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Sent over some video of what was happening, the smoke plume we understand was 30 to 40 feet in the air, and we could see visible flames coming out of the container. is that the extent of what could happen? we just cant predict. [indistinct question] >> i dont know the temperatures at which it burns, we can try to get that information for you. >> did you all consider flooding and the backup generators? >> how often do we test the nitrogen backup systems? yeah, i am not sure how frequently we are ...

It." the plant lost electricity on sunday are, and backup generators have also been flooded. the facility makes organic peroxides used in everyday plastics, and those materials must be kept at a certain low temperature or they could explode. a mandatory evacuation order was put in place for residents within a one and a half mile radius of the plant on tuesday. air traffic near the site was shut down by the faa late last night. standing by for us, nbc news reporter julia bag is joining us on th...

The backup generators, two of them did not work, the chemicals have to be kept cool and they are not being kept cool. we have had two explosions, some release of smoke in the air and we have a have more explosions. though seem to be under control after that occurred so we still have more problems. >> leland: we are watching aerials houston, water receded in some areas but in others it looks like lakes, islands that are homes. godspeed as you get back to work in washington, we will be sure to tal...

A couple hundred miles southeast of west, texas, is the town of crosby, texas, just outside houston in harris county. it is, of course, one of the many texas towns that has been battered for the last six days now by tropical storm harvey. crosby is where the arkima chemical plant is. it employs about 57 people. its a small plant. the plant produces organic peroxides for use in plastics. the plant lost power in the storm like everybody did. they planned ahead for that. they had backup generators ...

Site even after central power was lost. unfortunately this weekend, their backup generators also got swamped. they had no power source of any kind since this weekend at that chemical plant. after the backup generators got swamped, they went to plan c. the company moved the chemicals they had on site into refrigerated containers. where the refrigeration was powered by diesel engines. but those diesel-powered refrigerated containers, those containers got compromised by the rising water as well. an...

Lost power in the storm like everybody did. they planned ahead for that eventuality. on site they had backup generators 0 to keep the plant powered. on sunday the backup generators got swamped and that turned off the backup power as well. theyve had no power source of any kind since sunday. the company said they moved the chemicals on site to diesel powdered refrigeratored containers. bup they say that the continuing rising ra water at the plant compromised those containers as well. is reason th...

And pumps could keep running. they believe not only are the levees strong enough for something like a tropical storm but also that the pumps that stopped working now have redundancies and backup generators to backup generators and people working 24 hours monitoring situation. even with this storm, cindy, which will be a soaker and we could see up to 12 inches, they believe that the pumping system will be able to keep up to make sure the water that continues to rise as up to 12 inches come down i...

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