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The press conference was over. these family members telling us that all they want is the truth, and their children are contractor firefighters, contractors. they fight fires just like the official firefighters, but they dont have benefits or military status. these parents say that their children may not even be in the official count of the missing, something that government officials deny. so, obviously, theres a lot of tension and a lot of suspicion here, and frankly, a lot of fear among the re...

Evacuation zone around the site of the disaster. a few hours ago, during a live report right here on cnn, our crew was pushed around by someone trying to stop us from reporting. although it wasnt clear who that person was. >> reporter: the area that youre seeing here, these are some of the apartment complexes that are completely unlivable at the moment. please, sir, take your hand off our camera. please take your hand off our camera. please take your hand off our camera. [ speaking foreign langu...

Thousands of residents here are waking up in shelters this morning set up at ten different schools around the city. some of them dont have clothes or food and so thats being handed out as well. in just a couple of hours we could learn whether it will be safe for that biological and chemical response team to go to the blast zone which is just beyond those buildings back there. yesterday we saw a large black smoke plume. today we see occasional smoke but nothing like what we saw yesterday. a sign ...

Of the first blast. there was a group in our party that had just crossed over the media bridge that got her high heel stuck in the grating material that makes up the media bridge. that delayed our travels down boylston street by about 45 seconds. were we 45 seconds ahead of where i was standing i might well have been in the first blast zone. it was just horrific. it was like a scene from -- well civilians should never see that. our first responders are trained for it military folks are trained f...

It was actually a boiler. sloeding inside this house in washington state. debris and shrapnel went flying through the childrens playroom where the family was playing minutes before the blast. >> it actually launched itself sideways into another room about 15 feet into a separate room. >> it just really hit me how absolutely close of a call this had been. i could see my husband and child playing in that room right before the blast. my daughters room is right above the blast zone. >> fire crews sa...

Driverless, runaway train. >> reporter: there is a lot of questions on how exactly it happened, whether or not they werent hook properly or if there was some sort of other mechanical error going on. we are hearing reports that there was a fire on the train earlier that evening and something may have happened when they tried to put out the fire. the operator of the rail cars, the owner of them, says that the engineer of the rail cars wasnt the last one to touch it so there are a lot of questions ...

But officials say they have no choice. >> everybody knows you need to keep the system up and running. we are going to do our very best to do so. but someone has to figure this out. >> air traffic controllers are being forced to take unpaid vacation day off every other week. the faa says it could cause 90 minute delays on 7,000 flights every day. president obama is among those expected to attend a memorial service thursday for victims of the texas fertilizer explosion. families got their first ...

That sparked this whole thing. >> extremely difficult, because the blast site was cleared by the explosion, how much debris and investigative evidence is left. a media crew at long last was allowed up close to the site, and thats why we have the pictures we do today. you can see a train car there carrying ammonium nitrate. that explosion fused the rail tracks right there. 50 or so investigators trying to call across a 36 square-block blast zone. they havent discovered where the fire started, and...

Building that was hit, for example. there was obviously a lot of people inside that building with this blast. and it was turned to virtually rubble without there being a single spark. the cars, were seeing so many people injured in their vehicles driving around that area not even getting to see the flames from the fertilizer. but when the explosion happened, all of their windows were blown out of their car. getting people informed because everyone on the outside looking in, we see the video, wer...

Appears to be what was a home over here, completely just obliterated, smoking, charred. if we keep moving around, ill show you over here, you can see some remnants of the home. watch out for this power line here. watch your head here, juan. over here theres a hot water heater. and you can see the bathtub. this is, obviously, the bathroom of this home that is now gone. the heat from this fire or whatever was so hot over here on the side of this structure, which is still standing, this looks like ...