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Actually crashed or derailed. >> philadelphia is normally the stop where more people get off than any other between washington and new york. but was it your sense, janelle, that this was a front end impact on the train? i know it's very hard to tell that. >> it's very hard to tell that but yeah i would -- i would actually think so. when i looked over to my left there was a woman in the aisle with blood coming down her face. but i also remember a lot of people -- or some people standing up. so it seemed like even though people were shocked, they were not badly injured. >> so if it was a front e...

Great. >> patrick, about how fast was the train going, do you think, when this crash occurred? >> approximately 60 70 miles per hour we were going at a healthy clip from the philadelphia stop off the train. we were coming from washington up toward new york when we were going fine and all of a sudden it went off the rails. and i was in one of the cafe cars and i was at a -- we flipped over to -- the other side of the car upside down. >> so patrick, in the cafe car, were you standing or were you sitting when this happened? >> i was sitting in the bench and then i -- and then when it crashed, obv...

We don't have patrick murphy now. you're seeing live images from the scene near philadelphia where this crash occurred tonight. there's been reports of injuries. eyewitness reports of injuries. but no official reporting on that just yet and no word yet on what speed the train was traveling at. you can see what appears to be an ambulance in position there. we have very little information about this at this point. we do know that this was the -- this was not the higher speed train, the ophella train which runs on that same route and general lit it achieves higher speeds than the regional train. ...

>> thanks, rachel. we're going to continue this breaking coverage right now. an amtrak train from new york to washington, d.c. has derailed not far from philadelphia. amtrak regional 188 and was supposed to arrive in new york city about 10:30. so it was going from washington, d.c. washington -- to clarify, it was going from washington to new york city. the crash happened about half an hour ago.. a witness inside the train says she saw people fly into the air and a lot of smoke. we're told passengers were injured and some were bleeding. we're joined now by former pennsylvania congressman patric...

He had to play by. this is a pretty powerful message. >> i thought it was. i remember riding down on the stra train when he was a senator. he said to me i'm the poorest guy in the senate. 100 senators and i have the least amount of money but equal power. it reminds me what he's saying. the 1% in this country -- i've said this on "mad money" -- doesn't play by the same rules. they pay far less tax. the 15% tax romney pays it should be an issue, again. i was a hedge fund manager. i didn't pay this. i thought it was wrong to convert your ordinary income into capital gains is strictly something yo...