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Rails between boston and washington. This is an aerial shot of the spot just to my left where a speeding northeast regional train jumped the tracks last night. There were 238 passengers on board and a crew of five. At least seven are dead, more than 200 injured. Investigators from the National Transportation safety board are here, and tonight crews are moving the train to a secure location. Hour after hour Police Firefighters and other rescue workers searched desperately for anyone who might still be trapped in the wreckage of amtrak train 188. Keep crawling, okay. Crawl forward, sir. Pelley a...

At least seven people are reported to have been killed and over 140 injured late on Tuesday when an Amtrak train carrying 238 passengers and five Amtrak employees derailed outside of Philadelphia and rolled onto its side. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter called the scene of the crash an "absolute disastrous mess," the likes of which he had never seen before.

He was at that point certainly in control, trying to be in control of the train. >> joy, you're at the hospital there which is one of the trauma centers that was flooded last night. how did the hospitals there divide this massive number of people who were coming their way? who was directing the ambulance traffic? >> absolutely. there were triage unit at the crash site that directed patients to each of five area hospitals, including temple area hospitals, which is a level one trauma unit. so they got the largest overall number of patients. so essentially, triage units that were on-site at the c...

you could feel it off the track and then we just rolled and rolled. >> while traveling through a left hand turn, the entire train derailed. >> at least seven people were killed. >> including a young navy midshipman on his way home. >> absolutely wonderful. everybody looked up to my son. >> more than 200 have been treated for injuries. >> at least seven people were killed. >> including a young navy midshipman on his way home. >> absolutely wonderful. everybody looked up to my son. >> more than 200 have been treated for injuries. >> we were fortunate that there weren't more deaths. thi...

philadelphia. >> off the track and we just rolled and rolled. >> while traveling through a left hand turn the entire train derailed. >> at least seven people were killed. >> including a young navy midshipman on his way home. >> absolutely wonderful. everybody looked up to my son. >> more than 200 have been treated for injuries. >> we were fortunate that there weren't more deaths. things could have been a lot worse. >> eight people still in critical care. >> this is the busiest rail travel corridor in the country. >> more than 2,000 trains every day. >> trains exceeded 1 is 00 miles p...