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Industrial accident could have led to this wholesale sort of destruction you are seeing on your screen right now. some of the tweets that have come out from police asking people to please stay away. first they said we are asking the public to stay out of the area to allow the rescue workers access. now, they have gone further. they say the best way to help is to allow the first responders room to work. stay clear of the area of 22nd and market. sarah hoyt, i know you are still with us. you menti...

Concerned about the way it was being done. and he also said that when he heard and saw the collapse and ran up to the scene to try to help rescue anybody who might be trapped, he said the dust was so thick that he could hardly breathe. it was absolutely impossible to see, he says because the dust, when that building came down. a four-story building or what was left of a four-story building. mostly brick-and-mortar, that mortar, especially that old, pulverizes, jenna. >> brand new video were seei...

What looks like large pieces of crumpled paper. thats actually the twisted and burned metal roof. the plant here stretches a couple of hundred yards parallel to the road and goes back inside sort of further behind that destruction that you can see for about another 100 yards. about 54 people injured, 119 accounted dead so far. the death toll potentially could rise. just a few hours ago we were talking to a man who said his wife had come to work in the morning, hasnt seen her sense, he was trying...

California today. rescue teams are searching for a teenager they believe was swept over a waterfall in yosemite national park, not the first of its kind of these types of stories, heather, but certainly just a terrifying concept to even entertain here. >> reporter: well, certainly. and a horrible ordeal for this young man and his family. heres whats going on right now. california rescue workers are continuing their search today for the body of 19-year-old right there, he has been missing in cali...

Freeway to be shut down for hours. also new this morning notorious french gangster who used dynamite to break out of prison last month, back behind bars. redoine faid was the subject of a dramatic prison escape. he established himself as a high profile criminal with a series of armored truck robberies. were learning more about the incredible rescue of a newborn baby boy in china. the mother of that infant who was trapped in a sewer pipe. you can see -- you can see rescue workers cutting him ...

Rescue workers removed a newborn baby boy from a sewage pipe over the weekend. it happened in a public restroom of a residential building. in eastern china. the child is said to be doing well at a nearby hospital. officials are treating it as an attempted homicide. the mother reportedly has been located. the rescue prompted an outpouring from strangers who came to the hospital with with diapers and baby clothes and offers to adopt him. labor unions are leading a rear guard assault on obama care ...

Dangerous and deadly weather in too many parts of the country this holiday weekend. starting in texas where at least three people died in historic flash flooding. one woman swept away as rescue workers tried to desperately to pull her from her vehicle. and texas, not alone in this unseasonable weather stretching across the united states. lets bring in cnns iger peterson. >> its been a holiday weekend weather of extremes. that has many wondering, it really says what is on the calendar? is it real...

Prince georges county busy evacuating a strip mall in forestville, maryland. a camera on board a fire truck shows two firefighters walking in front of the building when suddenly, it explodes. the powerful blast blows out several storefronts and causes the ceiling to collapse on to firefighters still inside. other rescue workers rush to aid those caught in the fireball. >> i know i had injured firefighters down on the ground that were clearly hurt, laying in front of me. >> battalion chief kennet...

Killed, yes. i do. >> an investigation by the u.s. chemical safety board finds the explosion is the result of a burst pipe that sprays hydrogen gas on to a nearby heater. the refinery is shut down after the explosion, but reopens several months later. may 7, 2009. a gas leak has firefighters from prince georges county busy evacuating a strip mall in forestville, maryland. a camera on board a fire truck shows two firefighters walking in front of the building when suddenly, it explodes. the powerf...

Overjoyed. >> the driver also has a passenger who is nowhere to be found. a closer look at the video shows the man flying out of the crashing truck into the grass. rescue workers find him still alive. >> im up in the helicopter. i have no idea that theres a passenger and he was blown out of the truck right away, as soon as it hit the guardrail. so it took awhile for us to sort of piece those things together. >> the destroyed semi stops burning briefly but the leaking fuel reignites the truck unt...