Theyve completely derailed from the tracks. Theyve been destroyed complete completely. Aluminum she will has been destroyed and over turned meetly i dont want to speculate the cause but it is a devastating scene down there. Again that was the fire official talking about the devastation mayor Michael Nutter said hed never seen anything like this in his life tom recap for you fire official mention to do us there were six critical injured that was confirmed. 53 transported. Walking wounded. All taken to area hospitals including aria torresdale, hahnemann and temple and also of course preliminary at least five people have been killed so far. Thats what mayor Michael Nutter told us a different view now as were looking life. Now we got these overhead lights. You can see the just complete devastation here of these cars. One of cars just shredded. You can see downed wires as well iain. Which are dangerous. We heard weve been talking about it all night. You heard bruce talk with those two eyewitnesses who didnt want to be on camera. The one gentleman who mentioned that he was in the car and he said how did you get out . I dont remember if i got through the back or the front because the car was upside down. He didnt know where he was. And then the car is turned upside down hes thinking hes up right but hes upside down. You can see now part of that we cant see as well now it look like eat the back or the frontal of that one car was sheared off. And just tells you kind of what happened and then theres the car youre looking at the number two on red two on it is tilted on its side, and again weve got lights up now it look better. We can see it more clearly but the devastation is hard to imagine when you have a couple of officials who say they have never seen anything like this in their life. They had to use Hydraulic Tools to get some people out. As this eyewitness us what telling you some of the doors wouldnt open. They couldnt get a window up. They didnt know if they were right side up or upside down. Theyre doing secondary searches trying to make sure theyve got everyone out. But this is what they call a level three mass casualty event. It is. Department of Homeland Security is already talked talked to Governor Wolf about what happened here. We have no idea what happened. Theres been a lot of speculation. One of the passengers that has been writing about this an Associated Press manager had was actually on the train one of the back cars said it felt like somebody had slammed on the brakes and it kind of came to a screeching halt and then all heck broke loose and everything was ripped apart completely overturned. Things on their side and it happened in a heartbeat. It happened incredibly quickly. To just kind of bring up to speed if youre joining us because it is now 12 33 in the morning, shortly after nine tonight 9 00, 9 30 or so this amtrak 188 regional train had left washington, d. C. Coming through the philadelphia area on to new york city. It derailed. Tipped over broke apart and everybody is stuck in there. Off of that what we saw a whole bunch of flashlights at this scene because First Responders thats what they had. They had to get to the people rescue them as quickly as possible trough app the area get people who were hur the worst stable if they can. Before they could transport them and now the scene is much brighter because all of these overhead lights have come in. They can continue their sevenning and try to and figure out if the ntsb arrives what happened. Exactly. You can zero now we can clearly see one car sheared off and then two, three it look like there are about five cars here that have been one sheared off. The other ones are off obviously the rail and twisted and turned just seven total with the engine included. Just incredible to see now that we can get a better advantage point of it and see it and imagine the fear and the panic of those people that were on that were on that particular train look as skyfox zooms into that particular car you can see its tollly tollly on its side. If you can imagine you were in there trying to get out of that particular car. Thats why a lot of fire officials telling us they had to use Hydraulic Tools to get some of the people out. Some people were able to get out. As you take look at this mangled train, you can see why this such a devastating situation. We know at least five are dead wolf 38 passengers and five crew members from what we understand. We still dont have the official manifest thats a pretty good estimate who was on his train heading from washington d. C. To new york city. This happen in the Port Richmond area of philadelphia. So again other things you want to keep in mind, we mentioned it to you because of the situation there will be no trenton line tomorrow. Certainly not for the morning commute and probably not all at all tomorrow. Because septa does share a track with amtrak. No trenton line tomorrow. That will affect the morning commute. And again if you have anyone on that train maybe family members there is a number for to you call hotline 800529101 weve got the information on our website. Well have the number kind of on the bottom of our screen periodically as well. So that number 800523nip 101 if you want information on family or loved one on that train. Before i go back to bruce gordon we talked about how the department of Homeland Security talked to Governor Wolf. Governor wolf released statement now and we have it here. He says my thoughts and prayers are with all of those impacted by tonights Train Derailment for those who lost their lives those who where injured and the families of all involved this situation is devastating. I want to sincerely thank our First Responders for their brave and quick action. Im closely monitoring the situation and i am in contact with state and local authorities. So there you have statement from Governor Wolf that just came in tonight about what happened here in the Port Richmond area much