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The seat and keeping my head ducked low because the train started to roll this way. things were -- cell phones were flying laptops were flying. i didn't even see these two women were catapulted up into the luggage rack. >> i saw so many head injuries and bloody faces. people were really injured. they were thrown out of their seats. one girl slammed into, you know one of the seats. there are a lot of fractures, arms, shoulders, all kinds of fractures. there was nothing i could do to help. i had nothing except to just talk to the people and try to help them. >> those are just some of the stories...

Reporter on the scene, amtrak and how -- i don't know if the word is antiquated i'm not sure how it's appropriately described, but down to knowing who was on the train, it seems behind the times. for people who don't know when you get on an amtrak train, you can put it on your phone and print your ticket not until the conductor comes by and processes your digital ticket for example, or you actually even registered as a passenger, so they don't know who actually got on the train. that technology is not available to have an accurate manifest. >> that's correct, and it's been a problem for amtrak...

See car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. i'm kate bolduan coming to you live from philadelphia. this is cnn's special live coverage of the deadly amtrak derailment that happened late into the night and really you can see the aftermath still unfolding before us. so many agencies on the scene behind me all trying to get their hands around not only search and recovery but also trying to get the investigation of what happened under way. a main focus is to make sure there are no more victims in the wreckage. not everyone on the train's manifest is accounted for right now ...

So somebody's leg hit the side of my head. the rest of her body must have been in the luggage rack. >> i really thought this might be the end. there's no way to know like in the darkness. so just being able to -- you knew you were alive and okay. >> reporter: among the dead 20-year-old justin zemser, a midshipman at the u.s. naval academy on his way home to new york. >> he was his high school valedictorian and was just finishing up his second year as midshipman at the united states naval academy. he was a loving son, nephew and cousin who was very community minded. >> reporter: and jim gaines ...

It was a regular train, senator tom carper was in the cafe cart table next to me working, he got off at wilmington, we hit philly i was getting off the next stop in trenton, everything was fine until we heard some pretty violent vibrations. i don't know if it was brakes or what not, but when that happened, you saw the car that was going northbound the train, our car banked to the left and then as if it was leaning over then immediately to the right. then it just went all the way over, so for those of us like myself who were on the other side of the train and the bench seating, there was no han...