company, his office was not evacuated, but he and a number of other coworkers opted to evacuate just in case. new yorkers hear this and they think the worse. a lot of people in the area chose to leave the building and come out here until things calm down and i can tell you the traffic continues. we have been moved back more than two blocks. fox five new york, more from the new york times . andrew heath was on the fifth floor and said we heard an explosion and it sounded like a manhole cover had exploded. he said i heard and felt, it was like a thought. i was wondering if it was a heavy truck driving by but it was too much. a helicopter crashes on the top of the building in midtown manhattan north of times square, the pilot is dead. still waiting to learn about the fuel leaking from that helicopter on top of that building and we will have more
exploded at the athens happened in the arctic tiny area of the southeastern state of cross river many people were scooping up leaking fuel at the time of the blast officials say more than twenty have been taken to hospital with serious burns hundreds of people have died in similar accidents in recent years in nigeria as impoverished people risk their lives to collect fuel leaking from pipelines will trucks. now the democratic republic of congo has told the international community to back the outcome of its presidential election the head of the congolese election commission was addressing the un security council as it debated the result which the opposition leader felix if she cared to declare the surprise winner an opposition rival mcduffie who came a close second and he wants to challenge the result and the country s constitutional court today is the last day to do so. this may not look like what you d expect to see from supporters of a candidate who just lost an election but at this
i-5 could be closed for days. do you know? we don t have a time at this point. who makes that decision? waiting for ntsb and amtrak to finish their investigation. we ll just be assisting. washdot. state patrol. we re here. safe to say probably well into the night at this point. is fuel leaking? not that i know of but hazmat is around to make sure everything is safe. how are you [ inaudible ]. i don t know about that. i m sorry. i can t speak on that. one more time. repeat all the numbers, you had a little list there? 12 cars, 2 engines [ inaudible ] washington state trooper, what we know about this incident. 12 cars and 2 engines part of the train. 14 cars in total. 13 of the 14 cars jumped the tracks. rescue teams have not gone through those train car, because they have not been secured.
we ve been hearing that it s possible that this stretch of i-5 could be closed for days. do you know that at this point? we don t know that at this time. who makes that decision? they re waiting for ntsb and amtrak to come here so they can finish the investigation. we ll just be assisting. washdot, state patrol. it is safe to say that this will go well into the night at this point. is fuel leaking? not that i know of, but we have hazmat en route to make sure everything is safe. i m sorry. i can t speak on that. request you repeat the numbers? we had a list there. 12 cars with two engines and 13 of them ump jed the track and multiple casualties and we re not confirming numbers at the time and there were 77 pass thinkers onboard, five crew members and five motor vehicles involved and two systemis.
conceding the presidential election. she s going to be honored tonight by the children s defense fund in washington. breaking news out of florida this morning where two trains have collided about 30 miles outside of gainesville, more than 20 cars there overturned. 4,000 gallons of fuel leaking. two rail employees we know suffered minor injuries. snapchat s parent company confidentially filing for an ipo. the wildly popular messaging app now a step closer to becoming the biggest stock debut since 2014. the company could go public as soon as march. the valuation? $20 to $25 billion. it all started with making those pictures disappear. pretty incredible. all right, for more information, more on the five things you need to know go to newday.cnn.com for the latest. all right some celebrity chefs are wrapping up a special way of giving back this thanksgiving. wait until you see what they re planning to serve. but first, she watched her