industrial accident could have led to this wholesale sort of destruction you are seeing on your screen right now. some of the tweets that have come out from police asking people to please stay away. first they said we are asking the public to stay out of the area to allow the rescue workers access. now, they have gone further. they say the best way to help is to allow the first responders room to work. stay clear of the area of 22nd and market. sarah hoyt, i know you are still with us. you mentioned this is such a busy area, within, you know, a few blocks range of the 30th street station. do you know anything about some of the traffic and the foot traffic around the area currently? have they blocked this all off? what is happening in that area of philadelphia right now? reporter: well, i m en route actually, so i m not on top of the scene. but in that area, i have been told what you have been told, too, they are pushing people back, keeping some type of barricade up, like i said i do
busy. you also have tranes coming in from new york around that time. so there s all their other traffic near that 30th street station. so it s just the main thorofare. market street connects the city from one end-to-the other. so it s a heavily used thorofare. again, our headline as you are looking at these these pictures of firefighters sifting through rubble in this apartment building collapse, a four-story apartment collapses at the philadelphia fire commission lloyd ayers has reported as many as eight-to-ten people believed trapped somewhere amid that rubble. we are continuing to check our sources and find out evg everything we can, in the meantime, a quick break right after this. ready? happy birthday! it s a painting easel! the tide s coming in!
chr , which is the 30th street station here in philadelphia. there s foot traffic, a number of cars and subways, and on the corner where that building did collapse is a subway stop. you have grocery stores, retail space, banks, things of that nature. close to university of pennsylvania. so this is a high traffic area. sarah, if you can, tell us how people are reacting responding to this? does it seem to be relatively calm? is it chaotic? are people asking questions? is there confusion on the ground? right now people seem to somewhat be in awe and shock. kind of what actually happened. you can see, you know, parts of this crumbled building here. and people are really just kind of quiet and watching. this is a very busy area. so when i came on to the scene, there was a number of personnel who were walking by. and it was eerily quiet. you would have to be yelling in your cell phone just due to the
ofç construction accident ther. it doesn t seem like anything untoward other than a construction accident, just a place you are the former mayor, this is only blocks from city hall, only a few blocks across the river from 30th street station, this is the heart of downtown philadelphia. that area of market street was being redeveloped with big office towers. two, three years from now, this block won t look the same at all. we will stay on top of this. thank you very much, former mayor, former d.a., nbc commentator, former governor. former everything. mr. philadelphia, ed rendell. thanks for staying around and talking with us today. meanwhile, major league baseball, alex rodriguez has been thrust back into the center of a baseball scandal. espn is reporting that a-rod is among 20 players reportedly connected to a mime-area clinic that may be suspended for performance-enhancing drug use.
image that we ve got. let s go back to others who we know that were at the scene and who were at businesses nearby and show a picture. that would be routine police work that is done. that s many, many aspects and i m sure there are others that they are not going to talk to us about as they attempt to track down who planted these devices. help me here because all the time we re talking about union station or 30th street station in philly or anywhere, there s a big stein and an announcement. why don t they let the people see the person and say, i know this i goo, i know this woman? i assume it s a guy. that s part of the debate that s been going on all day today as you look at the mess that went on this afternoon with some of the bad reporting and again i think earlier in the day i think they thought they had a name or a possible i.d., possible and that they have been running that down and i believe they are trying to figure out who is on this tape. what do you mean, it didn t