from philadelphia, where five people are dead and dozens injured after last night's horrific train derailment. more than 140 people were sent to area hospitals. at least six are in critical condition. and at this hour officials say not everyone is accounted for. 243 people were on board train 188 when it departed washington, d.c., in route to new york city. amtrak service between new york and philadelphia remains suspended. the train was entering a turnaround at 9:30 last night when passengers say it shook and came to a sudden stop. a nearby resident said it sounded like shopping carts crashing into each other. the location is known to have a big curve with a speed restriction requiring trains to slow down as they approach. it's unclear at this point how fast the train was going. but like we said, the scene was horrific. >> the first three cars there was a huge trauma. and so you know significant abdominal injuries bodily injuries where there's internal bleeding. other injuries, a lot of

muscular skeletal concussions, definitely cuts and bruises. people will be more sore tomorrow. >> janelle richards an nbc news producer, was on the train and shot this video of passengers trying to get out of the emergency exit. some of the passengers are now speaking out, describing movie-like chaos. >> my mother was having trouble breathing because of her ribs. there were people that had suitcases and chairs thrown on top of them and their faces were bleeding. people with broken arms broken legs, just everything you can imagine. >> former congressman patrick murphy and host of msnbc's "taking the hill" was one of the passengers on board. he took the photo you see here on the front page of this morning's "the new york times," a scene of horror. >> i had to pull myself up because it was sideways and there was a guy that withas okay

next to me but then there was another guy next to us who was totally knocked unconscious and bleeding. so i grabbed him and shook him a little bit okay buddy, buddy. and he eventually came to. and there was just a lot of screaming. >> and get this. senator tom carper of delaware was sitting next to murphy. his staff says he got off the train in wilmington not long before it crashed. a team of federal investigators will work this morning to determine what exactly happened. joining us now from philadelphia, msnbc's adam reiss. and adam do we know if everyone is accounted for at this time? >> reporter: luke good morning. unfortunately, no. the mayor says he cannot be sure at this hour whether or not everybody has been accounted for, and that's why we saw a search dog go in we saw firefighters with the jaws of life. those are hydraulics that can actually open twisted metal to see if in fact there are

people still inside one of these train cars. the train left the 30th street station in philadelphia about 9:15 last night. it made its way to this curve north of philadelphia at about 9:28, and that's when the derailment happened. all seven cars off the rails. three of them turned upside down. complete twisted wreckage. i was up there earlier this evening, and it was just a sight to behold trains on top of each other. now, passengers described a scene of chaos. it was luggage falling from the roof chairs flying people flying making their way out into here into this area in complete darkness. you could see firefighters and rescue workers using flashlights to make their way around to see if they saw survivors. the good news is that there were a lot of people that self-evacuated, and firefighters were grateful for that. so they will be investigating. the transportation board, the fbi, the federal railroad will all come here they'll look at the event recorders, they'll try

to determine how fast was the train going, when were the brakes applied, and they will take toxicology tests of the conductor. luke? >> adam reiss, thank you so much. those images certainly are horrific. the track just bent out of shape, the train cars on top of each other. you know how much those weigh. amtrak's popularity has been on the rise in recent years. ridership has increased by roughly 50% in the last 15 years. over 30 million passengers rode amtrak trains in 2014. meanwhile, more than 11.6 million people traveled aboard the acela and other amtrak trains on the heavily traveled northeast corridor line linking washington, d.c., and boston last year. that was the line's all-time high. and a.m.mtrak trains account for 77% of all rail and air travel between washington, d.c., and new york up from just 37% when it launched the acela in 2000. back now live over the scene in

philadelphia, we're told cranes have now arrived on site and are preparing for a lift. we'll, of course keep an eye on the scene and bring an update in just a few moments. those images are striking. i can't get those out of my head. my goodness. you think about how much those cars, in fact weigh. all right, now to our other top story in nepal, where search efforts are ongoing for a missing u.s. marine helicopter carrying six americans and two nepalese soldiers. the chopper, similar to the one seen here was on a relief mission, when around 7:00 p.m. nepal time it suddenly lost all communication with the ground. there was reportedly brief radio contact about a fuel issue before communication went down. the helicopter was delivering relief supplies near the village of charikot after a second major earthquake hit nepal. it's just weeks after that massive quake there that killed 8,000. here's nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel with more. >> reporter: the earth moved

again. just as nepal was starting to recover. a 7.3 earthquake brought down buildings already weakened by the even stronger quake. temples collapsed. patients were carried outside. a camera in parliament recorded the moment the quake hit, and members cleared out. across kathmandu, terrified people poured into the streets. among them unicef spokesman kent paige. >> it struck very hard very fast, very loud and it was very scary. we really felt like the walls and the entire building around us was going to collapse on top of us. >> we just saw everyone running out in the street. it was a scary experience. >> reporter: the epicenter was east of kathmandu, closer to mt. everest. but this time base camp was empty, the climbers gone the season canceled after the april

