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WABC Eyewitness News At Noon October 5, 2015

One of her relatives spoke to her in the building earlier in the day, and they havent heard from her since then. Surveillance video shows figueroas threestory Apartment Building in borough Park Brooklyn exploding saturday afternoon. Figueroa was on the phone with her sister milagros seconds before the explosion. Milagros spoke to us through a translator. She was a fighter, a real hard worker. She never said no to anything. She was very calm and she said she had to clean. It was less than 5 minutes and i never spoke to her again. One body has been removed from the rubble, the glass killed 64yearold ligia puello who was in the stairwell. Eyewitness News Reporter Kemberly Richardson spoke with her sisterinlaw. She was a very religious woman. She was a humble person. She was a family woman. Her husband just died a year ago. She lived there with her daughter. Her daughter had gone off to the Dominican Republic to visit her son. She was alone. Crews had been working around the clock removal rubble and debris, but theyre moving slowly, methodically and delicately knowing figueroa is still missing. Theyre bringing out the debris, you know, very carefully and slowly, and theyre continuing to search. They continue to believe that theres likely the body of one remaining woman thats been unaccounted for still in the building. Reporter now, family members say that francisca face row what figueroa was in the process of moving and she was planning to take her gas stove with her. Its possible that could have been the source of the gas leak which led to the explosion. Mrs. Figueroas family members are here at the scene. Theyve been here all night long. As for the other lady we mentioned as well, her family members are on the scene as well. Well have more on that exclusive interview with her family members. Have been displaced as a result of what happened here, and we understand they may not be allowed to come home until sometime next week. Were live in brooklyn, dray clark channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you dray. Were following a developing story on the search for a missing cargo ship that was caught in the path of Hurricane Joaquin on thursday. Coast guard Officials Say there is evidence the ship sank near bahamas. It was headed to puerto rico. The coast guard said a field of debris has been spotted in the water and one body has been recovered. 28 of the ships 33 crew members are u. S. Citizens. Officials say rescue crews are continuing the search for survivors. Turning now to the mysterious death of a doctor found dead in the doorway of an Apartment Building in chelsea. Right now we are awaiting the results of a medical examiners report on Kiersten Cerveny. Kala rama tweeted out this photo of investigators at the scene. She joins us live at the scene with the very latest. Kala. Reporter shirleen, i can tell you that woman was found just in this doorway here yesterday morning. Since then everyone in the building has been interviewed, and the one person that Police Brought in for questioning here was released. So far no arrests have been made. Manny guam was making delivery sunday morning when he saw a man flagging down the ambulance to take away a woman who he says was half naked. They took her and i saw she was naked from here to up without her shoes. Police tell us they were called here after 38yearold Kiersten Cerveny was found unconscious in the vestibule of this building. She was married, has a family and was a dermatologist living on long island. Now the death of this doctor has a cloud of mystery surrounding it. Im nervous. Im sad and scared because you know, we dont know how it happened. I never saw it, but everybodys here so something definitely happened over here. Her friends told police they were out saturday night for a night of partying that included drugs and alcohol. Police have not released details on what the long island mom was doing in this building, but the neighbors here want answers. The Surveillance Video may have some. See the guy in the video. The Building Super says a guy seen on video with dr. Cerveny lives on the third floor. More than 24 hours later, bags of evidence were brought out of the chelsea building. Police say this one isnt an open and shut case. Reporter were told an autopsy will be done later today, and hopefully the medical examiners report will give police and the womans family the answers that theyre looking for. Were live in chelsea, kala rama channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you kala. Were learning more about a New York University student set free by north korea after more than five months in captivity. Wonmoon joo was arrested. North korea handed him over to south korean officials. His release. A drivers facing drug charges after police say he caused a Chain Reaction crash involving a bus. It left a dozen people hurt. Investigators say 24yearold chevon parchment crashed into the bus saturday night senting it into a house after refusing to pull over for police. After the crash police say they found more than 60 bags of crack cocaine in his car. No one was seriously hurt. The south. The governor of South Carolina calls the rain the worst in 1,000 years. The storm is now blamed for at least eight deaths in two states. Nearly 75 miles of i95 were closed. President obama has signed an Emergency Declaration freeing up federal aid for South Carolina. Eyewitness News Reporter Elizabeth Hur is in charleston. Record rainfall in South Carolina. The National Weather service rain has fallen since friday in some parts of the state. Relentless rain buckled buildings and roads and washed away homes. Been here since 1986, and ive never seen anything like this in columbia South Carolina. Hundreds have evacuated and nearly 30,000 residents are without power. Its hard, everything, my car, my pictures. 