. >> reporter: she was on the phone with her sister, francesca figueroa shortly before the explosion. >> it was less than five minutes her again. >> reporter: the blast happened on saturday afternoon. puello. as for the other tenant, we're told francesca figueroa lived on the second floor and was in the process of moving out and taking her stove with her. that gas stove, now the primary focus of this investigation. >> 4206, where the explosion took place, and 4204 are in a precarious place and will likely have to be demolished. >> reporter: right now, at least five buildings have been vacant, and all of those families registered with the red cross. some of them will eventually be allowed back home, but until then, a large area here remains pedestrians. we're live in brooklyn tonight, lucy yang, for channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you. police in queens search for the driver involved in the deadly hit and run crash. a small memorial put up alongside college point boulevard in flushing where manuela contreras was struck. he was dragged nearly 100 feet. the driver sped away without st

indicate that gas service was shut off to the second particular apartment where 48-year-old francesca figueroa lived. ms. figueroa was supposed to have been evicted from her apartment two days before the explosion and was in the process of moving out of the building when that blast occurred. the victim found today has not yet been identified but the only person believed to be missing was ms. figueroa. friends of the mother of three say they are heartbroken for her children. >> sadness and pain in my heart. she didn't deserve this. nobody deserves this. it's a bad tragedy for the family. >> the other victim, 64-year-old lejia puleo died from severe burns. >>> seven people have been injured when an amtrak train derailed in vermont. it jumped the tracks after hitting some fallen rocks. officials say the rocks fell from the path of the train, calling the incident as a freak of nature. >> we felt something like a bump and next thing we knew, we kind of swerved to the left then went, uh-oh. >> 98 passengers and four crew members were onboard that train. it was scheduled to make stops in connecticut,

authorities say 47-year-old francesca figueroa was cleaning out her apartment and disconnected a stove that may have started the blast. it injured three other people and killed one. the amtrak service on the vermonter. we have new pictures just out of montpelier. several cars. four passengers and three crew members suffered injuries. they're running buses from springfield and destinations in vermont. >>> postseason baseball returns to the bronx. yankees host the astros in the american league wild card game. they're rallying around cc sabathia. he shocked everyone by announcing he had checked himself into an alcohol rehab center. he's going to miss the playoffs. he says, quote, it hurt me deeply to do this, but i owe it to myself and to my family to get myself right. >> if cc's a guy that can step up in a situation like that, i hope it gives courage to other people to step up. >> we'll miss him throughout the playoffs but i'm glad he stepped up and is working to become better in all of this. >> we play for cc now. >> tonight they'll have tanaka on the mound and the game starts at 8 clg.

. >> reporter: sandra, francesca figueroa is a mother of 3 but hasn't been seen or heard from since an explosion ripped through this building. look at this, this heavy equipment here, this equipment was used to rip down what was left of the building where the explosion happened, and a second building that was right next door. francesca's sister tells eyewitness news one second she was on the phone with francesca, the next she was gone. >> she didn't deserve to die this way. she was a fighter, a real hard worker. >> right now she's torn between two agonizing worlds, her entire family is, her sister francesca has not been seen or heard from since yesterday afternoon around 1 when the building francesca was moving out of blew up. this surveillance video shows the second a huge explosion rocked the structure. just before this, the women were talking on the phone, milabos got another call, clicked over but could not get back to francesca. >> i didn't think anything of it until another friend who lives nearby called me and told me what had happened, then i thought she is in that apartment. >

. >> reporter: sarah diaz is talking about francesca figueroa. she lived in this apartment destroyed saturday by no one had seen or heard from the mother of blast. she was talking on the phone with her sister. relatives had been waiting here on 13th avenue for any news counting the minutes and days. at 3:12 this afternoon, all work stopped here, crews who had been sifting through the rubble, looking for any sign of francesca, they found a body. but the medical examiner will victim. is a loving woman. >> that woman is a hard worker. all the years i've known her, she's had several businesses. she's always working, making money for her kids. >> reporter: it's the second victim discovered right after the explosion crews located a woman's body who lived on the second floor with her daughter who happened to be on vacation. panicked, she called the sister-in-law saying she fire. later that night she confirmed lejia was gone. woman. she was a humble person. she was a family woman. her mother is an older woman and she used to go every day to take 7th aven

people, 64-year-old resident [ non-english language ] who died in a stairwell and 47- year-old francesca figueroa. >> everybody thinks it's a bomb or gas leak. >> there's no conclusive cause right now. >> reporter: at a public information meeting investigators they talked about what now after ruling out a gas leak. national grid confirmed it shut off figueroa's service over the summer. now fire marshals check for accelerants including some that could have been brought home from figueroa's workplace a beauty salon. behind me two of the five buildings being torn down. remaining three must be shored up. officials hope it will take weeks not months. dozens of people were allowed to return to briefly clean and retrieve some belongings. . he says he will return to his supermarket job when he is better, according to moskowitz. his manager and the manager's 10-year-old son were hurt. the boy is home, the father is hospitalized. >> all the families out there and to my manager, a speedy recovery. >> reporter: and a speedy recovery for the enabled. dave carlin, cbs 2 news. >>> the health department in new j

michael's for a mass for francesca figueroa. investigators are still trying to determine exactly what the cause was. >>> a woman accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl she is due in court tomorrow. tawana randal was arrested saturday night, five days after she allegedly lured a 17-year-old girl into her car in bridgeport. surveillance video showing that girl escaping by jumping out of the moving vehicle. police say the teen was not hurt. >>> this morning a connecticut man is facing charges for taking his two young kids to a local bar. police say 48-year-old glen white of newtown had his 8 and 11-year-old with him. they say he was asked to leave the bar just before closing because of how drunk he was. witnesses tell police that he got into the car with his kids, but officers arrested him while they were walking to a relative's house. >>> all right. some rescued reptiles are in care of the suffolk county spca this morning. they were turned in saturday on illegal exotic animal amnesty day. they took in eight turtles, three a