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That building. we don't know. i can't tell, certainly from looking at it, if there might be offices. often in these buildings that look residential like this, you also have businesses that are on the ground floor, whether or not they would be open or not, how many people might have been in that building. it may bode well the time of day, frankly, that more people would have been out of the building, would have been gone to work, so that's one of the things we're going to look at very closely. again, for you who might be joining us, let's update you on the pictures you're seeing, 116th and park...

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Know, bridging that income inequality gap and allowing people to have better lives. this is something he has been focusing on, i think, from the beginning and trying to improve the economy. >> i want to get back to our conversation on the president, because there is so much going on today, but we have pictures, better pictures than we had a couple of minutes ago, what's going on in harlem, in new york city, and there you see, look at all the smoke that's billowing out of that building. there's a report, and it hasn't been confirmed, that there's some sort of explosion that happened there and p...

In the last minute or so we've gotten new information on this explosion, fire, and building collapse in harlem. first of all, it's now a five-alarm fire. we have more than 200 firefighters on the scene, and we are just learning from the fdny and local hospitals that at least at this point, there are 16 people who are injured, 12 minor injuries, four listed as more serious, harlem hospital telling wnbc, our local affiliate here, that one patient arrived there with serious trauma, but as you learned just before the break, this is an area that has several major hospitals, couple of trauma units, ...

Tremendous explosion. >> it did. it actually shook my building from six blocks south and a little bit to the left, but, yeah, i could feel the -- did feel like thunder, a big clap of thunder. >> what can you see now? >> right now i see a haze over the area. before when the winds changed, i could see the firefighters fighting the fire. a haze over the neighborhood. >> as someone living close by, this must be just such a disturbing experience for you personally. >> a little bit, yeah. an explosion is a little worrying to know the cause. >> and at this point, no doubt you're looking down and you'...