600 members of the National Guard were called in to help. It was like up to here. Kelly liggett tried to save anything she could as water came rushing into her home. I was just throwing stuff on beds to try to like save stuff. Raging waters caught many offguard. This driver lost control of his pickup. A man waded out helping the trapped man to safety through the kicked out back window. The coast guard plucked this mom and her daughter from their flooded home. Probably the most terrifying moment of my life, especially having her and holding on to your 15monthold daughter, that far up was incredibly frightening, but we made it. This man has been using his own boat to help with rescues. Was stopping on the roof and listening to see if anybody thumped back. We found a note that said we are in the attic. Fortunately flood waters are starting to recede here, but the work for authorities is far from over. They are now going from door door rescuing anyone still trapped in their homes. In charleston South Carolina, im Elizabeth Hur for channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you elizabeth. One of the students who survived the Oregon College student is telling her terrifying story exclusively to abc news. 18yearold anastasia boylin describes the frightening 9 minutes classroom at a Community College as another student went on a rampage. The gunman ordered everyone to the center of the classroom and then laughed after he shot the teacher. He then asked a question to each of his victims. He had us get up one by one and asked us what our religions were. When the student said his religion he immediately was shot . Yeah, the shooter said that he would only feel the pain for a couple of seconds and that he would be with god soon, and then he shot him. Boylin was shot in the back during the chaos and then played dead until the gunman took his own life. New at noon just days after the oregon shooting, democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton is taking on gun control. She announced proposed measures today during a town hall in New Hampshire. Clinton talked about recent failed legislation that would have required universal background checks to buy guns. She is urging another look at that idea. We need to go back and with all of our hearts working not just in washington but from the grass roots up demand that we have universal background checks. Clinton also called for closing loopholes for gun shows and online sales and she wants better recordkeeping to keep guns out of the hands of people who are suffering from Mental Illness and with criminal records. A new maris poll shows donald trump still in the lead in iowa and New Hampshire, but the republican race has tightened in the past month. In iowa trumps 7 point lead is gone. He now leads ben carson by just 5 points among potential caucus goers. 24 to 19 . Carly fiorina is third at 8 percent. In New Hampshire trump has 21 to 16 for fiorina. Bush comes in third at 11 . Trumps New Hampshire lead has shrunk from 15 points a month ago to 5 points now. And met fans. Were going to tell you what you need to know before you try to score playoff tickets. Trailer crash. What caused this fiery scene. Im meteorologist bill evans here in the weather center, and the polling data is complete. Weather. Its 61 to 62 around new york city over towards newark elizabeth. Got a little wind out there today, not as much as yesterday. Were going to be looking at a lot of sunshine, some warmer weather, some great fall weather coming up in your accuweather forecast. Dont go away. Thank you bill. We continue to follow that breaking news in vermont where an amtrak train has derailed. Amtrak says there does not appear to be any life threatening injuries. We just got this picture in of that incident. The train was scheduled to stop alt penn station here in new york before heading to washington, and of course well we are getting some new details about the amtrak Train Derailment in vermont. Amtrak says the train derailed near northfield 25 miles southwest of mount pelier. The train struck a rock slide on the tracks. Fortunately there do not appear to be any lifethreatening injuries. According to amtrak, the 13 hour 45 minute daily trip begins in st. Albans in northern vermont. The final destination was washington d. C. , and the train makes schedule stops in several cities including penn station here in new york. Again, the train derailed about an hour ago, and there does not appear to be any life threatening injuries. A horrific and deadly scene in texas as an suv collides with a semi carrying lumber and both vehicles burst into flames. This happened early this morning where two highways meet near dallas. Both roadways were shut down as firefighters battled the flames. Some of the smoldering lumber fell over the side of the overpass. One person is dead. Pope francis opened a three week meeting at the vatican by calling on clergy members to set aside prejudice and work with humility. Nearly 300 cardinals and priests is gathering to discuss issues facing Roman Catholic families. The pontiff encouraged the clergy to listen with open minds saying the church should be a source of inspiration. Most analysts do not expect the meeting to lead to major teachings. A mother outraged by the way slaves were portrayed in her sons geography textbook. Hear what the books publisher has to say. A jet skier crashes off the coast of new jersey, well show you the dramatic rescue. Seen isaiah . Abc7 and your Tristate Ford dealers thank you for helping protect our children. A nice fall day out there. It really is. Yesterday it was kind of windy and a little cooler. Today the temperatures picked up a little bit and the winds have died down, and were going to be seeing more of this as we go into the week. Heres a look outside at noontime from our camera in brooklyn looking across to the lower east side. Been watching the boats going up and down the east river. I was posting them on twitter, the coast guard cutter going up and down and the circle line going up and down and the ferries and water taxis going for it. Those fair weather cumulus clouds, it is nice at noontime. A temperature of 61 degrees. 