apartment building this morning. tonight more than 100 peemg are still without gas. one family said it s a miracle their son escaped uninjured. terry mcsweeney is omission street for us. i m here not far from court land avenue. you can see pg&e crews are still out here looking for the leak. a leak that led to an explosion that blew up part of an apartment building today. they lost a home and almost lost a v7son. just moments before this morning s explosion that tore through this 3 story apartment building, carlos was home alone, he s deaf. suddenly he felt a strange vibration that caused him to ge? ñ out. e explained i felt something moving so i run out of the house. i just can t believe it. ie chronically, carlos s parents were out paying for their car l8/[insurance. this is their car tonight. everything is broken. basically there was a giant boom. reporter: everyone back home but police did evacuatec:gúx ab 100 people from 19 $1addresses. they hammered on t
don t scare easily. president mckinley was assassinated there and they have moved on. they ve loved their buffalo bills through the good years and bad and not only given the world tim russert. and while buffalo is a tough town, they may have finally met their match. a relentless snowstorm has dropped nearly sex feet of snow coming in right off the lake with upwards of two more feet on the way. daily life has simply come to a halt for many across a big area and the storm has already cost several lives. it s officially a state of emergency tonight across a whole region. it s where we begin our coverage tonight with nbc s lester holt. lester, good evening. reporter: brian, good evening. it s a jaw dropping amount of snow. here in chiktawaga, i can touch the sign here. as you said it s been deadly. at least seven deaths attributed to this storm. 132 miles of new york throughway closed because of all this. the speed at which this has come down simply caught a lot of people off g
31 degrees right now in philadelphia. that s one of the warmer locations. 20s for wilmington, northeast philadelphia, north and west is in the middle 20s. factor in the wind and it feels like 19 in philadelphia with a 17-mile-an-hour wind. and at 17 degrees for pottstown and the polls start this morning, but we will see sunshine. 25 degrees at 7:00. by 9:00, the wind will be stronger, 30 degrees will feel like it s in the middle 20s and 34 at noontime will feel like the upper 20s today. hour-by-hour future weather when i check in 20 minutes. this is a live look at the blue route. no accidents, no delays to report on 476. we still have some spots with overnight construction on the northeast extension, but no accidents to report there, as well. heading into delaware, a live look at route 1. everything is quiet in that area, but northbound on 95, we have some construction between 495 and maryland avenue. as a result of that construction, the left lane is blocked in that area.
nbc 10 jesse gary is live on the scene. jesse, what have you learned in the last half hour? tracy, i just checked win the water department. remember, this initial call was for a water main break and water department crews are cutting into the streets of hampton road and widening that sinkhole another 18 feet out. they re going to repair the water main break first and then gas crews, ugi, have to come in and repair the actual gas line that was broken when a utility truck fell into the sinkhole, into the sinkhole and on to that gas line. let s take, i think we have video of that. if we can, let s take a look at it. this happened earlier this morning. that utility vehicle that fell when the sinkhole developed underneath it. fell right on to a four inch gas pipeline. that forced the evacuation of roughly 20 homes in this area. those residents, most of them, most of them had moved on with family, but there is a shelter set up at the bethlehem community center on farmersville roa
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