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The dagestan region before they moved to the states. president obama attends a memorial service in texas today in honor of the 14 people killed in a blast of a fertilizer plant in a town in west texas. the service will be in baylor university and waco. thats where we find our ed lavandera this morning. >> the president will be here after he attends the dedication of the bush library in dallas. it will be a show of force as thousands and thousands of firefighters are expected to come here today...

Firefighters are expected to attend the memorial service today for the 14 people who were killed in that explosion. this coming the day after we got our first up close look at the explosion site. >> a bomb has went off inside here. its pretty bad. weve got a lot of firemen down. >> captured from firefighter radio transmissions, those were the frantic homes just after the west, texas, explosion sent a deadly shockwave through this central texas town. h is the first up close look at the blast site...

Where preparations are under way for the memorial service that will start in a few hours, brooke. what is going on here, well take you back to what we saw yesterday, and investigators took us up close, the first time that we had a chance to see exactly what was going on at that site. >> a bomb has went off inside here. its pretty bad. we have a lot of firemen down. >> reporter: captured from firefighter radio transmissions, those were the frantic moments just after the west, texas, explosion sen...

We have three ambulances. and there are literally hundreds of people hurt. i know -- i dont -- i havent been there, but im very worried that my ambulance that was on scene, those personnel are probably deceased. i think some of the firemen may be deceased. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: buildings near the plant are blown out by the blast, including a nursing home. >> the rest home has been seriously damaged. we have many people down, please, please respond. >> reporter: patients were already be wil...

There are firefighters down. >> firemen who were already on scene battling the flames are reported missing. >> its just overwhelming to us. were a town of 2400. we have three ambulances. and there are literally hundreds of people hurt. i know, i havent been there, but im very worried that my ambulance was on scene. those personnel are probably deceased. i think some of the firemen may be deceased. >> buildings near the plant are blown out by the blast, including a nursing home. >> the rest home ...

Video of the flames. >> dad? i cant hear. get out of here. get out of here. >> the father and his girls are unharmed. the explosion is so powerful it registers as a 2.1 magnitude event, the rumblings felt as far as 50 miles away. >> fire units. firefighters down. again, there has been an explosion. there are firefighters down. >> firemen already on the scene battling flames are reported missing. >> its just overwhelming to us for a town of 2400. we have three ambulances and there are literally h...

Are on the scene right now. the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms and explosives sending a national response team including fire investigators, explosive experts chemists and k-9 units. now were hearing warnings sent out to firefighters at the scene. >> we need every ambulance we can get this morning. a bomb just went off inside here. it is pretty bad. we got a lot of firemen down. >> firefighters down. again there has been an explosion. there are firefighters down. >> the rest home has be...

Texas. this young man was just yards away from the scene. >> im sitting in my truck, you know, and then just boom. >> we were able to cover one and then i grabbed my little one and dove through the door. it was like a bomb. it picked you up. it just took your breath away. >> just fire everywhere and just bodies on the ground -- bloody bodies. people in panic. firemen, fire trucks, police cars filled the town. >> reporter: the blast so powerful, so catastrophic homes blocks away were heavily dama...

I cant say enough about the brave -- our brave first responders and our firemen and our police. but they had a plan. they implemented the plan. and the it is qui was evacuated last night. theyre coming back in right now. there is no water. no power. but ive got to take my hat off to them. these are brave, brave people. >> amazing what they did. as we see the first responders doing going into the fire to try to save lives. sir, let me ask you, we have been reporting that people are treating this ...

Careful and not head in that direction. the medical director of west, texas, george smith, telling us an incredible story of what he did and what he saw. >> we got a report of a fire at fertilizer plant. we sent the ems unit, we always do to help back the firemen up. i saw how bad it was so i went to the nursing home. im the medical director for the nursing home. i went over to the station closest to where the fire was and called all personnel to me there that was in the building and said, get p...