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Where the steel is actually twisted, and wrapped in the back of the building. we can see fire spread. atf and our local investigators feel very strongly that they have identified the section of the building that is the area of origin. >> is it some sort of kitchen or anything that we know of that could give us a clue? >> it appears to be the back of the building where we imagine the artists collective was on the first floor and potentially during the concert the dance floor was just above. >> an...

Investigators expect the death toll to climb as they sift through the charred ruins of the building. a criminal investigation now under way but the search for more bodies is on hold for now. cnns stephanie elam in oakland with more. >> reporter: officials say they have searched through 70% of the warehouse. however, they had to stop around 10:00 p.m. local time last night because there was fear that part of the building would collapse. about 45 minutes or so, structural engineers are expected to...

The confirmed number right now is nine. but with you know fire krurs as well as personnel from the coroners office have been inside the building over an hour and pulling out bodies. so we would expect more of that information to come forward in terms of the number of people dead. this was such a horrific situation, yet people gathering for a holiday party, live music up on the second floor, about 50 to 100 people there enjoying the evening and the flames broke out at 11:30 at night. thats when t...

Been some reports that there had been a number of those wildly popular tourist destinations in gatlinburg, those ski resorts, a number of them had been destroyed, burned to the ground. are you aware of any of those reports or are you aware if thats true or not? >> yes. i really dont want to speak for gatlinburg. theyve got their own press. but i do know over gatlinburg, the ski resort is in tact and ripleys emporium is in tact and pigeon forge, dollywood is protected. theres very little damage t...

Buildings a few years ago had a similar type of aluminum composite surface material. we dont know if thats exactly what was here but everything points to plastic as part of this -- again, this exterior service of being the culprit of why the fire spread so quickly. >> thats interesting. i know youre not saying this definitively, but that would explain a lot of things because they say, dubai authorities, that the fire was on the exterior of the building. not only on the inside. and it really spre...

Yesterday, the first thing that came to mind, particularly folks in fire service, was the exterior cladding or the surface of the material on the outside of the building with that large, you know, vine of fire we saw, it pretty much points to that being at the source of the issue here. as far as why the fire spread so quickly up the outside of the building. >> what are we talking about here? were talking about something on the surface of the windows outside? >> actually not the surface of the wi...

>> it is -- when you think about this, this is really remarkable thing. 63 stories. one side of the building, a fire leaps up the side, all the way to the top, and yet everybody gets out. >> yes. >> everybody gets out uninjured largely. some minor injuries on the evacuation. nobody killed by this. >> yeah, it is. it was a big fire. it is really incredible hearing the speed at which this fire spread. i saw one of the first pictures on twitter and everything is instant you. see what is happening r...

Short while ago by an account user baggage check. there you see on the right-hand side of your screen, the building fully engulfed in flames. smoke billowing. and a short while before that, the very same building, the address hotel where it seemed to be completely normal, at least no indications of any fire on that image on your left. it does give aw side by side comparison of how much damage. were talking about how big, how wide this fire spread. and this happened really within the course of pr...

Ran outside to that fire extinguisher out there, pulling the jacket off it, pulled the pin. >> in less than ten seconds, corey single handedly snuffs the fire, saving the gas station, surrounding homes and everyone nearby. >> i dont like to think about what could have happened had i not gotten that fire out when i did. it could have been catastrophic. >> with disaster averted, one question remains, what caused the fire? reviewing the security tape, investigators believe its caused by gas vapors ...

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