bruce gordon live at the scene right now. Bruce . Reporter weve got updated information for the morning commute here. Im just going to flat out read this much this is from septa now. Due to the derailment of the Regional Rail train 188 septas trenton and Chestnut Hill west lines are suspended. Its anticipated that trenton line will be suspended throughout the service day tomorrow and this is important and possibly through the remainder of the work week. So that trenton line is going to be down for awhile. Information may be available in the morning regarding when service on the Chestnut Hill west line will be restored. But for now we can tell you that the trenton line will be shut down tomorrow morning almost certainly tomorrow evening for the rush hour and perhaps through the end of of the work week and that is big news for the commuters who come in from that trenton area come in from bucks county into the city. I95 always a problem in the morning commute and as it has gotten torn up by construction, that train line that trenton line has become even more important forgetting folks into the city each morning and out of the city each evening. That is going to be a major commuters story for the rest of this week. I just talk to frankelly from septa he said the area out there, the track damage is significant. Remember amtrak and septa share track lines throughout this area. He says that area there of the track where the accident occurred has been chewed up badly. They cant even get at it until some of the investigative work is done and search and rescue work is complete. So they will obviously be working throughout the night but theyve got lot of repair work to get to. I also understand from mr. Kelly that Governor Wolf may well be on his way here and we may hear from Governor Wolf and update from mayor nutter and that may be down in the area where Dave Schratwieser has been patrolling throughout the evening. So ive alerted hill and we expect Governor Wolf may be on his way here and may have some sort of an update to augment the statement lucy that you just read a couple of minutes ago. Thank you so much, bruce. Stay with us. If exactly. We just continue to follow this breaking news and of course weve been showing all night pictures from former congressman of pennsylvania Patrick Murphy who tweeted some pictures. He was on that train that was headed from washington, d. C. To new york. Lets listen to what he talk bow this former iraq war veteran about what it was like when all of this happen. It felt like a bank but then we just we, you know, i was facing south. We were going northbound. I was facing southbound. Cafe car with a little table area and i felt like we went that way then the other way and once we went we just flipped over. Then it was just dark and just dusty and um, just a lot of blood. That iraq war veterans training kicked in and he helped all of these people off that car. Amazing. He was also tweeting out these pictures after he had made sure everybody else was safe. It tilted and it suede. It flipped over and this is what they were left with trying to get out of it. That is one of a few pictures that he tweeted and weve got another one coming up here. Its just remarkable what he went through. He was lecked to congress after he came back from the iraq war. This picture right here shows the exterior of the train car. Again, mayor nutter and top brass of the fire and police departments, you know, theyve seen so much in their careers and for them to say we have never ever seen anything so devastating its destroyed. That car right there you can see its hanging own an embankment you can see is a light shining this 11 of the First Responders on scene before these big powerful lights came on to be able to help put Everything Else together. Sorry we had a little bit of technical difficulty right there. This is mayor nutter. Are we going going to toss to the sound right there. No we are not. Right now weve got the skyfox over the scene and it is upside down that train car. Another one right on its side seven cars total involved. Were talking the engine. What happened . That is an excellent question. We dont know. There are two recorders on this train. And hopefully they are not impacted too badly. Impact resistant containers and hopefully it was resistant to the sheer force and magnitude of what you see in front of you right that. Just incredible. Devastation that now we have these overhead lights on that we can actually see and sort of try to comprehend the magnitude of this situation. We talk about that car is upside down. Thats one car. We saw another car that had twisted metal and was sheared off. And so you can only imagine what a lot of these passengers are trying to get off that train and thats why the fire officials who responded here said they had to get some people out with Hydraulic Tools as youre looking at this twisted mass of metal that happened about 9 45 tonight. It is just skyfox pulls out here just to give you a kind of an idea of the magnitude of this situation. So again what we do know right now youre looking at this at least five people are dead. Thats what we heard from mayor nutter earlier. Thats a preliminary information. Sick people were critically injured. 