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Heat, millions are forced to abandon their homes. >> you live in a high-rise and it gets hot, you're going to have to leave because it's going to become unliveable inside that building very quickly. open spaces become refugee camps across the northeast. day four, at hospitals, patients die as backup generators run out of fuel. fuel and water is rationed. panic takes hold. looting breaks out. law and order breaks down. thousands of extra grid workers are drafted from texas and the west coast to help restore supply. >> the power grid is not designed to get everyone with the full electric load at...

Because this was ringed by water, due to the flooding. first it lost electricity and second, the backup generators, what this did is there are chemicals inside that are highly flammable that need to be refrigerated. when they were no longer refrigera refrigerated, basically degraded and ignited. that sent a plume of smoke into the air. the they add evacuated the neighborhood in vaadvance and td citizens to leave. the they also understand some first responders both sheriff's deputies and emergency personnel were treated at a local hospital. eight of them have been released. seven of them are be...

Happen? we just couldn't predict. i don't know the temperatures at which it burns. guys, do you know? we could try to get that information for you. >> richard, you talked about shutting the plant down on friday. did you all consider flooding and the placement of backup generators and how often did you test the nitrogen? >> how often did we test the nitrogen backup system? i'm not sure how frequently we are testing that equipment but it certainly is maintained, one of the layers of production to provide refrigeration to the cold products we need to store. the beginning of your question is -- ce...

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>> david kerley, our thanks to you, leading us off with that provocative move. yet another move by the north koreans. in the meantime tonight, we turn next to that new and horrific description of what really played out inside that nursing home where several residents died, days after hurricane irma. no power, using backup generators. no air conditioning in the sweltering heat. you saw the evacuations play out, and now, we learned how this unfolded. some residents had initially been brought to the hospital across the street, where doctors and nurses were so concerned with what they saw, they ...