This is just one of many reasons we must pray and act diligently and wisely to strenthen the family. Years ago, we were warned of the terrors that would happen if we continue to tolerate family destruction. Today we live daily in those terrors we once feared. Yet we tolerate what we once feared because we've become accustomed to it. We're accustomed to it until it happens to us or our loved ones directly. And, it always does. Someone is shot or blown up, and we say it won't happen to us. It happens to us, and someone else says it won't happen to them.

Taken from Yahoo News in Australia

NYC building collapses after 'gas' blast

A four-storey building has collapsed in Manhattan, injuring 15 people after an apparent gas explosion that may have resulted from a failed suicide attempt.

Witnesses reported a deafening explosion before the building on New York's upscale Upper East Side came crashing down, shattering windows across the street.

Smoke billowed from the debris during a frantic rescue operation and continued to emerge for hours after the morning blast.

Ten firefighters and five civilians were injured.

In Gustine, California, a woman returned to her home to find her four children and her husband dead. It is thought that the couple had been seen arguing earlier and that he later shot their children while they were sleeping and then turned the gun on himself. No motive was released for this suicide murder.

Neighbors said the family had appeared to be a good, happy, healthy family.