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WCAU NBC 10 News Today At 600a May 13, 2015

Cars that are out here that use these rail lines at this junction here and you see just a lot of activity out here for amtrak. Septa uses these lines as well. You can see just how much of this area is used for train activity. So were going to stay up here in sky force 10. Give you another update shortly now. Im live in sky force 10. Matt delucia, nbc 10 news. Matt thank you. Well ask you to stand by unless and until you have to refuel with your pilot. We were there as mayor Michael Nutter gave an update on the situation at 1 15. There was a curve in the area where the accident happened but he wouldnt speculate on the speed of the train or what else may have happened at the time of the crash. He also briefed us on all the agencies involved in response efforts. Full response. Fire police, department of homeland security, accept at that amtrak. I talked to governor wilson and his chief of staff. They are very concerned about this incident. Have given their full cooperation and support. All agencies actively engaged and involved. And weve also been covering all the area hospitals this morning. This is video from the scene of the derailment not long after it happened. Almost immediately. It shows people being put on to stretchers and loaded on to ambulances. Lets go now to katy zachry live on the scene. Katy fill us in on what you have. Reporter vai in just the last few minutes weve moved locations. Behind me you can actually see making out one of the derailed cars. This is by no means the worse off but it is tilting from the tracks. In the last few minutes amtrak crews have pulled out from the scene taking with them flood lights that theyve used all night. Now that it is daylight we are expecting cranes to be brought in. They will up right the train cars and remove the large debris. We talked to an injured passenger outside Temple University hospital. He had a pretty bad gash on his head which he does not remember getting. He tells us he was sitting in the quiet car when all of a sudden the train moved in such a way he knew something bad was happening. Started tipping to the right and after a couple of seconds or maybe it was half a second i realized that theres nothing good going to happen here. This train is tipping over. Reporter back out here live again. One of the train cars tilting off the tracks. Now coming up in the next half an hour well tell you what Emergency Responders first did when they got aboard the train cars. Reporting live in Port Richmond katy zachry nbc 10 news. Katie, weve been telling you that more than 100 passengers were injured, taken to area hospitals. Some of the passengers though who were able to escape safely made it back to 30th street station where the train left from. We talked to one man right after he had escaped. We were sitting there and then it just we saw it go like that. You could feel it off the tracks and then we just rolled and rolled. Next thing i knew we were pushing out the emergency exit. I was outside. There were people screaming and bleeding and we helped them out. Theyre okay now. Reporter that passenger was okay, too. Nbc 10s Deanna Durante was live overnight and bring us up to speed about what youre hearing where you are. Reporter well many of those passengers injured are coming back here at 30th street station. American red cross has set up a Hospitality Center feeding them, giving them blankets, getting them in touch with loved ones. We spoke with a gentleman by the name of andrew ken. He and 15 of his Family Members were visiting the United States from singapore. They were aboard the train. Everything seemed to be fine. He was half asleep and all of a sudden there was crashing sounds and screaming and he said that they just felt that they were rolling over and over. Take a listen to what he said to me a few minutes ago. Kind of jumping and big bang and then the whole train slide, keep on sliding for about 35 seconds and then just people fall on you. Luggage fall on you. There was screaming. Reporter now his family everybody okay. He said that they got outside of that train. They started looking around and counting making sure that everybody was together. Theyre together here at 30th street. Theyll be taking a bus back to new york city. I asked him when he got outside of that train and he looked around what was his first thought . He said that it was that he was alive and that he couldnt ask for anything more than that. He and his family okay heading back to new york city. We talked to another woman who managed to hold on to a rail in the train. Even with a broken arm. Youre going to hear from her coming up. Were going to send it to Monique Braxton keeping an eye on some of the injured in that train. Reporter hi, deanna. What weve learned in the last half hour is that as the passengers are being released here from the aria frankford campus theyre being taken by cab over to 30th street station to then board those buses and head home to new york. Now aria health received 75 patients at its two campuses frankford as well as over at torresdale. Our camera was rolling when more than two dozen arrived here. I talked to one patient walking on crutches with a broken leg. He told us he was exhausted, in a lot of pain after being up all night. Just imagine youre relaxing on the train, late at night, hoping to be home by 10 30 or 11 00 and all of a sudden youre being turned over and over again in the dark ending up in dirt. He says it was frightening. Now everybody just wants to go home, they told me. A doctor says the medical staff here voluntarily mobilized for the level three mass casualty alert. There was internal bleeding loss of Blood Pressure loss of life. Concussions. A lot of musculoskeletal injuries. Reporter now over at temple the