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Information. all the injured right now have been taken care of. we are 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. we have command post set up for law enforcement and a command post set up for the emergency unit also. we have a triage at the community center, right over here across the interstate from us. >> whats the status of the plant right now? >> its still smoldering. right now, they hav...

>> the abundance of caution in what? >> of not identifying the number. >> because we dont know. we dont know the numbers yet. they are still pulling victims out. they are still bringing victims to triage. until we have a good estimate we dont want to guess. we want to be very specific with you and give you facts and not a guess. >> [inaudible] >> absolutely. i can tell you when i got here my first assignment was to go into the immediate area of the command post. they moved me after i got there, ...

>> yes, because the association, the member organization were a part of is called americas blood center, and theyre actually located up there in the northeast, and they have a system, a disaster relief system where they call upon certain blood centers. if we call up to them and say, hey, we need more of this type of product, they can call around and find out who has it and call upon those centers if they have access to it. >> linda, thank you very much. once again, linda goelzer of the carter bl...

Nursing home. weve got that evacuated. i dont know what their injuries are there right now, but all 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 fort worth area, all the surrounding areas. weve had a great turnout to come out to help to us get through this tragedy that we had in this small community. i wish i could give you more information. all the injured right now have been taken care ...

Our police, until 8:00 in the morning, then chief and fbi and atf will go out and announce it. well give in-house agents 12, 15 hours to find them. if they dont, were going to release it. so it will probably leak to the media. that was 4:00 p.m., the sniper command post. by 9:00 p.m., the tag was on a media that a witness spotted him at the rest stop. i think theyre going to get quick calls. there will be false positives. thats normal in a big case. everything thats happening here is normal in a...

Hours. law enforcement wants to close in a perimeter to see if they can seal in the suspect. if they dont do that, by the time you get all the law enforcement and you get organization and you get an operational command post set up is about 3 or 4 hours. by the time that happens, they could be 200 miles away driving just a normal car at normal speed. so, its hard to close in that circle, that perimeter quickly if you dont know what you are looking for. >> marc, question: second guy walking back. ...

A photograph of eric rudolph with the alice pack, with a backpack, with a bomb in it at olympic park but the photograph was so distant, we could hardly make him out. we used to call them in the command post, blob man, because we could see him threw but couldnt make out the features. we had that image for years but were never able to get an identification from it. so the clarity of the video, is the face available, is the clothes readily recognizable. the commanders are trying to make all of thos...

You kind of walk us through the steps in that investigation which might give kind of a sense of the timeline on this investigation? obviously very different, but how long, how methodical an investigation is it? how long does it take? >> well, it was a little bit quicker putting the device information together. the night of the bombing, i was on duty. i was the assistant commander that evening and the bomb went off about 1:10 or 1:15 a.m., and we got the phone call about 30 seconds later that we ...

Usa today and associated press, reuters, cbs, so on. with all of these respected news organizations doing their best to get the right information out there and were all all over the board on this, it tells me different law enforcement officials are saying different things. its not like theyre making it up. they get a source thats reliable, and as someone coming from the other side, fbi side. what does it tell you. >> during my 23 with incidents, bombings and other international incidents my role...

Might have purchased like item, forensics, from the bomb, there could be fingerprint, dna. there could be tips come in and preincident behavior, testing bombs. theres lot of ways, names of people and suspects will come up to the command post and investigators and candice made some great points and i agree with the way shes thinking about it. the bomber or bombers are very determined, very purposeful. they have it electrically fused, im improvised mind, place to create maximum death in a device t...