get back in. governor of new york saying new york city is a city in shock right now, joined now in the bronx, says a space heater is to blame for the initial fire, what more are you learning about the details? reporter: fill, fire commissioner adding it was that space heater supplementing the heat in the building initially caused this fire this morning that led to that fire resulting in dozens of injuries and as we know, 19 deaths, last updated, nine of them children, that is why it is a cold and rainy night in bronx but also full of heartbreak with so many families caught in the middle of this and wondering what will happen next, under in the mean time, investigators saying it was that space heater that initially caused it so now certainly looking into the possibility that that door in that apartment where that fire started was left open, allowing that smoke to basically fill the entire 19-story building. i saw some of the images shared
with us through some images and you can basically see smoke billowing out of the apartment, so investigators saying it wasn t the fire itself that led to so much damage and death but in fact, the smoke that billowed throughout the interior of the building and according today commissioner, preventing the escape of dozens of people. we are indeed a city in shock. it s impossible to go into that room, where scores of family who are in such grief, who are in pain, to see it in a mother s eyes as i held her, who lost her entire family. it s hard to fathom what they re going through. and i went table to table, helped children make their ramen noodle and see heat their pizza
getting their hands on the title, the year s first grand slam of the year, of the new year, and it s always a special occasion, the australia open, and it starts one week from today. this is a horrible mess for djokovic. if djokovic doesn t play, and the only person in the draw that can get to 21, and his name is nadal. patrick, thank you very much. good to see you. thank you. nine people dead including nine children from a fire in new york city. it broke out sunday morning in a bronx apartment building. the fire commissioner said 32 people were sent to hospitals with life-threatening conditions. i am just, you know, sad because this is like a family, you know. we lost a lot of lives, and it hurts very bad, especially children and even elders, like,
parents, kid is out of school, maybe necessarily don t want to know, what s your response to that? yeah, so it s important for us to communicate several things given where we are at this junction in the pandemic. atlanta public schools has been executing surveillance testing since february of last year in partnership with vital solutions this semester as we return, we ve returned mandatory testing for all of our employees, that s twice a week, and now expanded that to students. one of the reasons why this is critically important is because when students test, it does give us the opportunity to have clear information as to whether or not the student can remain in the building or if they do need to pivot, but that s also tied to the safety and well-being of not just the singular student but the class, as well as our employees, and we want for as much as we can to keep our children inside of the brick and mortar, but we do need that data to effectively support and ensure safety for ever
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