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Today we learned that the first two of what is expected to be many lawsuits pertaining to the west, texas explosion, the first suit was filed on behalf of four insurance carriers insuring 17 west businesses and property owners who sustained damage. the second lawsuit comes from andrea gutierrez who is the first west resident to file a civil lawsuit against the owners of the west fertilizer company. as reported on her website her lawyer told us they decided to go ahead and file the suit because i...

Many lawsuits pertaining to the west, texas explosion, the first suit was filed on behalf of four insurance carriers insuring 17 west businesses and property owners who sustained damage. the second lawsuit comes from andrea gutierrez who is the first west resident to file a civil lawsuit against the owners of the west fertilizer company. as reported on her website her lawyer told us they decided to go ahead and file the suit because it has been almost a week since the explosion and the company h...

Last night we told you the plant had more than 1300 times the legally allowed amount of the highly explosive ammonium nitrate but hadnt told the department of homeland security of the danger. this week the dallas morning news in an article with the headline west fertilizer company environmental compliance problems go back decades is reporting that 1984 the company moved two large pressurized tanks of liquid anhydrous ammonia a potentially lethal poison from a site in nearby hill county to the cu...

Time osha regulators performed a full safety inspection at the west fertilizer company was nearly 28 years ago. last night we told you the plant had more than 1300 times the legally allowed amount of the highly explosive ammonium nitrate but hadnt told the department of homeland security of the danger. this week the dallas morning news in an article with the headline west fertilizer company environmental compliance problems go back decades is reporting that 1984 the company moved two large press...

Had more than 1300 times the legally allowed amount of the highly explosive ammonium nitrate but hadnt told the department of homeland security of the danger. this week the dallas morning news in an article with the headline west fertilizer company environmental compliance problems go back decades is reporting that 1984 the company moved two large pressurized tanks of liquid anhydrous ammonia a potentially lethal poison from a site in nearby hill county to the current location in west without no...

Bombings or the texas explosion, vitd cnns impact your world. there are ways you can help as we know so many people are trying to do. they care, they feel so far away, but theres a lot you can do. a lot of things people have been worried about in the west, texas, area was the air quality. people were talking about the fumes and smell and fear. so were going to have the very latest on that and how significant that ammonia in the air could be after this. >> the last word that i had was that the ch...

What caused that explosion. back to you. >> thanks, christine. well be back at the top of the hour with the latest on the texas explosion, and, of course, the boston bombings live from boston, me and erin burnett. stay with us. look is only the beginning. ♪ ♪ this is a stunning work of technology. ♪ this is the 2013 lexus es and the first-ever es hybrid. this is the pursuit of perfection.

Long gone by the time the explosion happened. theres a lot of danimage there. the thing they are concerned about and they consider where firefighters were that were missing were in the nursing home trying to evacuate this nursing home because the fire was so close by when explosion happened. we heard in the last press report that 60 to 70 homes were devastated to the north of the nursing home. thats where the most destruction was done. 60 to 70 homes in that area were just leveled. again theres ...

>> the white house said its fema taking the lead federal role for now in something like this. locally they are treating it as a crime scene. essentially just to rule it out. this issue -- im sure the issue of plants that could be of danger that somebody could do something, this was something that was of concern to homeland security all the time. the safety and how do you deal with these things, right? >> i think the primary concern would have been reflected in how hopefully people had trained fo...

You have a lot of republicans up in blue states like pat toomey, for example, ron johnson, kelly ayotte. these guys, there might be even a better chance closer to those elections. >> how much was 2014 versus 2016, it was a big difference? it was. got to leave it there. been a very busy day. michael crow by, shira, kristen, got a lot of work to do. >> indeed. >> thats it for this edition. keep watching for the latest. more from texas on the explosion and more on the boston investigation, the inte...