scene this morning. theyre going to be searching for clues on what caused this. speed will be an obvious concern. and this curve that well be talking about this morning where the train derailed it has a history. in 1943 79 people died when a train derailed here. it...

Workers filed the first lawsuit. they are accusing the company of negligence for failing to have safety system in place. new information is emerging about the eight people killed in the derailment as friends and family members grieve the loss of their loved ones. we have more on those being mourned. >> reporter: its the news bob gildersleeves family dreaded. his wife and two teenage children learned his body was found in the train wreckage. the news comes after his family including his 13-year-o...

Windows and jumping out of them. >> reporter: the westbound california zephyr was en route from shechicago to emeryville w it was struck. passengers broke out windows to escape the burning train and stay took paramedics up to 30 minutes to reach the rural area i. ran back to help some of the wounded, and one guy hit his head pretty bad but he wasnt too bad. then one woman that cut her legs really bad. >> reporter: with passengers in critical condition, airlifted to local hospitals, it took hours...