[laughter] mayor nutter: that moving thing is tough.ther you are the first in your family to attend college he or a legacy student, to our graduates i know you have worked hard to make it to this point in graduation. earlier today and thousand graduate students and night students participated in their graduation. this afternoon, 1020 undergraduates this afternoon what a stunning achievement by all of you. i cannot be more proud. let me just say for one moment recognizing current events, the events of this week. when we talk about doing more for christ, by doing more for others, we know that we suffered a tremendous tragedy here in our city this past week. to those who lost family members, we mourn for them. they will never be forgotten. to the miracle of 200 people walking off of that train wreck we know what is at work. our fire department, our emergency management, our hospital workers, all of our care workers, they saved lives on tuesday night. let us recognize the great service. [applause] mayor nutter: until now -- and so now, it i

[laughter] mayor nutter: that moving thing is tough. and whether you are the first in your family to attend college, or a legacy student, to our graduates, i know you have worked hard to make it to this point in graduation. earlier today and thousand

bruce gordon. >> reporter: i just wanted to let you know that we saw michael nutter mayor nutter just a couple of minutes ago reached his hasn't out shook the hand of governor tom wolf who is now here. the governor has been obviously monitoring the situation from a far is now in philadelphia. on the scene. the two of them headed up the street just a second ago. we expect them to be at dave schratwieser's locate any minute how. the governor will get briefed and he'll have something to say about this in a more formal way. governor wolf is on scene now. we saw some state police vehicles just a couple of minutes ago. he and the mayor are had brief conversation here on frankford just about 30 seconds ago. they began walking up the street we expect them to at dave's location any minute now and we'll hear from governor wolf within the next few minutes we expect. >> bruce, thank you. great information there. we'll wait to sea what governor wolf has to say. if we can go back to dave stratt wise sr. now. dave, can you hear me. >> reporter: i can iain. i'm listen to what bruce is saying. governo

there is mayor nutter at the scene as well. let's listen. >> okay. there is not a ton of -- there is virtually no new information, quite frankly. but let's recap. this was amtrak train number 188 from washington, d.c. bound for new york city. approximately 9:28 the first alarm went out. this ultimately went to four fire alarms, fire department is in command on the scene. that's 33 apparatus, 120 firefighting personnel, and ems. at its height, probably 200 police officers. the department of homeland security on the scene as well as other first responders. state police on the scene, septa personnel 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 piece of information, 65 transports. still six considered critical. and unfortunately, a confirmed five individuals deceased as a result. all those individuals went to a vari

mayor nutter: you are in stereo.you have been listening to the news conference in philadelphia where philadelphia mayor michael not her has been speaking -- nutter has been speaking. we will continue to monitor the headlines here. we should mention the ntsb has recover the data recorder >> -- boxes of the train, and they have tweeted out an image. there it is. hillyerestigator mike obtains the event -- locate event this locomotive event data recorder. the federal commission voted to slash funding for amtrak. peter cook, is the time in a coincidence? ater: it is strictly coincidence. the vote was planned some time ago, several days ago, and almost immediately there is a level of politics surrounding the crash that entered into the fray. democrats have been trying to restore funding. administration request for funding with about $1 billion more than this. gone politicaly attention before we even know what happened specifically. the cause of the crash. already there are a lot of politics involved before the crash and no

maybe mayor nutter will address that. we don't know. we're awaiting his presence behind those microphones. i know rene marsh is there on the scene too. i want to go out to her to talk about the ntsb and how investigators are handling this crash site. good morning, renee. >> reporter: good morning, carol. we do know that the ntsb there on the ground here and the hotbed of activity is happening behind me. this is where the staging ground is for what is right now a recovery effort. and so i got off the phone about 45 minutes ago and their focus now is documenting the scene and paying close attention to the tracks where this all happened. of course they are also going to want to get those recorders. i did ask if they have secured them as yet but could not get a clear answer about that. of course as chris mentioned, there will be a briefing here that should get under way in a matter of minutes and ntsb says that they too, will be part of this. we know the mayor will be here and now ntsb telling me that they will join the mayor as well. so i

you heard what mayor nutter said. he said he walked the entire live of the devastation with six cars overturned. they know they have so much work to do not only to make sure that everyone is off that train, but also to find out what could have possibly contributed to this. >> reporter: a lot of work, jacqueline. just to really echo what the mayor said, i mean, this really is something that you don't see often at all, and really you don't want to. i mean, this is just quite a scene from up here in skyforce 10 from what we can see, all these overturned cars and the ones that have derailed. you see this one right here appears to be the most heavily damaged. just completely off the tracks here. i mean, right now you can see some of the other train cars in this area and you just see how this one just completely went off the rails. let's pull back just a little bit here and i just want to give you an idea of what's going on around the scene at the moment. you see some of these emergency workers who are around the area right

