They were destroyed. Now residents are telling me that they smelled a natural gas leak earlier in the day earlier this evening and then suddenly the unthinkable happened. The flames spread quickly. Residents shared this cell phone video of the blaze with us. Devonte sewell was walking down the street toward the townhome. The flames started coming from the middle of the building. Like every building caught on fire like three buildings. They all just collapsed in. Reporter two people were taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. One was a resident suffering from respiratory problems, the other a baltimore gas and electric employee who was working in the complex. We believe he was working on a potential concern of a natural gas leak or order of a leak and he was investigating and evidently there was an explosion subsequent to that investigation. Reporter its still not clear what caused the leak or explosion. Residents say they could smell the gas before disaster struck. Em
Those stories and more coming up. Right now, lets check in with carol erickson, as we head into the weekend . What a difference a day makes, carol. Oh, boy, i tell you what, we saw inches of rain at the shore, winds were unbelievable, everybody got into the rain. It was as gloomy, miserable day. Today, no, not going to be finding weather like that today, fortunately, so we have completely turned the corner. And with a was supposed to have been all week, a really nice week, we did have that thursday speed bump with all of the showers and the rain and the wind. Well, now were back to what should and really great stretch of the next couple of days. And when i come back, ill talk about some summer like temperatures, well find them pretty soon on the eyewitness weather seven day forecast coming up. Carol, see now little built, thank you. In the news, fiery crash in philadelphias kensington section. Out of control car slams into a gas pump igniting the blaze. Eyewitness News Reporter jan car
this morning in seven states maryland the presidengeorge huguely chevy chase resident george huguely will testify. a pool of 300 people have not been influenced by the high- profile university of virginia murder case, hopefully. it is unfortunate. i would rather the university did not have to have this reputation. the jurors will see a graphic images of a 22-year-old young woman found dead in her off- campus apartment in may of 2010. defense attorneys lost an argument to go out pictures of her badly bruised and beaten body. it was obviously really tragic. her ex-boyfriend, his attorneys will argue that the death was an accident while he was intoxicated. the university has warns students of emotional distress and will offer counseling. i think that we will move past this in time. not only will the jury see pictures and listen to recordings, but they will also hear testimony from the girl s mother and sister. there will be among the first to testify. reporting liv