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This fire happened. whats the first thing youre thinking, jim? >> well, whats going to happen to find that out, whether accidental from a heater, accidental from hooking or it could be incendiary, in other words, set by a human hand, a human hand unintentionally or set by a human hand intentionally. it could be a cigarette, a candle, arson. all that is yet to be determined. such a tragedy for these families and all these young artists. its a horrible case, really. atfs national response team wil...

Wood. these are concrete. >> exactly right. being an arson investigator my whole life and bomb and arson doing that my whole life, my father being a firefighter for 33 years, i dont even go in a hotel i dont count the doors to the fire exit, i dont know where every fire exit is, i dont know how to get out -- i always do that. everybody needs to pay attention to that stuff. tragically a lot of people died here. it moved real fast. a lot of them probably died from the smoke. they probably got smok...

Least. authorities beginning to investigate what started the fire. and you heard the conversation that we were having there with russell about what sort of heating sources they have. jim kavanagh, retired atf special agent in charge. we talk a lot about catastrophes. this one is tough for similar reasons to tore incidents. in this case we have someone trying to do something good and this happens. looking for affordable housingihousing, staying in these collectives. you heard when i was talking w...

Top story out of oakland, california. 30 people now confirmed dead. we got that information just within the last hour. this after that massive fire ripping through a warehouse in oakland friday night. investigators will continue to carefully search through debris for several more days were hearing now. at this hour, only about 40% of the building has been searched. they have p the majority of it to go through. right now the cause of the fire is still being investigated. well get you more updates...

Workers in there today. we spoke to a survivor who was inside who knew about this building before he went in. i want to play some sound just about their thoughts on whether or not this was safe going to that party last night. >> ive been in plenty of spaces like that and i always think about safety and stuff, but fire never crossed my mind. i was thinking this floor is a little -- its all kind of diy. i saw fire extinguishers around. i kind of assumed there were smoke detectors but i honestly di...

>> many in their 20s. >> many in their 20s. and these places are all over. ive been in many myself. the people are upbeat. theyre the artists and musicians of america, so its ally hard to see this, but the fire codes are there for a reason. fire can go over these shallow walls. theres no fire breaks. theres no stairways. theres no smoke alarms or sprinklers. it really becomes a death trap. if youre living in my kind of place, you have to make sure at a minimum theres more than one exit. >> on th...

Hour way. we would take those first witnesses -- you had on two key witnesses talking about what were searching for, the early fire. were always looking for witnesses to early fire, the videos that show us early fire and the first responding engine company to tell us where first fire was because we want to get back to the area of origin of the fire to pinpoint the point of origin of fire and then determine the cause of the fire. those witnesses talked about early fire. get the fire extinguisher ...

Important thing for everybody there, and then it will slow down a little bit and take about a week to get in and get all that stuff out to see if they can determine the cause, the origin of the fire. >> jim kavanagh, thanks so much. >> thanks, richard. up next, the latest fallout from president-elect trumps controversial phone call with the leader of taiwan and his search for secretary of state. ♪ when you find something worth waiting for, well help you invest to protect it for the future. f...