we are wait forgo commissioner ramsey and mayor michael nutter. they have been here. they have been talking to the scene telling us and telling us what they know about this devastating amtrak derailment. what we do know is that as many as 60 people were injured and we have unconfirmed reports of a number of deaths that is what we are wait to hear from the officials here jim, and, washington to new york. and this train was cause todd fall on its side. we heard from some of the passengers. they were devastated, sell shock. could not understand what happened and they were lucky to be alive and here to tell us about it. back to you dann. >> sharrie williams is live from hahnemann university hospital in center city philadelphia sharrie we just saw some of the first victims from the accident scene to arrive in hahnemann what can you tell us about that. >> the response is a massive effort. number of hospitals to be told to be on stand by to help with the wounded. i'm told so far at least a couple of dozen people have already been brought here to hahnemann hospital for treatm

[laughter] mayor nutter: that moving thing is tough. and whether you are the first in your family to attend college, or a legacy student, to our graduates, i know you have worked hard to make it to this point in graduation. earlier today and thousand graduate students and night students participated in their graduation. this afternoon, 1020 undergraduates this afternoon, what a stunning achievement by all of you. i cannot be more proud. [no audio] [applause] [applause] let me just say for one moment recognizing current events, the events of this week. when we talk about doing more for christ, by doing more for others, we know that we suffered a tremendous tragedy here in our city this past week. to those who lost family members, we mourn for them. they will never be forgotten. to the miracle of 200 people walking off of that train wreck, we know what is at work. our fire department, our emergency management, our hospital workers, all of our care workers, they saved lives on tuesday night. let us recognize the great service. [applause] m

that what we are about to be told by officials in philadelphia, is accurate and so mayor michael nutter there heading his team to make sure that the information that they are about to tell us and therefore to tell you is responsible and is ago rate. >> good evening, mr. mayor. >> hold on, thanks. everybody ready. >> yes, we're live. >> thanks. >> alrighty am going to give you very preliminary information. every speaker is going to tell you that the information is preliminary, because it is preliminary. we will tell you what we have. obviously late this -- early this evening, rather amtrak train number 188 which originated from washington d.c., northbound, to new york city, derailed. officers gilli am will give you exact time but somewhere around after 9:00 p.m. this evening. that incident required a four alarm response from the fire department, fire department is in command in this scene. that resulted in 33 apparatus on the scene, a 120 fire fighters and other emergency management personnel responded. this went to a level three mass casualty incident because of the number of personnel.

we do know mayor michael nutter is on scene. he's expected to talk to us and briefer us very shortly and of course as soon as he begins to do that we will bring that to you. in the meantime, you can see people there on the ground. you can see how big of a scene this is, just how large it is in terms of the sheer amount of space. all of the people there, of course going through this wreckage and you can see through chopper3 how mangled a lot of this wreckage s-how hard this impact was how strong this impact was. >> among those who were on board this train was a former pennsylvania congressman patrick murphy from the eighth district. he actually snapped these photographs. he is okay. he said that he was able to get off safely but he shared these photographs with the world. he also mentioned that delaware senator tom carper was on board that train and senator carper has confirmed he was on amtrak 188 he had traveled on trip from washington to wilmington but got off the train at wilmington. he's released a statement saying he's grat

what mayor nutter said very emphatically. he said some things we know many things we don't know and they will not speculate or rush to any kind judgment what happened here. they are asking people who may think that they had someone, a loved one, a friend on the train to contact authorities because they are trying to match the amtrak manifest with the names of the people they know and are aware of and are accounted for, but things may not match exactly so that's why they are asking people for their help. as you pointed out leading up to me, they have heavy equipment on site here large cranes that can handle something like 220,000 pounds at a time to lift these cars out of the tangled mess that they are in and get them out of the way so that they can see what if anything and who if someone is beneath all of this rubble. that is the primary thing right now. one other thing that they are pointing out -- that they pointed out in a news conference not so long ago is that they are analyzing the video from a camera, surveillance came

