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And a sleepty surprise mom, mom, get up. Get up, get up. A new years tragedy, a fast moving fire sweeps through a Brooklyn Brown stone. Most made it out but one resident did not. An armed robber preying on women and using elevators to stage his crime. Good evening at 11 00. Im david navarro. And im sade baderinwa. Flames erupted this afternoon quickly racing through the back door of an Apartment Building in the fire touching off a plantic scene as residents raced to escape. One man did not get o...

Youll be dying to tend and the new ways well be working out this year. And the perfect start to the year. One direction helping us ring in the very best year ever, right here, on a very special Good Morning America. Lets start right now good morning, america. Very happy new years to you. Times square was the center of the celebration last night. Packed with revel outside of our windows. Were not here right now. We are we are were on tape. So that we can at home with our families. On this first d...

Were just too much. His brother didnt make it. Theres nothing there. Whats that like seeing him . His brother is just in shock. When they told him, your brother burned. Reporter i saw a guy on the ledge telling everybody to get out the house, get out the house. As soon as he said that, freaking black smoke just came out the window and covered up the whole block. And right at that time, thats when the Fire Department pulled up and i of there. Reporter now several other residents were also injured...

Taken to the hospital. Two other residents suffered minor injuries. At this point firefighters have deemed this suspicious. They say its very unusual for a fire to start in a stairwell thats why theyve deemed it suspicious. Reporter thank you, now to the elevator tragedy a 25year old man killed while attending a new Years Eve Party in manhattan. He was with his friend in an elevator when he got stuck in a third floor of a building on broom street. Tim fleisher is live with the latest development...

Time again residents have complained to the city about these elevators president at 131 broom street, saying theyre dangerous and sometimes downright deadly. In this case they say that this was the worst of their fears and they could easily see that this could happen again. Ms. Sanchez is in shock after what she witnessed as she tried to get in the elevator on her floor. She described how the doors open, she tried to step in, the elevator tried to move. When she come inside the elevator, when th...

Days where we see intervals of clouds and sun. 41 by noon. Forecasting a high of 43 degrees. No rain today of consequence. Well see that change as we go through the weekend. More of that in a little bit. Lets get the first check on a friday morning commute. Heres lauren. Good morning. We have a couple problems out there. Route 202 shut down northbound between mt. Airy road and harmony road. Thats with a structure fire. Route 4, accident westbound in t fue left lane by midland avenue. Well have m...

Tonight and investigators are focusing on trying to figure out how it started. Firefighters did one last inspection of this empty and ashen brownstone to make sure the embers did not reignite. Earlier in the afternoon, fire poured out of the windows and tore through three floors of the building. One man was person ched on the ledge outside the top floor apartment to escape the flames. I see a guy on the ledge, on the top floor tells everybody to get out the house, get out the house. Reporter fir...

Hospital on the upper west side. A man jumped off a building and landed on the hospitals oxygen tank, cutting off its supply and sparking a hazmat situation. All happened at mt. Sinai west between ninth and tent avenues. Than block is back open now after being shut down for most of the morning. Tracie strahan is there with an update, tracie. Reporter well shiba, temporary stank supplying oxygen to mt. Sinai west. A permanent replacement is on the way. So many people walking by here wondered what...

We encountered heavy smoked and fire on the second floor. A major loss the church itself, older than the town. The church itself dates back to 1827. However, the steeple which has become an iconic symbol of Downtown West orange, dates back to the 1860s when veterans of the civil war left west orange, had they ever returned they still would have recognized the steeple as a familiar face. In recent months the church was being rented to a pentecostal congregation. It is like going into a museum. Th...

Forecast, happy new year. A gorgeous day to start. Temperatures above normal. I hope everybody appreciated that. Right now it is dry a couple clouds moving on through however we are seeing scattered snow showers, the situation a lot different a little windy. 41 degrees with cloudy skies west northwesterly up to 13 mile per hour. Were talking about sustained wind speeds here, a little breezy. A Wider Perspective, showers through parts of erie and jefferson counties. Seeing a little bit of a break...