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He was on the train that detrailed around 9:40 this evening. he s been active in the process in terms of twitter as well he put out a couple tweets there one of them being a photo you can see a man s leg bloodied as well as an arm as well we have trace ghallager standing by live in the l.a. newsroom. l.a. excuse me trace, can you tell us what you re getting there? well it s interesting when you talk about the witness. a second witness just saying waits a loud bang because jackie earlier a witness saying he heard a loufd bang as well then other witnesses saying they didn t hear anything just felt shaking and the train went off the rails. it s important to know the fact that remember these trains do not have any seat belts on them. none. at all. so the first car is normally the quiet car. it s a business class car. the second might be the quiet ....
That woman was about four, maybe five cars back. we had a manager on board the train said the train shook, then derailed and later saying the train decelerated, then shaking and, derailed we just got an eye witness account from a man that was driving along frank furt avenue running parallel with the train tracks. he says quoting here he was driving down when he saw a flame of fire shoot up. when live pictures took over about 15 or 20 minutes after the crash we didn t see any flames. but you can see the mass of ....
Extremity fractures and lacerations from the crash. the report there is one report, one report citing the fire commissioner as saying this is a mass casualty incident. there are several reports saying that a mass casualty plan had been activated and that the situation has been upgraded to quote fourth alarm. that is a mass casualty plan. however no official confirmation of any fatalities in this situation we want to bring you now to a passenger on the train, she joins us by phone. beth tell us what happened. so it started off as a pretty standard trip outside of philly to new york. i was on the phone with the friend about the time i decided not to get in that car and to get in the next one ....
That area. they continue to look for survivors, if anyone else needs help we re going to stay on top of this situation. we have bruce gordon on the way, we hope he s there. we can check in with him, to find out what kind of area is this how close is it to any residences in case you ve been tuning in you re watching this train was going from washington, d.c. to new york city. and we understand there could be as many as 240 people on this train. reports of at least 50 people injured, and again, police are telling us that if you live in that area and you want to help don t do that this is not safe they don t want anyone to come out to this area they re going to secure this area. we know you want to help it s a natural instinct to help this is not what they want from you at this time. we get a closer zoom in here it doesn t look like it s one of the cars. looks like one of the cars turned over there. bruce gordon is right now on the phone, i know that you ve been heading to the scene, ....
Car. those are the first two. as you look at this massive wreckage you don t know which cars were involved and which were damaged the most severely. because it appeared in some of the pictures sh if you look on the righthand side the top of the screen it appears that that might be the lead car. if there is impact with the lead car, you d anticipate it could be the most severely damaged but remember, they could wo not speculate as to what caused the crash. so if you go back to metro crash that happened in new york city it was clear that train struck a truck on the track. so in this case they haven t given an indication this hit anything. earlier there are local reports ....