Mayor de blasio just updated us. So many pictures and videos being posted of the aftermath. Eyewitness News Reporter tweeting out video tonight of the massive Emergency Response of this wild scene. Josh joins us with the breaking information. Josh. Sade, you can see emergency vehicles are still going in and scene. That response was so enormous because at first, they were concerned that the whole building had collapsed. Fortunately, that is not what happened, but the damage is very extensive and right now, we can show you brandnew video of the side of this building. Its the building known as jfk high school. But it actually comprises eight different new york city Public Schools that serve a total of 4,000 kids. Around just about 8 00 this evening, a construction crew working in the 6th floor. Somehow sparked a gas explosion and caused that damage. You can see the windows blown out and rubble all over the street below. Lets tell you right now, we talked a few minutes ago with some custod
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Thank you for joining us, im ken rosato, and you are never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Good morning everybody. Happy friday. If youre about to head out the door, grab your umbrella. You are going to need that. We have rain across the area, we have temperatures in the upper 70s. Its a morning where we start out with a muggy morning out here and a morning where were looking at whats going to be these showers and thunderstorms. 76 right now and passing through the area, its muggy. Were looking at the line from kingston to poughkeepsie down the toms river. Western jersey is shower free now and so is manhattan. Theres a little shower coming across Staten Island heading towards brooklyn and queens. Theres showers and thunderstorms up there at newburgh, and those are heavy along 84 and 87 and back to our west, drier, cooler air for tomorrow, which will be delightful. Well talk about that coming up in just a moment. Im doing okay. Southern state parkway, different story,
Scene which literally happens on route en route to the tunnel along varick street with the intersection of west houston so keep in mind as you travel through if you can take it to the lincoln tunnel, one of those nights where i would say it would be a better bet for you. Reporting live over lower manhattan, shannon sohn, Eyewitness News. Please keep on top of that and keep us in touch with the situation going on right there. We are tracking breaking news that happened within the hour, this happened down in lower manhattan. There was a shooting inside the Federal Building at 201 varick street from, a Security Guard has been shot. He has been taken to lenox hill hospital. We have been told by the nypd that the gunman then turned the gun on himself and killed himself. There has been a Massive Police presence down there and traffic, as you can imagine, on a friday night in the summer, traffic is at a stand still but again we are continuing to follow all of the developments. As soon as we g
Rocked by a gas related explosion. Three construction workers are being treated this morning. We have more live from the scene of the explosion in marble hill. Reporter well, chris, the damage is just on the other side of the building behind me. The three construction worker, two of them in serious condition and another one critical at the hospital. Meanwhile, investigators trying to pin point the cause of that blast. The blown out facade and mangled debris at jfk high school inspected by fire investigators overnight. A lot of work being done right now to decide what were going to do going further to stabilize the building. Reporter a powerful blast that left the neighborhood shaken. We thought it was a terrorist attack. Reporter happening just after 8 00 thursday night was so loud, the blast from jfk high school jolted people nearby not knowing what was going on. Oh my god, we we want outside and my neighbors were like, do you feel that . What was that . And right away, we heard the s