Apparent gas close that rock add shopping mall. Cadaver dogs are searching the rubble of a restaurant that burnt to the ground. Residents of nearby buildings were forced to evacuate, and the mayor was one of first people on the scene. What were really trying to get a handle on right now is how many people were hurt, who are they, what are they and thats kind of a moving target because we dont know who was there to begin with. Witnesses say they smelled gas five hours before the blast and reported it to a construction crew working in the area. Bigad shaban has more. Reporter flames and heavy smoke reach into the night sky over Downtown Kansas City after an explosion start add fire in an upscale shopping center. The blaze broke out just after 6 00 p. M. It destroyed a restaurant and damaged other structures at the country club plaza. The blast and the fire that followed injured more than a dozen people. Officials say the gas leak may have been caused by utility contractor working in the
Straight up 6 00. It is wednesday, february 20th and it is a chilly start to your day. It is cold, very cold. Good morning. Im sarah simmons. Im wisdom martin. A quick school delay to pass along to you from maryland. Garrett county Public Schools will open two hours late today. There you go. Weather already having an impact on schools. A little icy out there and temperatures are in the 20s. Roosevelt bridge family, we are very cold. Temperature locally in the low 30s. You mix in the winds you guys are talking about. You will see the cameras shaking this morning. It feels like teens and 20s. It will later today. It is february. We are in the middle of february. So today will feature temperatures about 10 degrees or so below average. 34 in washington. Dulles, 32. Bwi marshall, the magic 32 as well. We are looking at a lot of wind. Winds out of the west gusting to about 30 early this morning so wind chill values as i mentioned are in the teens and low 20s. Should be a nice bright day. We
Possibility. That system slammed the southeast tuesday. In six states, thousands had no power. In hardhit georgia, two tornadoes rattled folks. All of a sudden we heard, like, a jet blaplane or Freight Train coming across the back of the house. All right. Check out what is churning in the atlantic. This is hurricane gonzalo with winds of 115 miles per hour. On tuesday, gonzalo turned dead lie. One man died in st. Maarten, but will it hit the mainland . Meteorologist bill karins will have the answer in just a moment. Right now we do have breaking news out of dallas. A Second Health care worker has tested positive for ebola. The worker was among those who took care of eric thomas duncan. A stunning prediction from the world health organization. We could soon see 10,000 cases of ebola a week. Dr. Anthony fauchi spoke to msnbcs rachel maddow. As you get more and more people who are getting infected and not getting into the kind of isolation and able to contact trace, theyre infecting a lot
Got as much snow yesterday as the entire month of january. Think about that for a minute. More than 3,000 Flights Canceled today. So we are covering all angles for you. Right now, i have Martin Savidge live in cleveland. Miguel marquez is on the road in long island and Jennifer Gray is in boston. Martin i have heard the whipping winds in your live shot. I feel for you, sir, standing out in that cold. Tell me how bad it is. Reporter its just you know well its gotten bright which is nice. The sun is out and clearly that helps the snow crews because now they can make headway. We had blizzardlike conditions about 45 minutes ago. So its changing very very quickly. What has not changed is the wind howling in from the east and its like a jet engine literally, roaring away only its a subzero jet engine and its blasting right through here and it just is painful to spend any long periods of time out here. Its also hampering snow removal because snow melt caused by salt doesnt work as effectively
On facebook and twitter up to date and in touch follow us. Welcome to the model city. Found mission come up guy once who should take hang head on his farm and has given way to shiny glass buildings. Indias first socalled smart says he was built on his fields around the clock there are people working here for customers all over the world. Like. Fifteen years ago this was all just fields now an entire city has been built on land that i used to farm. Here in my car parts of our city we now have people working in twenty six i. T. Pocs this i give up. That. Is a showcase city it reflects everything that india would like to be efficient clean and safe. It was built by investors with the promise of rapid growth and a new prosperity. Start cities like this one are now planned for areas all over the country its hoped they will bring the kind of progress india is looking for. So. Weve come to shankar mothers home. His telling his two grandchildren how life suddenly changed when the city was buil