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Its just been really hard. but at the same time, knowing that they worked together until the end, it did help somewhat. >> a lawsuit was also filed on behalf of 23-year-old griffin madden. in all, three dozen people were killed in early december making it the deadliest fire in the united states in more than a decade. attorneys are casting a wide legal net saying the nine defendants in the lawsuit are responsible for a horrific, gross negligence. >> we have filed this lawsuit against the owners o...

Yell death to america. you know the ones you gave $150 billion to and secretly sent them another 400 million on pallets in an unmarked plane. youre obsessed with a russian who is at least a christian who is obsessed with killing isis, a russian who had his own problems with russian terrorists who told us twice about the tsarnaev brother that your administration was too dumb to follow through on with deadly consequences to americans. even hillary hates the russians and wants to blame russia for h...

Developments for us. that was a very quick sound bite from the mayor but the reaction is police are not trained in zoning laws. we see the police walk through that building. that was two months ago. any more reaction on this? >> no, police saying, keeping that official line, this is an ongoing investigation so theyre not allowed to comment. of course the mayor defending her officers in the city, saying they simply are not aware of the zoning laws, theyre not trained to look for stuff like that. ...

Because there were all kinds of crazy -- there was, you know, five or six mobile homes, all done like old school. there was a lot of antiques. there was 52 pianos. and organs that played 24/7, beautiful music, all night and day. i kind of like that kind of a thing. >> reporter: but investigators say the building was in total disrepair. there were no sprinklers, only two exit. one, witnesses describe, as a pile of wooden pallets made into stairs. in november, the owner received a citation for haz...

>> reporter: the warehouse, nicknamed the ghost ship, was an elaborate maze of rooms. furniture, electronics, and art filled the two-story space in what was billed as a 24-hour work studio for area artists, like shelly mac who made jewelry there, and she said she once live there had. >> what did it look inside? >> it looked like a big, huge caravan, like a carnival. because there were all kinds of crazy -- there was, you know, five or six mobile homes, all done like old school. there was a lot o...

To this moment. >> can i ask you if -- >> im an honorable man. im a proud man. no, im not going to answer these questions! i would rather get on the floor and be trampled by the parents! i would rather let them tear my flesh than answer these ridiculous question! >> mr. almena -- >> im so sorry. im incredibly sorry. i dont know what you want me to say. im not going to answer these questions -- >> then well call this -- >> im just going to say im sorry. >> how did the people get trapped? how did ...

Assessment about how long the fire may have been smoldering? because there are reports of incinerated stairs and just a fully engulfed building by the time firefighters arrived. >> reporter: and there is a fire department right around the corner here. this fire seemed to be moving quite quickly. but one of the witnesses who was outside said he saw where the fire started and it was already moving very fast. but the stairs to get to the second level were basically pallets, they were wooden. thats ...

To escape. some of them have not -- were not able to escape. right now, we can confirm that there are nine fatalities. but theres still a large portion of the building that still needs to be searched. the building was a warehouse that was kind of like an artist studio that had, you know, several different partitions where they had variouse artists in there. inside its just a wide assortment of just everything, furniture, mannequins, statues, i mean, just a lot of stuff inside. theres a second fl...

Performers playing electronic music. as far as i knew, it was supposed to go really late. people were just starting to -- just continuing to arrive at about 11:00 when the fire had started. >> weve also been told that the second floor may have actually been added, right? this is a big warehouse, that they may have actually added the second floor with the stairwell possibly made of wooden pallets. can you confirm that? >> i think pallets were part of what the stairwell was built out of. i think i...

A fire breaks out that people would have a difficult time escaping? >> well, the building itself originally was a warehouse. and if it would have just remained a warehouse no, you wouldnt expect people to have trouble escaping. because there was a lot of construction where people just, you know, put up partitions. there wasnt a real clear entry or exit path. as mentioned earlier up on the second floor. it was the stairwell, there was one way down from the second floor. and that stairwell was put...