that was mayor nutter with his second update. and the key from that 1:00 update was everybody on this train we're talking 243 people total still had not totally all been accounted for. and since 1:00, and since that last official update, here we are, four and a half hours or four hours later and they are working this case, and this scene, like it had just happened. so that tells you that they still think there is people in there that need to be rescued or recovered and that is the situation right now. so looking at possible growth in the numbers you gave. for the people just waking how many didn't even hear about this, five dead, six critical, at 1:00 a.m. and then the numbers fluctuated hospitals because a lot of the people who called out limped out walked out on their own ended upgoing to the hospital just to get checked because you always think you're okay, and that head injury, that you just think was a bump on the head suddenly becomes dizziness and all of thisment and you realize this could be a concussion, so the numbers a

we got those numbers from mayor nutter who updated us here around 115 this morning. those numbers may be changing. we're trying to get any updated information. at that time the mayor said in no way can i say that everyone is accounted for. to give you a much better idea of what the scene looks like, let's go to "nbc 10's" matt delucia. matt. >> reporter: tracy, what a difference daylight makes out here. we're starting to get some sunrise. you can get a little bit more better perspective just what happened out here. you can see more of those train cars that went off the tracking out here and you can see, i'm going to draw where the train was coming from. they were heading north in that direction and right there is where it went off the tracks there. you have several of these cars that are pushed right on to trees. you also see the front engine right there that is separated as well. we're going to pan left a little bit here where we have been seeing throughout the morning some of the heavy equipment start to arrive. would he have a lot of these very heavy train cars th

mayor nutter talking about a couple of days before all the facts are out. i'm told, by the way that they're concentrating mostly apart from looking at the rails and carriages, they're looking at the speed of the vehicle last night. >> when you get down to it, john, that's the issue. that's essentially--and there are more questions than this, but three questions: speed braking, and possibility for human error here. let me ask you one other question here. what's the likelihood that the scene will be analyzed the site will be cleared what's the timeline for getting traffic moving again on that corridor? >> well, i think it's going to take a very long time. let's remember one or two things. this is the single busiest rail route in the united states. it's arguebly one of the busiest commuter routes in the world. not only does amtrak share this tract with its own trains going the other way and coming up behind them, ahead of them, but it shares the track for the philadelphia service. mayor nutter said last night in his first press conference very late last night.

you heard from philadelphia mayor michael nutter.hat is robert sumwalt, a member of the national transportation safety board speaking right now. they have not added much to what we already knew that six people criticalple in condition at every hospitals, 200 people being treated for injuries and other conditions sustained during the accident. that is the latest. we will be right back after the short break. olivia: what are the stories the finance pros are most interested in this morning? the one that really caught our eye was the first story about the u.s. justice department possibly ripping up a deal that it had already made with ubs. erik, i know this is something you follow very closely. why does it seem like the justice department is backtracking to crack down harder on ubs? erik: well, the justice department has written that this kind of thing might happen. they are trying to narrow the scope of the charges in connection with libor manipulation as much as possible. the justice department has been holding out the prospect of -- o

nutter earn the right to represent the democratic party by winning the may primary.000 votes. government watch dog david thornburgh predicts tuesday may ab repeat. >> most probably the winner of the democratic primary will only get somewhere around 100,000 votes which is only about 10% of all the people registered to vote in philadelphia. that doesn't seem right. >> reporter: do the math of the we'll do it. in a six candidate field like this spring, less than 300,000 primary votes cast, candidate could win the nomination with just 60,000 votes. in a city of a million and a half people. remember that primary win all but guarantees you become mayor. >> in many cities and countries for that matter, they have a run off system. if no one wins majority of the vote a second contest is held a month or so later between the top two finishers the winner of that race by definition would earn more than 50% of the vote. thornburgh says the run off legit mass tee to the victory. >> elections ought to be time when you have to reach out to the whole city and build a workable coalitio

never seen anything like this in my life. >> mayor michael nutter speaking there. sky force 10 is live over the scene this morning. you can see the cars that came off the track there, crumpled. as the sun comes up we can get a look at the devastation. the trains, six cars and one

mayor michael nutter is holding the briefing on the derailment. let's listen in. >> there will be recitation of much of the same information that you had before. again we continue with the search operation but, there is also a full investigation going on. you saw earlier the national transportation board, who's representatives are here. their personnel are on the ground. any information i give you, unless we say that it is confirmed information, it is still preliminary. there is an active investigation going on at the site. as you can see i'm also joined by pennsylvania's two senators in alphabetical order. senator bob casey and senator pat toomey. chief inspector sullivan is here on behalf of the police department. fire commissioner derek sawyer is here on behalf of the fire department. sam phillips of course, director of emergency management operations for the city. deputy mayor everett gill son for public safety. rich , director and deputy mayor for administration and coordination. desiree bell, director of communications. we will now announce

