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>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. breaking news this morning -- at least five people killed dozens more injured, six in critical condition. an amtrak train derails in philadelphia. passengers describing a horrific scene. investigators trying to figure out what went so wrong. live team coverage begins right now. welcome back to "early start," folks. i'm christine romans. >> and i'm john berman. 30 minutes past the hour. i want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. the breaking news is devastating train derailment in philadelphia. you're looking at live ...

In progress. those lucky enough to walk away in a state of shock. >> i can see the blood on people's faces. they can't move. i'm still here. i'm still walking. i got really lucky. >> reporter: first responders in the dark of night combing the area for injured and those unaccounted for. >> i've never seen anything so devastating. they are in pretty bad shape. they have completely derailed from the track. >> reporter: helicopters hover as rescuers search through the wreckage. why this happened still unclear. amtrak is cooperating with the ntsb which launched a go team to assist in the investigat...

This amtrak train on busiest rail line in north america. it's train 188, headed from washington, d.c. to new york. it rounded this bend and then just flew off the tracks in philadelphia tearing apart its cars and violently catapulting those passengers inside. i've got some video i want to share with you. this is surveillance video you're about to see here. look within the spotlighted area. this is what captured those deadly moments on those tracks. and those lighted cars just whipping by one after another and then disaster strikes. a flash point of terror as the train derails. all 243 people o...

>> harrison ford is in the hospital right now after crashing his vintage plane on a california golf course. he did cut his head but he's expected to be okay. they are trying to see what caused the delta flight that caused a plane to go off the runway feet away from the icy waters. >> dark smoke rising to the describesky after a frait train derails in a northern illinois. the fire is out but some smoke is still rising from the scene. families were told to evacuate but only a few did. al deadly crash.

Depending on how much water the airplane is in, or also by a ship that might be cruising over the top. but, of course, as we mentioned a little earlier, the area that they're looking, in to try to find this airplane is probably the size of the state of pennsylvania. so we also don't know how many -- how many boats have been committed to this effort, and that's another problem right now. >> before i let you go, because this is what you study, what do you think happen. >> i hate to answer that one, but honestly, as a gut, my pilot instinct tells me there was a catastrophic event at 35,000 feet. ...