Short time ago. Youre looking at live pictures, again, looking down tremont street. You can see boston police, e. M. S. , fire apparatus, all here on the scene. Again, city officials confirms that two private construction workers were trapped in a trench and killed this afternoon over on dartmouth street. Right now, efforts being made to drain the water out of that trench so that the bodies of those two construction workers can be recovered. Reporting live from the south okay. Bob. As bob just showed us, viewers sending us video of the coverage all afternoon. Mark ockerbloom continues our coverage. It paints a picture of the desperation the workers had to help those workers. It does. In a very busy part of the city on a friday, especially. Dozens of people who helped to try and help the victims. This is the area of what it this is dartmouth and up here tremont street, thats the intersection right here. What you have right here, the fire hydrant. This played an active role because at on
Unfortunately they werent able to get themselves out of the hole. This is like 20 feet deep down there . The fire said about 12 to 15 feet deep. The two people are still down there . Ever source shut the power off. It appears continue a rescue operation. A recovery operation you should say to get these two people out. Its sad. Construction is a dangerous field. The recovery effort continuing here and also the water and the streets are shut off in the area for the timing they will continue to be that way. We continue to watch both recovery and investigation here because were told not only are police and fire he but also federal workplace investigators as well. But the time they are spending now has been to get debris out, get the water out and try to get to the men who apparently have lost lives while working on a private construction site here dan hausle, 7 news. Anchor all right, dan. A viewer sent this video to 7 of the moments when that hole started to fill with water. Water flooded
Gravel coming up into your vacuum cleaner and thats what is coming now is the effort to get some of the doe brie that continues to bury the men down in there carefully off the men to respect their bodies and at the same time keep rescuers safe as well. That apparently is why its taking so long to get the men out them still dont know how this happened. The investigation is continuing while they make the recovery effort but it will go on in ernest once they get the bodies away from the scene. Live in news. Anchor okay a hard story to report on here of many witnesses watched in horror as the water poured into that trench. Tim caputo now continues team 7 original with more from those witnesses. Tim . Reporter jadiann, the south end is a formly busy place especially on a friday afternoon. So you can imagine there were an awful lot of people around at the time this all happened. Every one of them said it all happened in a matter of seconds. Cell phone video shows just how quickly the water c
Junior spent 12 days in the hospital. Well continue to follow this breaking news. Were expecting a News Conference with the attorney who represents the victims family in about 15 minutes. Well bring that to you live when it happens. Brown deer police chief michael kass has weighed in on this development. In a statement, he said as with any officer involved shooting, the Brown Deer Police department were always a possibility. We fully understand and accept the need for this high level of scrutiny within the criminal justice system. Now to our big story at four. A body is found inside a trash can. This happening in an alley in the harambee neighborhood. Police are calling it a homicide. Lets go to Julie Collins who is live at Police District 5 with details julie . Milwaukee police tell me they are in the process of informing the on thursday night police were . Called to investigate a body found on n. Holton street between wright and meinecke avenue. The body is described by police as an
Into the parking garage. And police later arrested that man. Right now there is no motive. And the relationship between the suspect and the victim is unknown. And if you have information please call Crime Stoppers at 702 3855555. And domestic dispute ends with gun fire and police swarming the scene. Near the Las Vegas Convention center. This happened after 9 30 on Convention Center in paradise. And metro said a boyfriend of her ex. And they tell us the victim is expected to be okay. Police say the exboyfriend is in custody. No word on when the scene will be clear. And more traffic cones and another significant traffic closure to tell you about. Airport connector from 215 eastbound is closed this morning. Tonights closure will last until monday morning at 5 00 a. M. This morning closure. After that ramp will be shut there is good news. This doesnt include weekends after today. Second phase of improvements to that airport connector. And those are the top stories and go over to weather wa