You can see metal and mattresses scattered across the highway. The driver of a box truck carrying the mattresses somehow crossed from the northbound lanes into southbound traffic, colliding with a tractortrailer and other vehicles. The box truck driver and its passenger died. Other people suffered minor injuries. And now to the latest on a powerful explosion at john f. Kennedy high school inmileanhour bell hill. Investigators say a lit match caused the explosion that injured three people. Ida siegal is at the scene with new details. Reporter and sibilia, the worker who lit that match is now in the hospital in critical condition, suffering from severe burns. An entire portion of the sixth floor is now in rubble, and officials are telling us it will not be repaired in time for the first day of school. It was intended to be a science lab with all the bells and whistles. Now the site of rubble and debris. According to the fire department, workers were in the process of installing tabletop
Bombings that have occurred over the last three days in new york and new jersey. Hes the same man caught on Surveillance Video at both manhattan crime scenes, so who is rahami . Not much is known at this point, but we do know he was born in afghanistan but is a u. S. Citizen. Nbcs Pete Williams reporting according to a u. S. Law enforcement official, a key piece of evidence was a fingerprint found on one of the unexploded devices. New Jersey State Police say hes also wanted for questioning in connection with saturdays Seaside Heights explosion. Officials have now officially linked all of these incidents. Earlier this morning authorities searched a Fried Chicken restaurant in biz bett, new jersey, whose owner is listed as mohammed rahami. All this unfolding as andrew cuomo says it looks like the bombing that happened here in manhattans chelsea neighborhood on this zrestreet, 23rd street, could be an act of terrorism with a foreign connection. In all, four crime scenes, two in new jersey
Banks on mayor bill de blasio. Meanwhile, de blasio calls the attack on police an attack on the city as a whole and calls for a moratorium on antiPolice Protests. But is this a police problem, a discrimination problem, or is it both . Tonight were going to talk to people on all sides of this, including the former commissioner, who says he has never seen antipolice attitudes like these. Plus the First Responders who fought desperately to save the officers. They tell their emotional stories. Theyre here with me live. And also new york magazines frank rich weighs in on Police Protests and the movie north korea doesnt want you to see. Weve got a whole lot to get to this evening. But i want to go right to cnns martin savidge. Hes in brooklyn at the scene aft tack on officers wenjian liu and rafael ramos. Good evening, martin. What is the very latest tonight from bedfordstuyvesant . Reporter this of course was the scene of that horrific attack that took place on the saturday before christmas
We have found on one of our videos two males who spoke with the prerpetrator prior to the event and says, watch what im going to do. He walks northbound, circles around, across the street and comes up on the officers. We were able to identify two eyewitnesss to the account. Two particularly courageous con ed workers chased him and alerted him the officers who pursued him down to the subway, when he took his life. President obama is monitoring the developments from hawaii and pledging washington support. We need to make sure that we can have conversations about how policing can be done effectively, how we can have Community Policing going forward, but we also need to at the same time protect our Law Enforcement personnel. And i think having the conversation about one is not undercutting the other. We have to have them both. Msnbcs adam reiss is at the crime scene in brooklyn. The mayor spoke earlier to Police Athletic league. Many felt he showed Great Respect for the police there, but t