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Faith will keep me on the straight and narrow. >> mcculloughs passenger, judith bailey, suffers less severe burns and makes a recovery as well. but the steam pipe explosion is blamed for the death of 51-year-old lois bemeric, a human resources exec frif new jersey, who dies from a heart attack. more than 40 others are injured. an investigation concludes heavy rainfall and leaky pipes caused the explosion.

The fight with jeb bush now. may be valuable for bush. >> do you think this is a panic move? >> it starts to sound that way. i dont think theyre hitting the panic button yet in the bush campaign but probably soon if things dont start getting better. >> in the time we have remaininging, when do you have the president gets the vote on the iran deal, and who is it in. >> might be on the floor when they put it down. there are several senators there i think the president could rely upon. in some ways...

Was near me calling for ambulances. i thought, oh, boy, this is not good. >> officials believe the massive explosion is caused by a back draft that ignites the volatile magnesium dust. >> the degree of smoke, the color of it, the way it was puffing out of the building, it had all the right looks and the right recipe for that to just instantaneously blow. >> cameraman matt armitage is shooting the explosion for indianas news channel. >> all of a sudden smoke started pouring out of the building al...

>> weve got heavy smoke coming from the entire building. >> the fire department knows its in for a long night, but it has no idea that a massive explosion is developing. >> anytime you get a fire, a potential fire, at a magnesium plant, that causes a lot more concern because you know thats going to be a tough situation to deal with. >> firefighters cant use water to put out the flames because magnesium is a highly flammable metal. it burns so hot, more than 4,000 degrees fahrenheit, that it reac...

Of my friends and family and the pastor and congregation and my faith will keep me on the straight and narrow. >> mcculloughs passenger, judith bailey, suffers less severe burns and makes a recovery as well. but the steam pipe explosion is blamed for the death of 51-year-old lois bomeric, a human resources exec frif new jersey, who dies from a heart attack. more than 40 others are injured. an investigation concludes heavy rainfall and leaky pipes caused the explosion. the city orders improvement...

Boom, the vibration in the ground and the heat on the back of my neck. >> holy cow! >> the high-voltage wires unleash a fury of arcing energy. >> the thing the tape doesnt show is the vibration. i mean, we were all, like -- it was, like, did we get shocked, or what was that? it just doesnt show how loud or how much energy was released when that thing let go. you could really feel it. it was like the bass at a rock concert. it was just shaking. >> everyone is stunned by the unbelievable surge of ...

27-year-old junior suarez, an office worker, runs out of his building after the explosion and sees mccullough dazed and disfigured. >> i cant get it out of my head. the whole scene just kept playing over and over and his screams and the smell that came from him, his skin burning, his flesh. its just hard. it really is hard. >> despite the horror, suarez stays with mccullough until a paramedic comes. >> the whole time he was still screaming and screaming, and he wouldnt stop screaming. it was jus...

>> and i can remember the loud boom, the vibration in the ground and the heat on the back of my neck. >> holy cow! >> the high-voltage wires unleash a fury of arcing energy. >> the thing the tape doesnt show is the vibration. i mean, we were all, like -- it was, like, did we get shocked, or what was that? it just doesnt show how loud or how much energy was released when that thing let go. you could really feel it. it was like the bass at a rock concert. it was just shaking. >> everyone is stunne...

It definitely sounded like maybe a car had crashed through the building next door. >> the explosion ignites a huge fire at the foundry. >> theres this huge billowing black cloud of smoke. it was just amazing. >> we knew it was going to be a very big fire. it was a huge column of smoke, huge. >> we have flames shooting over the roof. weve got a report from the plant personnel that their propane tank has gone up. >> several bystanders and nearby residents begin filming the flames. >> it was pretty...

The top of the screen, out of nowhere, the street explodes as if a giant bomb goes off. >> you could see absolutely a terrorized expression on all these peoples faces because they didnt know what it was. they probably thought it was a bomb in the subway system. >> with september 11th never far from new yorkers minds, many think the explosion is another terrorist attack. >> yeah, you think its terrorism. thats the first thought that goes through anybodys mind. >> people run for cover as the dirt,...