archery record in india. the youngest indian to score more 200 points at an event firing at targets 20 feet away. big news day going on today so i appreciate you being part of "the real story." now let's head over to shep. >> terrifies passengers scream as the copilot set a course for the mountain and arizona the pilot tried to break down the cockpit door. what we know about the copilot who trained in arizona. you'll hear from somebody who knew him personally. we look at how the locking system works and why the pilot could not get back inside and i'll speak live with a friend of one of the american victims. another major story the even gyp shakens and saudis are ready for a possible ground invasion in yemen against shiite rebs. a proxy war between saudi arabia and iran. yemen is the battlefield and it's gone regional.

why did that come as ang enormous surprise to the pentagon? a member of the u.s. army national guard, arrested on charges he tried to use his military training to help the islamic state. and new accusations of sex parties at the drug enforcement administration with drug cartels paying for it. let's get to it. what a news day today. mass murder by jet. a germanwings copilot plowed this jet full spined into a mountainside, ignoring the screams of passengers who knew they were moments from death. that's the conclusion from prosecutors today who say audio reportings reveal the copilot locked the captain out of the cockpit before the deadly crash in the french alps on tuesday. the recordings capture the captain knocking lightly at

first but as the jet begins a ten-minute death drop the knocking goes more frantic, ending with the captain begging for entry and trying to bang down the door. all of this in view of passengers who investigators say likely had no clue that a killer was at the controls. investigators say the ground got closer and closer. that the panic spread. and the copilot stayed silent. >> he didn't say a single word. total silence. the victims only realized at the last moment because on the recording you only hear the screams literally on the last moments. >> we have a picture of the copilot. on a trip to the united states. a german man in his late 20s in whom friends describe as quiet but happen. investigators say the only sign of any trouble to come happened a short time after takeoff, when the copilot's tone changed. while talking to the captain. >> translator: before it was formal chatter almost joyous

courteous, but when the pilot spoke for landing, the answers were brief and short. >> prosecutors say they've also ruled out the copilot had a medical emergency. they said the copilot had to deliberately set the plane on its downward course. the recording captures him breathing normally alive and a wake until the very en. >> translator: he had no reason not to respond to the tower who was questioning his loss of altitude. no reason to tap in a code that would respond to other planes trying to contact him. i'm reminding you it's only 48 hours. he was breathing normally. it wasn't the breath of someone struggling. >> today investigators are back the crash site looking for clues. and in germany investigators scouring the copilot's background looking for anything that might answer the question, why. we have lea on the news deck. crew maybes have a way to access the cockpit?

>> a special door but they can enter a code on a key pad outside the flight deck, outside the cabin door. airbus released a video showing how it all works. take a look. >> on the code pad she enters the emergency code then presses the hash key. this triggers the timer for 30 seconds. the green on the code pad indicates imit in unlock. in the cockpit the buzzer sound continue obviously and the open flight flashes indicating unlocking. >> here's the thing. anyone inside the cockpit can flip a toggle switch and override that system. >> the captain moves the toggle switch to the lock position. the open light remains extinguished. i if you look at the code pad the red light is lit confirming the door is locked. be careful automatic door openings, the code pad and the buzzer are inhibited for five minutes. >> airline executives say it is not clear whether copilot did

that and whether he ever entered the code. >> the rules in the united states for cockpit access are different. >> that's right in the u.s., it's required that if one of the pilots leaves the cockpit an airline attendant must be inside the cockpit. those regulations did not apply to this flight in europe. however three international airlines said they will change rules to require having two people in the cockpit at all times. now the ceo of germanwings parent company, lufthansa did not commit to that. >> i don't see any need to change our procedure because of this single occasion but we we goal together with the various experts in the lufthansa group airlines and with our german government to see if procedures can be refined. >> he says he is stunned by the allegations the copilot intentionally crashed the plane but says she is confident in the ability of his pilots.

