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CNNW CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield May 4, 2019

Two people still missing in the wreckage. We know from authorities that the body of one person has been pulled from that wreckage earlier today. A total of nine employees were working last night, inside that building, when this blast occurred. It happened at ab specialty silicones, they manufacture specialty silicone chemicals, and reports are that the blast just rocked that entire neighborhood, it could be felt for miles and miles away, and you can see, it leveled that building, and the ground was shaking, according to reports, a million in damages, four people did go to the hospital, with differing injuries, but again, the main focus right now is finding the two people that are reportedly still inside that building, and as you said, its on hold right now, that search, because the building is not stable enough for authorities to get in there. They have to bring in special equipment, they think they know the area that they need to focus on, but they just cant do that, just as of yet. So you can imagine the families of those two workers who are missing, them just having to wait it out, as it is right now. And the big thing here, fred, until they can get in there and get through the wreckage, they wont know what caused the blast at 9 30 last night until they can do more investigating and that hasnt happened yet. Brynn gingras, thank you very much. Joining me on the phone is waukegans mayor cunningham, and thanks for joining us and our condolences are going out to the family members of those lost, and injured, so what can you tell me about how this happened . Well, first of all, i want it thank you for having us, and making sure we get the correct information out, not only to waukegan residents but the surrounding communities. How this happened, how this went is still unknown at this time. I can kind of tell you from a time standard, roughly 9 30, 9 45, there was a blast that was heard between 15 to 20 mile radius, north of us, to racine, wisconsin, all the way south of us, to near evanston and north to wauconda, up to the state line. That blast brought in waukegan fire department, which then accelerated this to what we call a mutual aid box, which brought in another 100 firefighters, 30 agencies, to the scene. The great part about this though, that none of them, none of the first responders, were not injured, trying to fight this enormous battle. This blast was so massive, that it affected roughly ten to 15 surrounding businesses, and in this quarter here, in this Industrial Quarter here, so as you said earlier, we have right now, it was three individuals that were unaccounted for, obviously, today, we recovered one, and were still in the midst of searching for the others and im going to say a rescue, trying to rescue the other two. You want to be hopeful so mr. Mayor, what do you, do you know what was produced at that silicone plant . And you know, what were the, what are the potential factors of this explosion . Well, i can say this to you. I dont have all of those details, but what i can do is say that the illinois epa was on hand last night and again this morning to confirm the Water Quality and the air quality is okay. That, we do know for certain. What we, what else we know for certain, is that we had to suspend any rescue or Recovery Efforts, because of the condition of the building, but what theyre doing right now is bringing in a fencing unit to kind of quarantine everything in. Once that unit is up and in place, we are bringing heavy duty equipment to remove some of the particles of the building that are dangerous, so we can then assume the rescue or Recovery Efforts. And mr. Mayor, when you talk about the temporary suspension of efforts there, because of dangerous situation, are we talking about the structure, you know, threatening to collapse . Thats why larger equipment is being brought in . I mean can you be more specific about the potential dangers . Yes, and i do apologize for not being specific. Yes, as far as the structure of the building, and making sure it does not collapse on those who are then, who are participating in that recovery, or rescue efforts, so yes, it is the structure of the building. I mean the building just blew up and out, so we have parts of the building just everywhere. We need to bring in heavy duty equipment in to remove those visible pieces that are certainly, it certainly looks like they can potentially fall down, unstable, those are unstable, and remove those first, and then tgiven an aoka to start the recovery effort. This is in an industrial park, is that correct . And what about the other businesses nearby . Any potential threats for them . As far as to answer the first question, yes, it is an industrial park. As far as the other buildings and the nearby area, im going to give you an approximate, youre talking about 100 to 200 feet away, i tell you, i personally have never been in the armed forces, or in a war zone type of environment, but what ive seen on television, of course, it looks like that here. With that being said, youre talking one of our staple businesses in our community, american outfitters, which produces apparel, for a host of people throughout the chicagoland region, its front floor windows were shattered. I walked through their building, their potential operations, all of the lighting had fallen down. Some of their beams, some of the beams that, of the structure of the building, had been moved. The building to the south of it, i think some of the foundation, about an inch and a half had moved from there. All of their Ceiling Tiles had come down. I went further west, a garage door, garage doors, buildings, this was just a massive explosion that occurred in the city of waukegan. We have had help from other surrounding agencies. We were able to mitigate as much damage and potentially save lives that probably would not have been if it wasnt for the efforts of everybody. And i want to say thank you to all of those 30 agencies, firefighters, and folks and families that go out to everyone. But i want to send a special thank you to how the media really handled this. One, they gave out accurate information, about what was going on, two, letting families know that, as soon as they get some good information, they will disseminate that out, and when you guys just played a major role in helping us out. So i want to say thank you for all of that, and with the Recovery Efforts that are going to proceed on, probably the next half an hour, we try to do some updates for you, and for more detailed information, our fire marshall, our fire chief can give you that information. Mayor sam cunningham, thank you so much for your time. Were wishing you of course you and everyone there, everyone directly involved, and all of your Emergency Response teams, the very best in this. We appreciate your efforts. Thank you, maam. Thank you. And were also following this other breaking story. The ntsb now on the scene after a military charter plane slid off a runway in florida. What theyre learning at this early stage of the investigation. Plus, north korea firing projectiles. What President Trump has to say. And how this new provocation could Impact Nuclear negotiations. Some things are out of your control. Like bedhead. Hmmmm. Rubadub ducky. And then. Theres national car rental. 