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You've been listening to all of this unfold what are you seeing what do you know? >> it's an incredible scene out here we're on the 2200 block of east butler street right next to the conrail frankford junction yard the sign says safety is our first priority. it's an incredible scene of police and firefighters an army of both i'm watching right now, a couple firefighters drag a gurney up to the area where the crash has no doubt occurred. i spoke by phone a couple minutes ago, with former bucks county congressman patrick murphy he did not want to speculate in terms of the extent of the damage an...

Train. you can see first responders attended to the accident right now. these are live shots. we don't have any solid reports yet on any injuries. amazingly, we did learn first of this crash from a former pennsylvania congressman and msnbc host who say on the train. congressman pat murphy to you took these pictures on the right side of your screen from what looks like the dining car on the train. joining us live now on the phone is janelle richards a producer for nbc nightly news who was on the train. janelle, thank you for calling in. what happened tonight? >> yep. we were riding on the train...

Train. right now. >> patrick, i want to go back to that moment where this crash occurred where you were in the dining core sitting at one of those tables. of course, no seat belts anywhere on an amtrak train and the dining car being an even looser place to sit, as it were. the train, that train, that regional train, at 60, 70 miles per hour, does a certain amount of rocking. it's not just a smooth roll. and there's some rocking back and forth. you get used to it pup internalize it as the train is moving along. at what point did you realize what i'm feeling here isn't right? well, i was sitting...

Wanted to get out we're just sitting on top of the car then. i don't know what that drop is. maybe eight feet. just making a jump. i had one shoe on. and trying to jump down. some people helped out. people weren't able to get out of the car before me. it appears it had crashed down. around them. >> did you say you were in the dining car? >> i was not. sorry. >> sorry. i was in a car that business class car. and -- >> and did your car overturn? >> yes. it was on the side. so i mean we had to climb out of the window which is now the

End of the run where the train would be coming in approaching 30th street station before long and is not a particularly high speed run. again, you don't want to do too much speculating there. >> we do know the train was going from d.c. to new york city. and reports we got was that the front of the train started to shake. and then went off the rails. so yeah, you're right, we don't know what rate of speed it was traveling, it is a bit of a mangled mess we're getting a look from sky fox over this particular area and flashlights everywhere as these first responders are looking for anybody who may...