>> thank you. cockpit doors on commercial jets and planes in the united states and security rules for them have changed dramatically since the a takes of 9/11 making it hijacking more difficult. the federal aviation administration says cook pit doors be tough enough to withstrand the blast from a grenade. before the attacks the doors were not reinforced and some pilots would leave them wide open, frankly, and invite passengers in to take a look at the controls. justin green is a commercially licensed pilot former marine pilot who works on crash investigations and is live. do you make wholesale changes based on the actions of one man. >> in 9/11, 19 men got into the cockpit in four different planes and take over the airlines, and those changes were made. these changes, the armored cockpit door were made in response to that going forward, this is an easy fiction to have two people in cockpits.

most airlines in the u.s. are doing that. it's a very smart idea. >> i've seen the argue. if a pilot or copilot wants to take down a jet, they'll figure it out. >> in air 990 that's what happened two pilots were fighting on the controls and the copilot was able to bring the airplane down. pilots are in a position of trust. most pilots would never think about daytona 500 thing. >> this copilot didn't have enough hours to be a co pilot in the united states. >> that's correct. the u.s. decreased the number of hours to 1500. every airline pilot has to be 1500 hours to be a copilot and that gives you more time to see if this person has the right mental altitude. >> you cannot prevent everything in this time after 9/11.

but you wonder if there may be some psychological testing that is necessary after the initial training and after the initial hire, if there's more that could or should be done? i'm sure somebody would be looking into that. >> in the question is, are you going to impose something that doesn't work. so somebody could give a great exam on january 1, and on february 1 do something terrible because you really -- people's mental state can actually change pretty quickly, and i'd be more relight on crew member to see whether someone is acting properly than a psychiatrist once a year looking at a person. >> it's a fraternity. people who work in the airlines from the flight atetch canneds to the captain, they kind of watch after each other. >> it's almost like here, where if you were acting a little cooky, your crew would be look ought for you. pilots are not flying by themselves. they're flight with copilots and flight crew and speaking to

management. they're being looked at a lot. >> i can't think of anything more important than trust, trust among those working on the jets and trust among the passengers. sometimes in these security things we do stupid things like now you can't have sham pew and lighters itch hope that doesn't happen. >> it shouldn't. you think about the number of airplanes and the number of pilots and this has only happened a couple of times in the history of aviation but it's horrific. >> i can't imagine. can you even visualize being the captain outside of your own cockpit, unable to get in, and knowing what is about to happen. >> for the last 24 hours i was hoping this wasn't the case. i think every pilot is hoping the same thing. this is so out of the norm and so horrific for that captain, for the passengers, who clearly would have been seeing the mountains come up on them. >> justin green, thank you. >> thank you. >> the german government indicates its ran a routine

security check on co pie lit in late -- copilot in late january but didn't find anything unusual. what we know about the man who flew the jet into the mountain. that's coming up.

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the ceo of lufthansa say the o'pilot was 100% fit to fly with a perfect flight record. the copilot was an address lubitz from a town in western german. the joined germanwings straight oust flight school and trained in arizona and logged 630 hours of flight time. members of his flight club back home said he seemed happy with his job. >> translator: i'm just speechless. i don't have any explanation for this. knowing an address -- andreas, this is inconceivable. >> the lufthansa say the copilot had a gap in training and the airline would look into what happened during that time. it was a sabbatical. trace, what else do we know about the gap? >> reporter: well, we know that 28 years andreas lubitz joined luff tan a in 2008 but in 2009

pulled out of the program for six months. a german newspaper records lubitz's friends say he took the break because he was burned out depressed but the airline won't confirm that saying that's part of the investigation. when the copilot rejoined the training program he underwent a battery of psychologist tests. lice ton the ceo of lufthansa. >> translator: but i told you before that anybody who buts the training has to actually prove all the confidence, and do a lot of tests so the -- competence and fitness will be checked. >> once he became a pilot there were no further psychological evaluations but the ceo went on to say that lubitz performed well and his flight record was impeccable. >> do we know anything about his training here in the united states? >> well, we know that lufthansa has been sending pilots to the airline training center in arizona which is just outside of phoenix for the past 40 years. we're having trouble getting

information about the copilot's time there because the training center keeps hanging up on us. andreas lubitz got his pilot license when he was a teenager but at the another of the crash he only had 630 hours which is very low. in the uh a copilot would have more hours. but in lufthansa they cam out of college and bring them up in the city and he was a flight attendance before sitting in the right seat. investigators are looking into this religion finance and personal relationships. >> three americans were on the jet. up next conversation with a colleague and friend of one of the victims, who says she always tried to be the best version of herself.

