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This is the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. Meanwhile, here in New York today, the dust finally settled after last night’s steam pipe explosion. But what’s in that dust has health officials concerned. The blast 폭발, just blocks from Grand Central terminal, triggered 유발하다 some frightening memories and left behind a huge and potentially dangerous mess 엉망진창. Bianca Solorzano has more.

 

The steam pipe explosion was strong enough to blow 폭파하다 a 25-foot crater <폭발로 생긴> 구멍 in the street, a scalding 끓는, 뜨거운 geyser 간헐천 of steam and debris 파편, 잔해 shot hundreds of feet into the air. To Jason Varnar, the sound was terrifying. He was bartending at a nearby restaurant. “The lava 용암, steam, smoke, all coming at you with that rumbling 우르르 소리 sound accompanying ~을 수반하다 it.” What was the first thing you thought when you saw all of that coming down the street right towards you? “If I don’t run, I’m gonna die.”

 

Hundreds of commuters 교외 통근자 poured out of ~로부터 우우 몰려 나오다 Grand Central terminal. One 51-year-old woman was literally 사실상, 정말로 scared to death, dying from a heart attack. Some 40 people were injured. A driver was badly burned when his tow truck 레커차 landed in the crater. The pipe that burst was more than 80 years old and covered in asbestos 석면. City officials say while tests show no asbestos in the air, there is contamination 오염 in the dirt and debris that settled on the ground. Those who have to be in the area are wearing protective face masks.

 

“My first thought was, if it’s a terrorist attack.” Nashim Shamala was thinking about 911 as he shot this video from his office window. City officials say the health risk from contamination is minimal 최소의, but in this post 911 era, they still have to evaluate how well they responded and also deal with the city’s aging infrastructure <사회의> 기본적 시설. Bianca Solorzano, CBS News, New York.

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