philadelphia mayor michael nutter is expected to hold a news conference any moment now. first, suzanne kennedy talked to the ntsb lead investigator and joyce -- joins us from philadelphia with the latest. suzanne: it remains a very active scene here in philadelphia. the ntsb is back at it, looking at video from the forward-facing camera on that train. they will be further analyzing information provided by the event data recorder. they will also be interviewing passengers. we want to tell you, the two railcars remain at the derailment site today. investigators will be doing a laser scanning of those cars before they are released to amtrak are the main focus continues to be the speed the train was traveling, which was in excess of 100 miles per hour. why was that train traveling so fast? authorities are looking into the role that positive train control's could have had here tuesday night. >> the train control is designed to provide an additional layer of redundancy so that if some of the makes a mistake, the system will intervene and not allow a catastrophic accident to oc

[applause] mayor nutter: until now -- and so now, it is your time. over the last four years you pursued your courses of study with fervent passion but because of the person that you are meant to be all along the way. it is your time to go off into the world, make your way, and achieve even more. my journey to be that man for others started on a similar day like this day, 40 years ago at st. joseph's preparatory high school at 17th and gerard, a proud graduate of the best class out of the 1975. i represented at st. joseph's university throw my time in student council, and now as your mayor. it was my education and training at the prep that prepared me for leadership that may be the person that i am today. i/o everything that i ever become to the great training at saint joseph's from story, sages university and saint ignatius. and so to all of you today this may be difficult i know, many of you will stay here in philadelphia, but some may venture to other places. i can assure you, you will come back. other cities make it sure if -- may catch your atten

mayor nutter is doing a great job. the appropriations committee today has been debating that.tsb are doing their job. we've been waiting to see why this accident occurred. we have knee-jerk reactions. >> they are calling for full amtrak funding in the wake of this crash. they are using the emotion of the times to say if we had more funding, maybe dot, dot, dot, what do you say to that? >> as the author we authorized $1.4 billion plus a grant program we want to put in place to help states make the investments needed. as i said i think we need to wait and see what the results are, what happened in pennsylvania. based on those facts and what happened to the accident then address the situation at that time. >> it's interesting because in amtrak's own press releases it sends out, it points out the fact they need better infrastructure. as a federally-run operation, how do you respond to that? >> one thing amtrak always said they needed more funding we in house approved a reform bill for amtrak. they need to operate more efficiently. they need to operate more like a business. that's

that was confirmed by mayor michael nutter. six are in critical condition with 53 in noncritical condition. there were 243 people on board. five of whom were amtrak employees. parts of amtrak regional 188 are on their side. the video is quite starting when you look at it. one is upside down. one nearly spl

mayor michael nutter of course arriving to survey damage there and says he could not believe how extensive it was. >> the trains, seven cars, including an engine are in various stages of disarray turned over, upside down, on their side. we are still investigating what is going on. i have been down on the track on the scene with my staff it is an absolute disaster us mess. the never seen anything like this, in my life. >> reporter: so the big questions here is how and why, did this happen? are there still people on that train? these are the questions, that have yet to be answered here this morning. for new we do know federal state and local authorities are on the scene as part of the investigation and we are also told that cadaver dogs are searching for bodies. so, as we come back here live we will monitor this it ways and bring you you any updates as they become available. for new we are live, nicole brewer cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> that it is, we will get back to you. lets look closer at the current traffic situation and the derailment as impact. >> vittoria woodill joins us with that v

mayor michael nutter set to speak and we're going to bring that to you live when it comes in.o, this is the latest we know. eight patients from the crash still in critical condition right now at philadelphia's temple university hospital. chief medical officer there says most have what they believe severe rib cage, fractures, associated with objects flying around the cabin as the train jumped the tracks. he is confident, however, that the patients will all have a full recovery. >> the ntsb says the initial data shows the train was racing into the curve at 106 miles per hour before the derailment. that is more than twice the 50 miles an hour posted limit for that curve. the engineer has been identified as 32-year-old brandon bostian. his attorney says bostian has absolutely no recollection of the crash. joining us to talk about challenges facing the investigation two people who know rely very well former ntsb safety investigator and cnn analyst mary schiavo. he told us they are going to do a brake test today, also said more data from the black box. the break test. they are obvio

