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In surrounding communities. they are evacuating a five-mile radius around the plant. that is because of the potential for toxic fumes. i did talk to one woman who lived at that apartment complex you were mentioning. she said that this plant has had fires before, being a fertilizer plant, but theyve always been real small. that this one that started today was much bigger than any theyd ever seen. still, they were just watching it. >> thats when the apartment building collapsed, she said she just ...

The west apartments, the structure was there but apartments were just blown out. people were coming out bloody and injured. >> officials say dozens of homes have been flattened along with businesses in that part of town. the school caught on fire. a nursing home was damaged, and an apartment complex was flattened. they are still searching door by door and lot by lot trying to find survivors, and were told that 160 people have been injured. the fatality count is now somewhere between 5 and 15, an...

And by 7:45 they realized the fire was out of control and the fire chief ordered all of his men out of the burning plant. it was too late. seven minutes later the plant exploded. the explosion could be felt up to 70 miles away. i was in kaufman county covering the d.a. murders there and i was inside a building and the windows shook. we thought its not supposed to be raining. the thunderstorms arent supposed to be here for several hours. that must have been a big gust of wind. a few minutes later...

Are cutting off the main flow of gas, natural gas. theyre cutting off power so we dont have secondary fire from electricity sparked fires, things along that line. currently, were still there. many agencies, were here assisting west p.d. i can tell you that the mayor has been here earlier tonight. he is also a firefighter for this city. its taken a toll on him because he knows that potentially hes lost some firefighters. i can confirm that there may be firefighters that are unaccounted for and po...

The ground in woodward. i talked to my dad last night in abilene, kansas, he was in the storm cellar all weekend long from sun up right through the middle of the night. >> yeah, good thing because there were such severe storms. i just talked with the mayor of woodward and the fatality count has gone up to six, according to the mayor hill. he says there was one person who was in critical condition and had been transferred to a hospital in amarillo and he has passed away so that number now from wo...

Getting medical attention to those folks -- the materialistic things, those are materialistic things. my him cant be replaced. all the things inside my house can. im not worried about it. im still positive. i heard my moms voice. as long as i got that, ill right. rick: as long as hes got his mom, hes all right. rick reichmuth is live in oklahoma with more. rick. >> reporter: rick, yeah, the fatality count has gone up to six today as one person in critical condition passed yesterday afternoon, th...

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You have. the train coming by and people figuring out -- people thought it was a major gas release, any types of expressions of what it sounds like when they come through. >> emergency management for the city of joplin. best of luck as you continue to get on the grown and do your search and rescue and looking frds to hearing more from your news conference later on in the morning. the twin cities took a direct lit from a powerful twister on sunday. northern minneapolis feeling the brunt of it. on...

many ran to seek safer ground, but boy, the devastation is coming to light today. >> thats right. 12 hours later life has changed in joplin, missouri. a powerful tornado ripped that city apart. the red cross said 75% of the town is virtually gone with reports of at least 30 people killed and dozens more injured. 50,000 people live in the city. no phone service, power lines are down, cars and trucks smashed and flipped. the governor calling out the national guard and declaring a state o...