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More than 200 patients. hospital officials say that some victims had injuries ranging from cracked ribs to collapsed lungs. about half of the people treated have now been released. but eight remain in critical condition at the hospital of temple university. others remain missing. i want to go to the crash site now. erin mclaughlin is there. how close are official there is to clearing the scene? >> reporter: they're simply not at that point yet. the search very much ongoing. the area expanded last night, they brought out sniffer dogs and expanded it in the early hours of this morning, still loo...

Also a number of hospitals where the injured have been sent where people are trying to catch up with those who might have been on the train. you see a lot of flashlights. it's kind of hard to tell exactly what the activity is right now. but again, it's really going to pick up once the sun comes up and those investigative teams come in. >> this is the busiest rail line in the country. but it appears not a lot of trains or any trains i should say probably going to be going through this area here in philadelphia the rest of this week. >> no, certainly not until they get this cleaned up, they get ...

A few other tidbits to pass along. they recovered the black box out of that train. it's now at a lab in delaware and they're efforting getting information off that black box. thank you for joining me today. i'm carol costello. "at this hour" starts now. hello, everyone. i'm john berman live in new york. >> and i'm kate bolduan coming to you live right now from philadelphia. behind me is the scene we are talking about. it is a horrific scene. it's far back there. you can see crews coming in and out. the latest numbers we have most important thing to tell our viewers is that the number of dead...

Philadelphia's mayor, michael nutter, held a press conference a short time ago. i was able to ask the fact that not everyone was accounted for. some 12 plus hours after the accident and what that all meant. listen here. >> we have not completely matched the manifest that we received from amtrak with the patient or hospital information that hospitals assign personnel to our emergency operation center last night. that is a very tedious process dealing with individuals, many of whom we have no idea who they are until they self-identify. we very well could have had people who did not even check in...

>> train 188 and northeast regional was carrying 243 people when it derailed. the former pennsylvania congressman patrick murphy was one of them and described the chaotic scene inside. >> i was in the cafe cart i was in the third or fourth -- i was in it the fourth car probably. there was a lot of blood and got banged up and hurt bad. >> i checked my body parts. i was okay. the guy next to me was unconscious. i slapped him a little wit and got him up. >> a man who lives near the derailment said it sounded like quote a bunch of shopping carts crashing into each other. amtrak investigators are a...