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Coming in. six people were killed in this. now we're learning more about those who died. one of the associated press's key video people, key video journalists for them, was one of those who died in this train derailment. and jim gains his 8 years old -- 48 years old. father of two. on his way home to plains borrow, new jersey. pentagon official confirmed that a u.s. naval academy midshipman was among those killed on the amtrak train as well. we can tell you that the ntsb sent seven different teams of people. they hav categories they look at that signals on the train track, the train itself, th...

Patient or hospital information. the hospitals assign personnel to our emergency operations center last night. that is a very tedious process, dealing with individuals, many of whom obviously, we have no idea who they are until they self identify. we very well could have also had people who did not even check in with us. there's also the possibility that some people who were supposed to be on that train, as many of us always know some people just miss their train or end up taking a different train or something like that so we're not going to get into the hard specifics of who do we have who do...

After last night's amtrak crash. that process is even harder because crews do not know exactly how many people they may be looking for. the drain car tipped over shortly -- the train cars tipped over shortly after train 188 left the nearby 30th street station in philadelphia and possibly before all passenger tickets had been collected. let's go to cnn's kate bolduan live near the crash site in philadelphia. any updates on any of the efforts to identify those who went to the hospital and those who still may be trapped inside a train car, god forbid? >> reporter: god forbid is right, jake. this ...

To what we might think of as in an airliner? >> congress -- what congress has done -- they set a throttle position by the engineer and they head in but there's no what they call positive train separation, that's the buzzword here. if the train is being operated out, you know unsafely the -- the positive train controls will intercede and stop the train and bring it -- congress has mandated it. it's in the works. amtrak has close to it but i don't think it was in effect on this section of track where the accident occurred. >> jim remines, thanks very much with your experience from the ntsb. than...

We've heard from people onboard that say they were tossed around all over these train cars. would seat belts have not made a difference? >> i think they would have, john. with the study and every study about safety, there are so many different angles and so many things to look at. you have to make sure you're asking the right question. in 2007, they said seat belts would have caused more problems because you wouldn't be able to exit the train quickly. exiting the train quickly is not something that you look at seriously because there's rarely a fire in a passenger train. most of these are elec...