Good afternoon, in the news, tighter security in federal buildings nationwide. The reason for the measures this week. And the nurse at the center of the ebola debate. What she says about her quarantine. And the big story is a rocket disaster. Searchers are looking for debris after a ship exploded in front of a horrified crowd. Students from ocean city were among those that witnessed the blast. They were watching the launch because the ship was suppose to carry their science experiments to the International Space station along with thousands of supplies for nasa. Karen travers as more now. Reporter the investigation is underway for what caused this fiery rocket failure. The massive launch from virginia, an explosion happened and a selfdestruct button was pushed and then an explosion. The rocket and cargo valued at 2 million erupted into a massive ball of flames. There was no injuries and all we lost was hardware. We have plenty of work to do for orbit and plenty of supplies to keep them
And rock gave way. I seen a bone. He knew it was human right away, part a skull and jawbone with teeth. The jawbone was intact with the teeth and then you could see the shoulder blade and the spinal cord, you could see how he was laying. Eric called his boss and they called police, this is a snapshot of police removing the skull from the hole. We may never know who it was or how they died. The remains were about five feet down to the river rock level, not the kind of shallow grave a killer would dig but the body appeared to have been dumped in the hole. Eric says the bones had clearly been there a long time. They started disintegrating almost as soon as they were exposed. The house was built in 1900 but the skeleton could have been there long before that. Eric was not spooked. No, it doesnt bother me. Perfect for halloween. He is sorry it wasnt a river pirate buried with his treasure. Eric and his coworkers are approaching the job a bit differently now. That was david henry reporting.
Local police and the fbi made 40 arrests including eric ing m ingram, whose brother is the coconspirator that triggered the far reaching probe. It all began when the Camden County Police Department alerted my office and the state police that the officers husband was an alleged member of this network. Prosecutors say that the Drug Trafficking network that operated here on the busy Mount Ephraim avenue across the south jersey suburbs. Police have seized 8,000 bags of heroin and 5,000 bags of crack and 10 pounds of marijuana and guns. They say that Police Officer bailey tipped off the Drug Organization of key investigations. Jim at age 28 officer bailey if convicted could face up to 30 years in prison, far more than the alleged higher ups in this drug conspiracy. Live in camden, new jersey, vernon odom, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Nasa has begun its investigation into last nights catastrophic launch of an unmanned rocket in virginia, the rocket built and owned by Orbital Science Cor
Schools across the nation. Nobody got hurt so that is great. The space station crew is well stocked, and in fact a russian ship arrived today carrying supplies. Nasa pays these companies for making these trips to the International Space station. They are criticized for using older soviet engines for the rockets. There is not many engines in that class to put into rockets like this. Reporter but the ceo or Orbital Sciences says that if its implicated in the disaster, that will speed up their move to different engines for the rockets. That rocket was carrying projects from a school at the jersey shore and john rawlins will have more on that coming up. Meanwhile, coverage continues on this at 6abc. Com. You can see the entire video of that incident. Investigators in camden say they broke up a drug ring that was supplying towns all over south jersey and now dozens of people are facing charges including a police officer. In camden a local investigator came together to make the announcement
Were talking to the Gloucester Township Police chief, coming up at 6 00. But for now we are live in camden Noel Mcclaren for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Thank you very much. Other news from Camden County tonight this house fire, the the causes under investigation at this point. Chopper three over the the scene earlier this afternoon it was crestmont terrace in collinswood, where the fire quickly reached two alarms with heavy smoke and fire coming from the second and third floors of the home, there are no reports of any injuries. In philadelphia, police hope that this new Surveillance Video we will leave them to two suspects wanted for shooting and beating in queen village. Now this video shows man and woman approaching victim at second and carpenter on saturday, and would the man then hits the victim with the baseball bat abe then the man shoots the victim in the leg as he tries to get a away. Again, police need your help if you recognize these suspect you are asked to give them a call. It i