a little earlier, mayor michael nutter. it is a disastrous mess. never seen anything like this in my life. you can see why those words came out of his mouth. this is one of the train cars that derailed and it looks like it is actually bent in half as rescue crews have been on the scene throughout the evening trying to get passengers off that train. and into some kind of medical help. five people have been killed in this train derailment. we understand six are still in critical condition. the scene is still very active as crews are there. it is in a wooded area. a dark area. they've had to bring in lights because earlier, as you look at that video, crews used flashlights to try to get inside that car. several of them in fact. six to seven cars that were off the track. we'll continue to follow this story and bring you breaking news. stay right here with msnbc. >>> hello, everybody. we continue with breaking coverage of the deadly train derailment north of philadelphia. now we are about five hours into this level-three mass casualty incident, and ther

mayor michael nutter called the mass casualty an absolute mess. rescue crews told us they've never seen anything like this before. we continue our story this morning, with steve keeley live there on the scene hi, steve. >> you do the math, 3:30 there is happened about 9:30, so six hours into this. and it is still a very busy scene here, still, a rescue going on, so those numbers you gave of the victims may likely change. we are told, we were also told don't expect another official update until 11:00 a.m. so it could be as late as that. my guess is doing this for a long time, we may hear something, probably before that not too long after daylight just because they'll have a lot more answers by then and they know the public has that want to know and need to know casino of look. >> you don't know if you mentioned it at the air trains sim floor airplanes, they have what are commonly called black boxes on airplanes, blaze orange boxes finds them at the bottom of the sea or in burned out wreckage, but on train they're called event recorders. and they re

mayor nutter mayor michael nutter, the mayor of philadelphia, we have reports he is on scene. in terms of getting additional information, more definitive information about the severity of the crash, whether there are ongoing rescue efforts happening right now and what the plan is for the rest of this evening, personally, i have to tell you covering this and looking at these images and wanting to know those scenes tell us anything about the cause of the crash, if those mangled train cars that we're seeing might indicate some people are still trapped inside a lot of these pressing questions, we're hoping to get answers so far from local authorities on the scene. whether that will come from a press briefing from the mayor, which we are told to expect or from fire commissioner chief, any other first responders, we don't yet know. we have not yet had any official word from anybody, any agency or responders in terms of what exactly is happening. again, this is a recent event. this happened in the 10:00 p.m. hour tonight. there is a huge first responder presence there, but we don't k

so i will step aside back to mayor nutter. thank you. >> additionally as the board member indicated because of the great work of the philadelphia fire department, jessie wilson is in command, the fire department is in charge of this scene as well as 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 anthony kosha. >> thank you mayor. let me first start by saying how deeply saddened we all are at amtrak for the loss of life that occurred on train 188 in north philadelphia last evening. we, our first and major priority will be our customers and our employees who have been affected by this tragedy. we have established an 800 number which i know has been mentioned. we're in the

back to mayor nutter.nally, as board member indicated, because of the great work of the philadelphia fire department and jesse wilson is 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 that occurred on train 188 in north philadelphia last evening. our first major priority will be our customers and our employees who have been affected by this tragedy. we've established an 800-number and we're in the process of right now standing up a family assistance center here in ph

mayor michael nutter said the damage unbelievable.gave an update just a little more than an hour ago. >> the conductor was injured to some extent, received medical treatment and is or have giving a statement or report to the philadelphia police department. i have no further information about the conductor or any other amtrak personnel. >> we heard something about the conductor but we want to recount what we know. 200 more are injured. victims are being treated at four different hospitals. ntsb team is on the ground. there's seven of them. they will be analyzing the data recorders. amtrak rail service has been stopped. so far there's no sign of what caused the wreck. this all happened around 9:30 last night here wheatsheaf lane off of frankford avenue. amtrak train 188 had just left the station. it derailed near a curve in the tracks. >> taking another live look at 30th street station. passengers were stranded here overnight after the accident. some of the victims returning there trying to figure out how to get to their planned destina

the at one point we are told by mayor michael nutter that 200 police officers were here at the scene including philadelphia police commissioner charles ramsey, and also joined by deputy commissioner of the philadelphia fire department, jesse wilson. >> we have slightly more than 200 officers that have responded to the scene once this occurred and we realized the magnitude of it we held over four to 12:00 unit, called in our midnight shift early. >> i have never seen anything so devastating. they are in pretty bad shape. they have completely derailed from the tracks, destroyed compeen destroyed and i don't want to speculate on the cause, but it is a devastating scene. >> reporter: again, from the air our camera captured the chaos as emergency reek also flooded the scene transporting injured passengers treated for everything from concussions and severe lacerations broken bones, and many of them treated for shock. the passengers on the ground were doing whatever they could to get off that train. we did speak to the mother and son who made it off safely. they descrlike to be on that trai