quake triggered a deadly avalanche here. the people in the tiny mountain villages near everest have nowhere to run. they were already suffering from the first quake when we visited them last week. in kathmandu, there were some international rescue teams and international aid money came in. up here in the mountains, there's been almost nothing. these remote villages are now in even greater need of assistance. so are people across nepal. and they are afraid the earth will shake again. >> that was nbc's richard engel with that fantastic reporting. thanks to him. let's turn to politics and 2016. likely republican presidential candidate jeb bush will not participate in the iowa straw poll this august. the "des moines register" reports that bush will instead attend an event for the conservative blog red state in atlanta. bush is the first major republican name to officially opt out. the former governor placed a

distant seventh in the most recent iowa poll and recently announced he will be spending more time there. meanwhile, florida's former governor also has a new clarification about his recent remarks on the iraq war. nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker reports that story. >> reporter: do you not think there's an affordability issue -- >> reporter: jeb bush under fire after making these controversial comments about the iraq war on fox news monday. >> knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion? >> i would have and so would have hillary clinton, just to remind everybody, and so would have almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got. >> reporter: bush tried to walk back his remarks. >> i interpreted the question wrong, i guess. i was talking about, given what people knew then would you have done it rather than knowing what we know now. >> reporter: but when pressed -- >> so in other words, in 20/20 hindsight, you would make a different decision? >> yeah i don't know what that decision would have been. that's a hypothetical but the simple fact is that mistakes

were made. >> reporter: the bush camp went into damage control mode when one of his former aides tried to clarify his comments. >> i can tell you that i e-mailed him this morning and said to him, hey, i'm confused by this answer so i'm genuinely wondering, did you mishear the question? and he said, yes, i misheard the question. >> reporter: bush was blasted by democrats and by some fellow republicans. >> i don't think you can honestly say that if we knew then that there was no wmd that the country should have gone to war. >> what he said was just rubbish. you can't still think that going into iraq now, as a sane human being, was the right thing to do. >> reporter: polls show a majority of americans and even most republicans now say the iraq war wasn't worth it and bush has previously tried to distance himself from his brother, former president george w. bush but that's complicated. >> the iraq war is always going to be a vulnerability for jeb bush, but maybe jeb bush's biggest vulnerability, it's been his last name. >> reporter: a double-edged sword in a race that's wide open. >> that question's going to come back to haunt jeb bush. we'll see how it plays out

during this campaign. thank you, kristen welker. senate democrats brought probe proebesident obama probe's top agenda item to a halt yesterday, blocking a airborne pacific trade deal. by a vote of 52-45, democrats blocked the legislation from moving forward with only one, tom carper of delaware standing with the president. this after president obama made a forceful push accusing democrats like massachusetts senator elizabeth warren of spreading disinformation. after the vote ohio senator sherrod brown said he thought the president went over the line in his criticism of warren. >> i think the president was disrespectful to her by the way he did that. i think that the president has -- i think the president has made this more personal than he needed to. >> obama verse the liberals on trade. whoo, what a battle. a madison police officer will not face criminal charges

for fatally shooting unarmed, biracial teen tony robinson earlier this spring. nbc's ron allen has more on the new development in that case from madison, wisconsin. >> i am so very sorry for your loss. >> reporter: with that apology to tony robinson's mother for her 19-year-old son's death, district attorney ismael ozanne announced no criminal charges would be filed against officer matt kenny. >> this tragic and unfortunate death was the result of a lawful use of deadly police force. >> reporter: he described a violent and chaotic night with 911 callers saying robinson had assaulted several people. >> he said tony was acting kind of crazy and then came up to him and tried to choke him. >> reporter: police radio calls. robin robinson's friends had asked for help. >> look for a male black, light skin tan jacket and jeans outside yelling in front of cars, 19 years of age. name is tony robinson. >> reporter: robinson's death ignited several days of protests.

his mother called it a massacre. >> what they didn't do was give my son any respect and they didn't do a thorough full investigation. >> reporter: the prosecutor said officer matt kenny had followed robinson to a nearby house, heard a disturbance and encountered robinson just inside a doorway. >> he said tony robinson immediately turned the corner and struck him with a closed fist. >> reporter: the prosecutor said kenny fired seven shots while retreating. >> this is not what democracy looks like! >> reporter: outside, defiance, as protesters gathered for a march to the state capitol. are you surprised by this? >> i think i'm concerned about how our community responds. >> that was nbc's ron allen reporting. let's turn to business and reaction to the big news from the tech world that verizon will buy aol for more than $4 billion. verizon shares closed slightly lower after news of the deal but it was a good day for aol, closing up nearly 19% to more than 50 bucks a share. cnbc's steve sedgwick joins us live from london.

