Video shows moment Aurora building collapses onto busy street

So let's get live to say, say you have been live in Aurora all morning long. What's going on there? Yeah, so things have definitely picked up here a little bit since we got here at around 6 o'clock. This morning, I'll step out of the way and you can see some of that action for yourself. We're seeing a lot of these city inspectors right now. They've been seeing... On the building, around the building, they've been seen reestablishing some parts of the structure there. But also, as you can see, they're starting to load some of that debris off the ground and carry it off here. We are right now on East Galena Boulevard in downtown Aurora. And things have really picked back up in terms of activity here with these inspectors. I do want to show you this wild new video that we just got in. This is security footage video that we are just getting into the newsroom. And I just want to show you because This is the moment. I mean, you can see all of that mess that just it created for a lot of the drivers who were literally on the road at the time of this collapse. I mean, this could have been so much worse. So once again, this is new video that we're getting in in just the last 15 minutes or so. And it's just wild. This all happened at around 630 last night. We understand when officials say scaffolding, which was apparently put up only a few months ago and then part of that exterior wall. came crashing down into the street. They say security video does suggest the roof caved in first, pulling the scaffolding and the wall down with it. We do know three people were hurt. Thankfully, all of them are expected to be okay. We did catch up with a city official earlier this morning who kind of went around just to give updates. And unfortunately, there wasn't anything new or surprising that we heard in that update. But I did ask a little bit more about the residents who lived there along with the people who were injured in this collapse. Let's take a listen. Where are those residents right now? I don't have an answer for that at this time. But not in the building? No, no one's in the building. And no one was in the building yesterday. Actually, the residential areas were vacant. Already, because there have been repairs ongoing at the building. Last year, there were a couple of bricks that fell off the building. It was a facade issue. This is obviously a structural issue. And initial security camera footage has revealed that it seems as if the roof collapsed first and then the building came down with it. So those two incidents are unrelated, but there were no residents in there anyway, because work was already ongoing on the facade. They already had a permit and they were working on that. This is a completely separate issue that popped up on its own last night. So obviously just hearing that, you know, things could have been so much worse here. We did learn that there is a barbershop on the first level there of that building. And so, you know, when we asked about the people who were injured, you know, in this collapse, it does sound like maybe they could have been some people who were inside that barbershop. We know overnight firefighters used drones to kind of look at the damage from up above. They also brought down some other unstable parts of that building so that more debris wouldn't fall into the road. Police in Aurora right now are asking the public to stay away from this area and use alternate routes to get around. Right now, Broadway is shut down from New York Street to Downer Place. Galena Boulevard is also closed right now from River Street to Broadway and from Broadway to Lincoln Avenue. I asked that same city official, you know, how long these closures might be in place because for drivers here in Aurora, we have seen them taking different roads. Side streets, back alleys all morning long. He could not give me an answer on that, but he did say that the city is working as quickly as they can to get these roads all open back up. And once again, as you kind of heard from that city official there, not the first time this building has had issues. You heard from him. He said that there were some bricks that fell off last year and investigators did clarify for us yesterday as well, that that had nothing to do with what happened here last night. Of course, the exact cause of this partial building collapse is still under investigation. Guys.