philadelphia mayor michael nutter called the scene horrific.till not been accounted for. more than 140 people went to hospitals to be evaluated or treated. six of them are critical. at this moment what kicked all of this, what caused this derailment that's the big question and it still does not have an answer. >> we want to talk but implications for people trying to take mass transit too. let's show you what's running and what's not running right now. amtrak's northeast corridor between philadelphia and new york will not run. no service running. between washington and philadelphia harrisburg and philadelphia, new york and boston amtrak will run on a modified schedule. and new jersey transit will honor amtrak tickets between new york city and trenton so you can use new jersey transit instead. septa regional rails the trenton line will not run and they're saying likely not run through the day, possibly it might not even run the rest of the week. chestnut hill west line will not run as well. east line, chestnut hill east line will run and that cou

. >> reporter: we've been getting updates throughout the night from mayor michael nutter. he just gave a briefing about three hours ago. he said the ntsb along with sending their team is bringing in equipment. the amtrak has arranged to bring in some cranes. the mayor got a first-hand look at the crash scene and here's what he said. >> we have train cars that are completely overturned on their side ripped apart. it is a devastating scene down there. we walked the entire length of the train area and the engine completely separated from the rest of the train and one of the cars is perpendicular to the rest of the cars. it's unbelievable. >> reporter: now mayor nutter also gave a rundown of the number of people involved in the accident. he said 243 on board including five amtrak employees. 140 people were hurt and taken to hospitals. 6 of those victims are in critical condition. during that update at 1:15 this morning he did say he could not say for sure if all had been accounted for. "nbc 10" was there. some of the people being treated at the scene also taken to area hospita

mayor michael nutter says seven cars including the engine derailed. those cars completely turned over. the startled look of passengers with blood dripping from their gaping wounds said it all. this was a mass casualty event. just moments earlier passenger train 188 bound from washington, d.c. to new york derailed in port richmond. passengers say the typical calm of the tracks was interrupted by the derailment. for a second, there was silence, then chaos. one passenger said it sounded like shopping carts crashing into one another. was there any warning at all before this happened? >> no, no it happened in seconds. so, i don't know what happened. i have no idea but i'm okay and i'm praying that everyone else is. i don't have a scrape at all. >> reporter: emergency responders flooded the scene. 65 of the 243 aboard the train were transported to area hospitals. triage centers were set up for the influx of passengers. >> 65 transports. still six considered critical and unfortunately a confirmed five individuals deceased. >> the incident has been placed und

that was confirmed by mayor michael nutter. six are in critical condition with 53 in noncritical condition. there were 243 people on board. five of whom were amtrak employees. parts of amtrak regional 188 are on their side. the video is quite starting when you look at it. one is upside down. one nearly split in half with large sections of track just mangled underneath. the train was traveling north from washington, d.c. to new york city. the ntsb is investigating. here's what we're trying to figure out. there are a lot of questions. officials are not speculating on what could have caused the derailment when it all happened at 9:28 eastern time. no natural light and very few lights on the track. now, rescuers were initially just using flashlights. can you imagine this kind of derailment and using flashlights to try to find people and rescue them before asking helicopters overhead to shine their lights just to brighten things up enough to search the area effectively. all right. we're trying to get more information as we speak. i

i believe that mayor nutter is now back with us. mayor nutter so well expressed there. share with us, if you can, one of the conversations you have had with one of the residents in that area, or one of the family members of those who were involved in this crash. >> i talked to a resident from our earlier press conference and she literally just brought out two cups of coffee that she had made. she knows we've been up and at this for a long period of time. we're now 18 hours or so into this event. kmunty people want to do something. this is philadelphia. the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection. people that actually take that very, very seriously. they want to know what to do but they are in pain. this train comes through their neighborhood and backyards. and we're just at a loss to understand now, even with this information, why did this happen. what is this about. and on behalf of a million and a half people and growing here in philadelphia, we expressed the deepest sympathies and sorrow to all of these family members, those who have lost their loved one. peopl

that was mayor nutter with his second update. and the key from that 1:00 update was everybody on this train we're talking 243 people total still had not totally all been accounted for. and since 1:00, and since that last official update, here we are, four and a half hours or four hours later and they are working this case, and this scene, like it had just happened. so that tells you that they still think there is people in there that need to be rescued or recovered and that is the situation right now.

