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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 ...

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...

Collapse of these buildings. an extended operation under way. this is very much a search and recovery effort still at this time, wolf. they have literally just been putti putting out the final flames from this fire, now searching through all of the rubble. we got here just about half an hour after it happened, 45 minutes or so, and talked to people who lived in buildings right on the block that were impacted by this. listen to what one 21-year-old angelica told me. >> my neighbors came banging on my door, telling me to get out, that i guess they were evacuating the building. and i couldn't get...

1:00 a.m. the clothes corey wore at the bar were folded neatly at the bottom of her bed. >> we also know that she prepared herself for bed so we know that she wasn't attacked until after she was in bed. either he was waiting in her bedroom closet or he let himself into the apartment. >> investigators found a gold-plated zippo lighter in corey's bedroom, although corey smoked, none of her friends recognized it. investigators dusted the lighter for fingerprints but none were found. >> it became apparent to us that there was no way that that was corey parker's lighter. >> inside the kitchen of co...

Moment we got here, we were coughing. it is still pretty difficult to breath comfortably. i want to bring in angelica. she lives in this building, which is right on the same block as to where the explosion happened here in east harlem, also known as spanish harlem. what happened? i know you were stuck for a moment. >> i heard a big explosion. i didn't know what was going on. it was a building complex. you could see the other side of the building. it started going into smoke. my neighbors came banging on my door telling me to get out. i couldn't get out. my door was jammed. everything off my wi...