the scene since 4:30 this morning. those students who had to be evacuated, are they back yet? reporter: they are. they are back inside, a little shakey after all of this has happen. some tell me they think it is going to be hard to fall back asleep. i m standing where it happened. you can see now happened, there s the tire park tire marks where the car jumped the curb then headed straight for the dorm. that s where there was a gas meter, sheared off the top of it, causing all kinds of concerns here for officials. came to rest at putnam hall didn t crash into it. officials were worried enough to evacuate the whole building. here s a shot of the car before it was toed away. it crashed at college and ch ning, before 3:00 in the college and ch anning, some were officials did decide to evacuate as a precaution they wanted to check out the building, make sure it had not been damaged and wanted to work on that gas situation. they got the gas turned off, engineers determined