58 the humidity, and northeast great day. The pressure is above 30. 00 which means weve got really nice fair weather from a large High Pressure system that is were looking at a normal high this time of the year of 68 thats the average. Were going to be a little bit below that today. Were going to be a little bit above that tomorrow. Thats going to even out. The sunsets right around 6 30. Should be a pretty sunset. Temperatures will trend above normal starting tomorrow. Wednesday going to be the warmest. Could be in the mid70s on wednesday. Some showers show up for friday, but it looks like with the front that comes through it actually might go through pretty quick and gets out of the way in time for the weekend. Whitestone queens 60, 60 around ridgewood. White plains, rocklin county in afternoon. Jackets, sweaters, that kind of thing with a nice northeast wind thats coming in from 7 to 9 to 13 Miles Per Hour. We do have clouds that have been coming up and off the atlantic, upper level winds have been taking some of these clouds off of Hurricane Joaquin out here in the atlantic and then this low pressure storm system is continuing to bring more rain into North Carolina now and the outer banks. We just kind of get some clouds off that. This High Pressure ridge will keep those suppressed east and south. Were looking at 71 this afternoon, and tomorrow were going to be looking at an even warmer day. Tomorrow 71 and then winds, look at that, 74 degrees as we find ourselves looking at some temperatures above normal by 5, 6 degrees. This afternoon weve got partly sunny skies, a high of 65. Normal high is about 69. Were looking at a partly cloudy night tonight, 40s in the suburbs, 54 around the five boroughs, and tomorrow a really nice day. Sunshine, 71 degrees, your accuweather sevenday forecast, 74 on wednesday. Thursday maybe a few more clouds in the afternoon out ahead of that front. It will be around 70, and then friday weve got a couple of showers that show up. Then thats out of the way by sunday. That will be nice. Looks ill take it. Go up to west point. Its all about you then. I see. Armys playing duke. Thats a good one. Going to be a good football game. Good stuff. Thank you, bill. All right. A happy ending to the search for a missing toddler, a little girl found two days after vanishing from home, whered she go. And wait until you see what happens when a small dog goes up my name is amanda and i smoked while i was pregnant. My baby was born two months early and weighed only three pounds. This is the view i had of her in the nicu. My tip to you is speak into the opening so your baby can hear you better. You can quit. Talk with your doctor. A water rescue at the jersey shore, a divers up Close Encounter with a shark and a little dog comes faceto face with three bears. Just some of the stories that were caught on camera and caught our attention. We start with the coast guard Training Exercise that turned into an actual rescue when a man crashed his jet ski on the jersey shore. An eyewitness recorded the man riding the personal water craft out of the inlet near Point Pleasant yesterday afternoon, a powerful wave knocked him over and threw the jet ski into a jetty. Fortunately a coast guard helicopter crew from Atlantic City was training in the area. The crew spotted the man in the water and pulled him to safety. An extremely rare moment was caught on camera, a young conservationist swimming with a whale shark just 3 miles off the san diego coast. Emily callahan, a graduate of the Scripps Institute of oceanography spotted the fin and wanted to know what it was. She hopped right in, and when she saw those spots she knew it was a whale shark, a very special moment for her. This particular species is classified as vulnerable and rarely seen so close to shore. Beautiful animal. And call it a case of washing up the wrong tree. Barking up a wrong tree, a bulldog confronts three bears who wonders into the yard of her California Family home. Jewels didnt care how many bears there were or how big they were. She chased them off her porch, scamper up a fence to get away from jules. As a reward, jules was given a bath, a treat and lots of kisses. The dog has no idea. I dont care how big you are. They were all scared of that little guy. So funny. Thats awesome. Thanks so much. Were going to have much more ahead in our next half hour. Well have the latest on our breaking news, an amtrak train headed to d. C. Derails in vermont. We have just learned new information about the passengers on board. Plus a warning this afternoon about mets and yankees playoff tickets, and we now know who will serve as this years tcs new York City Marathon grand marshal. But first the live midday im chris bosh. When i was sidelined with blood clots in my lung, it was serious. Fortunately, my doctor had a game plan. Treatment with xarelto. Hey guys hey, finally, somebody i can look up to. Besides arnie. Xarelto is proven to treat and help reduce the risk of dvt and

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