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visit comcast.com/wireless to learn more. state department is now confirming the identity of the third american on the plane that crashed into the french alps, robert oliver. he is a u.s. citizen who was born in barcelona and reportedly worked for a clothing company based there. his father is now speaking out and giving advice to the families of the other victims. >> i encourage them to not focus on those last ten minutes, the final crash. i'd like to encourage them to think about the wonderful years that they have enjoyed life together. >> we're also learning more about the other two americans who died in the crash. a mother and daughter from virginia. this is emily selke. she recently graduated from

drexel university in philly where she majored in music history. her mother, yvonne selke, worked at booz hamilton for more than two decades. joining us know is a friend of emily selke, sean wilson. thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> i'm so sorry to you and all those who knew them. it's worthwhile to hear about the victims more than the perpetrator. what would you like to tell us about her? >> emily was absolutely the type of person that everyone wanted to get to know. she was a shining light in our -- at our work place and she was truly the one responsible for creating the community and the family that we have in our alexandria office and it spread to our other d.c. offices and throughout the country. >> that was her job? >> yes. she was community manager by title, and she truly took that very literally, and so she was wonderful at creating relationships with both her fellow team members and our

clients. >> what were she and her mom doing over there? >> to be honest, i wasn't really in the know about all of their -- all of the details of the trip. i it was something she was looking really forward to doing. had seen her a week before she left. she was really excited to go on the vacation with her mom so it's just a tragedy. >> i don't know about you. i woke up that morning to an early bbc news alert i think probably around 7:00 in the morning, and i'm guessing you woke up to something like that too, and then you had to have realized, this is right here in my workplace, among my extended family. >> very similar. absolutely. i had heard the reports but it wasn't until one of our fellow team members mary leslie called her boss, brittani who called me, to say that she had seen it on emily's facebook page all of the outpouring of support coming from friends and family. it was just truly tragic to hear through social media but shows

the power of what social media can do. >> and now, the word about this copilot and the details of what was heard on the cockpit voice recorder. i wonder if you want to react to that at all. >> you know honestly, we needed our mission to focus soley on emily, and her mom. we are truly devastated by what has occurred, and so we made it our mission to simply come on and memorialize her and come people rate her and talk about how wonderful she was and the light she was within our lives. >> that's a great thing to hear. we have all been through some sort of tragedy in our lives and all know the way we get through it is by the people around us who love us. that's a good message for everybody. there's tough days ahead. do you have anything planned to keep each other together? >> well, we are very tightknit

family, so we have already begun conversations and we truly believe the only we -- one way we can grieve is to just continue the conversation. so that is happening between our team members as well as with our clients. obviously we're offering any type of grief counseling to anybody on our team that needs it but we have just tried to come together in the last two days and will continue to do so, to commemorate emily and talk about and continue to laugh and smile because that what she did for us every day. >> uplifting and inspiring. thank you. so nice to talk to you. >> thank you. >> a friend and coworker of emily selke who dried on the jet two days ago. investigators say it's rare for a pilot to intentionally crash a commercial airliner, thank god. but there have been cases in which they say the pilot was likely responsible. don't always get all the details because it's so difficult after

one of this crashes, depending on what evidence is left over to pin down who did what but there are standards. chris has some examples. >> yes. so this first example is a royal air morroc flight in august of 1944. 44 people were killed when the plane actually crashed into a mountain. investigators they pilot brought down the plane because he wanted to commit suicide. this next one is a silk air flight in december of 1997. all 104 people onboard were killed. it plunged into a river in indonesia. u.s. investigators say the pilot probably crashed it on purpose but indonesian investigators said their results were inconclusive, and just talking about the egypt flight in 1999. 217 people on board. took off from blue jackets --

from jfk and crashed into the 'ocean. the copilot cut the wires and kept repeating the phrase, i rely on god. and this last one happened two yours ago on a mozambique airlines that crashed. 27 passengers onboard. six crew members. a preliminary investigation pointed that it was a deliberate act by the captain after he had lost his copilot out of the cockpit. >> four examples. continuing coverage of the jet disaster in france as family members and victims say their goodbyes. we have insight from two investigators who worked on two airline atalks, including the 9/11 attack and the twa crash. that and iran and saudi arabia are at war. it's a proxy 0 war and the battlefield is in yemen and it's extremely serious and developing now. we'll have details coming up.