nursing supervisor just told me moments ago they received 54 of amtraks passengers. The most serious were taken to temple or hahnemann hospital. Now six medical campuses in all are now treating some of the more than 140 either in Critical Condition or considered the walking wounded. Hahnemann has two dozen we just learned. Albert einstein told us this morning they have 10 patients. Jefferson told us they have two in e. R. And dozens more have been admitted. Now in the next half hour were working to get more updated information on the status of the patients who are still in philadelphia and those heading over to 30th street with hopes of heading back to new york. In frankford, Monique Braxton, nbc 10 news. Reporter all right monique. As we hear those accounts we want to tell our viewers that as people are being released from hospitals, as theyre being treated, as theyre being taken back to 30th street station, if you need to get ahold of someone who was on that train and you havent been able to amtrak has set up a hotline. It is 8005239101. Friends and Family Members can call and check on loved ones. Lots of things are starting to happen. Well bring you updated information from Port Richmond coming up. Thank you, tracy. The Train Derailment will have a huge impact on travel this morning whether youre using mass transit or not. Lets bring in nbc 10 traffic reporter Jessica Boyington. Massive delays and suspensions for mass transit, obviously for amtrak. All northeast service is suspended from philadelphia to new york. We have good news. New Jersey Transit will cross honor the amtrak tickets between new york city and trenton. Additionally an update for septa. The trenton line is still suspended. Chestnut hill line has resumed but there will be alternates around the area. You can expect delays. Additional trains were added to the Chestnut Hills line. Ill have updates on closures and the majors in the area coming up. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. 11 minutes after 6 00. Weve got bright sunshine illuminating that amtrak crash scene. Look at the flags blowing. Thats bringing the temperatures down. Humidity way down from yesterday. 46 . The clouds are already moving out. We will see a lot of sunshine. 55 degrees. 60s for allentown, quaker town nothing near what we saw at mount holly. At the shore, Atlantic City rehoboth 70 degrees. 70 for drexel hill swedes borrow and philadelphia with chillier weather to come. The seven day with the timing when im back in 10. Reporter sky force 10 has been live over the deadly Train Derailment all night. It has just moved away from the scene for flight restrictions but that has been our best vantage point. Were trying to get sky force 10 back over the scene. Coming up we have a representative from amtrak that can tell us the latest information about the derailment. Also for people at home trying to get where theyre going today, what it means for amtrak service. Thats coming up. Now the latest on our breaking news this morning. Crane crews are moving into place to up right overturned amtrak train cars in Port Richmond. The accident killed five people injured at least 140 others. We have learned delaware senator tom carper happened to be aboard that train when it left washington but he did get off in wilmington before the derailment happened. And right now we have Jerry Williams on the phone right now to tell us more about how this is affecting septa, a representative of septa. Jerry, thank you for coming on this morning. Youre welcome. First of all, do you have any information on the condition of those who have been injured . No im sorry, i dont. Amtrak is dealing with that. Okay. Let me ask you how this is impacting septa this morning. Well septa actually operates on amtrak territory. That northeast corridor is leased by septa to run our trenton line. The trenton line is suspended for now and will be suspended until amtrak is able to do their investigation and of course get those tracks repaired. Geri its suspended. Any idea how long it will last . Can we suspect this is wednesday. Through the rest of the week . Thats a big possibility. I would ask our passengers to prepare for an extended suspension. We do know that it will definitely be out all today. Jerri, obviously investigators are on the scene right now. This is a fluid situation, but its curious to us that on this very exact spot in 1943 going back to the biggest accident that happened with 79 deaths i believe. What do you know about the specific area and why two accidents now in you know 70year period or so . Really we have no idea why this accident occurred. The investigation continues. I dont know if its related to that accident many years ago. Were just going to have to wait and find out. Jerri, do you have any idea how long investigators may take to come up with their conclusions on what may have happened . Absolutely not. Im sure theyre going to take their time to get it right. We have no idea how long that will be. Jerri, finally, what would you any information youd like to give to those who are regular riders on septa about service . We have up to 11 to 12,000 people who use that line on a daily basis. Those people are needing to get to where they need to go today. We can suggest that they use the west trenton line. Its going to be added rider ship over there so theyre going to be delayed or they can drive to the Frankford Transportation Center they can take the market frankford line to get into center city. Jerri williams thank you for giving us that information. Yo you arere welcome. Reporter im matt delucia live in sky force 10. Weve been over the scene for several hours shortly after this crash happened around 9 00 last night. Weve been asked to move back by authorities about three miles away from the scene to allow some of the investigators down there and the