In this edition of Eyewitness News Extra Time, we have the latest on the Passaic River cresting, an interview with the train operator in last week's subway derailment, and how NYC is reacting to the crisis in Ecuador.
Ecuador faces a state of war as President Daniel Noboa confronts drug cartels in a surge of violence. Crisis deepens with kidnappings, attacks, and a call to war
| UPDATED: 11:46, Thu, Feb 25, 2021
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Four of Ecuador’s jails saw unprecedented and bloody violence this week, in confrontations that were described by the South American country’s government as “concerted action by criminal organisations”. Now the death toll from the violence has reached 79, including 18 prisoners who were found dismembered at one jail. Police are now preparing to re-enter one jail and use necessary rational force as another mutiny has been reported.