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Spewing steam, asphalt, and debris several stories high. covering famed 5th avenue, and the cars on it with thick mud. >> you can get an idea of how much steam is floating through midtown. >> reporter: first responders trying to evacuate the streets as the plume billows just feet from them. >> as soon as i heard a loud explosion, i just booked it and ran. >> reporter: officials say at 6:39 this morning, a 20-inch, 86-year-old steam pipe ruptured, leaving five people with minor injuries. creating a large crater in the street. you can see how close this car came to direct impact. >> thank god th...

America's top diplomat says it will take time to get a nuclear deal with north korea. first here's what's on our fox affiliates run the country covering tonight. fox 12 in portland. authority state appears a tractor operator died when trying to restrain a wildfire that scorched 70 square miles a little more than 24 hours. a fast blaze east of portland, it spread into a rural farming area. miami, the nfl's dolphins may suspend players who protest on the field during the national anthem. the league said teams would be fined if players did not stand for the national anthem while on the field. fox...

>> gregory's tow truck is parked right above the epicenter of one of the biggest underground explosions the city has ever seen. >> i don't know what happened to that guy who was in the truck. he was on top. >> his truck launches into the air and returns to earth with a jolting thud. >> this truck weighs 15,000 pounds by itself. so it had to be a powerful blast just for it to go up and come back down like that. >> the explosion leaves a huge crater in the middle of the street. it swallows the tow truck whole. but it's not caused by a bomb or bomber with evil intentions. >> the most likely thing...

Practiced the night before. here's how they figure matt and sweat made it out. once they slipped out of their cell, it's believed they maneuvered across this six-story high catwalk, eventually dropping down to a series of tunnels. from there, they broke through a double brick wall, then, incredibly, cut through a 24-inch steam pipe, shimmying their way through it. on the other end, about a block away from the prison by then, they cut yet another hole, this time to get out of the pipe. after that, they cut right through the chain and lock holding down the manhole cover. >> if there was a rabid ...

So they went back to the prison and pulled it off the next night using a different manhole. sweat also confirms the escapees hadn't used power tools after all, just hacksaw blades wrapped in cloth to make them easier to use, to cut through the steam pipe and cell wall. but, he adds, they did use a sledgehammer they had found underground to knock down a brick wall on the way out. an impressive jail break that the one surviving escapee will be able to think about behind bars, authorities hope, for many bars, authorities hope, for many more years to come -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com