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Two dozen others hurt. a driver plowed into a crowd at south by southwest, gathered outside a music venue. at least five of those hurt are said to be in critical condition at this hour. this happened on a busy street packed with people just after midnight. police say they tried to stop the driver for an apparent dwi, when he sped off the wrong way down a one-way street and crashed. they say he then tried to run off, but they caught him. the driver now in custody. his name is not being released. also this morning, the death toll rising after the devastating building explosion here in new york...

Minutes later, the building had been leveled. >> boom! >> it was so powerful that you heard the boom and then it rocked the whole apartment. >> my neighbors came banging on my door, telling me to get out. i guess they were evacuating the building. and i couldn't get out. my door was jammed. everything off my windowsill fell, and i guess the impact of the explosion jammed the door as well. >> as i was walking, getting ready to go down the stairs, i smelled, like, gas. and i said let me go inside because i might have left the stove on. but when i went inside it wasn't my stove. it wasn't. >> we ...

That deadly explosion in new york city. sceneth body recovered earlier -- a seventh body recovered early this morning. a gas be leak triggered the blast that leveled two buildings in harlem. laura ingle has more. >> reporter: as search teams continue the grim task at hand, investigators are also digging deep into the cause of yesterday's blast. now, a spokesperson with the national transportation safety board tells fox it's meeting with city officials today, getting status updates on the fires, the injuries, and the records of those two buildings. the ntsb, which is investigating because gas p...

Released my. all right, also this morning, investigators and rescue crews still on the scene of that horrific building explosion in new york city. and overnight, the death toll has risen. at least six people are now dead, six people. more than 60 people have been hurt. several others still unaccounted for. after the blast destroyed an apartment building and another building nearby, damaging some buildings, shaking the ground so strongly, it showed up on earthquake sensors. this is what it looked like before the blast. this is what it looks like now. >> wow. >> the local utility, con ed, says...

The explosion jammed the door as well. >> as i was walking, getting ready to go down the stairs, i smelled like gas. and i said, let me go inside, because i might have just left the stove on, but when i went inside, it wasn't my stove. it wasn't. >> we will be looking at all reports. we'll be looking at con ed's call logs to see when the first calls started coming in. >> some in the neighborhood say they had been smelling a gas odor for weeks, not a strong gas odor, but they had been smelling gas on and off for weeks. new york's fire chief says the fact crews had not yet made it to the buildin...