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other. >> breaking news just in on the german week crash. there's brand new word that the copilot of the jet set the auto pilot to make the jet crash. the respected flight tracking service called flight radar 24 released raw data. showing the follows. movements after the jet reached cruising altitude the pilot set the controls to descend to less than 100 fun. anything lower than 6000 feet guaranteed the flight would crash. flight radar 24 reports it learned this on the same day of the crash but the company turned over info to the investigators and did not go public with it until right now. this could serve to bolster prosecutors claims the copilot crashed the plane on purpose and did not suffer a medical emergency or fall asleep or anything like that.

some haunting words from the ceo of lufthansa today, and i quote, i'm not a lawyer, but if a person kills himself at 149 other people the word suicide that not be used. lufthansa is the parent company of germanwings. today victims families got to say goodbyes. relatives here in our slide show, some of them arrived in marseille airport in france, family members boarded a bus, police cars led the way and then the families did not make it to the crash site but got as close as they could the french police officers are holding the flags that represent the countries, spain, united states them january, -- german and

spain. and this is a police officer standing outside one of the homes of the copilot. investigators gathered evidence from this condo he had today, and then there's another home he had 80 miles south of duesseldorf. believed to be the second home of the copilot. investigators collecting evidence there too. and then this last one from their the german school of the 16 student's and two teachers who died. essentially in english keep cameras away accept we're mourning. joining us now an aviation attorney. investigating the 9/11 attacks and the fwa investigation. chris is a former fbi special agent who investigated 2wa800. the new revelations, i don't know hough this is coming together for you, but they're getting to the heart of it mighty quickly.

>> i think that's absolutely correct. i think we're dealing here with a situation of trying to figure out the why because the more we hear, the what what happened, appears to be presenting itself rather clearly and the investigators are clearly focusing from your last report, in terms of going to the home ofs -- homes homes of the copilot. >> we were hearing that the breathing of the copilot who was talking this down -- the breathing was completely normal and relaxed. they could hear it well on the cockpit voice recorder now. we heard from the radar tracking facility he set the auto pilot to do this for him. so you wonder if he wasn't zoned out or on something? who the hell knows. >> i think you're exactly right. who the hell does know? i think the greatest fear i have in this whole matter is that we

may never get to the why. the level of destruction was so enormous that in terms of an actual autopsy, that questionable. i'm certain the investigators are doing a psychological autopsy as is typically done following an aircraft accident so see if that will shed light on the why. the real question is who the hell knows? >> christopher issue guess there are so many avenues of investigation. you start with the cockpit voice recorder. i ills -- is the data recorder of help here. >> some help. my perspective his measured breathe seemingly calm indicates a tremendous amount of planning on his part. he was in here. he was determined to make this happen. probably rehere'sed it in his -- rehearsed it in his mind and he envisioned being calm. we'll find quite a few clues as

to the why because it's quite likely he has some writings somewhere, whether it's handwritten notes or something he has written in a computer, which is what the investigators are looking for. they'll probably find some indication of how he planned this and why he did it. >> christopher, is there something more that needs to be done? regards to psychological evaluation prior to putting pilots behind the stick or more regular or do you have any thoughts on that? >> well, i think this is planned out and is deliberate and initially appears to me to be then it's going to be very difficult to pick this up with any sort of psychological testing because it's going to be intentional deception for a very long period of time. if there were any changes in this individual's moods before it happen the changes would have been office -- opposite of what we expect because when people decide to commit the suicide suicide/murder, they end up being in a better mood just

above is happens because they're no longer troubled by the decision and are free. >> we act like we know what happened but mark given this new information that the auto pilot took it down, it would be possible or impossible the captain himself would have in some way dosed or drugged or given a sedative, and then gone out the cabin and made it look this way? i just wonder if this early we are are as sure as the investigators seem to be. >> well, thick it's very easy, given what we have seen over the last 18 months in terms of accidents that have occurred -- outside of the united states for the speculation to run rampan, and somewhere on the internet the theory you just had vaned has been discussed. all the evidence and facts released seem to be suggestive of the conclusion that everybody seems to have reached. i think the reality is that the

