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Exceeding 100 Miles Per Hour when it derailed. The key with that is that curve its a fairly big curve right there and therefore the speed limit on the curve from what we understand is 50 miles an hour. That would be going twice as fast. Youve got a a tremendous amount of momentum and we dont know what exactly happened but so far we know that train went off the tracks right at that curve and this is something that has happened in the past in fact. Many years ago another train went off and it was ...

What we do know amtrak regional 188 was going twice as fast as it should have been when it hit that curve in Port Richmond last night. All seven cars and the engine derailed killing seven people hurting 200 more. Right now the engineer at the controls refuses to say a thing as police and ntsb investigators try to piece this tragic puzzle together. Weve got Live Team Coverage for you tonight of the derailment. Our Dave Schratwieser has new information about the engineer and a possible criminal in...

Made sure they know where each and every person on the train is right now. You mentioned the ntsb did update the investigation with the press conference a little while ago. We did learn a few things this evening. For that and for word on who survived go to brad bell standing by in philadelphia as well. Brad . Brad you talk about survivors. That is one of the things that the philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter amazes him that so many people did walk away from this. Sadly, seven perished many injure...

You know all types of injuries shaking up shaken up and bloody faces like walk dead. Reporter a neighbor describes the scene last night. This is today, you are looking at rid wrote ntsb just released giving us a firsthand view of what investigators are seeing more than 20 hours after amtrak train 188 careen odd off the track apps plunged into darkness and chaos. This happened and came out of nowhere and where i was sitting it felt like the train was lifted off. Reporter the bump on jeff cutlers ...

Just to my left where a speeding northeast regional train jumped the tracks last night. There were 238 passengers on board and a crew of five. At least sef seven are dead, more than 200 injured. Investigators from the National Transportation safety board are here and tonight crews are moving the train to a secure location. Hour after hour police, firefighters and other rescue workers searched desperately for anyone who might still be trapped in the wreckage of amtrak train 188. Keep calling, oka...

The event recorders. They are like black boxes the hope is they will tell investigators anything they can about amtrak train 188 as it round the sharp curve where itup ped the tracks. Turning a commute into jumped the tracks turning a simple commute into playcations. The speed limit is 50mileper hour from the federal Railroad Administration and tonight the ntsb is saying preliminarily, that the train was going faster than 100 miles an hour when it rounded the curve. And thats more than twice the...

Transportation safety board said the train had been accelerating for about a minute before it reached 106mph, more than twice the speed limit and derailed on a curve. Kris van cleave in philadelphia begins our coverage. Reporter with repair efforts under way amtraks president and c. E. O. , joseph boardman, took us to the tracks near the crash site. When you got the news the train was going that fast when it hit this curve sir what went through your mind . Its kind of a sickening feeling. There ...

Talk to investigators, today more than 200 people were injured when the train veered off the tracks last night. And it is still not clear how many people are unaccounted for right now. Lets turn to wendy rieger where a massive search and rescue operation is taking place just down the block from her in philadelphia. Wendy . Reporter thats right. It is about a block from here. The large cranes those massive kraens that they brought in are just behind me. They will eventually be used to upright tho...

Control at 106 miles an hour . Questions the Safety Measures that were not in place to prevent it. That type of system is designed to keep the train below its maximum speed. And preparing for the worst in the search for the missing. Seven families are home now making funeral arrangements. And i hope im not number eight. I pray to god im not number eight. A man in maryland is very angry tonight. He is the father of a man who is still missing after that deadly derailment in philadelphia. Bob gilde...

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