jonathan dienst wnbc reporter in new york. you've been following this closely, made a lot of calls. what is et you know at this hour about the status of the search? >> 3:45 this afternoon richard matt was shot and killed by a customs border patrol unit that was out searching for him. there were unconfirmed reports that it was an rv driver that heard shots or attempted to be carjacked, something along those lines that called 911, called police and they may have put them on the trail in addition to the fact that break-ins into cabins nearby resulted in the search being in that area to begin with. so out in the woods, 3:45 richard matt gets shot and killed and the search continues for david sweat. there's reports of additional gunfire. those reports coming from law enforcement officials up at the scene as well as those who have been briefed on the search. the question now is where is david sweat. they believe they have suspect number two cordoned off in a wooded area in the vicinity of where his colleague, richard matt, was shot and killed and they have called in a ton of resources, la

for more we turn to our new york station wnbc. >> good evening, carl.'m a block away in midtown, manhattan from what was a terrifying situation a few hours ago. just after 10:30 this morning when a heavy piece of machinery was hoisted by a crane to the top of this building on madison avenue. it broke free plunging nearly 30 stories down. the man machinery sheered the side of the building before hitting the ground below. metal, glass and fiberglass showered the street. another said it looked like a giant dust cloud coming down. >> cars destroyed. i hope nobody's hurt. >> reporter: ten people were injured, including two construction workers. fortunately the street was partially closed at the time because of an accident so traffic was minimized. the victims were transported to nearby hospitals. with minor injuries from falling debris and other blunt force trauma. officials, including the mayor, visited the site earlier today and said the city will conduct a full investigation. they added luckily the situation could have been much worse. >> ida siegel in ne

also wnbc in new york our sister station there, is reporting there may be a pregnant woman in labor behindt bus. she was not on the bus but is stuck behind the bus. >>> earlier we saw one person coming of the tunnel on a stretcher. others walked out under their own power. we'll continue to monitor the situation. >>> authorities thought they had a good clue this morning in the search for two prison escapees but officers scouring the woods came up with nothing. tracie potts reports from washington to report what's next. >> reporter: a massive manhunt about 40 miles from the clinton correctional facility has turned up empty this morning. scores of local, state and federal officers scoured tiny willsboro, new york. the two men are on the loose after cutting through the steel walls of their cell and crawling out to a manhole a block away. >> the 2015 with the technology. >> reporter: police are questioning joyce mitchell, a prison worker who went to the hospital with quote, a case of nerves, the day they escaped. her son says she would never help murderers escape unless she was forced. >> where

according to our sister station, wnbc the ntsb blames faulty con-edison work.the utility is disputing this. they filed a lawsuit blaming the blast on city negligence in maintaining city streets, sewers and water mains. >>> a verdict in the trial of an undercover police officer accused of taking part in a melee on a new york city street. a judge acquitted the detective of the most serious charges that he was convicted of assault and criminal mischief. prosecutors say he was among 11 motorcyclists who pulled a driver out of an suv and beat him two years ago. that's after the suv ran over a motorcyclist. >>> airline passengers are concerned after back-to-back reported failures by tsa. today, lawmakers demand an improvement at a security hearing interrupted by a bomb threat. steve handelsman reports from washington. >> reporter: at reagan national airport, travelers knew tsa is under fire for missing 95% of weapons in checkpoint tests, and for okaying credentials for 73 aviation workers with suspected links to terrorists. two alleged failures. >> it is in fact two