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But normally, an incident like this, the ntsb arrives and they assess the situation. They start gathering evidence. They not only look at, and investigate the actual aircraft, they look at the record, and the history of the pilots of the crew, what they were up to in the last 72 hours. They also look at the environment, what was the weather like, that sort of thing, and we do know that there were thunderstorms and lightning at the time. Its unclear if if those had an impa impact on this incident but that will definitely be looked at. Now from talking, from passengers, who have talked to cnn, we have learned of the dramatic moments, of the landing of this plane, these passengers, describe a hard landing, and one passenger in particular saying that the aircraft felt like it was screeching and bouncing. And finally, making a crash stop on the water. This passenger saying that it is unclear to them, at that point in time, because remember, this was at night, it was dark, there was lightning, it was raining, it was unclear if they were on a river or on the observe ng. This passenger describing ocean, this passenger describing being on the aircraft, being on the wing and then finally, finally getting on a life raft and being taken to safety. We understand that 21 people were transported to the hospital. Other people were, they received medical services here, on base. But preliminary reports, we learned, is that this plane skidded off the runway, and then landed on this body of water, but now that the ntsb is onsite, we understand that their preliminary report is expected in about two weeks, and we should learn more there, and fred, just from being in this community, in the past hour or so, i can tell you that the st. Johns river is a very busy body of water. Theres a race going on right now, with 90 boats, and from talking to these individuals, these boaters, after they learned that everybody on board, the 136 passengers and seven crew were fine, now their concern is for this body of water, because they boat on here all the time. And theyre concerned, environmental, ecological, will their body of water be okay . Theyre concerned about possible fuel leaks and such because the plane is still in the water. Fred . All right, keep us posted as you learn more information, rosa flores, thank you so much, in jacksonville. Also breaking, two men are missing, after a Helicopter Crash in the chesapeake bay. In maryland. The coast guard says the twoseat helicopter went down early this afternoon, just off kent island, maryland. Were told the emergency call came from a brother of one of the men who was boating in the vicinity and saw it happen. A dive team is currently searching the water. The ntsb, faa, and several local agencies are also assisting. 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Reporter the latest is that number has risen to three palestinians killed in israel. Air strikes according to the ministry of health, a 1yearold baby girl and her mother, that from the latest information from the ministry of health with the escalation that started 12 hours ago continues. Weve seen a number of barrages of rockets fired from gaza into israel in the last 15 or 20 minutes or so, so any hopes that this would end with sundown have faded, as the escalation of fighting continues over the israel gaza border. The Israeli Military to this point says 200 rockets have been filed from gaza to israel. Many of the shorter range rockets that have hit the periphery and some more powerful going 20 to 25 miles into israel indicating a powerful rocket with bigger range. According to the military and the hospitals weve spoken to, two israelis have been wounded with shrapnel. Israel has carried out dozens of air strikes throughout the day hitting hamas and jihad military targets including the Israeli Military said a short time ago a building where they say where hamass military Security Services and Intelligence Services was based. That indicates that israeli has stepped up targets and hitting larger targets and not the usual military toasts were used to seeing. All of this fighting were seeing throughout the course of the day shatters what had been a relative calm over the last few weeks. Yes there had been some heating up tension here and there including lately but nothing like what has happened here and what started on friday afternoon. That started as there were the usual gaza protests. Weekly protests along the border fence that weve seen over the course of the last year. But during that the Israeli Military says a palestinian soldier says two soldiers were wounded and two members of hamass military wing were killed in response. That all yesterday. And hamas vowed to responds including other military factions in gaza and that response came this morning when more than 50 rockets were fired within an hour. That has led us to this point. The assessment is that neither israel and hamas are interested in a larger operation and israel hasnt mobilized Ground Forces and yet the situation remains tense, in the past it has been egypt and the u. N. Stepping in to try to moderate some sort of return to a cease fire, well see if that happens over the course of the next hour or hours or see if the fighting continues into tomorrow. Oren liebermann, thank you so much. South korean analysts are still trying to determine what short range projectiles were launched from north koreas Eastern Shore overnight. And whether it included any missiles. Japan says the objects fell short of its territorial waters. President trump reacted earlier tweeting in part, kim jongun knows that i am with him, and does not want to break his promise to me. With me now is Nic Robertson in london. Kim jongun met with Vladimir Putin, barely a week ago and now he is launching projectiles, so what cant be a coincidence. I dont think it can. And if you listen to the way the pentagon describes the friday phone call between president putin and President Trump, they characterize it as putin telling trump that north korea is diligently abiding by, and fulfilling its obligations. And it is up to the other parties to do that. And the other parties here are quite clear what russia is saying, is the other party is

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