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>> within the blast radius, a nursing home, hospital, and a middle school. >> the fire fighters that are missing were first responders. they were the ones that actually went to the scene on their call or page out. they responded to the scene and were actively fighting the fire at the time the explosion occurred. >> reporter: the firefighters, volunteers. the chemicals present, ammonia, it is explosive in concentrated form, adding water is a lethal mix. >> someone asked me the fire fighting metho...

These bombs was getting anxious about, my god, this event is almost over, when am i going to get the bombs placed. so therefore they placed the bombs, they didnt have the opportunity to aim them properly because the casualties really, anderson, with this type of attack, should have been in order of magnitude greater, should have been 20 or 30 people killed. >> the fact that so many injuries are low to the ground, the lower limbs, tells you the bombs were placed probably on the ground or low down...

Invoking the 25th amendment. heres laura jarrett with more. >> reporter: fridays stunning developments outline in a series of memos from former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe sent a shockwave through the justice department as officials tried to contain the blast radius and keep rosenstein in his job. rosenstein, the number-two official at the justice department, issuing rare statements pushing back on the reporting and first one saying in part he believed there was no basis to invoke the 25th...

Shortly after 7:30 p.m. local time in nangarhar province afghanistan, they dropped out massive ordnance air blast on with the white house explained was an attack on the ice as borders of pakistan. >> we targeted a system of tunnels and caves that isis fighters used it to around freely. they take the fight against sizes very seriously and in order to defeat the group, we much take operational speech which we did. >> a dps guided bomb that is pushed out of the back of a modified c 1:30 aircraft. i...

Mile blast radius so a lot of people heard that, felt that, and not just the folks in afghanistan, not just isis which was the target in this particular area of afghanistan. chris wallace is joining us, host of fox news sunday. we are awaiting the briefing as we see sean spicer, we will want to take that up in light of all of the news. what do you think is the significance? >> you are exactly right, the direct target of this was isis which apparently has a lot of tunnels, burros underground in t...

Never used, tested in 2003, the m.o. ap is a bond that is pushed out of the back of a c-130 aircraft. its blast radius is 1 mile wide, the top general in afghanistan didnt need to ask permission to conduct the strike, the target of the explosion was a series of tunnels near a province, mega heart and american greenbrae was killed by small arms fire, green beret. part of an ices clearing operation, the u.s. military said the strike today was not in risk allocation for the green berets death. afte...

There just along the border. this is video of when this bomb was originally tested. you can see the blast radius is about a mile that cloud is going to go about 10,000 feet in the air. and equally important to the fireball here is how it sucks all of the oxygen out of the area where it explodes. so it penetrates down in terms of its killing ability in to a cave complex like the one there in afghanistan that isis had taken over. the "wall street journal" reports that that cave complex was origina...

The lives of any taliban fighters who might be in there or do we know? >> this is a concussive weapon, that means it explodes above those tunnels. the force of the blast would kill anything inside those tunnels, but it is not a penetrating bomb. again, it was first tested in 2003, and we used to hear about it being talked about in conjunction with if there were a military action against irans nuclear program and had to actually be used for tunnels they are where suspected parts of that nuclear p...

Forces group based out of the air force base, it is interesting to point out, it is clear this moab b bomb was tested, this 21,000 palm was tested in 2003. the air force used a mc-130, it is basically pushed out of the fact of the c-130, the largest weapon, 21,000-pound bomb, largest nonnuclear weapon in the air force arsenal. its blast radius, just to give a sense of the size and scope of the weapon is 1 mile wide, so a blast radius of 1 mile. it is hard to imagine how you can minimize any sort...

>> meghan: jennifer griffin now joins us live from the pentagon. >> officials here tell me this is a local decision made by the top u.s. commander on the ground, general john nicholson. im told he took the decision on his own. the bomb was moved january. 21,000 pounds of a blast radius of 1 mile. you can see the video really from the pentagon why they call it the mother of all bombs. when the air force tested this weapon in 2003 at the start of the iraq war, the boom from the explosion reached 1...