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Fire to burn itself out. firefighters are taking a defensive posture to prevent it from spreading. >> again, harris county officials talking about whats going on with the arkema plant in crosby, texas, where fire had been reported overnight essentially because they could the couldnt cool down these chemicals. they caught fire. that created popping or explosion sounds. what that means now is people who live within a mile and a half who had to evacuate for safety reasons of the jacob rascon is joi...

>> an investigation is underway as to what caused this to go up in flames. the flames could be seen from miles away. >> very high flames and walls collapsing. it was amazing how big a fire it is. it wraps around the block. >> heart stopping moments on camera. that construction worker that you see highlighted on the right-hand side of your screen trapd on the top floor about to jump that fire is quickly closing in on him. a women working in a building across the street is filming this whole thing...

Dedpraded as long as they could be kept cold the integrity of that material could be kept. >> they just degrade on their own? >> thats right. once they exceed a certain temperature they begin to decompose and that decompression process generates the heat and then causes the fire. >> can you talk about how they burn and give us a worst case scenario, if there is an explosion, as we talked about earlier? whats the worst case with this fire? >> all that would be speculation in terms of how big a fi...

And thats the current state of the plant as we know it. no one is in danger based on the fire that we expect. >> is it possible for your teams to access the plant with a boat right now? >> we are not intending to go into the site based on the current state as we understand it of the product in these containers. >> when will you be able to go into the plant again? >> certainly we wont until all the floodwaters have receded. thats the first step. certainly the product that we believe is potentiall...

My title is the president of the monomers business. acrylic monomers. >> can you spell it? >> acrylic. monomer is monomer. >> you work for arkema? >> yes. thank you. >> you have been listening to an important news conference from across by, texas with officials from the arkema chemical plant. this had to do with taking place of a smoke plume. this is a contentious news conference, confusing and contradictory. here is what we know for sure. overnight, there was a fire there with smoke released in...

Our fire. >> you cant be sure that its just a campfire smoke? you cant be sure -- >> what i can tell you is from the toxicity of the smoke, it will cause an irritation to your eyes, irritation to your lungs if you breathe it like any smoke. we encourage people to avoid, you know, getting exposed to it. >> can you tell what the status -- give an update right now, whats going on? >> the plant continues to obviously be shut down. we have one of these nine containers that has experienced degrade dag...