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"we are very happy" with the bomb, said another local resident. "we ask the kabul government to use even stronger weapons against them." the bomb, officially a massive ordnance air blast, is 30 feet long, weighs 20,000-plus pounds, and is dropped from a cargo plane, and delivers in a single explosion the equivalent of 11 tons of tnt. the most powerful weapon the u.s. has used since the hiroshima atomic bomb. afghan officials initially saying 36 isis fighters were killed and no civilians. >> if y...

Questions have started. did the president authorize it? did he know about sit in and beyond the blast zone, was it intended as a message elsewhere. also, hostile intelligence service. thats what the cia director called wikileaks today, pitting himself against trump, who as a candidate came to love and it said so. and just how much of his presidency is donald trump spending at mar-a-lago? show show -- "the 11th hour" begins now. >> good evening once again from our headquarters in new york. if...

After the bombs were dropped on her rosh ma and nagasaki and he thinks outside the blast zone low level radiation is good for people. he certainly is against global warming doesnt believe it really exists. he thinks the clintons are murders literally and he thinks the civil rights bill act was a tremendous mistake and there is no such thing in america as white racism. he thinks the only racism that exists is black racism against whites. he has weird views and people might think he is eccentric e...

Views? >> this is one of the things that fascinated me. there have been stories about the mercers but been very hard to know what did they really believe? who are they? what do they want? i spent a lot of time trying to figure out what they really believe and finally found people who work with bob mercer who said he barely speaks. hed rather talk to cats than hum humans, he doesnt give interviews but he has very odd views of things like nuclear war. he thinks for instance it was good for the jap...

And so this is -- i interviewed someone who knows a lot about these kinds of views and describes them as clinton crazies. he has said some things that are to me particularly alarming about nuclear war. he didnt think that it was such a problem to drop the bombs on nagasaki and hiroshima because actually it was good for the japanese health outside of the blast zone because he thinks that nuclear radiation is good for people. he just has, you know, views of people who are living in kind of a bubbl...

A lot of these groups are anchored. they started to attack foreigners as well with bomb blasts against italian consulates in cairo. what we are seeing is target campaign against the government and now foreigners. >> security forces have cordoned off the area around the blast zone. they continue to investigate. when we get new information we will bring that to you. the thai police chief tells reuters at least ten people now were involved in mondays bangkok bombing. thats new information we receiv...

Toxins propelled through this bustling chinese port city. do you feel safe going back home? >> no. no. no. the dust was ever where. it was fire, exploding, flying through everywhere. some parts might fall to our home. >> reporter: more than 2,000 chinese soldiers and hundreds of biochemical experts are working to neutralize the threat. taking air, soil and water samples. these stray chemicals sitting in an unsecured area, less than a kilometer from the blast zone. do you know what this is? do yo...

So you see emergency shelters like this that had thousands of people at one point, were only about i would say a couple kilometers from the blast zone. it pretty much has emptied out. there are a few people staying here, mostly volunteers working here in case anybody needs emergency supplies. but most people have moved downtown tianjin, which is more densely populated and believed to be safer than the immediate area. they say that levels are normal and people shouldnting concerned, rosemary. >> ...

Explosions climbs. cnns will ripley live at a rail station severely damaged by those explosions and, will, behind you along those tracks youve got chemicals all over the place. some of them sizzlie ingsizzlin and popping. it looks like a very difficult situation. >> reporter: its very terrifying for the people who live around here, christine. there are thousands of homes right there. people are supposed to be moving into these apartments under construction in two months. look at what is scattere...

These in particular are under construction. but there were other units where people were living and they are now displaced. the problem is this. were standing more than half a mile from the blast zone, but the force was so strong it propelled barrels of chemicals, some of them unknown, into this area, and nobody knows what the danger is. with terrifying force, the fireball sent shock waves through tianjin, leaving massive destruction, piles of debris and something else. small mounds of unknown c...