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Approximately 9:28 first alarm went out, ultimately went to four fire alarms. fire department is in command on the scene. 33 apparatus, 120 fire fighting personnel, and ems. at a time probably 200 police officers. the department of homeland security on the scene as well as other first responders. state police on the scene, and amtrak personnel on the scene. our best estimate at the moment again, continues to be preliminary information. everything we tell you will be preliminary information. we believe approximately 243 personnel on the train. five of whom are amtrak employees. 65 is one new pi...

House and that was a main triage area. passengers started coming off the area right up my road about ten minutes after the first blue flash of light, and as they came off, they progressed to get worse and worse. the first wave of people were just talking and carrying their luggage like they had just gotten off their stop and then the next wave of people were covered in soot dirty, just debris, you know all over them and then the next wave. there was then casualties that started to roll out. people covered in blood and people carrying each other with their arms over their shoulders and helping ...

Breaking news. press conference with the mayor of the city of philadelphia michael nutter specifically on the latest with what's happened with the derailment of this amtrak train. let's take a listen. >> a couple brief updates. there will be some new information. also much of the same information that you've had before. again, we continue with the search operation, but there's also a full investigation going on. you saw earlier the national transportation board whose representatives are here their personnel are on the ground. again, any information i give you, unless we say that it is confirme...

Infrastructure so they can have a modern economy. >> this tragedy in philadelphia happened along amtrak's northeast corridor, the busiest railroad in north america. joins me to walk through the numbers about the corridor is msnbc's amanda sakuma. amanda, good morning. >> good morning, jose thanks. we want to show you numbers that will put this into perspective. the train line linking washington, philly, new york and boston is the busiest passenger line in the country. that number is 750,000 passengers everyday. all those passengers are carried on more than 2,200 trains everyday as well. no sur...

And see exactly what they need to do to decide what happened. six overturned trains at this point that they are talking about. there are about 200 officers on the scene. as well as several personnel, emergency personnel, firefighters as well. this is a story that fox news has covered from the very beginning. we'll continue to follow it throughout the night, as we try to figure out exactly what caused this amtrak train to derail. if you believe that you had a family member on the amtrak train 188, out of northeast regional there is a number please write this down. it's 1-800-523-9101. once agai...