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Whats going on behind the scenes? >> the abundance of caution in what? >> of not identifying the number. >> because we dont know. we dont know the numbers yet. theyre pulling victims out. bringing victims to triage. until we have a good estimate, we dont want to guess. we want to be specific with you and give you facts, not guess. >> i can tell you, when i got here, my first assignment was to go into the immediate area to the command post. they moved me after i got there. but on the way in, i ca...

Cavanaugh. there have been any developments today in the pursuit of the guilty? >> still trying to release the pictures, chris, decide if theyre going to release the photographs of the bombers or suspected bombers in the case. if they do, its going to ramp things up fast for those investigators and in a command post. i halfway expect them to do it. because the bomber believes the investigators have their picture and that developed yesterday. when it broke into national media. so if i was command...

Transpire? the white hat, mr. white hat -- >> all right. >> hes the guy on the lord & taylor video probably placing that bomb thats in the backpack where you see it covered with the white right next to the trash dbag that youve seen on "nightly news." so white hat is seen -- the fbi said we had him on video placing the device. hes placing the device. they dont have blue hat placing the device. so what they do -- >> but blue hat has a nap sack as well? >> blue hat has a nap sack. they walk back t...

Unusual combination of the background of this very tragic scene. right now, were anticipating that there will be more updates throughout the night. theres another one scheduled for later today, but there are some who just give us bits and pieces of information, most of which you four have been sharing. the scene here is i wont say chaotic. there is an organized kind of chaos going on. the command post is set up inside of a trailer is where authorities seem to be getting information from the fi...

Confirmed fatalities. that number could rise throughout the day. more than 150 people are being treated right now at area hospitals. officials are going door to door. they are searching for survivors this morning. >> we are all over this story for you this morning with live team coverage. its a very fluid situation on the ground there. thats where we find cnns martin savidge in west, texas, for us. good morning, martin. whats the latest? >> reporter: good morning, john. yeah, this is the command...

Helping us from the dallas ft. worth area to all the surrounding areas. weve had a great turn out to come out to help us get through this tragedy that weve had in this small community. i wish i could give you more information. all the injured right now have been taken care of. theyre going to go back in and do another house-by-house search and see if anybody else victims are in the houses. thats going to be going on all night. so we have a command post set up for law enforcement. we have a comma...

Sir, thank you very much. we appreciate it. d.l. wilson of the texas patrol giving us the latest from the police point of view, from the emergency responders point of you on the situation in west, texas. >> were going to go back to our martin savidge who is there on the scene. we heard from martin just a short time ago. bring us up to date on the new information that you have on this fire and explosion and the aftermath of this fertilizer plant. >> were at the command post, set up at a cattle ac...

>> so, one fire and then a giant explosion after that. again, were looking at the pictures right now of the devastation after. in the air right now, is is there any sense, can you smell any gas? >> reporter: no, i mean, we talked about the weather. the weather is going to be a factor and continue to be so. weve been buffeted by high winds throughout the evening. its good and bad. its all coming from one direction, so it means the potential for fumes are being driven over one specific part of tow...

Injuries have been removed from the scene and taken to local hospitals in the waco area. we have numerous agencies helping us all the way from the dallas, ft. worth area, limestone, bosky and all of the surrounding areas. so weve had a great turnout to come out to help us get through this tragedy that weve had in this small community. i wish i koumd give you more information. all of the injured right now have been taken care of. were going to go back in and do another house-by-house search and s...

Involvement not only from mcclinnon county which is where we are, but surrounding agencies in and around mcclinnon county that are here helping. there is a huge outpouring of that. there is a law enforcement chand post set up. command post set up. there is an incident command post set up. they have hazmat on scene. they are working with some of the local meteor roll gists here. we have had pretty strong south winds throughout the night. at some point we are hearing about 7:00 or so in the mornin...