. >> that was wnbc's michael george reporting. we are told quasimodo will get those casts taken off in about five weeks. been through so much. >> i'm sure he wouldn't like the weather we have today. what about it glenn? getting any better? >> the dogs will be panting even more tomorrow if they're outside. may want to limit the time or go out earlier in the day because it's going to be mighty hot and humid. the heat advisory in effect from noon until 8:00 p.m. for the area. the record high for tomorrow is 95 and possible weekend thunderstorms, although the possibility not really high. certainly not going to be a washout either day. lot of sunshine out there today. 91 degrees, winds south-southwest at 13 miles an hour. seven degrees warmer than it was yesterday when we were 86 degrees. the official high today, 92. so we're going for 95 tomorrow and then 91 on saturday. of course if we hit 90 on saturday that would make it the first official heat wave of the season. 92 in northeast philly, 82 in mt. pocono. it is somewhat cooler clos

i was on wnbc doing the afternoon show. i'm sure you have no recollection of this.ttle clip of that. let's go to the clip. here we go. >> we welcome gretchen elizabeth carlson, miss america. very nice to meet you. >> thank you. >> much mass been made of the fact your brothers used to call you blimpo. one does not think of a miss america as blimpo. >> isn't that refreshing though? >> did you think of yourself as being fat and ugly at one time? >> not necessarily ugly. chubby. of course. >> how did you lose the weight? >> in 10th grade i wanted to go out with a big basketball star at my high school. ways a senior and i'm sophomore. he said she is such a nice girl but too chubby. i don't remember the day i went on the diet but i lost a lot of weight. >> a basketball player asked you out and you said no? >> right. >> good for you. >> yeah. >> this's amazing. i'm surprised you could record back then. >> back in those days you had to turn the wheel. >> those stories are all in my new book coming out as an inspiration to young girls who struggle with their weight or even y

>> sure we're getting more details from wnbc's jonathan dienst who is reporting that tactical unit heardtwo hours ago, 3:45. they heard shots around route 30. they went to that area and apparently richard matt may have raised the shotgun that clint van zandt was talking earlier they knew that he had, he may have pointed it at the officials and they responded with gunfire. again that border patrol tactical unit around 3:45 this afternoon along route 30 heard shots. they responded, confronted richard matt and apparently he may have raised a gun at them and pointed it at them and they responded with gunfire. now, they are in hot pursuit. of course, they want to put an end to this and find david sweat. >> okay. tell us about route 30. is that like a two-way -- two-lane highway, a road through the woods there in upstate new york? what do you know about it? >> i'm actually not familiar with route 30 but i can tell you generally in the area there are two-lane roads. but it's just open country coming out of the mountains. the pictures that you're looking at, everywhere around you are mountains,

sources tell wnbc that more than 15 people are injured.s over an hour expected around the area. of course we'll bring you more as we get it. 42 million car as year travel through the lincoln tunnel. amazing. >> okay let's send it over to rick santelli and catch up with events in chicago. good morning rick. >> good morning, simon i would like to welcome my wednesday guest home jenkins junior. thank you for taking the time holman. >> my pleasure love to be with you. >> about eight weeks ago you wrote an op-ed regarding water issues in california and i can't help but look at the news today, it seems as though pop in california out is and pop is in. with regard to electricity in the turn of the century there was a blackout and a recall for grey davis who you can you tie all of that up for me with what's going on with price, supply demand and good old-fashioned economy 101. >> back in the '90s, california thought it had a surplus of power so it mandated that all utilities buy their power needs on the day-ahead spot market and no longer let long

. >> your day job is a reporter for wnbc our new york city station. >> when i'm in the field reporting various stories or the nbc news truck, it's incredibly appealing to the children we neat in the field. they come up to me all the time with questions like "what story are you working on? what does that button do? what's that big thing that comes up out of the truck?" they're so fascinated i thought i need to find a way to engage them on their level and bring them into my world. so i thought why don't i where i a children's book? i did. it's become a series with scholastic and it's beyond exciting. >> tell me about your decision to make emma half dominican. >> my children are actually half dominican. but when i first envisioned the character i thought of myself as a kid so i thought the character would have red hair and freckles and be a caucasian little girl like i was. then when my son turned four i started to look for children's books that featured characters like him and i found out there was almost nothing. this was a few years back and there was