continued investigation, as chris said, with respect to the o'pilot's home computer, writings, may shed light. we me a find ourselves up against a dead end and he appears to be something who loved flying a happy person, well-liked, and we are all left scratching our head going back to the question you originally posed. >> mom, -- mark christopher, thank you very much. >> there is breaking news now on fox news channel. the fire department of new york reports a major building collapse has happened, and there are reports of people trapped. the area is the east village of manhattan so if you were to look at the island of manhattan, lower right-hand side side, right along the water, the east village marx and seventh street, so seventh street and

marx, lower east side of the island, and we're told the building contains both apartments and businesses. this area very popular with students. new york university is right there in that area. sidewalks the area are almost always packed with pedestrians. this is a stock photo. we don't have any pictures. the weather is pretty good in new york. we had a rainy, rainy day yesterday. this is an actual picture now. the little bit rainy but not cold. the reason i'm saying this is because the thinking would be that there would be a lot of pedestrian traffic but if you look -- this is a still picture. lots of young people. universities nearby. until very recently some of the cost of living wasn't as high, maybe in the east village as some other areas. a lot of hipsters around there most of whom made their way to brooklyn and have to find a new place to live because there's nowhere you can afford. but what appears to be a very

serious incident. this is manhattan, where a building has collapsed according to the fire department of new york. the collapse in the east village, seventh and marx. is that right? -- seventh and st. mark's. as we work to get more pictures. we have a number of affiliated stations wnyw, and the abc and cbs stations are on the way. this is a new picture just come in seconds ago of the front of this. you can see a typical low rice man hat -- low rise man had tan lower east side east village structures here. they're not nearly as high. they're not -- always fire screens across the front. usually commercial on the first couple of levels and then apartments or condos or co-ops above. usually a doorman neighborhood, and some older structures. have there been problems in the

neighborhood before? of course, but building restrictions are very difficult here, permitting is difficult to get, and for the most part, you don't expect this sort of thing to happen. certainly not in the middle of the afternoon, smack dab in manhattan. what we don't know is, were there people inside or who was on the street and the initial reporting suggests to us that they believe people were trapped inside and as you can see, a fire has now broken out after this collapse. there is of course -- that just ruins the picture. so that -- it's so often the case that gas lines can rupture. when collapses happen in manhattan or there's any sort of floor collapse large flooding problem inside a building which causes ceilings to drop and fall into the next apartment or the next unit, often times that snaps gaslines, and once the gaslines are broken then any little spark will create a fire. i'm not saying that is what happened here put i can tell you

that has happened many, many, many times. we know that there was collapse, according to the fire department. now we see this raging fire. this appears to me to be a apartments or condos. thankfully in the middlele of the afternoon you think a lot of people would be at work and hopefully nobody was in there. the collapse itself -- personally i just can't tell about you saw our previous picture, wabc, our network news affiliated has gotten there first. i it would appear to me and now they're just setting up their camera, as you can tell, and frankly, working to get the right shot for us, and we certainly thank them for the pictures. the original report right there at st. mark's place. you can see the street sign unless the banner is covering it. and then there's the scene. two buildings it would happen

now up in flames and pedestrians on the near side. if you look way on the left-hand side of the screen you can see new york's bravest coming together there. they've gotten a latedder up in the -- ladder up in the air but the flames are pouring out. these pictures courtesy of wabc television and there's so many unknowns. this happened as i was speaking with our two guests and the producer said we're working on breaking news and i look up at the screen, and when it's not far from where you live, when it's in your own town, and you think of the possibles here, school is out, obviously. it's 43 minuteses past 3:00 in the afternoon in new york. so, kids would have been home by now or atley headed home in -- at least headed home and i do know this began as a building collapsed. new york's east village

