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Here's how you do it. >> in every train car there's emergency exit windows. take the handle pull it pull the rubber from around that window, discard it grab the handle, pull the window towards you then you can go out the window. remember, it's still a seven to eight-foot drop to the ground. be aware of that. >> reporter: in most train crash there is's fire and smoke. how do you get out alive when you can't even see? recently we filled this car with simulated smoke to show you. >> it's going to be chaotic. you want to get on the floor. this is where you can breathe. get down here and follow the...

No seat belts on amtrak trains it's not hard to see how there would be so many injured. at least 140 people were either seen or treated. many of those people who were treated have been released this morning. one doctor at a hospital said that what he saw was what you probably expect to see, a lot of broken bones, a lot of lacerations -- excuse the sound of that subway above me and that what he saw in his experience over the course of the night was that the people who were in the back of the train had less severe injuries and as the cars went up the more severe those injuries became, he was les...

Hurt people were right in an ambulance triage center about 40 feet away from my front stoop and other people were milling around trying to get in touch with others and comforting each other as well. >> thank you for everything you've done. thank you for taking a moment to talk to us today, jeremy. really horrific scene, and, in fact nbc news has just confirmed that there is another victim, another fatality. seven people have now died from the derailment of train 188, the amtrak train shortly after 9:00 last night just north of philadelphia in the frankford area right off frankford avenue where...

Speed relationship to the signal system that's telling him what to do. so there's a lot of work that's already in progress. >> we heard -- >> remember when you get an event recorder which is what they call the recorders on the vehicle, and it says the operator applied the brakes well, then we're going to go look at the train itself and see if there's evidence he applied the brakes. so it's a set of checks and balances and everything that the ntsb does. >> john we heard amtrak officials and the mayor say there are things they know at this point things they do not know. from your expertise and b...

In command, the fire department is in charge of this scene, as well as the support from the philadelphia police department working with ntsb the -- whatever is comparable as we know it often referred to as a black box, that has been recovered. it is now in the amtrak operations center in delaware for analysis. we have no information from that particular device at all, because it is currently being analyzed by the experts. now we'll hear from amtrak board member and board chairman. >> thank you mayor. let me first start by saying how deeply saddened we all are at amtrak for the loss of life tha...