mayor michael nutter, in philadelphia. one of the big things he's going to have to do is deal with the families and the people who have questions and former police commissioner of new york bernie kerik, they set up a family unit? >> the office of mshlg management for philadelphia in conjunction with amtrak they'll set up a family center. people can call in you know, this is a reserve train, it's a ticketed train, the conductor checks everybody's ticket they scan the ticket. they know basically exactly how many people were ticketed how many people were on the train. people will call the family center if you have questions, concerns loved ones, and they'll basically dispatch you to the hospital to the appropriate hospitals. >> this train was supposed to arrive in new york city at 10:44 this evening. this is regional 188 en route from washington, d.c. to new york city when it was involved in this derailment north of philadelphia. we have peter goelz on the line matthew l. wald mary schiavo, and bernie kerik all on the line wi

. >>> mayor michael nutter stopped at the school for performing arts, they saw the culture class where the students study biology from raising fish from eggs to adulthood and stopped by the school's digital design studio good now that moment real day has come and gone it's time to think about july 4th that meaned wawa welcome america festival. walter perez is live now. >> reporter: can you believe it the whole thing is just five weeks away at this point and at that time the parkway will be awash with food and fun and mayor nutter says nobody does july 4th quite like philadelphia. nothing says summer more than the 4th of july wawa welcome america celebration. >> so mayor nutter formerly announced the lineup for the celebration including the big name stars taking the stage on independence day. >> philadelphia's own grammy award winning band, the roots the roots are absolutely the best house band any city can have been they will be joined by top music star zbz stars including miguel and country star jennifer nettles from the band sugarland. once again 6 abc is the official broadcast partn

philadelphia mayor mike nutter and governor tom wolf spoke earlier. this is what they had to say. >> okay. there's not a ton -- virtually no new information, quite frankly but let's recap. this is amtrak train 188 from washington, d.c., bound for new york city. approximately 928, the first alarm went out. this went to four fire alarms, fire department is in command on the scene. that's 33 apparatus, 120 firefighting personnel, and ems. at this time, probably 200 police officers. the department of homeland security as well as first responders, state police on the scene, septa personnel on the scene. our best estimate, again 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 piece of information. 65 trans ports. still six considered critical. and unfortunately, confirmed, five individuals deceased as a result. all those individuals went to a variety of hospitals. primarily temple and area and a couple others. we've received

mayor nutter says we shouldn't have to wait for a tragedy to recognize our men and women in uniform. >> you see one of our members in uniform. if you know someone is a police officer, a firefighter, a member of the military, walk right up to them and say thank you, for your service. >> may is the official month to recognize fallen members of law enforcement. >>> during today's ceremony the mayor also defended his police commissioner. that's after a candidate for mayor said he would replace commissioner charles ramsey if elected. during last night's mayoral debate, he said it's time for ramsey to go. now this this is a change of positions. he said he would keep ramsey. here's how he explains his change of heart. >> it's countless numbers of mothers and young men i met across philadelphia who say we appreciate the initiative of stop and frisk which i started well before this campaign. it's said to me if you don't replace the person who is greatest dependent, it doesn't mean anything to us. >> during both debates milton street also said he would get rid of ramsey. >>> today, mayor nutte

we expect mayor nutter to be there as well. congressman bob brady has also just arrived on the scene here in port richmond. we are also hearing much more from passengers on board that train and residents who live in this neighborhood just a couple hundred yard away from where this derailment happened last night. "eyewitness news" reporter a matt rivers has that part of the coverage tonight. >> reporter: crash shattered the silence the easy conversation on a warm spring night. >> joking about the old days and all of a sudden we hear a boom sound like somebody firing a shotgun in your ear. >> reporter: jean doyle was talking with his neighbors across the street from the crash scene. they watched as smoke rosa above the tree line, some hoping it was just an electrical explosion. gene saw otherwise. >> i knew something was wrong like he thought it was a transformer. i said nah i think a train went off tracks. >> reporter: his prediction was right as train cars littered the area surrounding the tracks, passengers were helpless insid

i was driving into work this morning and i listened to mayor nutter during his press conference over kyw news radio saying that one of the cars of the amtrak train was perpendicular. it just goes to show you the the amount of the severe. as you know amount of the severity we have been telling you that this will definitely be out there for a good portion of this morning and afternoon and as a traffic reporter i know first hand even when we have one fatality in the crash on any major highways or even in the neighborhoods, investigations take awhile. due to over 238 passengers on board this amtrak train this will be quite sometime. lets continue to talk about how this will a affect your morning commute. traveling in and around port richmond we have a few closure points for you. prank forward avenue between tours dole and castor, wheatsheaf between frankford and air mink a. castor and wheatsheaf. sedgley avenue closed between castor and frankford and they just keep on coming in the traffic system. in and around that area of port richmond keep in mind would i say really it is just going t