neighborhood. no immediate information on injuries but we did get word there hey have been people trapped inside and i believe we got that word from the fdny. these were the original pictures, and you can see here, it looks like dust or something coming from a collapse. this does not look like a fire initially. this began, the initial report, was a building collapse. and then the fire began. by the time we got live pictures, that's when we began to see the fires. more pictures coming in now. these are streaming in. you can see the fire department able to get some water up on the thing. this is causing traffic problems in the neighborhood and will for the rest of the afternoon. i'm confident that now they're working to keep this thing from spreading to nearby buildings. you can see this is a one two, three -- looks like four stories, maybe five building, but no more than that. classic of that neighborhood,

commercial development on the ground floor and apartments up above. this is a live picture coming to the -- a tower cam from wnyw, fox 5 in new york showing the smoke coming over the east village and the neighborhood there. so this going to cause problems all over the lower part of manhattan, and again, the first thing you want to do is to get people out of there if any were in there and then try to keep this thing contained, keep it from spreading to other buildings. my understanding is there was just the one collapse, and then you can imagine, if the building collapses and there's dust in the street and there's running and chaos, by the time you smell the gas it's -- if that is what happened here -- by the time you smell it it can go off so quickly. if the collapse happens or the collapse goes, the gaslines break, then the gas is filling up the stuck tour, -- structure

and once the spark hits it goes at one time. and you can see the flames roaring out of the roof there with firefighters up on in the ladder trucks two of them, and lots of new york's bravest down on the ground. i've been surfing around and hoping maybe people on the deck -- do we have anymore information -- new york police department says its actually started withan explosion, which caused the collapse. >> the fdny says they're still evaluating on the scene but is saying it's an explosion. other reports, may have shot oust the first floor. >> the flames -- >> some sort of blast. >> i asked because the initial reports we got the wire copy from new york city wire services says report of a collapse. that was the initial report. but it's all september manics, and as -- semantics and you know that seems the initial reports are just wrong. one thing is perfectly clear,

they have raging inferno going on right now, and new york's bravest are working very hard to put it out. the initial reports of the possibility of people trapped. sometimes those reports are -- it only makes sense there's this possibility. you have had this explosion happen, and then there's no way to get in there to find out. so sometimes it's one simple question is anybody trapped? and then an answer, well, they may be. and that leads us all to report the possibility of people trapped. the fact is there's always a possibility. you can see tower ladder 18 there, and if you look way on the bottom left-hand corner of the screen, it may be covered by the fox news channel bug but that's not moveable by us. i can see at least a couple of dozen firefighters on the street. all these firefighters who are gathering trying to coordinate all of this. they have the entire area shut off, and just from this you can

see there's not a lot of pedestrian traffic anymore, but a lot of firefighters working down here, too much it's not a scene of chaos at awesome orderly. the idea now i suppose just get as much water on the building as quickly as you humanly can. in an effort to keep it from spreading. these are people's homes next door. you can see window units on what appears to be maybe the sixth or seventh floor, and then the fire escape coming down. the curtains are drawn so you guess whoever lives there hopefully is off at work, but they're going to work really hard. this is the alpine building because it says on the top. so whoever -- doesn't appear to be anyone there it's almost 100% that those are residential dwellings, and these over here -- it's much harder to tell. we can hope that maybe this thing was under construction and nobody was living in there at the time. but frankly there's no way to know. our research teams are scouting on these addresses right now to

see if we can find out more information about the street level stores that were there or i suppose are still there but very much disarray, and then what sort of units were above how many apartments are there who may have lived there. and that sort of thing. in fact, our news researchers here found this is 125 second avenue is the literal address of it. and this is from easy street. 26 units. aeven story building built in guess this, the year 1900. it's the 103rd city community district, and precinct 9. 26 units. so when you hear there's that many unitsout hope there are no third shifters in there who are sleep. and some pictures over here what this is before the fire. you can keep showing that i'm going to look over here. there's a palm fritz, a little

afternoon lunch stake restaurant, deli and grocery on the main floor. a nail place. not exactly sure what that is. appears to be a little restaurant there. but a beautiful little neighborhood. you can see this picture clearly taken in the spring when the trees are out and blooming and you get so much light in this neighborhood. it's really great place to live. 125 second avenue and they're going to have one hell of a time saving this thing. looks like from what was seeing the feed has changed -- from what i was seeing the inside of that building is just flames from one end of it to the other. you wonder if the explosion didn't blow out interior walls. it seems like you can look straight through the building. this is a fire on the lower east side of manhattan. another view of it now and some pictures have been coming into us. firefighters are on scene and there is a wide shot from scott westerfield, i believe that has

