Transit. Things at the airport look fine as well, ukee. Dash cam video catches a very moment natural gas explosion rips apart a home in ocean county, new jersey. The the firely blast injured 15 people and sent debris, as you can see shooting several feet into the air. Thinks aftermath from chopper three. Only the basement basement rhea mains intact. Eyewitness News Reporter jan carabao is live from the scene in stafford township where utility crews continue to work on that damage gas line, jan, good morning. Reporter ukee, good morning. Gas crews have been on the scene here around the clock trying to restore service to everyone in this neighborhood. We are being kept far from the scene right now. That is oak avenue just down there where Police Officers are stationed now. Police officers on the scene tell me gas crews are still there working to restore services. We have yet to hear from the gas company hoping to get an update from them very soon. Mayor of stafford township tells us that the explosion yesterday was caused by a 34 yearold main gas line here under oak avenue, 15 people injured, two critically in the explosion but all are expect to recover and that is a amazing when you take a look at this explosion. This same video was captured 10 30 Tuesday Morning on a Police Officers dash cam. You see fireball and then debris. Just an hour and a half earlier several homes had been evacuated after residents complained about smelling gas, workers with the new Jersey Natural Gas responded to the scene to investigate and soon after the explosion happened that home at 59 oak avenue was blown to bits. The only thing lefties the block basement. Fortunately, the family was in the the home but more than a dozen fire fighters, e ms and gas workers were injured and all are expect to recover. Neighboring home were damaged as well. Neighbors felt the explosion. And they are still shaken up by it. Lets listen. It was terribly loud. I never heard anything so loud. I thought the a tractor trailer hit this porch. That is how much the house shook. The whole neighborhood was just shaken unbelievably. We heard the big explosion. You felt it. The whole building just shook. Our whole house shook. You felt it was big. It shook the the floors. The whole foundation of the house. Reporter now at one point yesterday more than 75 homes were evacuated, in electricity, in gas and as i mentioned gas crews remain on the scene trying to restore services to everyone. We are hoping to hear an update from the gas company very soon. Just as soon as we get it, we will get it back to you. But for right now we are live from stafford township, jan carabao for cbs3 Eyewitness News. A threeyear old girl is heading home to delaware today. Amber alert canceled after Elinor Trotta was found safe with her father. She was located hundreds of miles away from new castle and spencer, massachusetts. Police say that four threeyear old Michael Trotta assaulted elinors mother dawn barkus monday night inside her apartment. He then allegedly abduct that little girl. The trotta is in Police Custody while barkus is reunited with her daughter. Trotta a facer a number of charges including endangering the welfare of the child. It is already 20 degrees. My goodness, that is still cold. It isnt as harsh as yesterday, in but still well below freezing. Actually well below typical temperatures at this point. It is hard to really have an idea of what is typical because there have been so much cold, in the in of february and we are going to see this one go down in the history books as within of the coldest februaries we have ever recorded. Meanwhile, as we take you out to the live Neighborhood Network one spot you have a fresh coating to an inch or two of snow is Rehoboth Beach outside boardwalk place, still a sliver of some left over snow, slush, ice that has been since left behind on the board from previous systems but for now you nothing falling from the sky foulke it is quiet. We have a couple very thin cloud here and there, generally nice clear sky. Temperatures will be dropping off. There is a new storm that comes in tomorrow. It is over texas right now and you can actually trace the track of this thing by looking at different warnings, watches, advisories that are already in effect, across the deep south and then up to, Sussex County delaware. That is the northern most extent of those advisories. It gives us a sense of this is clipping our region tomorrow and that said, for now you dont have to worry but it is not until tomorrow morning we are expecting sun and cloud a nice day but you know, compared to the fact that we have a frontal boundary manager through 38 degrees and a breeze isnt terrible but as we look ahead to tomorrow that snow is on the way and we will talk about what that quick hitting storm is going to leave behind as we progress through the the show, vittoria back over to you. Good morning everyone. Traveling out and about still it is pretty fantastic. The lets get outside and give you a better look traveling on the 42 freeway your northbound side is headlights coming toward you there. This is not too far from creek road, traveling in this area you will notice it getting bulky and a few more vehicles on the road in 15 to 20 minutes we could see this volume double into rush hour form. Watching us right now and dont plan to be out here for the next 15 to 20 minutes i would say once you get there expect worst. Southbound on the 42 freeway in problems. Traveling 309 around pennsylvania turnpike in delays in either direction. All of the majors are still quiet and in delays for mass transit the as well erika. