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They are not telling us how many people may have died. we do know close to 200 people now have been injured. some of those people seriously. we also understand, elizabeth, that some of those injured are in fact the elderly and children. >> well, i cant thank you enough for joining us throughout the evening, todd. we will continue to watch the situation like you said. we cant anticipate some pretty grim pictures when folks begin to wake up. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> t...

Is that correct? >> yes. i want to make a point that we have a regular routine service with the hospitals in waco and many smaller hospitals in the surrounding aerowras. we are their service provider. we have wonderful medical care down there. fortunately we had a good supply on hand when things happened last night. however, we understand there will be great need for a long time to come. we sent blood last night, several hundred units of blood. were just letting people know that obviously everyo...

Community that has really been rocked by this. rocked by the explosion and then rocked by the aftermath because its small, you know. they know each other and the sad and grim reality is that people did not make it out of this alive. and there are going to be a lot of broken hearts here, no doubt about it. >> steve: let us ask you about this: we know that in anticipation there could be a big explosion because there was a fire at this plant and we just played the youtube video right there that the...

>> do you know of previous fire safety issues at this plant in the past couple or few years? >> i do not. and, again, i will tell you, even though we are relatively close, the city of west has their own police department. they have their own city management, city employees. we are here in assistance this morning and from last night. those specific questions about what goes on, the intimate questions about whether there have been problems there before, potential fire there before, will have to co...

Sent were intercepted at another site before they ever reached anyone. >> brian: as weve been telling you, the massive explosion left up to 15 people dead that gretchen was referring to and more than 160 people injured and more burned. heather childers is tracking where the victims are, how theyre being treated and how many there actually are. heather? >> right. were getting a closer look at some of the numbers. we know theyre being treated at three hospitals in texas. primarily for burns and sh...

Hillcrest medical center in waco. >> john, first of all, just as martin indicated, we are also starting to feel that weather come through. the same storm system, john, that we tangled with just a few hours ago in oklahoma. this is a pretty strong system. it will bring a lot of wind. a lot of rain to this area. and well certainly make it difficult, will hamper that search house-by-house that investigators are doing, thorough, methodical search. here t at the hospital at hillcrest, they saw the mo...

A lot of people hear ammonia and think, isnt that what blew up the murrah building? a form of ammonia, ammonia nitrate was mixed mixed with mee and that created the problem there. and because of what happened in waco and the oklahoma city bombing, people are going, i wonder if there is a connection at this point. they are treating it as a crime scene, but as we heard from the sergeant who was running the operation from waco, he does not expect it to be anything other than an accident at a fertil...

The good news is we are not seeing a lot of patients arrive at the hospital, so things seem to have stable -- stabilized for us and our neighboring hospital as well. we seem to be in a little better place, but im sure there is a long day and tomorrow and weeks ahead for the folks out in west, texas, and so our hearts go out to them and all of our prayers from everybody here in waco. >> now, i know you mentioned earlier, how many patients have you seen throughout the evening? you are just one of ...

Questions about this event. >> firefighters who are among the first responders are there. some unaccounted for. so we will be follow that with reports from the scene right away. >> we have live team coverage covering every angle the way only cnn can. we have george howell live in waco with us standing by with an update on the medical situation there. were going to begin in west with martin savidge on the groun near the scene. what the the latest? >> john, its been such a difficult night. it is o...

>> gretchen: its interesting because originally during the first press conference early this morning, or one of the first ones, somewhere in the 5:00 a.m east coast hour, the sheriff in charge, i believe of waco, said they were considering this a criminal act. they say thats standard operating procedure, that they always want to look at the crime scene in case it ends up there was foul play. not that theyre indicating it was. i find it interesting, im wondering if the chemicals being produced at...