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Critical injuries after a powerful explosion ripped his home to pieces. it happened friday in st. paul, minnesota. the explosion which you see there also damaged multiple homes and buildings in the area. neighbors say they were shaken by the blast. >> just watching tv, playing video games. and it was a loud explosion. it shook the house like somebody kicked the house. >> her brother was sleeping and woke him up out of bed. >> authorities believe a natural gas leak may be to blame for the explosi...

And running out of the venue. isabel hodgins was at the concert at manchester arena. she joins us now live on the phone. thank you for talking to us. what a difficult evening for everybody. >> martha: we are going to continue to monitor this. james was here with us this evening on another story pretty is the former director of the cia. thank you very much for being here and for rolling with it in this breaking news story that we have. we did this feel like to you this point? >> first impressions...

Ago in manchester, england, and were still waiting for the details. >> the one thing that we do know is that people are on edge. theres a lot of concern. as i said before, state part that went out, theyre concerned about casualties. theres always travel alerts for different countries around the world. there is not typically a europewide travel alert over the course of the summer. so youve got people very much on edge and when something like this happens, it is possible that it was some sort of a...

Police officers there on the platform will going off basically telling people to kind of stay clear the area. so very close proximity and the arena is right in the city center of manchester, so it is a very kind of well-built area, a lot of things close by and victoria station is extremely close. >> working our way out we were right by the door, a massive explosion and everybody was screaming, it was a huge explosion, he could feel it in your chest. it was chaotic. everybody was running and scre...

Could hear what sounded like an explosion. this was from the outside. it was really loud, and extraordinarily loud explosion from the outsides you can imagine what it was like on the inside. again, the early reports were saying it was something on the right-hand side of the stage was if you are looking at arianna ground a performing. she had just walked behind the curtain and then the explosion happened and they thought on the right-hand side of the stage the wings of the video and there was no ...

Seat arena, the arena adjoining a victoria train station in manchester, a main train station and ended the scene of the explosion or explosions apparently in what they call the foyer area outside of the main arena, the box office area so perhaps it adjacent the wider public. >> lets open up for just 20 seconds here as we listen in. on commercial right now. as weve been telling you throughout the evening, somewhere in that area in england time in manchester, england, at the end of the ariana gran...

That here in the u.k., we are under a severe terror threat. the second highest level severe. were told at the staged or were not being told i should say that its going to rise to critical, the highest level meaning that the government, the authorities would fear that were other terrorist attacks were planned, no confirmation at all that this is terror related but clearly theres a concern there. reports of an explosion that the police were responding to. and also in terms of the injured they are ...

Left-hand side of the stage, there was really loud noise. weve seen no one report that they heard anything fall, that they sell anything fall, no one report that they saw any explosion, but one report from one witness on sky news just a moment ago in the united kingdom that she smelled something that smelled like burning. at any rate, this is right over main train station there. you can walk between the arena and train station. the set up for that and and a r got blocked and people started tramp...

Of the injuries, this of this couldve been done in a close space we wouldnt see a lot of debris or smoke. it couldve been very well done without a lot of observation of it. but that was a very loud explosion, sounds like other things ive heard in combat. >> martha: thank you very much. greg palkot is in london covering the story for us this evening. greg, any other new information coming in from the scene around manchester there that youre getting? >> concerning information for sure month tracki...

Waiting to come out of this thing and they just heard this explosion and theyre watching all these people running down the stairs in your heart just stopped thinking about what its like to these parents as they are probably arriving to pick up their children at this concert because it was just ending. tonys going to listen with us to this explosion on the video one more time which each is described as something sounding like an ied. lets listen to it. all of us together. >> no. >> martha: the re...