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Good afternoon we begin with breaking news this afternoon, federal investigators have arrived in philadelphia at the site of the deadly amtrak derailment in Port Richmond six are confirmed dead and more than 200 hurt. And some are unaccounted for and hearing dramatic stories from those that survived and a section of the nations Busiest Railway is closed as teams comb the railways for possible victims. The accident happened last night bound for new york city, we have learned that the black box is recovered and the trains engineer is being questioned. We have Live Team Coverage for the investiga...

And Associated Press employee, jim gaines is also among those killed. John rawlins is live and eva pilgram is at 30th street station. Lets begin with john rawlins. Reporter well, good afternoon, the mayor has cautioned that much of what is reported so far is preliminary and subject to change the death toll stands at six but we learn that is likely to increase today, the city is not saying how many people are missing or unaccounted for at this time. And as for survivors they all say it happened very, very fast and at one minute they were going into a curve and the next moment the train flew off...

Jeff is thankful to be alive. Once it started it was kind of bizarre. It almost felt like we were flying. The cars flew off a left hand curve and at least 200 people were transported to hospitals and an additional body was found in the wreckage and the death toll rose to seven and they disabuse that project ecaisles were linked to the crash and that it was traveling as twice the posted limit. I cant confirm that and i done believe that the ntsb can confirm anything like that. They are still going through their process. That situation though still seems to have changed. The ntsb has confirmed a...

Amtrak locomotive. That is where the rails are. The train crash is just to the right of that. As you said now, the investigation focusing on the speed of this train. And the possibility that it was going more than twice as fast as the speed limit on this tight corner. The scene described by survivors as chaotic, train cars torn apart. Tipped on their side. Mangled. There were so many head injuries and, you know, bloody faces. People were really injured. Brad shortly after 9 00, tuesday night, amtrak train 188, 238 passengers and five crew members traveling from washington, d. C. York city. Goi...

You are alive. Okay. Now what . Brad of the 238 aboard amtrak train 188 the 710 out of d. C. Seven are killed. 200 suffer some form of injury, several critical. Philadelphias mayor says it is amazing to him that the sevencar derailment wasnt much worse. He describes seeing mangled cars scattered off the rails people screaming a desperate search for survivors. To see it in the daytime is almost indescribable. I it is papeful. It is amazing and incredible that so many people walked away from the scene last night. Brad the train just pulled out of philadelphia 30th street station on the way to ne...