Ditching his board and pulling a 14yearold to shore speaking out this morning on gma. And we do say good morning, america. We made it to friday. A huge crowd already gathering in central park this morning for 5 seconds of summer and for a few seconds it didnt seem like it was summer at awe, the flash floods, the storms but look at them. Theyve dried out after staying there all night, amy, ready for this concert this morning . We cannot wait to hear from the band in just a bit. We do want to get right to that breaking news, that explosion in los angeles overnight. Rocking the basement of a highrise sparking a power outage at the Staples Center. Nick watt has the latest. Good morning, nick. Reporter good morning, amy. Thats right. Concertgoers plunged into darkness. Firefighters deployed in the heart of the city, fire and billowing smoke in the financial district. Overnight a powerful underground explosion shaking downtown los angeles. Looks like we got a large multistoried modern sealed
Eyewitness news copter you see just how big a scene this was and is still this afternoon. Traffic southbound has been diverted to route 17. They will be at this for quite some time today trying to figure out exactly what happened. All the details of what happened, and right now just trying to notify next of kin and straighten out exactly to get traffic flowing once again. Dolan channel 7 Eyewitness News. As we find out more breaking information we will update you on air and online at abc7ny. Three workers remain hospitalized with serious burns suffered in a massive explosion as they worked on a gas line at a high school in the bronx. Damage and tore a gaping hole in the side of the building as you can see from this tweet from marcus solis. He is joining us right now with the very latest. Its devastation, pure devastation. I have no idea. As a longtime teacher of Digital Electronics he had to come see for himself. These photos give you a sense of the force of the blast a gas fueled expl
Reporter it with make you feel safer . Definitely. Reporter Regal Cinemas has a complex in new rochelle. The Police Commissioner says its theater at the theater. He tells me if you really are worried about security, you need a full security screen. Searching bags by itself doesnt help. Its only going to slow things up and it may turn people off. I know people think its going to be some kind of security. And maybe its that effect that theyre looking for, that they are doing something. I dont really feel unsafe when i go to the movies right now. But reporter what do you think theyre looking for . Im not sure. This is the first i heard of it. Reporter many believe security is just a pretext. I really think its about the profitability. Rather than you spending 10 bucks on a popcorn and soda if you have your bag of chips and a little coke you know youre not going to spend that money. I dont think its about safety. Reporter you dont think theyre looking for weapons . No. I think its a bad id
And the ninth biggest point drop ever. For stockholders, jim axelrod tells us, it has been a week for the the strong. Rose tonight, two americans are being called heroes for preventing a mass shooting on a highspeed passenger train heading from amsterdam to paris. Jonathan vigliotti is in our london newsroom. Jonathan, what you can tell us . Reporter charlie, the two passengers who tackled the gunmen were offduty American Service men. The gunman was carrying several weapons in his luggage including a kalishnakov rifle, automatic pistom oland knives. According to veries, the American Service men heard the suspect loading his weapon in the bathroom and confronted him when he came out. The suspect has been taken into police custody. Both americans suffered injuries. One may have been hit by a bullet. Police have identified the suspect as a 26yearold of moroccanan descent. He was apparently known to intelligence services. Frances interior minister praised the two americans calling them ext
About the first day of school in less than three weeks. I dont know how were supposed to go back to school because thats an entire floor. That exploded. Reporter thats a reasonable question. Earlier in the day, the city said that school would be open in time. But late this afternoon, the mayor is now saying the School Building will not be ready, and all students housed in that seven schools in the building will have to be diverted to new locations. Again, School Starts in less than three weeks. Reporting live from marble hill, ida siegal, news 4 new york. Thank you for those new details. Take a look at video we just got into our newsroom. A man has been killed and a woman critically hurt in a brawl on an east harlem street corner. Police say this started as a verbal dispute and quickly turned violent. Ray villeda has been on the scene working on the details. Hes in east harlem. Police just left the scene about an hour ago after reviewing Surveillance Video. According to witnesses, this