Cbs 2s Steve Langford spoke with witnesses in elizabeth. Reporter with brutal force a manhole cover propelled skyward by a powerful explosion in this Business District wednesday in elizabeth. Underground electrical wires once again proving to be an incendiary mix with salt and rain and snow sparking one blast after the other here mid morning near elizabeth avenue and 7th street. Its looking like flames they come, the flames maybe about 6foot high and the smoke. A lot of smoke. Reporter the first came in at 10 10 a. M. After this manhole exploded, just as fire units were pulling up this manhole cover blasted into the air i stepped out of the vehicle and a manhole probably 20, 25 feet away shot right up in the air. It was a massive explosion. Reporter First Responders cleared people way quickly and evacuated some 20 buildings because of the real danger of getting killed by one of these. The Manhole Covers that were lifting off. Reporter whats more, Carbon Monoxide was detected forcing th
Desire to do is to provide a ladder of opportunity so that people can climb out of dependency and become part of america. America. 3 we love our god and we are fed up with the damage and destruction coming from washington. Washington. 3 the other candidates were not here in greenville tonight trump, kasich, and bush are in columbia for a town hall. Well have details on that in a moment moment 3 in the meantimeas for where the candidates will be tomorrowmost of them will be not be in the upstatewith the exception of one. Marco rubio will be scouring the statestarting in columbia going to the lowcountry before ending in clemson tomorrow night. Diana . 3 and were hearing details on the primary night parties, right . Still being finalized tonight. We know ben carson and donald trump will be watching from the upstate. Bush, cruz and rubio will be in columbia. John kasichs people say he plans to continue on the campaign trailin massachusettson saturday. Diana and codyback to you. 3 and altho
once that batch of rain moves through by mid evening take a look at those tropical downpours developing in the mid atlantic state, approaching d. C. , some embedded thunderstorms in there and they are moving in our direction. cant rule out a rare february thunderstorm, as we go through late this evening and overnight. but that will be accompanied by spring warmth. how warm does it get overnight into early tomorrow and how about more changes for the rest of the the week, thats ahead. tom and this mild weather means that not only are snowmobile trace closed, memberships are dropping. New Hampshire shares the money from snowmobile registrations with clubs so they can buy things like grooming equipment. but it also means that the year. the d. O. T. Says its crews are still hard at work treating the highways, even with relatively adam sexton is in hooksett tonight and this relatively mild winter could result in a snow budget surplus, i guess. reporter thats right, tom. we dont want to jinx
In for al on. Lets get to more breakingo o news. This coming out of princece georges county wherege firefighters on the scene ofn this big fire at a beltsville agricultural center. Cu skyfox over the scene right now. This is atth powder mill road and Animal Husbandry road. The fire chief in Prince Georges County says the firety is in a boiler building. The flames have caused theause roof that of building to buildit collapse. No word yet how it started oredo if there are any injuries. Apparently Montgomery Countyly has now come into try t moy to assist as well. El theres another picture from the scene right there. The we will follow this story andry bring you any more updates asata we get them. T another developing storyher this morning. Thorni this one out of montgomeryne county where a car crashed o right into the front of a beerrb and wine store. Fox5s bob barnard isox5s b live on the scene now ine scenw gaithersburg with the latest. L goodat morning, bob. Ning, reporter hey, maureen
Working at this point to develop a composite sketch ofte the suspect and try to figuretor out exactly how he got intont this womans apartment. Part it was the middle of thee night, 3 oclock in the morning on saturday, aday, a 51yearold woman was asleepsl when a man broke into her home. Ho he threatened her, then sexual assaulted her and ran off. An o she told police the suspecthe st was hispanic, short inhortn stature, about 25 years old yeao wearing a black jacket and carrying a black backpack. Ac police say he seemed to knoww the area. Just a little terrifyingerriy just to hear that somebodyom had to deal with somethingh somn like that to that extreme but for the most part, yeah, its i still feel like its i a pretty safe community. Commun. Reporter now, fairfax f county k9s, patrol officers,er detectives and helicoptersel have been canvassing thehe apartment complex and nearbyea streets over the weekend buteekb still no arrest, no more m information on who suspect could be. T coe. Po