never seen anything like this in my life. >> mayor nutter on the scene last night now here's a closer look at that mangled mess of twisted metal all seven cars derailed. at this hour emergency crews and investigators are combing through that wreckage and as you can see, they are sending their own investigative team. amtrak set up a hot line for family and friend to check on passengers that number is 1.800.523.9101. >> as you can see this has been a active scene all night and all morning long. we have live team coverage with reporters covering every angle of the crash and aftermath. >> justin finch joins us at hahnemann hospital where injured were taken. our jan carabao is at 30th street station where impact on the morning in's commute will be felt by thousands

i respect the office too much. >> reporter: for mayor nutter who cited his greatest achievement being at point. of charles ramsey he says he takes the comment personally, not the the case, it seems for the commissioner himself. >> he out to run on the larger issues and certainly i'm not one of them. >> senator williams said if he is elect mayor he isn't sure who he would bring in as commissioner but it would be likely from someone within the the department. reporting live, from city hall alexandria hoff, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> philadelphia fire department and licenses and inspects have team up to tackle problem buildings like this one. a new city task force was unveiled that aims to identify dangerous commercial properties and get them torn down. collaboration between two departments will target vacant buildings more than 15,000 square feet. >> these vacant buildings are one of the risks we have in our city. we have talked about reducing risk, is there a step we go through, we have education enforcement, engineering and emergency response. when you get to emergency response it i

michael nutter did not endorse a candidate in the primary.now he's giving his full support to kenney's campaign. while the two have clashed in the past kenney served on city council for ten years. kenney says that comes with the territory. if elected mayor he will continue to work with city council in a constructive way. >> sometimes there are disagreements. i think that i will do my best to make sure that i engage every council member and council president in the things that the administration wants to do and i think we'll be successful in that. >> kenney vowed to continue nutter's tradition of ethics and transparency. >>> something called the spotted lantern fly, the insect is native to asia. it can destroy dozens of plant species. first county is the first place in the u.s. to see the insect. so far 20,000 spotted lantern flies have been killed. the county is using tree bats to continue exterminating them. that's a sticky material that they put around the tree that can kill the insects and help officials count them. >>> this reminder that

. >> reporter: now mayor nutter was live on the scene giving an update around 1:15. he talked about the curve in the tracks right behind us. that's where the accident happened. he wouldn't speculate on the speed of the train or what else was happening at the time of the crash. he said service will most likely not be restored for the rest of the week while crews remove the train and make repairs. the investigation is just beginning. >> ntsb as i mentioned earlier, has already deployed a team. they are on their way to philadelphia with a full team with equipment. we're also working with amtrak ordered some equipment. again, trying to operate cranes and other heavy equipment during the middle of the night, not the safest thing to do. much of that operation will take place in the morning. >> reporter: we have also been covering all the area hospitals this morning where passengers were taken. this is video from immediately from the scene of the derailment. it shows some of the people being loaded on to stretchers and ambulances. monique braxton is live where dozens of vic

michael nutter and tom wolf spoke a little earlier.s is what they had to say. >> there's not a ton of, there's virtually no new information. but let's recap. this was amtrak train number 188. from washington, d.c. bound for new york city. approximately 9:28 the first alarm went out this ultimately went to four fire alarms fire department is in command on the scene. that's 33 apparatus, 120 firefighting personnel and ems. at its height probably 200 police officers. department of homeland security on the scene as well as other first responders, state police on the scene, septa personnel 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 piece of information. 65 transports. still since considerx considered critical and unfortunately, five individuals deceased as a result. all those individuals went to a var

nice classy move for mayor nutter. lot of people getting on this train that we have interviewed including first people on line, you will hear foreign accents as people from as far as los angeles britain, eastern europe that i have interviewed and people normally traveling all around the world who normally take train service all around the world as well and no fears no nerves no inn trepidation they won't be looking at the tablets or phones but they will be glancing out the window and sky saying a prayer reflecting on the eight people who were just like them, last tuesday, and wanted, just to get to their destination and never made it. >> all right steve thank you very much. and again we will check back with in steve keeley live at 30th street station. you can see, very much out of the ordinary, to see the mayor there greeting passengers about to board a train but then again nothing with amtrak has been ordinary in the past week. we will take a quick break and be back with "good day philadelphia" with mike and alex in j