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Miss gibson if you can hear me, first i want to acknowledge our heartfelt condolences and support as we report on this horrible tragedy. if you could tell us about the community there at the twin parks building? >> i am first and foremost absolutely devastated. my heart is breaking for so many residents and families whose lives have been changed all because of this fire this morning. i want to send condolences to those who lost their lives including those precious children, our babies. im here o...

More on the fire throughout our newscast lets move onto some other stories now. and chicago public school students there will not be going back to classrooms tomorrow. the standoff is continuing to to the teachers union and the city. classes have been canceled since wednesday after a majority of the teachers union members voted to return to remote learning because of the search of, chronic cases in chicago. mayor lori lightfoot has been slamming the teachers union sing the best, safest place for...

People found all over the building suffering from severe smoke inhalation heart and respiratory respirators the commissioner talk about the tragedy listen. >> what i do know and we have stressed this over and over the door to that apartment was left open causing the fire to spread and the smoke to spread which is always a problem for us. as we see here by the broken windows throughout the building, this fire took its toll on our city. >> now mayor eric adams is out at the scene he speaking as a ...

I was devastated to be honest i just want to make sure all of my people are safe a big part of my family already. something we have never been through before. thank god we are safe, you know? >> fire crews are still out here in the bronx trying to figure out exactly how the blazes start up or they believe its concentrated on the second and third floor that is what mostly had serious, serious damage. hearing from people and 12, 13, 14 floors and of their apartments were full of that black smoke. ...

Apparently started for the front door was left open. we have had twitter alerts throughout the holiday season because of christmas trees from the mayors office and the fire department saying if there is a fire, close the door. why is that so important in terms of the spread of the smoke and the flames? >> when you close the door you contain the smoke and the fire to the area where it is. and so when you leave the door open you cannot tell how wind conditions, open windows will pull fire. there i...