were all watching it live on television here on cnn all the local stations in baltimore were showing live helicopter pictures of what was going on the looting there, after five or ten minutes, i assumed the police would show up they didn t show up for two hours only after the fire started and the fire engines couldn t get there, firefighters couldn t get there, and eventually they got there. what can you is there any rationale explanation why the police didn t show up at that pharmacy or that liquor store or that cell phone store or the check cashing store and stop what was going on? well there s only two things that could have occurred. one, if they were overwhelmed and did not have the necessary resources and they couldn t deploy them safely that would be one reason. if there was a conscious decision not to respond and allow it to play itself out, that s another decision. that s the only two things i can think of that could have occurred because if you are
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operator couldn t believe it at first. i m stuck down the chimney. did you say you re trapped in a chimney? a 13-year-old boy locked out of his scottsdale home thought that climbing the roof and shimmying down the chimney santa claus-style sounded like a good idea. he tied off an electrical cord to hang on to but it didn t go according to plan. he had just enough room to reach his cell phone. i really want to get out. they re coming to help you. it was about this wide where he went in about like that. so he went down hanging on to that rope. got down to that area and realized he couldn t go out and just sat there and called 911. such a tight squeeze, firefighters couldn t pull him back up. i m scared.
here now abc s neal karlinsky. reporter: even the 911 operator couldn t believe it at first. i m stuck down the chimney. did you say you re trapped in a chimney? a 13-year-old boy locked out of his scottsdale home thought that climbing the roof and shimmying down the chimney santa claus-style sounded like a good idea. he tied off an electrical cord to hang on to but it didn t go according to plan. he had just enough room to reach his cell phone. i really want to get out. they re coming to help you. it was about this wide where he went in about like that. so he went down hanging on to that rope. got down to that area and realized he couldn t go out and just sat there and called 911. such a tight squeeze, firefighters couldn t pull him back up. i m scared. i understand. everybody is there. they re going to get to you. you re not hurt right now, right?
preparing the helipad by stomping down the snow and ice so they can reach us when the weather improves. good to see they re all in good spirits. when the chopper arrives, it ll air lift 12 people at a time and take them to a nearby chinese ice breaker. crews in north dakota are testing the air for toxic fumes after a fiery train crash forced hundreds to evacuate. two trains collide ed yesterday just outside of fargo. one train was carrying crude oil. nobody was injured fortunately. the fire was so hot, though, firefighters couldn t get close enough to battle it. they are basically letting it burn itself out. a rocket strike on a passenger bus killed at least 25 people in syria s capital city today. reports indicate that men, women, and children were aboard that bus, and the wreckage has made it difficult to know the full death toll. the opposition group says the strike came from a government-controlled military air base. it also says that a two-week