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Community that has really been rocked by this. rocked by the explosion and then rocked by the aftermath because its small, you know. they know each other and the sad and grim reality is that people did not make it out of this alive. and there are going to be a lot of broken hearts here, no doubt about it. >> steve: let us ask you about this: we know that in anticipation there could be a big explosion because there was a fire at this plant and we just played the youtube video right there that the...

Out what daylight may bring for us. >>brian: i understand you do not put out a chemical fire with water. i dont know how they are eliminating that fire and corralling those flames when that might not help the situation. and the danger that these men and women went to when they knew there was a fire at a fertilizer chemical plant. the tanks being there and i imagine in a town this small. you know what every business does and who works there. >>steve: thats a good point. anhydrous ammonia -- growi...

Wondering whether or not that volunteer fire department might have actually made it worse because they put water on a chemical fire. what do you think about that? >> the bottom line is, the firefighters are always more advanced in terms of their training. i dont think that you can actually place blame, but sometimes what they expect and what they get is not, and the first responders rescue actions are well intended and in hindsight, everybody can come back with wait a minute, maybe we could have...

Than 160 others hurt, some being treated in a triage center in a football field a short while away. >>steve: the dallas morning news at this point is kweurpblg that at least two -- is confirming at least two emergency personnel were killed in west, texas. the fire department there is all volunteer. when the word came out last night there is a fire at the fertilizer plant, a bunch of volunteers drove over. they realized this is bigger than we thought. this could be perilous. the first thing they ...

Dispatch calls moments after the blast. >> we need every ambulance we can get this way. a bomb has went off inside here. its pretty bad. weve got a lot of firemen down. >> firefighters down. again, there is an explosion, there are firefighters down. >> rest home has been seriously damaged. we have many people down. please respond. >> were getting you everybody i can. you have deputyies. you have fire and ems. im sending everybody i got. >> brian: firefighters that are down, we still are not acco...

Crushed. >>steve: we dont know. there is a story out saying between 5 and 15 confirmed dead. but they fear that the death toll could go into the dozens. maria molina is tracking right now. maria, we were talking about how this registered on the earthquake scale. youve got some data about that and about the winds which are important because we are talking about a big fire. >> were talking about a big fire. any time you have wind involved with that, that is going to hinder fire fighter efforts. we...

>> gretchen: its interesting because originally during the first press conference early this morning, or one of the first ones, somewhere in the 5:00 a.m east coast hour, the sheriff in charge, i believe of waco, said they were considering this a criminal act. they say thats standard operating procedure, that they always want to look at the crime scene in case it ends up there was foul play. not that theyre indicating it was. i find it interesting, im wondering if the chemicals being produced at...

That is not going to help out anyone trying to do cleanup efforts in this region. behind this initial line of storms, expecting the rain to linger for several hours out here in the city of west. >>steve: thank you very much. you just heard from dr. marc siegel because the ammonia is already in the air, if you cant smell it, its not going to be a problem to you. but now it looks as if the major problem caused by this big line of storms is its going to delay the house-to-house search. >>brian: tho...

Around-the-clock operation, staffed 24 hours a day so there would have been employees working there at the time of the fire and of the explosion? theres just simply not a lot of information out there right now about this particular facility. but no doubt, when you look at the a.t.f. coming here to do some investigating and also a federal team from washington, a federal team with the chemical safety board -- i didnt even know that existed until i started seeing it making the rounds -- a federal a...

Weve got a lot of firemen down. >> fire fighters down. again, there has been an explosion. there are fire fighters down. >> the rest home has been seriously damaged. we have many people down. police please respond. >> giving you everybody i can. up deputies, you have bellmead fire. you have e.m.s. im sending everybody i got. >>brian: that was the story yesterday. right now were finding out the ramifications of the chemical explosion, the fertilizer fire happened in west, texas where we know at l...