steve, a lot of people are asking if aol, this buy was worth it. tell us more about what verizon is getting from this deal. my mom had an aol e-mail address until a few months ago. do i convince her to do g-mail. so, there are still a lot of americans that are america online. >> yeah absolutely. aol is symptomatic of the big boom we saw with the time warner deal many years ago. when they see the activity again, everyone asks questions. this is a small tech though $4.4 billion. what are verizon doing? they're buying apparently according to insiders because of programmatic ad platforms, which basically means ad sales will get a big boost over at verizon, where at the moment they're only 1% of sales. aol apparently is around about 2% of the $51 billion u.s. ad market. so, it could really give a big boost to verizon, which actually has got some bad news as well. verizon communications and sprint have got combined $158 million. this is because the fcc has said they've been cramming which is basically unauthorized charges on customers' bills, including

one-time fees of 99 cents to $4.99. now they've got to give back that money. verizon's agreeing to give back $70 million in refunds and sprint is giving back at least $50 million in refunds. tom wheeler from the fcc said for too long customers have been charged on their phone bills for things they did not buy, luke. >> and talking about the media here, facebook interestingly enough, steve, is starting to publish articles directly from news organizations, including nbc news. we know that millennials, most of them get their information from the internet specifically facebook. talk about the importance of this. >> reporter: this is really important, and it's really contentious as well because nbc, "the new york times," buzzfeed, "national geographic," apparently going to be feeding articles from today on to facebook. what we don't know is how many articles they're going to be and how much the news organizations, such as nbc, our parent is going to be charging for those articles. it's very contentious, because for instance "the new york times," they've got a million

paying subscribers. now, if they can get those articles for nothing on facebook, obviously, that's going to dent their business model. so, there's a lot of questions still to be asked on this one, luke. >> indeed. we'll see how that plays out, but very important for the future of media consumption. steve sedgwick live from london. take it easy. appreciate it. still ahead on "way too early," attorney ted wells fires back at critics of his investigation into deflategate. his message to those who accuse him of making a sweetheart deal with the nfl. plus, we continue to follow the breaking news from philadelphia. daylight giving a much clearer picture of the wreckage from that deadly train derailment. look at those images. my goodness. we'll have the latest when we get back. >> rolling along nice and smooth, then all of a sudden, we're on our side. then it looked like we were going to flip. we never flipped. we went on to the side and back off the side. >> you saw it go like that, it t swung. you could feel it off the tracks. then we just rolled and rolled. next thing i knew we were pushing out the emergency exit

and i was outside and there were people screaming and bleeding and we helped them out, and they're okay now.

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crawl forward, sir. keep crawling. come on, man. >> i got you, okay? okay? keep crawling okay? >> that was instagram video from inside that derailed amtrak train as people tried to crawl out last night. this morning we're getting the first daylight look at the depth of the aftermath. we just want to update you on the latest. at least five people are dead and more than 60 people are injured. at least six people are still in critical condition. and officials say that not everyone is accounted for quite yet. train 188 departed washington, d.c., and was heading to new york city when it crashed in philadelphia. 243 people were on board. at this hour amtrak service along the northeast corridor remains suspended. of course we'll keep you updated on this story throughout the day on msnbc.

now to the latest in the so-called deflategate report. ted wells, the chief investigator, publicly defended his findings after critics raised questions about his independence and integrity. in a conference call with reporters, wells called allegations that the nfl hoped to find wrongdoing on the part of the patriots "ridiculous," citing evidence as the driving factor in the report's findings. >> all of this you know discussion some way that people at the league office wanted to put some type of you know hit on the most popular, iconic player in the league -- the real face of the league -- it just doesn't make any sense. >> and there is fallout across sports. major league baseball has alter altered procedures when it comes to the security of its baseballs in the wake of deflategate. an mlb representative will now monitor baseballs while team personnel carry them from the umpires room to the field, a job that used to be done all alone. let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. and bill it feels a little bit

more like spring today in d.c. it was really hot yesterday. >> i know. near 90 in many locations, luke. and yeah, spring has returned. this is how, actually we should be this time of year. i feel bad for texas. they just can't catch a break. yesterday we were talking about flash flooding in corpus christi, flash flooding in houston overnight. now the heavy rain has shifted north, but they picked up 3 to 5 inches of rain overnight. that's why there's still ponding on the roads. so, the houston area is probably the travel trouble spot of the morning. throughout the afternoon, all of this rain out here in west texas will shift towards dallas and ft. worth. we're not going to see a lot of airport problems, but maybe a few. flash flood watches in effect through the day today and our computers are estimating maybe 2 to 3 inches out there. luke, it looks like in philadelphia, for, you know the investigation, the cleanup, everything else, the weather's nearly perfect. 62 to 70 for this afternoon's highs and no problems in the northeast corridor travelwise. a lot of people will be on the roads instead today of taking the rails with the line shut down between new york and philadelphia. back to you, luke. >> that's great.

investigators are catching a break. in houston, the rockets won, so at least those folks have something to cheer about. >> what's your prediction tonight for the rangers/capitals? >> i think the rangers 3-2 after giving up the early lead. the capitals will lose. bill karins, thank you so much. appreciate it. new developments involving uva and that now-discredited "rolling stone" article about a rape on campus. plus a movement to put a woman's face on the $20 bill. two rounds of voting led to a finalist and now america has made its choice. we'll tell you who that is, coming up.

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seven cars including the engine are in various stages of disarray turned over upsidedown on their side. it is an absolute disastrous mess. i never seen anything like this in my life and most personnel will say that as well. >> we were the first few cars thafz a huge trauma. so some significant abdominal injuries, other injury a lot of musculoskeletal, there were definitely cuts and bruises, people will be more sore tomorrow. >> breaking news overnight, five people are dead dozens injured