1 dead, at least 5 hurt in Flatbush Brooklyn building collapse

We do have an update from the NYPD, too. We are now, the NYPD now confirming one person has been killed, a number of other people injured as a result of this. But Linda, if you're just joining us now, she really had a big piece of information there. It looks like there was just a very narrow apartment building made out of wood, as we heard the former FDNY officials say. These buildings are 100 years old, so just think of all those sort of very narrow apartment buildings, three stories high. They're doing something next door, excavating, digging a hole. Somehow it looks like that whole building just went right over into the hole. And that's where the construction workers were hurt. It's going to be the investigation now of the permits and DOB and just the structural integrity of these buildings and how they were able to do construction so close to these older buildings and how something like this. Could have even happened, but now we're learning that this building collapse has turned deadly with one person dead. NYPD confirming that several others injured and we are seeing firefighters working through that rubble very carefully as not to move anything else or shift it to. They're really focusing their search there to see if they can rescue, find anyone else. I've been seeing more and more crew members show up to that area, too, and now a lot of them wearing hard hats. It looks like they're going through. You can see at the top of your screen they're going through like a hole. It looks like they cut through that wood. You can see sort of coming down at a 45-degree angle, which now initially we thought that was the floor of the building where the collapse happened, but now we realize that was the far wall of the apartment building next door that just tumbled right into this construction site. So, again, just, you know, a devastating sight right there. You can see all the firefighters, though, as you mentioned. They're all clustered sort of in the center of your screen. Looks like they're working with purpose to get to a particular part. Looks like they're trying to cut through that wall, likely talking with someone. Hopefully there's more people down there, it looks like, that they're trying to get to. But as we did just note with the update from the NYPD, we do know one person has been killed as a result of this accident. Five or so other people hurt at this point, confirmed by the NYPD, but very much an active scene right now. Dan Rice, if he's available to talk to us of what he's seeing right now, because we've OK, we don't have him just go back to, you know, take that street level shot is a good shot again to show you what happened. This the boat we're looking at initially when we saw this, we thought this was the building next door. It turns out this was two doors down. From where the collapse happened and an entire apartment building, a wooden, presumably old apartment building, pretty narrow, just toppled to its left into the hole where they're doing the construction work right now. Let's go back to former FDNY Deputy Chief Jim Bullock. He joins us on the phone again. You know, a lot of updates since we spoke with you, Jim, a short while ago. What do you make of all the new information, particularly that this apartment building apparently just collapsed into that hole where they're doing construction work? And one person died. One person died, yeah. Yes, it looks like that's what happened. The building that you see, where you can look in, there was another building next to that, and that building was next to the construction site. They're working in this construction site. They're going to be building another building, maybe. But when they took something away that was too close to the building that was there, it collapsed right into the hole, and that's where the construction workers are. The only other people... That they have to worry about was, was anybody in that building that collapsed? 4 o'clock, maybe the people are still at work, maybe they're not at home yet. Also, children are off from school today. So who was in that building? Right now, the police is investigating to find out who lived there, trying to get addresses, trying to account for everybody. And right now, they're trying to dig in that void. As a matter of fact, since we talked, a good part of that floor or wall is removed where they're trying to get down in there. Yeah, you know, it's, you know, it's, I mean, we see work like this all the time. All these buildings are, you know, just right on top of each other. Is there any possibility you think that the building that we now know collapsed into the construction site? Is it possible that would have had to have been vacated before they did this work? I mean, just what's your gut instinct on whether people were still living in that building that collapsed? Well, the people that are taking, uh, doing the construction work. Are responsible to make sure that the other occupied building is shored and safe, shored up and put in support. Sometimes I've seen them put in steel I-beams to protect the building, to keep that building that is not under construction to stay safe. What happened, it all has to be investigated by the building department and real investigation to find out what actually was the first thing that started to fall. Because if the building doesn't fall, boom, at once, a little bit goes and then the whole thing goes. Something was removed that is not stable, and they didn't shore up the building that was occupied there. Enough because it happened, so something happened that caused this incident, and then they have to find out. You know, Jim, how much easier does it make the investigation nowadays? We see there's a bunch of, you know, businesses, bodegas, et cetera, across the street from where this collapse happened. Presumably they all have ring cameras, security cameras. We're going to eventually, at some point in the course of this night, get video of the actual collapse. How helpful is that in sort of figuring out what went wrong for investigators? Okay, it's going to help, but the big thing is right where the firefighters are now, right where they're digging, they've got to find the building engineers. Engineers are going to go in there and find what moved. To also talk to the construction workers. Where were they working? What were they moving at the time? You know, and that's going to give them the key, what really caused this collapse. Something was removed or shifted. And that put too much pressure on one side, and then the building collapsed. So they need to find out what was being done and also looking if everything is done with the firefighting, with the engineers going in and taking an actual look of what happened at the very base of this collapse. The collapse happened in the hole. How does the liability work on stuff like that? Say there had been unpermitted work 50 years ago. I mean, do you have to go through and document all that before you?