emergency crews to continue doing their work. So were looking a the a little ways here. In fact, we do have a little bit of video that we were rolling on just up here in sky force 10. Youre looking at that right now. This is when we were a little bit closer to the scene and we got a little bit of daylight out here. You can see how much wreckage is out here as a result of this derailment that happened last night. Especially that one car there in the middle of your scene. You also saw some of the vehicles some of the heavy equipment right there just moving into the area to try to up right some of these rail cars that overturned. Well come back again live once again to give you another live picture out here. You can still see from the distance all those rail cars that are still derailed. Nothing has been up righted at this point. We are starting to see more of those cranes move into the area. Right over here to the right of your screen you can start to see more of those emergency workers right there along the tracks just kind of getting in position. A lot of them really just waiting to get the next order as the federal investigators move in to figure out exactly what caused this crash last night. Vai. Matt delucia riding on sky force 10. Thank you, matt. Well continue to follow the breaking news of the deadly Train Derailment. 5 dead over 140 others injured. Well be right back with more updates. But we also have video of what happened right after the crash. Keep crawling, okay . Crawl forward, sir. Keep crawling. Keep crawling. Keep crawling. Reporter we continue our Live Team Coverage of the deadly Train Derailment. Live in Port Richmond. We got this view from sky force 10 a few minutes ago showing the huge cranes on scene uprighting the seven cars and the engine that separated from the six cars. Thats what the cranes will be working on. They just got on scene in the last 30 minutes. We have Live Team Coverage. We have reporters at the hospital and where some people have got off safely at 30th street station and are waiting to be united with loved ones. Our Live Team Coverage continues. Thank you, tracy. Switching gears today. Today also marks the anniversary of another philadelphia disaster. 30 years ago today the moon bombing left an entire city block in ashes. May 13th 1985 Philadelphia Police in an effort to end a standoff dropped a bomb on a cost creek house occupied by members known as moon. Pete kane captured video of a bombing that started a fire that spread to 65 other homes. 11 people died. Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter shared his thoughts on the anniversary. Obviously one of the dark moments for the city of philadelphia. A lot of many lives lost. Homes destroyed. Six adults and five children died that day. There were two survivors. This morning four Philadelphia Police officers are out of the hospital following a hit and run. A chase and a shooting. Police identified rudolph keitt as the man they say ran over the officers at two different locations in olney yesterday. Police shot the man in the chest but he managed to drive almost two miles before being arrested. Nbc 10 viewer caught some of these moments on video. The mans family said they hired a lawyer. They believe keitt had a seize our or heart attack and thats what led to his actions. We spoke to a passenger that was inside keitts car. What started out as a medical condition ended up becoming a full blown criminal situation and to me it shouldnt have went that way. We checked this morning. Keitt remains in Critical Condition. Reporter passengers on board that deadly amtrak derailed train are talking about what it was like being on board that train. Weve got the story for you straight ahead. Reporter im Monique Braxton outside aria Frankford Hospital where medical personnel are arriving to treat some of the patients who were injured on board that derailed amtrak train. Well have the update for you after the break. Nbc 10 breaking news. It is just about 6 30 this morning. We continue to follow breaking news. Daylight is giving us a clearer view of the amtrak Train Derailment in philadelphia that claimed five lives and injured 140 people. We have Team Coverage from the scene. The hospital where the injured are being treated and from 30th street station where commuters are dealing with the effects of the crash. Good morning and welcome to nbc 10 news today this wednesday morning, may 13th. Im vai sikahema. Im. Reporter im Tracy Davidson. Five people are dead. More than 140 injured. The amtrak passenger train had more than 240 people on board heading from washington to new york. It had just left 30th street station when it left the tracks. First responders pulled victims from the pileup. Five area hospitals are treating the injured. Sky force 10 can give you a better look at the devastation from above. You can see seven cars. The engine separated from the others. You can see them in disarray and huge cranes brought in to up right the cars. Lets take you back to when this happened. It was about 9 30 last night near wheatsheaf lane over frankford avenue near Port Richmond. They just left 30th street station bound for new york where it derailed past a curve in the tracks, very obvious curve. Mayor Michael Nutter says hes never experienced a wreck like this. We have train cars that are completely over turned on their side, 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. Reporter now weve been getting pictures and video from passengers overnight and they show the chaotic scene in the moment after the derailment. Come on man. Ive got you, okay . Keep crawling okay . Where am i crawling . Crawl forward, sir. Keep crawling. Keep crawling. Reporter that video was shot by a hiphop producer who worked with philadelphias own bill reuth. Back o

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