supporting wall of another demolition gave way. i wanted to show you what this looked like, this structure, before. this is the view from google earth of what the structure looked like before. you can see the hoagie city at street level, above it four apartment floors, at least that s how it was listed with the city. but often times in this area these buildings are mixed use. and across the street just disappearing out of your screen there is a trader joe s and a large apartment complex on market street, a very upscale area and just adjacent apparently caddy corner a museum, art gallery. sarah hoi is en route. have you made it there yet? yes, ashleigh, i am on the scene here in philadelphia by this building. and they have closed the streets. they are holding people back. and firefighters are working.
so there is a large crowd gathering here on the corners. and everybody s waiting to see what is happening. moments before when you were talking about the rescue, there were a number of fire department officials who were working on the street and actually a quiet came over this crowd. everyone has their cell phones out paying attention to what s going on. this is a very busy area. for me to have walked up on the scene and for it to have been that quiet just let you know there was a change in the air, something had happened and everybody was paying attention. we ll have to wait to see what the latest update is. sarah, this is a live interview of a witness. let s listen in. the building collapsed the wrong way and it landed on a thrift shop and there was people inside of the thrift shop before the building collapse you saw one person walk in. so it was scary. what happened next was i dropped my stuff and i tried to help
landfall this morning, on the outer banks of north carolina. more than 1 million homes are without power tonight. flooding is widespread. now, the winds have died down a little bit, but irene is expected to remain a hurricane all the way to new england. and as you can see, the surf is already pounding the coastline nonstop. right now, ocean city, maryland, getting hammered. and if there s some good news, well, an admiral with the u.s. coast guard says the preliminary survey of damage shows irene has not been as destructive as had been feared. and we hope that will be the case in many places. cnn correspondents are strategically positioned, all up and down the east coast to give you the very latest information. chris lawrence still in chesapeake beach, maryland, for us, where water continues to rise. we talked about the beach erosion as well. chris, also 40,000 people without electricity there. however, the conditions not as bad as you predicted? reporter: no, exactly.
diana, can you hear me? okay. we just lost diana. my apologies. in just a couple minutes i m going to talk with a former priest who now investigates sex accubuse cases. what question do you have? what would you ask a former priest? go to our blog and send us your questions and we will have our guests weigh in with answers in just a moment. another recent case to come to light in the u.s. allegedly happened at a catholic school for the deaf in wisconsin. 200 boys allegedly molested by a priest. father lawrence murphy seen here in a vatican photo over the decades. here s a story of one of those boys. now a 61-year-old man from cnn all platform journalist sarah hoi.
way down to texas. we re going to check in with our reporter who we ll say drew the short straw covering the storm. while the newscast is on the air, you will see lindsay lohan appearing in front of a judge, this time accused of stealing that necklace. we even have an arrow pointing to it just so you re not confused. that particular piece of jewelry. all that news, plus the positive headline from congresswoman gabrielle giffords staff today. she is talking, and she wants toast. we ll get to all of those stories here. i want to begin in philadelphia with some fast-moving developments in a case that certainly shocked the country. philadelphia dr. kermit gosnell was back in court today along with his wife and several of his employees. gosnell is charged in the death of a patient and authorities say he performed illegal abortions in a filthy clinic with untrained staff. sarah hoi has been following the case. she just got out of court and