Also, family with three type yeah newborns receives a gift that really helped them make their way around town. And the big story on action news is a fire that ripped through several row homes in norristown leaving five families in need of a place to stay. It happened around 1 00 this afternoon 8 0 0 block of cone street where action News Reporter Kenneth Moton joins us live with the latest. Kenneth. Walter, sarah the fire has been out for a bit. But we have a busy scene here where residents are inside the hard hit homes sal ofaging what they can. Firefighters worked to gets this under controlch the damage is on the backside of the house wheres neighbors say it peers an afternoon barbeque is to blame. Charred remains of back porches and houses were all that remained on the block. A neighbor captured the flames 1 p. M. Cone street it started and one home and moved fast. It was crazy. Fire all above the top of the roof. It was orange. Fueled by wood, dry conditions and wind the fire jumpe
Off here. Traffic is not being allowed. It has not been allowed to enter this, you know, fourblock radius of west florissant for the past, oh, id say, 14 hours or so now. Its been blocked off. Were told its blocked off because it is still being considered a crime scene. This is, of course, where last night gunshots rang out. There were a number of the stores were looted here. One, two, three four were set on fire as well. In fact, behind me, we just saw in the past ten minutes or so, we just saw some workers arrive to set up some fencing around whats left of that Public Storage facility. We are expecting more protests tonight. In fact, weve already seen a handful of organized protests so far today. There was one over in clayton. Nothing like what we saw last night. Largely peaceful. Much smaller as well. Again, expecting to see more of that over the course of the afternoon and evening. More than 80 people arrested. 15 buildings set on fire. Dozens more than that vandalized and looted.
Men from Onalaska and Lewiston, Minnesota, have been prosecuted for "sextortion." State officials say the number of cases in which young people have been extorted into sending nude photos of themselves are on the rise.
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