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we feared this fire in new york city would be extremely serious, and now we know it is. a three-alarm fire and the "new york post" is reporting at least 30 people have been taken away and injured in this explosion. we're now told that the fdny sent out a tweet that said it was a three-alarm fire at 125 second avenue, mixed occupancy, major building collapse. the fdny haded wrong by one addressment the larger building to the right that was that burning, that is 125. the one to the left the place where i showed you the

restaurant with fryers in it, and across the street is the show, stomp, which is a major international tourist attraction. so that's right across the street. i mentioned wabc, our network news service affiliate, people are being cared out in stretcher s and there's men tour triage area set up. we have gotten tweets from the subways the f train and the l trains are down there, and then the 4 5 6 which goes up to the east side of map hat tan and then guess over across the east river, the 4, 5 and 6 also at asker ash does -- aster place, and people tweeting they're stuck. but there's concern -- the fdny calls it's major building collapse it's our understanding it was an explosion which caused

the collapse. it was as if you could see through the building which is separate units. and businesses and restaurants on the ground floor. there's no doubt you can see straight through the thing. so the possibility now, the possibility, that if there was a gas leak that caused a massive explosion, it could have collapsed the interior of all of this. it's hard to imagine what bad shape some people, if they were in there could have been we're receiving tweets from people, as many as two avenues away. so one avenue is four streets so that's as far away as eight streets. their buildings are filling up with smoke. the -- it's slightly windy but not too bad but it's pouring right into people's buildings. the streets are all shut down. all over this area. the trains are shut down as well, and the fdny seconds ago upgraded this to a five-alarm

fire. more personnel will be brought out. the alarm status says if it's juan alarm, sirred number of firehouses involve. two alarms. we're up to a five-alarm fire so firefighters from all over this part of manhattan and beyond coming down to fight what is now an absolutely enormous fire in the east village. the picture we're seeing now makes it look -- did make it look at is things were calm there but i guarantee you there are many many firefighters on this at the moment. lex is a block away and was there when it happened. what did you hear and feel? >> we-i was talking to my roommate, and literally our whole apartment shook and we last our balance and i had to grab on to my dresser, and we thought it was some crazy thunder, we went to the window, which overlooks second avenue on her side of the apartment, and

literally it looked like the basement of the building exploded. most of it was across the street. a couple people laying in the street. they were still alive, motiving, but didn't look good. and we did not realize it was a building collapse or fire until smoke started pouring out, and it's literally rising to the heavens right now. >> wow. so our viewers know, lex on the line is a production assistant here at fox news channel. -- an associate producer at fox news channel and i assume you went home and this came out of nowhere. you've said you think the basement exploded and you saw people in the street? >> yes. this building -- maybe the basement is -- there's been problems around here recently. >> what kind of problems? >> my apartment a block away 101 second avenue, we have been smelling gas and we have inned

some false alarms where the fdny would come and couldn't find the issue. they were going in our basements, the restaurants, and couldn't figure it out, and they have been here three or four times in the last month. i don't know. very scary. >> fox bruiser lex, who lives just a block away. felt the explosion and saw the people in the streets. we're now told that more than -- according to the reporting -- up to 30 people have been injured. the explosion happened with absolutely no warning that we know of. you heard these long-term warnings from electric about how they smelled gas at her apartment a block away but no way to figure out what it was. whether that is the cause or not remains to be seen but a major disaster in the east village in new york city. what looks to be two buildings completely up in flames. a building collapsed. many dozens of people injured. the fdny on scene with a

five-alarm fire. it's breaking news now on fox news channel. we'll have continuing updates on this and the big news stories throughout the afternoon. "your world" is coming right up. we will have a lot more on the fire as facts and updates warrant. everyone focusing on what drove this man to drive a plane into a ground. welcome everybody on now what is an extremely busy news day. this is "your world." an intense investigation underway at this hour as to the background of that germanweeks copilot who crashed the plane into the mountain, killing all. >> reporter: at this point prosecutors and investigators say this what deliberate. he definitely crashed this on purpose. we know that his name is andreas