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>> thanks for that update. joining me now is msnbc's national correspondent joy reid, who is at temple university hospital. what can you tell us about the injuries and those in the hospital at present? >> i can tell you, it was just a press conference here earlier in which they talked about the eight people still in critical care. they also talked about one of the patients that they treated who unfortunately did not survive. his name was james marshall gaines, a 48-year-old father of two, survived by a wife of two children, age 16 and 11. he was a software architect for the associated press, w...

And injured another 200 and it happened just steps away from another rail accident more than 70 years earlier. on september 6th of 1943, an even deadlier railroad crash took place in philadelphia less than a mile from tuesday's accident. at the time, the doncongressional limited train was the fastest on the pennsylvania railroad line. it traveled between washington, d.c. and new york city at the then unheard of speed of 80 miles per hour. on labor day 1943 541 people boarded the limited at washington's union station. many of them were soldiers on leave for the holiday from world war ii. minute...

Were minor in the big scheme of things. it felt like it was going fast but the train always feels like it's going fast. i trust and rely on amtrak to make sure that it's going safely. >> yeah. and the train was i believe a seven-car train, and nearly everyone on it had some kind of injury, or if not physically then surely there's some psychological trauma that everyone sustained. let me just ask you, when you got off the train did you talk to other folks who were on the train, and what were they saying? >> there was a range of emotions. there were a lot of people who were calm and trying to he...

Those that are currently here trying to identify everyone that was on that train. as you were mentioning, he did talk about the death toll. that death toll as of now stands at seven. more than 200 people injured. he would not put a total number of how many people are unaccounted for, though he did confirm that there is a number, at least of people that are not accounted for. in terms of the investigation, that's still very much ongoing. he did not comment on where the investigation stands. did not say what officials believe to be the main cause of this derailment. said the focus right now is o...

Rules. the asella train has something called positive train control, or automatic train stop. so that speed is monitored, and if the engineer for whatever reason, is exceeding the speed, the train will automatically stop. you've got an amtrak train in this accident that apparently did not have that feature. so it is possible through technology to monitor speed. we will know more once we get the read out of the black box. but from my perspective, that technology ought to be on every train in the northeast corridor. >> so this was a regional train. that technology to monitor speed was not on the...