Officials today believe that stove was in francescas apartment. Fdny and nypd are taking it very slowly. Its an active investigation, and there is a fear that there still may be one body in the building, and so they are moving very, very slowly, and its also an active investigation. It is not clear what caused the gas explosion, and so theyre investigating and looking at that. Reporter coming up at 6 youll hear from francescas sister, her children, her family are out here waiting for some word either word, that shes okay or did not make it out alive. Three others walking by this building were also hurt, a 9 yearold boy and his father. Today i spoke with his wife. She told me her husband is resting in the hospital. He has a fractured leg and a fractured ankle. Her little boy was also injured in this. Theyre at methodist tonight. For now were live in borough park, Kemberly Richardson channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you from brooklyn to queens where police are looking for the driver in a
Are hearing from the family of another woman who hasnt been seen or heard from since the blast. Eyewitness News Reporter Kemberly Richardson joins us now. Reporter sandra, Francesca Figueroa is a mother of 3 but hasnt been seen or heard from since an explosion ripped through this building. Look at this, this heavy equipment here, this equipment was used to rip down what was left of the building where the explosion happened, and a second building that was right next door. Francescas sister tells Eyewitness News one second she was on the phone with francesca, the next she was gone. She didnt deserve to die this way. She was a fighter, a real hard worker. Right now shes torn between two agonizing worlds, her entire family is, her sister francesca has not been seen or heard from since yesterday afternoon around 1 when the building francesca was moving out of blew up. This Surveillance Video shows the second a huge explosion rocked the structure. Just before this, the women were talking on
Thanks for joining us this october 4th. Good morning, im toni yates. Im in for rob nelson this weekend. And im Michelle Charlesworth. What you got going on today . Whats up . Sleep. I feel that. Meteorologist amy freeze is here with a first look at this mornings weather. Hows the marathon training going . Good. Probably do another 20 miles today for training. The headliner actually at my house is will is turning 7. Oh, happy birthday will. Oh, thank heaven will is 7. There you go. Anyway, as we get started this morning, its going to be another day where we have windy conditions, maybes a few clouds coming and going. As we get started this morning were going to look for the temperatures to climb. Gusts right now up to 30 miles an hour are still happening in queens. Showing today there will be gusts above 20. We could have that persistent wind of 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour through the afternoon. Temperatures in the 40s north and west. Down the shore 54 for belmont, 55 in islip. No rain. May
We get to 60 going into the early afternoon. Going for high of 62 degrees. Well talk 70s returning the first full week of october. Amy thank you so much. We are following breaking news on Staten Island. Police are on the scene after a double murder. There seems to be a mystery right now. Police have identified the victims as 27yearold terrell ford. Brothers. They were shot near targe street and vanderbilt avenue before 3 00. The victims were taken to different hospitals where they both died. Breaking right now on long island, police are investigating an incident at a bar in suffolk county. Video of the scene shows investigators outside of the overnight. Eyewitnesses say a fight started inside the bar, spilled on to the street. Details of the incident are not known right now. We do know there is still quite a Large Police Presence at that scene. Were also following more breaking news this morning. This one in queens where police are looking for the driver in a deadly hit and run. This h
Wildwood new jersey where the powerful wildwood, new jersey where a powerful way up picked up this home and swept it into the bay. There are still concerns and meteorologist, Vanessa Murdock , has the latest. Basely basically there will be more coastal bend and flooding along the shore. Windy coastal wind and flooding along the shore. There will be improvement today. We will still be on the cool side and we expect stray showers and even some breaks of sun this afternoon. The coast is the area of concern for the second half of the weekend. We have coastal flooding alerts through the weekend. A warning for the jersey shore and those persistent winds. Will be around 1 00 and between 1 00 and 4 00, those are the high tides around the region. The hamptons will warm to 56. Monticello at 45 right now. We have clouds, but rain is not falling. There may be a stray shower. Otherwise we will warm to around 61 degrees this afternoon. An improvement today and it is still windy. Wind gusts will be 3