Jadiann, two the people injured were firefighters, we understand, and its clear not clear how badly anyone is injured at this point. Powerful natural gas explosion in portland, oregon today. The largest city there in oregon. A plop peculiar shopping district reduced to rubble. The side of one building just ripped off and windows blown out. A spokesperson for Utility Company northwest natural said she got a call before the blast saying a construction crew had hit a gas line. That phone call may have saved lives because the company immediately told people to get out of that building. The explosion happened shortly after. In the newsroom, im adam williams, 7news. Danvers High School Teacher who was raped and murdered by a 14yearold student has now filed a lawsuit. The town is suing the town of danvers and the school. Byron joins us live with the latest. Byron. Yeah, this is that lawsuit that was filed this morning in lawrence supreme court. In it, the family of Colleen Ritzer asked a pret
Sheet. 7s steve cooper live in walpole with more on his history and what happened in court. Steve, what do you know . Well, also we should mention that kids here at norfolk aggie high school, especially girls on the Volleyball Team here, are pretty rattled by these chilling charges, and as you mentioned, this suspect here who appeared in court over rentham earlierier today is no stranger to the law. Reporter darin grant, a level 3 sex guilty to several charges after prosecutors say the 41yearold followed a school bus carrying the norfolk aggie high schoolgirls Volleyball Team a match yesterday when he pulled up in his car with his pants down and performed a lewd act on himself. You fear for the kids. You dont want to see anything happen to the kids. Reporter one teen snapped this picture. Walpole police were able to track him down because he was wearing a gps tracking bracelet. I checked with the gps track same route the bus had taken once it left the school that day. Reporter with his
Everybody including al gore n 2000 waits to see what the Election Results are. You wait to see what the results are, if theyre verified, if theyre certified. Not all republicans are standing by trumps comments. Among them New Hampshire senator kelly ayotte. She adds that any reports of irregularities will be investigated. Trumps comments being blastd by the democrats. Today Hillary Clinton will makea up appearance of the day later, but her running commending on the bomb she will statement. Brandon gunnoe is live with more in the news center with that. Following a Campaign Stop in North Carolina as the state kics off early voting today. Kaine says trump is hedging on whether hell accept the electin results and claims of a rigged system show a, quote, profound misunderstanding for the government and the electoral process. Obviously, donald, that is nt accepting results. You have to accept the results f the pledge we made. Hillary clinton stood on the stage in the up debate and said, of c
Arrested. In quincy, steve cooper, 7news. Boston police are investigating after a late night shooting in roxbury, officers were called to the scene just before 11 00 last night. Thats when police say they foud a man who had been shot. He was taken to the hospital wih lifethreatening. No arrests have been made. A car up in flames on route nine. Officials say the fire started late last night and the road was closed until the early hours ths morning. No word on what caused the fire. In chelsea a telephone pole came tumbling down this morning after you can see right there. Its unclear why the driver lost control. No one was hurt. Also on 7, a stranger does some heavy lifting to save a life. Police say a bicyclist was pinnd under a car in worst and someone passing by had the perfect tool to help. Police say a 20yearold man was riding his bicycle when he was hit by this car, pinning him underneath it. Just before 4 00 in worst. The driver was exciting a driveway when she hit the bicyclist. J
Something terrible had happened here. The Investigation Continues into how it happened, but the Police Commissioner talked to us about what did happen. The fire is, woulding in recovery operation. It looks now we can confirm there are two bodies there that they are looking to try to get out of the hole right now and i think its going to be quite a while because they have to firm up the hole before the Fire Fighters and the rescue can go down and bring up the two bodies. Anchor petraeus its sad. Construction is a dangerous field. I think debts per capita is the most in the industry, weve had a tough week here. We had a twoyearold little girl shot, some worers here today. Its just shows you life is precious. Reporter while the recovery effort continues here there are investigators from the federal workplace investigators also on the scene but right now also people should know the water is turned off in the area, the roads are blocked the mayor asking people to avoid this area. They do ho