Fifth floor where crews have had their ladders up inside of this Apartment Building at 1893 morris avenue. It appears the flames began in one apartment quickly spread to other units forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate. We saw some of them being treated by ems here on the scene with oxygen masks for smoke inhalation and there are four overall injuries two of them minor two serious. All of them civilans. We spoke with some of the people forced outside of their homes. I smelled it and i could hear the commotion. And then what happened . I got my family out. When i came out i saw all of the flames. Now again firefighters telling us four injuries, four civilan injuries here at the scene two of them serious and the other two minor. It appears they are starting to wrap up the scene and have since pulled their ladders out are told is about under control at this hour but of course we will continue monitoring the situation for you. A lot of residents out here waiting for word if they will
Towing a cattle trailer were stopped on the side of the highway when the van smashed in to them. The van crashed on i287. It had just left the restaurant in Basking Ridge just a few miles away. Eyewitness News Reporter cefaan kim is there with the story. This isnt just any Chinese Restaurant. These are not just any Chinese Restaurant workers. Those that know them say theyre part of the community and as news of the tragedy begins to spread, an overwhelming sense of sadness could be felt here. Its devastating. Its actually devastating. Reporter toniann ludica overcome with sadness after learning two restaurant employees were killed in a horrific accident. It was around 10 30 when it happened on i287, just five minutes from the restaurant. Workers are very conscientious, very hard workers. Theyre always like waving to the children. Theyre very nice to the parents. Parents all go and eat there. So theyre just super, super, super nice people. Reporter ludica says workers took that van to an
Years ago her business and the restaurant was the first to open and from beginning everyone was worm, hardworking, immigrant workers. The workers are all really, really nice people. Theyre very conscientious. Theyre very hard workers. Theyre always waving to the children. Theyre very nice to the parents. Parents all go and eat theyre super, super, super nice people. Officials say the others injured in this crash are expected to be okay. The names of the two other passengers killed in the van have not yet been released. Business owners here say those workers took that van to and from work every day. Reporting live in Basking Ridge, new jersey, cefaan kim, channel 7 Eyewitness News. A major shakeup today in the Athletic Department at rutgers university. Both the Athletic Director and the head football coach out. Eyewitness news sports anchor laura behnke with the College Football regular season ending yesterday, you could call this black sunday in the ncaa. But for rutgers it hit more th
When british dragoons in december 1776 kidnapped Major General charles lee, then secondincommand of the Continental Army. They were confident the war would soon be over. But the americans decided to respond with a special operation of their own. This event from the National Archives is a little under one hour. Our topic is the special operations to capture general charles lee and Richard Prescott by Christian Mcburney. Raised in rhode island and graduated from Brown University, mr. Mcburney has been an attorney in washington, d. C. , for the last 25 years. His prior book to kidnapping the enemy was also on the revolutionary war. Please join me in welcoming Christian Mcburney to the National Archives. [applause] thank you. Before i begin my presentation, i would like to know if anyone in the audience is a hollywood screenwriter. A few days ago, i received a call from someone who professed to be a hollywood agent saying he wanted to submit the screenplay of my book to hollywood and belie
Raised in rhode island and graduated from Brown University, mr. Mcburney has been an attorney in washington, d. C. , for the last 25 years. His prior book to kidnapping the enemy was also on the revolutionary war. Please join me in welcoming Christian Mcburney to the national archives. [applause] thank you. Before i begin my presentation, i would like to know if anyone in the audience is a hollywood screenwriter. A few days ago, i received a call from someone who professed to be a hollywood agent saying he wanted to submit the screenplay of my book to hollywood and believe it or not having matt damon or George Clooney with a leading role. If anyone is interested in being a screenwriter, please let me know. I am just kidding. I am not taking it that seriously. That is charles lee. These operations of kidnapping were not infrequent. George washington supported such efforts undertaken by the Continental Army. Referring to a plan to capture clinton in new york city, he wrote i think it one