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will host a town hall meeting in moorestown today to talk about his pre posed budget. Christie unveiled his 33. 8 milliondollar spending proposal yesterday in trenton. The governor did his not want to raise taxes even though the state is facing a revenue short fall. On monday a judge ruled christie must restore 1. 6 billion in funding to the states pension program. Also today the can states for mayor in philadelphia will try to sway city teachers to support them. The School Funding is one of the largest issues in mays primary so five of the six candidates will make their pitch this afternoon. Todays forum is only opened to members of the Philadelphia Federation of teachers. Our time 5 37. In Business News this morning forest gumps Running Shoes are back in the spotlight. Also, Consumer Reports best car of the year which one is is it . Money watchs jill wagner joins us from the the New York Stock Exchange and she has that and more, good morning. Good morning. Reporter janet yellin is back on capitol hill for day two of testimony. Yesterday she said that the fed would be patient when deciding when to raise interest rates. Economist suspect june rate hike but yellin left the door opened for a later timetable. Investors liked what they heard. Market will open up at new record high, dow jones climbed 92 points to a new record, nasdaq up seven its tenth day in a row of gains. Southwest canceled 80 flights and 19 more could be cans told day after an airline missed a Safety Inspection deadline. 128 planes were grounded, 20 percent of the fleet after the overdue maintenance check was discovered. Federal officials agreed to let the the airline keep flying the planes though as long as they are check within the next five days. For the first time in 17 years u. S. Auto makers placed three cars in Consumer Reports top auto rankings, best Overall Vehicle is california based tezsla model s electric car, buick regal was named top sports sedan and chevy impala was name top large car. Nike is Going Old School they are bringing back the 1972 cortez classic running shoe, you might recognize them from forest gump the tom hanks character wore the red, white and blue sneakers during the never ending Cross Country run also that famous park bench scene where he says life is like a becomes of chocolate these sneakers go on sale saturday and they cost a hundred dollars. Ukee and erika. You never necessity what you will get. That was good. Thanks jill. I expect it to be from ukee good no, my partner this time. Mixing it up. 5 39. Watch what you tweet Keith Olbermann is learning that the hard way after comments about penn state student leads to a suspension by espn. Eyewitness News Reporter Nicole Brewer joins us with more on this controversy good morning. Yes, that controversy started monday after ol ber man responded about thon that raises millions of dollars for pediatric cancer. This is the tweet. Let me show it to you sent to olbermann which simply says we are ape it included a link about the fun raising efforts. Start of the popular psu chant we are. Olbermann responded with one word. Pitiful. The backlash began prompting the host to follow you will with the host saying would i like to thank students and alumni of penn state for proving my point about the mediocrity of their education and ethics. It wasnt until tuesday that Keith Olbermann tweeted this, i apologize for psu tweets. I was stupid, childish and way less mature than the students there who did such a great job fund raising. That same day espn said it was completely inappropriate and does in the reflect views of espn. Network suspended olbermann for hosting his show for the rest of the week saying annual tradition of thon and efforts of the students of penn state to fight pediatric cancer should be applauded. One word pitiful really started a fire storm on social media. You can understand why. Thinks a beloved fund raising effort here in this area and across the state. Largest run student run philanthropy in the work. You cannot question the great work that they do. No day you the about it. Still ahead on Eyewitness News you might want to be careful next time you are speeding through ez pass lane on the pennsylvania turnpike. The what the turnpike commissioner says will happen to drivers dont obey the the speed limit. Also Singer Taylor Swift has full failed a very important promise find out where she dononated proceeds to one of her new songs when we come back. A Police Dash Cam catches the very moment a home explode. Fifteen people are in hospitals in stafford. Several are Gas Company Employees and two of those seven are in critical condition. Also the subject of yesterdays amber alert threeyear old Elinor Trotta is safe this morning. Her father is a awaiting extradition back to delaware. Police say Michael Trotta took elinor from her new castle home, yesterday morning they were found in massachusetts. Twentyseven yearold Eddie Ray Routh will spend life in prison without parole in the shooting deaths of american snipper author chris kyle and another man, jury convicted routh yesterday in the 2013 shootings. 