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Who witnessed the whole thing. he joins me by phone. bernie, you were driving along when this -- when this building happened. how close were you? >> i was maybe ten feet from the bulling, rig building, right next to the sidewalk, at the red light. i was in my truck. if you look at those pictures and you see a white pickup truck, that was me. >> i'm looking. i'm looking, i see an ambulance. maybe in some other pictures we'll see. please continue. >> i was sitting there, ready for the light to turn red on the way to another job site. i had a meeting at 11:30, happened to be at that red light. an...

Minor injuries, when a building collapsed on top of this salvation army thrift store that you're looking at right there. this is the corner, if you know center city in philly this is 22nd street and market streets. it was a vacant four-story building that was being demolished when it suddenly toppled on top of the salvation army next door, a salvation army, which according to eyewitnesses, was still open and taking in customers, thus trapping these people who were working and shopping inside late this morning. you see all these dozens of emergency workers and fire and ems, construction workers...

Another round pretty shortly. bernie, thank you so much. i appreciate it. let me just reset for you and take a step back and show you the scene before the building fell. i'm a visual person. this helps me to sort of understand what has happened. this was before all of this happened, this is the building here, you see this with the hoagie city sign this is the building that was supposed to be demoed. you've seen the thrift store. this is the only bit that is still standing after this building went this way. i want to show you here in a minute, sort of minutes before the demolition, but this is ...