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Could put an end to accidents like those and the one in philadelphia. it's a safety system that sought h. automatically slows trains down to enforce speed limit wills and it's in place in some sections, but not the location of tuesday's derailment. ptc is a system that uses sensors on the rails and inside the engine car as well as satellites to track a train's movement. if a train is going too fast, the system warns the crew if the engineer does not slow down the train, the computer automatically activates the brakes. >> so we have patrick murphy with us, heed rendell, as well. patrick, yester...

About what it was like. >> it just -- we were sitting there, and then it just -- you saw it go like that swung. you could feel it off the tracks. then we just rolled and rolled. and next thing i knew we were pushing out the emergency exit and i was outside, and there were people screaming and bleeding, and we helped them out, and they're okay now. >> victims, they were carried away in droves. outside, train cars just scattered off the tracks some on their sides, some upside down, one nearly split in two. and the tracks mangled and bent. here is how our affiliate's helicopter reporter described...

>> there are dozens of firefighters, police officers, on the scene, milling about between the different cars. just to set the scene. if the tracks are going north/south, the the cars are on the west side of the track. repeating what we talked about earlier. it looks like a tin can that has been open. the other car on the side. one car perpendicular. the front car, the engine car, some 50 yards south of the other cars. separated from the other cars when the train derails. descriptions by some of the passengers were dazed and confused coming off, self-evacuating off the train. others had to be t...

Evening, it was a complete scene of darkness with hundreds of rescuers, firefighters police officers using their own flashlights searching the scene. the mayor just spoke to us. and he said he cannot be sure at this time that everyone is accounted for. it is late at night. they will attempt to do some searching through the night. i can tell you i was on the scene an hour ago. just as it was scribbled by the mayor and the governor a devastating mangled mess. that's what it is. one of the train cars. it looks like a tin can was open. the front car. the engine car is at least 50 yards away from t...

The engine car which was about at least almost about 50 feet north of the other cars that were completely turned off. the pictures you've seen in the aerials. the car that looks like it is completely mangled. the one car that is perpendicular to the tracks. complete devastation. five fatalities six critical. we talked about 243 people on the train. the mayor spoke to us about an hour ago. he said we can't be sure that everyone is accounted for. we saw a search dog go into the scene about an hour ago. they have a lot of the emergency workers have left the scene. but there's still plenty on the ...