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The fire department did a superb job hooking up to the stand pipes and extinguishing the fire and checking for structural problems with the building. >> neil: obviously a series of events that have to happen and get people alerted and protected. we have to remember how this city has improved communications among all branches to make sure that that does go smoothly. when this happens, something like this happens, people leap at the first thing that they here. a jet, a small plane, a helicopter hi...

Happens next in this investigation? >> reporter: thats one in a series of steps that police will have to take now. obviously the first being to determine is there a threat, is there additional, any type of threat to life, something that theyre going to look at. second, getting everyone out of the building which is sounds like theyve done. as tom was mentioning, they have to go through the building, tom to bottom, from end to end, in order to ensure that there are no threats, in order to ensure t...

All thats left is that pile of broken timber. the sea wall offered little protection. the water had been channelled into an inlet. its force concentrated. this 82-year-old man told me the water had burst down an alleyway into his home. we left him, picking through a lifetime of belongings. i walked a mile inland. even here, the water had scattered cars. look how this car has ended up, and you can see how deep the water had been. even this far from the sea. an oil depot, alight for two days is le...