5 43. Lets check with katie and our weather watchers good morning. Very cold air reported from the Weather Watcher Network not as harsh as yesterday but we are still in the Single Digits and lower teens in spots and we will show you a couple of these locations. 12 degrees from sam, he has a very light wind in norristown he had a comment too perhaps today will be warmer doesnt feel like it so far. You know i concur because outside on that sky deck and all it took was lightes breeze for it to still feel very, very cold. I dont want to you hear the word warmer and be, you know, affect by. That still bundle up. Be ready for the chill but it isnt technically as harsh. John delis in glassco but cold start for him here as well. And, again, even though it is easing up on the thermometer it is still well below average with the expect daytime highs. We expect upper 30s generally speaking. Here is beginnings of a big old system but that is beginning of the next front. I wont say it, but it is a next storm system. This is sipping across the deep south and just barely clipping our area i want to show you as we jump to 1 00 a. M. Tomorrow on future weather we site it coming in through virginia and put things in motion are quickly. Basically southern most delaware, new jersey has best shot to see snow accumulation out of this we will talk a coat to go an inch or two. Then this particular model does bryant very much american that up into southeastern pennsylvania but i can see a snow shower region wide here tomorrow. With that said stuck again in the 20s for two more straight days. We will ease up slowly and surely as we kick off meteorological spring, some rain and temperatures in the 40s are on the horizon vittoria, over to you. Good morning everyone. The right now rush hour is still sort of nonexistent, definitely picking up in waves on the 42 freeway we are seeing a few more vehicles northbound around creek road but that is the only spot we are seeing a few more vehicles. Look at 476, pretty beautiful nice ride right around route one, mid county tolls, schuylkill expressway, i95, 422 still looking great. Good amount of the space on the eastbound side of 422, we are still waiting in the wings of that rush. However, off of the majors we have some construction in lansdale closing main street at north wales road we are doing utility repairs. We have a water main break on valley road near garden road, your best alternate toys take twining road. You want to be careful of. That with situations like that, dont forgotten if you are trying to navigate through backups and such you can always get updated fur about traffic backups with the new cb. Philly traffic app, down load that app on itunes or google play ukee. We have a warning for motorist traveling on the pennsylvania turnpike this morning do not speed in the toll lanes, ez pass is watching. Posted speed limit is 5 miles an her but some drivers are speeding through tolls going up to 30 miles an hour. Toll collectors say they are constantly dodging fast moving cars when they try to cross the lanes. You have to cross the lanes it is crazy how quick they come through it is like we are not even there. Warning letters will be issued to speed violators and repeat offenders could have accounts suspended or terminated. Four conn necessary cut College Students air rested on drug charges after a dozen classmate suffer overdosees at a party. We told but these overdosees earlier this week. Students at Wesleyan University were hospitalized over the weekend after taking the drug mdna also known as molly, it had been mixed with other drugs. Two have of those students are still in the hospital. The arrested students have also been suspended from will school. The Justice Department shows a hate crime did not occur in the Trayvon Martin case. That means civil rights charges will not be filed begins george zimmerman. Zimmerman shot and killed the florida teen during a confrontation in 2012 and he claimed self tea fence under floridas controversial stand your ground law. Jury acquitted zimmerman of murder in july of 2013. A park in grays ferry is getting an upgrade. City leaders will break ground on the renovation at square park the half milliondollar project will repays the concrete and plants at the park and also add new trees and game tables. Well astronauts aboard the International Space station plan another space walk this morning this is nasa video from saturday. The crew is getting ready for commercial vehicles that will dock with the