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>> i remember hearing another one of our battalion chiefs that 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 ignited 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 indiana's news channel. >> all of a sudden smoke started pouring out of the building all at once. that's when i started rol...

Year, is that they have a slogan sort of from the movie "back draft." you go, i go, we go. and so i think that, you know, they will -- he will listen to them and they will respect whatever decision he makes, because they all know that he will make a decision based on what he believes is best. >> but knowing him as well as you do, do you have a sense of which way he's leaning? >> honestly, i don't have any insight, any particular insight into where the vice president is. i this i, again, one of the things you have to give him is that he is very candid. he's been extraordinarily candid during th...

The explosion is caused by a back draft. >> so within a split second, the door slammed, and the window on the second floor has started to blow out of its frame. glass and debris is flying across the street. followed by a big flame. >> no firefighters or residents are injured. once the fires are out, investigator clark's work begins. he discovers that the back draft was caused by a growing criminal enterprise, copper wire theft. >> what we do know about these properties at the time of the fire is electricity was supplied to the houses by overhead copper cables. they were mounted on wooden poles...

And then it's flicked back, down the street. >> copper wire theft is a massive problem worldwide. in the uk alone, nearly 1 billion dollars of copper wire is stolen every year and sold for profit. in this case, the way the thief cut the cable caused the gas leak. the gas then mixes with air. and the result is an explosive combination that blows the roof right off the house. a back draft. and a caught on camera moment chris clark will never forget. >> it's certainly not a normal incident. there are a number of factors that suggests there's something unusual going on. and firefighters generally ...

Right now kasie, how many kids piled in were you able to see? >> alex, as you can see they're starting up the helicopter which is why we had to move fast because the blades were spinning. it's probably difficult for you to hear me right now. there's the first round of kids in the helicopter. another round going shortly after they land so we're going to have to -- maybe we'll talk to a few of them after they get off. trump took a number of questions from reporters. he didn't get too far into policy specifics on things like taxes. he answered a question i asked about abortion he says he supports...