53 were transported and of course there was walking wounded as well. 200 Police Officers responding and about 120 firefighter and they are calling this level three mass casualty event. I want to point out there is another train right here. We don know what happened. But there is its obviously you know, a lot of train tracks. A lot of traffic going on here but there is another train on the track. Does this figure into what happened . We do not know. Within the coming days we will fine out more. Very quickly, you know, you were talking about what it must have been like inside weve got video from inside the train. Listen. I got you okay . Keep crawling, okay . Crawl forward sir. Keep crawling. Come on, man. I got you okay. Keep crawling. Okay . This is actually what you see here you got to tilt your head to the right and this gentleman in the right shirt is trying to crawl through a door there and another passenger telling him to keep crawling and crawl that was had door. Its going to be okay. Devastating scene as this car is turned upside down and to the right. Theyre trying to get this gentleman out. One of the many scenes that played out few hours ago when this happen. Now, mayor Michael Nutter has been a busy day for him and has seen a lot of listen to him describe what he saw when he saw the scene. Ive been down on the tracks on the scene with my staff. It is an absolute disastrous mess. Never seen anything like this in my life and most personnel will say that as well. Mayor Michael Nutter saying hes never seen anything like this. Dave schratwieser has covered many many scenes. Many many tragedies throughout our see city. Dave has been at the scene now for hours. Dave . Reporter lucy we talk about that lighting that was brought in here awhile ago. Emergency lighting. Ing now see down wheatchief lane off of frankford how it look like daylight down there at this point. Giving investigator as better look at exactly what the situation is there as they check and recheck the train for any further casualties or individuals who may not have been accounted for. Again two thought passengers five crew members on board. You heard the mayor talk about five fatalities, six people critically injured. 53 people transported to local area hospitals. We saw lot of those folks who self evacuateed on septa buses as they were taken to those hospitals just to get check out and give police statements. You played some of the that interview with former congressman murphy. Some tales from on board the train right after this helped about people banning together and trying to help people out. Knockingknocking out emergency window to help evacuate the train and staying on bore the train to treat people as they were injured cut bleeding, some of them with serious trauma when the train flipped own on the side. Six cars i believe the mayor said are completely derailed. Either on their side or turned upside down. The front car is perpendicular im told ive not seen skyfox shots you guys have. Down at the end of the block on wheatchief lane you can see 2,000 block i believe all lit up like daylight. Those lighting emergency Lighting Fixtures brought in from the Philadelphia International airport. The Streets Department amtrak others they do night work on the rail sometimes and they are going to need that light power tonight to make sure they start the investigation the right way. We her about the ntsb go team headed here to philadelphia. Theyre the experts on getting getting to the bottom of exactly how this happen. What caused this to happen. And retrieving all the pertinent data equipment and tracking mechanisms on board those trains to tell them exactly what happened. That go team were told will have some type of Media Briefing probably a preliminary one early in the morning tomorrow. Then throughout the day from what weve been told at this pope again the mayor saying he would not speculate on what caused this. They have no idea. At this point what caused the situation to occur. He would not say everyone was accounted for at this point because he said he just couldnt say that. They are continuing to check the area we see lots of firefighters and especially trained Police Officers and firefighters walking out of the scene right now. Theyve been up in that area for, oh, well over 3. 5 hours at this point. Dealing with the situation here. But things have calmed down here in the neighbor. In pourtray pond news crews Emergency Personnel and again the end of the street down there all lit up so investigator which is kind of get better look at the train and the cars that have been derailed. We have not seen any medic units leave here with anybody on board in a good hour now. Bruce gordon my colleague was over near the triage area near sedgley and frankford. Got a good look at some of the people that came off off the train injury but i was really moved by former congressman murphys talking about how folks that were on the train that were okay even after it tipped over stayed on the train to help those who were not. He talk about some real valiant et cetera by folks to try and help out their fellow passengers on board the train who were more seriously injured than they were guys. Incredible story to hear that. It really is. See those videos youve been playing. No doubt about it. Dave, again just kind of recap for me if you can we played a small short snippet from the congressman. But if you can tell me again what did he do the moment it just broke loose on that train . What happened at that point . Walk us threw it. Reporter well i asked him if he noticed anything before the train derailed, and he said he didnt really notice anything. He felt a hard shift one way and then back the other way and he got tossed from one side of the cafe car to the other. And then the car just went over. He took a headcount on board the car he was on said there were 11 people on board when the fire personnel got on board the train he reported there were 11 people on there. He said he punched out or kick out an emergency window and helped people goat oat out. Some people self vac weighed. Some individuals stayed on the train to deal with folk who had serious cuts, bruises and trauma. He said there was a lot of bleeding. He said hes never seen a scene like that. Obviously hes iraq war veteran so im sure he means nonwar relateed scene like that. But, upping, he talk about i asked him exactly what did you do at first . He said i just kind of looked around to see if there was somebody i can help, gathered myself quick toll make sure i was okay. He counseled all this body parts i think he said. Oh yeah. Make sure he was fully in tack there. He did call his