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Village. adam, what is going on behind you. >> reporter: they have moved into the search and rescue part of the operation. canine dogs entered the site about an hour ago, still looking for two people unaccounted for. one 23-year-old eating in the ground florida japanese restaurant at the time of the explosion and the other person a worker at the restaurant. firefighters are still here and they want to make sure they put out any smoldering pockets of fire and the excavation has begun. they are getting rid of the debris in the place of the building. in addition to that 25 people are injured. fou...

Slashing $5 billion from the program. the food bank for new york city tracked the impact of those cuts 11 months later. >> 60% of our members, these are soup kitchens and food pantries, the last stop for people in need have reported that they've run out of food. now last year, this was the time of the cuts and it was 48%. so we know that it's getting worse, not better. >> that's what i can get. >> james dean is a 63-year-old food stamp recipient in brooklyn. >> i find myself more and more often robbing peter to pay paul, cutting short the con ed bill to pay the gas bill. >> right. >> he now go...

Foreign policy. so he milked his china trip and then he went back. he was kind of confused. he went to china, made pronouncements like he was still president. he conned bill clinton -- he actually black mailed bill clinton into consulting him. >> black mailed? >> yes. he got word to clinton that unless he consulted him before his summit meeting with yeltsin in vancouver, he would write an on-ed attacking all of bill clinton's foreign policy. so clinton had to call him. you may recall this. clinton finally had to have it but he did it at night so reporters and photographers were not around. but...

Gas the day before, and a preacher from the church said the same thing but nobody reported it. >> which is a real problem. did -- con ed know there was a leak that could have been corrected? they have to make sure their -- did they do their due diligence or not? how disthis happened? nobody called not 17 minutes or 18 minutes before the explosion. something doesn't add up. when the neighbor called at 9:13, apparently when they reported it, con ed said it one an emergency. so that investigation will have to continue. >> the may have nothing to do with it but i'm sure you read in the newspaper, ...

Your heart goes out to the people who lost their lives. the question becomes who is at fault to blame. we don't know. so many questions have to be answered. what ons ought is negligence. who was negligent. who really is culpable. let's talk about it. products liability case. infrastructure, products defective. could be an issue. number two, the building owner, maybe they had in liability. or more importantly, con ed, the utility companies. what did they do before the blast and as soon as the neighbor called at 9:13, dispatch, and then what actually happened thereafter. there are serious safety...