this mess. here s what happened. a gas main was leaking just before it exploded. just for some perspective, this is a detroit suburb and people as far away as two miles said they could feel the blast, feel it, hear it, right around 9:00 this morning. two people are believed to be inside that furniture store still. the owner, paul franks was able to escape. check this out. these are photos from a cnn i-reporter who live just a couple of blocks away. look at that plume of smoke. he says firefighters had just arrived there on the scene of this collapsed building when he whipped out his cell phone and started snapping these pictures. that i-reporter is don nicholson. he s good enough to hop on the phone and join me here live. don, if you re with me, take me back to this morning. i understand you were as you normally do driving your son in to work and then boom. what did you hear, what did you feel, don? quite honestly, i didn t hear
but only for four hours. and essentially, they re not letting volunteers in today, all things considered. so any of us know that you have to make use of daylight and without any rain. we ve had five days of that. reporter: you know, we ve got storm drains that were apparently clogged before that storm last week and that s what folks are very angry about. local officials have cleared those over the past several days. and the water, despite what you re seeing behind me here, throughout most of this community is not causing as much damage as it has in the past. a lot of clean-up ahead of us and a lot of questions to be answered by local officials because residents say that this storm was a lot more devastating than it needed to be, brooke. i can t believe the pictures in that home. the chunks of inches of mud from a week ago. chad myers, jump in here because i know the big problem is mud. hopefully they re getting some help that they very much so need. this wasn t even a big storm.
for us today. reporter: amid the sunshine and the snowdrifts here at jfk, we can report to you that four runways are now up and running, which should help alleviate some of the backlog of all those flights stopped and delayed because of the blizzard on sunday. however, there were more troubles overnight. more than a half dozen air carriers had planes stranded on the tarmac here at jfk for anywhere from six hours to up to nine hours because there weren t gates available once those planes landed. one of the passengers who was stuck on a flight from mexico city to jfk talked about what it was like. she said her flight was smooth but once they landed, that s when everything went wrong. they said, okay, whenever we have the gate. pass an hour they say in two hours more. and the total was seven hours. that s the worst part of the story. reporter: and when that
prosperity for someone other than themselves the story in co there will be the same. we have a lot going on this hour. here s a quick preview. we re going to talk this hour about this controversial new documentary perhaps you have seen it or your children have seen it following a teenage couple choosing to ends a pregnancy. have you seen these pictures? in michigan the right-hand side of your screen, a furniture store explodes and only the owner escapes. look, it s just a pile of rubble. they are still searching for two victims, we re told those are employees of the store. an update on that. also, the mountains of utah are under an avalanche warning at this hour. in california bracing for walls of mud to come sliding down. i want to begin in michigan. take a closer look at this flattened building. rescue crews combing through this mess. here s what happened. a gas main was leaking just before it exploded. just for some perspective, this is a detroit suburb and peo
staff sergeant mark de alencar of maryland, part of an isis clearing operation, u.s. military says the strike today was not in retaliation for the green berets death. the president announced yesterday after meeting with nato secretary-general at the white house that the national security advisor hr mcmaster is leaving soon for afghanistan. the top u.s. commander general don nicholson testified recently that he needs several more thousand u.s. or nato troops for afghanistan. there are currently 8400 americans on the ground there. martha: thank you very much. with more, former navy seal carl higbee who used to order air strikes like these during his time. good to have you here with us tonight. when you first heard about this who, does bomb is never been used, it was developed in 2003. never been used in combat for the effect that it creates so