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Weren't enough ambulances to tend to all the wounded. he also said that he would ride amtrak again, jake. >> erin, thank you so much. how did this trip that was all too routine for many people on board end in such a spectacular tragedy? our own tom foreman is in the virtual studio with a look at how a crash like this could happen. tom? >> we've been hearing about speed all day. and the reason is because there were early indications that might be in play. look at this surveillance video that rene made mention of. if you compare the length of one car or the locomotive, it's 600 yards away from w...

York city has been shut down. the northeast corridor is the busiest rail line in north america. you can imagine what's stopping service will do. let's go to penn station right now. brian stelters is there. you are a frequent amtrak rider a maryland native, you go back and forth all the time. how does today compare to the days you normally see at penn station? >> right. a lot of media types, politician, business types travel this line every day. it's as if someone has taken a string, john, and cut in the middle of it because trains are moving north of new york, moving south of philadelphia, but...

This point they cannot confirm that everyone has been accounted for. they only can confirm the amount of people that have been sent to the hospital which like i said 65 people transported. six of those in critical condition. and five people dead. you're looking at the front train car there. it appears that the subsequent train cars the second and third possibly being that mangled mess of metal that you can see. if they pan up a little bit, you can see right there behind, just a bunch of metal. really really sad. trying to figure out what happened. there are witnesses on the train that say -- t...

Passengers tossed around. many trapped inside had to find their own way out. some survivors were able to find their way out by climbing through the windows. many of them had to help each other. safety officials have not determined the cause this crash. some of the people believe felt like the train was slowing down we don't know that for sure. but investigators going to look at fatigue possibly. they're going to look at infrastructure. is there a safety concern? did something go wrong. they don't know. right now, no foul play suspected in this thing. but the fbi certainly still continuing to m...

Small number but every life to the people that lost them is irreplaceable. >> there are so many people from around the world that were on this train and it's important that the mayor spoke out. chris has been here all morning really seeing this from nighttime as the sun came up. it truly is amazing. the enormity of the task not just trying to find out who was where and make sure everyone is accounted for but the enormity of the task of figuring out what happened on this train and how they are going to get all of this wreckage off of the tracks and try to get this corridor reopened. this is a m...