don't want to die today, and i don't want to die in this building and if it's all right with you, i'd like to die later. >> felt like an earthquake. something actually shook our television station, that's five miles away. >> in the first frantic minutes, no one was quite sure what had caused the explosion. >> initially, we thought it might have been a gas explosion because we had to evacuate the office two or three weeks earlier because there was a gas leak downtown. >> i thought that a war had started. i thought that oklahoma city had been bombed, that we had been attacked by another country. >> i thought that the explosion was an atom i can blast from tinker air force base. >> i was trying to make sense out of it. i did not think it was a bomb. >> dog teams here searching for survivors and for bodies.