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Near the blast zone, say the testing is just not good enough for them. they have concerns about long-term consequences for them and especially the children. the chinese government is cracking down on whoever is responsible for this. a good portion of tianjins bus fleet is wiped out. were learning that top executives with the shipping and logistics company that owned the warehouse at the center of this explosion, they were bringing in chemicals, storing them and then distributing them throughout ...

Talk about just how toxic it is. >> reporter: that site was a large chemical warehouse containing all sorts of toxic material. sodium cyanide is a chemical used in chemical manufacturing and in the mining industry. its stuff that is easy to inhale. and if inhaled or ingested it can be lethal to humans quickly. we are talking about 700 tons of it lying around in the blast zone. thats why the military officer in charge are saying they are doing everything they can to handle this with the utmost ca...

And everything else. it is the kind of force that make you understand why the authorities are not hopeful they will find any survivors. this grim picture is what you can see with your eyes. the invisible danger you cannot see is also threatening. the 700 tons of sodium cyanide you mentioned, that is a highly volatile and highly toxic chemical used in chemical manufacturing and in the mining industry. if its inhaled or ingested it could kill somebody quickly but its here you have 700 tons of it l...

Intact they are shipped away immediately. its that precaution they are taking. but still they are searching a wider area within a three kilometer radius, have 2,000 soldiers trying to find other chemicals that may have been launched into the air by the blast forces and fallen to the ground. they are looking for it and cleaning it up. >> yeah, thats the big concern, isnt it? the air and water quality. apparently they have measured this but a lot of people are suspicious about the outcome and the ...

Visited the blast zone. as bad as this looks, some 700 meters or so away from the disaster area. thousands of cars, buildings ob liberated. the latest numbers now, the death toll 114. 70 people still missing and 698 people remain in the hospital as china promises a criminal investigation into this to figure out what went wrong that allowed so many chemicals to be stored at a facility so close to peoples homes. chris? >> the white house is demanding china pull culvert agents operating in the u.s....

Biochemical experts are working to neutralize the threat. searching up to three kilometers from the immediate blast area. 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 you know if it poses a danger to anybody? >> reporter: tianjins chief environmental officer tees me searchers have not entered residential area due to safety concerns about broken glass. he says theyll begin searchin...

Im never going back to a manual brush. the death toll from the huge explosions from northern china keeps rising. the death toll now stands at 114. the investigation goes to what was stored in the port. cnns will ripley is in tianjin for us this morning. will. >> reporter: christine, for the first time, we are allowed inside the blast zone. we are on an overpass. ill show you this is one of the main roads in tianjin. you can see as we scan over here all of those structures. many residential bui...

The explosion. they also rescued a 19-year-old firefighter. he has horrible burns, chest injuries, a crack in his skull. but both of those men are expected to be okay. as you mentioned, you look at the power and what the explosion did to this, which was a temporary offense building at a construction site near the blast zone. theres diminishing hope anyone could have possibly survived the two huge fireballs that ensued. 90 people are missing. 85 of them were firefighters trying to respond. govern...

The wind shift was bringing some of these chemicals back in closer to the city, closer to the people who live here. and so, we detected a bit of a wind shift here at this shelter, where we believe there are still families that havent been evacuated yet. and everybody around here for the most part is wearing their masks, and so, we decided to do so as well, isa. >> and weve seen you and everyone behind you with a mask. but this is just so our viewers understand here, this is a port city, but its ...

Hitting our stride. were at break even. were selling everything we can grow and starting to grow a little more. >> they use 90% less water than traditional farming. when you look around the country, look at california look at the drought. technology like this could be part of the solution. >> checking our top stories, plumes of black smoke fill the skies over a port city of china today, creating fears of new explosions. this follows huge blasts wednesday that reportedly killed at least 105 peopl...