iss starting in 2017. Boeing and space x are developing the spacecraft, new docking adapters will arrive later this year. Finally some slightly warmer temperatures to talk about today. How about that 20 is warm for us. Bring it. Katie checks on your forecast ape let you know if that warmer weather is here to stay but first heres is what coming up tonight on cbs3. Nicole we all have different needs for our children and basing all of the childrens needs on one test is not the right road to go down. And somethings got to change. Okaikor and the ones who are taking the brunt of it are our children. All the other things that make you a great human being is not important anymore. Whats more important is can you answer abcd . Gina what am i going to learn for my child from this test that my teacher cant tell me right now . Taylor swift just has plenty of style and not to mention just a class act too. Shes helping change the lives of some children and keeping a promise too. Umhmm. Yeah t swift is proving that shes true to her word. People magazine reports that the famously charitable singer donated 50 you this dollars to the new York City Department of education. Last fall swift is from berks county promised to donate all of her proceed from the song welcome to new york to the citys Public Schools and followed through on that. How about that. Wonderful wonderful. Anticipation is almost over, 30th season of survivor airs tonight. Show features first time theme of world is a apart with tribes divided in white collar, blue collar and in collar. Castaways are forced to choose between honesty or deception, and one cast away becomes ill will after trying to satisfy his need for protein you do not want to miss this, catch the the 90 minute season premiere right here on cbs3 at 8 00 oclock tonight. I will talk to jeff probes at noon on talk philly about this show. Talking about his need for protein. Yeah, right. I wonder what this guy ate. Some big old bug or something. Oh, my. I was thinking more raw fish. We will see. My goodness. 5 53. That was a tease and a half. I want to tune in for a lot of reasons. What does no collar mean. What is that. Jeff will talk bit at noon. Im so curious now thanks guys. Lets get out to storm scan three. Not a lot is going on you might be thanking mother nature, that is a decent looking day but at this moment win speed are not terrible but you need a light breeze. I can attest to that on the sky deck to make it feel more chillier and it is cold outside, but it is not as harsh as yesterday was. Early tomorrow morning a new storm will move in from the deep south and just will clip us. And, in new jersey. Quick coat to go an inch or two. Nothing more than a snow shower or two for everybody else. Other than that it will turn cold again. Vittoria, over to you. Good morning. We are starting to see the turn now, we are going from serene on the majors to the bubblings of rush hour. Traveling on the schuylkill expressway it is not awful but you may feel a little bit of, some of that heat on the westbound side right around city avenue gradually building. Ben franklin bridge, 95 southbound starting to see gradual buildings of rush hour around girard and cocottman avenue and you know how it will happen, it will get eke a Police Officer makes a young boys day and his simple act is going viral. Oklahoma city Police Posted this picture object their facebook page. The it shows officer craig cook hug ago this little boy. Cook was responding to a call when a boy ran right up to him with his arms wide open. When you see a innocent child coming up and giving you a hug i mean it just melt your heart. It remind me why we go to work every day because you never know who will, whose life you will impact. Now that picture has been viewed more than one and a half in million times on the Police Departments facebook page. After the hug the officer said he and the boy played basketball and had a foot race too. That is great. Wonderful moment. We will be right back. Homecoming . Its awesome. 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Reporter erika and ukee good morning. Gas crews have been on the scene overnight working around the clock to get Service Restored to this neighborhood. They are still on the scene right now. Down is there oak avenue where you see police lights. We are being kept far away from the scene but it was a 34 yearold gas line that caused this explosion. In an instant one stafford Township Community thrown into chaos as a home on oak avenue explodes before peoples eyes this video caught on a Police Officer as dash cam Emergency Response happened in an instant. We have a large explosion, mass casualty unit firemen down. Reporter more than a dozen fire fighters, e ms and gas workers who had been on the scene were injured, two critically. An hour earlier new Jersey Natural Gas crew where is called to the area have after arrest dents complained about a gas odor. Several homes were evacuated. The explosion left nothing of the home at 59 oak avenue nearby homes were damage as
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