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All night long weve been seeing investigators, crews, firefighters police out here dealing at the scene. back to you, guys. >> sara we know daylight is about an hour and ten minutes. it looks as though theyre still out there in the wreckage along the crash, with flash lights and big other lights especially the investigation has begun? >> reporter: thats right. and we expect them to see the safety board out here. this is going to turn into a full-blown investigation with both local and national a...

For different things. there is electronic gadgets similar to what the on a planer theyll tell you how fast the train was going to give an idea what was going on in that train as it was derailing. but certainly, theres a lot going on here this morning. and theyre going to wait from investigators to find out what it is exactly they find. >> and of course the survivors to get their take on what happened. sara sidner for us on the scene of this disaster, as dawn breaks in philadelphia. the scene of ...

Have the speed of the train and all of the controls on the train. they even have where -- this is not a significant impact for them but they even have when the train leaves. theres specific federal regulations about where you do that and the speed. and that black box is very much like an airplane black box, and it will have all of that information. so literally, by the time they get it off the train and downloaded back to d.c. by the afternoon, the ntsb will know. but the mangling of that car lo...

Six people are in critical condition at this hour. it was a horrific scene. also we know the passengers inside many of them many of them were able to just walk away from this. some of them with bruises. some of them had to go to the hospital with broken bones. the hospitals had to deal with a large numbers of casualties coming in. but the vast majority of people were able to get out of this train. it was a very tumultuous scene and very difficult for some to find how to get out, because of the p...

Breaking news. breaking news this morning, a deadly amtrak train derailment in philadelphia. at least five people killed, more than 100 injured. investigators on the scene trying to figure out what went so wrong. well have live coverage of our big story begins right now. good morning, welcome to "early start." im christine romans. >> and im john berman its wednesday, may 13th. we welcome in viewers in the united states and around the world. breaking news a train derailment. five people killed....

Themselves going around that curve. and thats when things seemed to go all wrong. passengers talking about the fact that there were all sorts of things you know basically flying through the cars. theres seven is total cars that derailed. weve been watching all morning as you can see there, its happening again now, the investigators are coming out with flashlights looking at the tracks. looking at the cars. weve seen canine dogs going into the cars. weve seen firefighters standing out, clearly lo...

Ripped apart. it is a devastating scene down there. we walked the entire length of the train area and the engine completely separated from the rest of the train and one of the cars is perpendicular to the rest of the cars. its unbelievable. >> the passengers who managed to walk away described a frantic, bloody scene. >> i helped my mom get off. that was my first priority. luckily, im still here im still walking. i got really lucky. and so i figured i would do my best to help because i saw everyo...

I want you to listen to passenger janna dambrisi describe the crash. again, i should note theres no official cause for the crash, but here feeling was, yes the train was moving too fast. >> so i was sitting in the second to last car on the right side of the train in.aisle seat. reading my books. everything seemed normal. and suddenly it felt like we were going a little too fast around the curve, is what it felt like. and then there was a jolt. and immediately, you could tell that the train derai...

So it appears that perhaps everyone is out of the train. we havent got that officially. we havent seen many people searching the cars in the last half our or so. but were still waiting to hear word. the last we heard from officials is that not all passengers are accounted for. >> thank you, sara sidner well let you get back to reporting on the scene of that train derailment. other passengers on the scene had equally hair-raising experiences. listen to this mans experience at the moment the train...

Id been thrown on to the floor in the aisle. and just chaos. chairs spinning around. i think the chairs are built to chain direction to get from one end to the other. so theyve all come loose. chairs were flying around. people were flying around bags. pretty chaotic. >> officials say theres no information yet on the cause of that crash. an ntsb go-team due on the scenety moment now. former safety director mary schiavo says investigators will look at exactly how fast that train was going. >> the ...