Donald collins helped the passengers. John as he was helping them get to safety, police say collins was hit by an suv that was driven by an illegal immigrant who was suspected of driving drunk. He eventually died at a nearby hospital. Garrett tenny has the details in this horrifying story and garrett, what more do we know about the suspect . John, her name is irma, 33 years old, and according to ice, in the country illegally. Dallas county sheriffs says martinez was drunk Early Saturday Morning when she crashed into the minivan and into Donald Collins killing him. Martinez is held on an Immigration Detainer after being charge the with manslaughter and assault with a vehicle. The family of Donald Collins or trey as they call him have shown remarkable faith and compassion, even towards the woman who took his life. I pray that since she still has breath in her body that she gets to know the lord because i dont want her to go to hell. I forgive her. Im not angry with her, im not. Im not up
Review to find out what the safest science-based way is to protect people. there are a lot of different geographies across our country. some use sirens, some don t. so the survivors we talked to wish they had more warning. number one, the fire broke out in a residential area unlike others where people have sometimes hours to evacuate. secondly, this was midday. typically you have twice as many tourists in lahaina as locals, in the bars and the restaurants, shopping on front street. they had no idea of an escape route let alone where to find the rental car. and three, they referred the emergency text. not everybody on vacation keeps their phone on and give people a little credit. if you hear a siren, you are not going to run up hill into a billowing fire. for many, returning to lahaina yesterday was too emotional. i cannot i cannot cry, so i told my husband let me go.
Billowing fire. i could feel the heat from the crane itself. reporter: many people still remain out of their buildings right now. most of the people in this area were evacuated for safety reasons. just a few moments ago, this road that leads from 41st to 42nd street was reopened to traffic. so that means that there is movement in terms of improvement in this area. but this investigation is still underway, as authorities say, it was at that crane at the top where the fire broke out. the operator of the crane used a fire extinguisher to try and put it out himself but was not able to, and fled the area and then the crane collapsed. unbelievable to watch that happen, and what could have been much, much worse of a situation. thankful for that. rehema ellis, thank you so much, appreciate it. some more breaking news, everybody, that we are following out of london, a jury there, just acquitting oscar winning actor, kevin spacey of all nine
11 people, in fact, nine we re told have minor injuries, two with serious but not life threatening. one of those is a firefighter. and we hope that that will be it in terms of a number of those injured. take a look behind me. that building that you see wrapped in orange, that s what we re talking about that s under construction, that crane that s on the very top of it. that s where the accident came from, and as tim comes back down, i think we should show some pictures of how amazing it was, this video of that fire, and witnesses talk about what it was like to be here in this area when it all happened. take a listen. all of a sudden, i heard kaboom, and all of my windows in my apartment shook. i have floor-to-ceiling windows. and then as soon as i focused my eye on the window, i saw this big crane falling. i immediately grabbed my phone, and i went up to the top of our building, 36th floor, and that s when i saw just towers of smoke,
Putting out the billowing fire and feverishly evacuating the train. in the dark aided by flashlights, officials pulled injured and dead passengers through the windows, prying open doors to reach the most severely wounded. this morning, as the death toll and number of injured continues to rise, hospitals are calling for blood donations to aid in the recovery. initial assessments by investigators indicate this probably was not an act of terrorism but a senior aide to the prime minister says they are pursuing all possible causes. meanwhile officials are now clearing the scene, forced to use cranes to lift the ravaged train off the tracks. i think two facts are putting the scale of this tragedy in perspecti perspective for me. first a full one-third of the passengers aboard that train have been killed and one of those wagons we are told when it derailed flew around 18 feet